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Chironomia

"With or without the use of the voice" means exactly what it says -- sometimes the use of handsigns was accompanied by the use of the voice (not necessarily only speaking), and sometimes it wasn't. AnonMoos (talk) 09:44, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

@AnonMoos: I guess I'm confused. Wouldn't the use of handsigns without voice be something entirely different from chironomia? And saying that it is of "great antiquity" seems like a huge understatement. Chimpanzees use at least 66 different hand gestures to communicate,[1] so "effective use of the hands" to communicate likely predates the human species and obviously wasn't limited to the Greeks and Romans. When the article says that use of the hands with or without the use of the voice was "developed and systematized by the Greeks and the Romans", what is it referring to? Is there some form of rhetoric that doesn't involve speaking? Not trying to be sarcastic, I'm just confused. Kaldari (talk) 15:27, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Natural gesturing is of indefinite ancientness, but in Classical antiquity, various subgroups had developed codified systems of gestural communication, of various degrees of elaborateness -- think of American football referees today. And the "with or without the use of the voice" sentence isn't explaining what Chironomia was -- it's explaining the background within which Chironomia developed... AnonMoos (talk) 20:08, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

@AnonMoos: I did some digging and I figured out why the paragraph is so confusing. The original version of the article did actually describe Chironomia "as the art of gesticulating... with or without the assistance of the voice", and said it was "practiced by the Greeks and Romans" (all without any sources of course). In actuality, Chironomia is gesticulating while speaking (or more specifically, gesticulation as part of rhetorical delivery) and was developed and codified in the 1600s and has no specific direct relationship to Greek or Roman oration. (In fact, John Bulwer, who basically invented Chironomia, was apparently inspired by Francis Bacon's criticism that the Greeks ignored gesticulation. Apparently the Greeks were obsessed with cultivating their speaking voices instead.) Subsequent editors of the article tried to make it more factual, but left awkward remnants of the original version in ways that don't really make sense. Would it be OK with you if I try to clean-up the article with some significant revisions? Kaldari (talk) 22:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

The original article was likely confusing "chirologia" with "chironomia". Chirologia, which was also developed by John Bulwer, was basically an early form of sign language. Kaldari (talk) 23:01, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Sure, if that is what it is indicated by the facts. AnonMoos (talk) 02:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

question for you about citation bot

I assume we use "lighttpd" and not "lighttpd-plain" as our webservice.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Web/Lighttpd

I ask since it appears that for quite some time the bot was running TWO PHP servers instead of one since the default in lighttpd is to define one.

https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/blob/master/.lighttpd.conf

This meant that category type runs ran over all the pages twice.

I am thinking that we could switch so that we control the PHP server, so we have more control. There is a bit of of a chicken and the egg situtation here, in that I don't want to update the httpd config file only to run two servers again, but even worse I don't want to switch servers only to have the config file set to run nothing.

AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:24, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Or is it possible that the lighttpd config file does not get read since the php lives in a subdirectory? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:32, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

@AManWithNoPlan: Honestly I don't know. I don't have much knowledge of server administration. Is there a way I can check. I'm curious why you're not a maintainer on the citation tool. It seems like things would be easier for you to manage if you were. Apologies if you've already told me why and I forgot. Kaldari (talk) 15:16, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Can you change the service.template file (if there is one to say "cpu: 1000m" instead of the default value with is half a cpu. And then restart it. I am looking at getting an account. There were reasons I could not in the past. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:50, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

@AManWithNoPlan: No, there is no service.template currently. I'd be happy to create one if you think it's useful. Kaldari (talk) 16:02, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

I think it would be a good idea. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:07, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

@AManWithNoPlan: Done. I set it to 1 cpu and 4 gigs of memory. Kaldari (talk) 22:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

That helped. At some point I need to look at the lighttpd.conf file, but that can wait. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:36, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Your edit about Connie Meijer at List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death

Your edit added information that Connie Meijer died of a heart attack during that criterium but that information does not appear in the cited source, a Der Spiegel article. I looked at her Wikipedia article and there's nothing there about her cause of death. I wanted you to know that I am reverting your edit and why. If you can find a reliable source, etc., etc. Thanks for editing the List. Shearonink (talk) 02:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

St John

Hi. If you can do it yourself, or maybe together with people you like to work with and can call up via talk-page, please try to rewrite that paragraph, because as of now almost none of it makes any sense, it's full of editing and logical mistakes making it almost incomprehensible. That "original research" could hardly have added any harm to it :)) Thank you, Arminden (talk) 17:55, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

@Arminden: That's a very good point! I know the gist of what the paragraph is trying to convey, but you are correct that it is poorly written and confusing. I'll try to rewrite it here soon. Kaldari (talk) 15:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Kaldari,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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Comment requested

Please see WT:WikiProject Spiders#Articles on nomina dubia. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:47, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

User:HotArticlesBot

Hi Kaldari. Can we use your bot in WikiProject Medicine of Malay Wikipedia? This is the page for the statistics. CyberTroopers (talk) 16:21, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Unnecessary Revert of Photograph from this Article

Dear George Custer's Sabre (talk) You are the only Wikipedia editor who revert Constructive edits of worthy Volunteers Wikipedia Editors without making sense of Notability, You impose only one law of Wikipedia instead following the Wikipedia laws allowing Volunteers wikipidians editors for making constructive edits in articles, I have checked and gone through the record of your Edit Contributions and I found your contribution 94 1% based on reverting and deleting the contents of Wikipedia Volunteers deliberately just to show your self as a superior editor and nothing else, for example you had reverted the Photograph of in the article of Dur Mohammad Kassi with the remarks that you will show how this pic came, I show you that how this pic has been provided to net, this Photograph is soul property of Prof:- PHD Haji akhtar Muhammad kassi brother of haji dur Muhammad kassi who released it From the personal collections of photographs of Dur Muhammad Kassi for public & Common use 09-02-2010, and this was published in [[2]] on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 with permission of Prof:- PHD Haji akhtar Muhammad kassi brother of haji dur Muhammad kassi, In the light of above facts you are once again requested to please refrain from my constructive edits by making unnecessary reverts,

I Wish you the Best and Happy New Year 2021 few hours in advance, (101.53.244.100 (talk) 14:02, 31 December 2020 (UTC)).

That is nonsense. Assume good faith (click the link to read the Wikipedia guideline) and refrain from personal attack or accusations. I have the right as an editor to remove unreferenced information and copy edit badly written text. That’s called copy editing. I edit professionally and without an agenda. George Custer's Sabre (talk) 14:12, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

• • Please no abusing language and refrain from personal attack Assume good faith (click the link to read the Wikipedia guideline) Every Constructive edit looks to you nonsense because I just show your edit history that what you are doing with the articles only Revereting the edits of Wikipedia Volunteers I have not seen any progressive change in your edits for the betterment and improvement of an article except few ones which are on your agenda, I have no personal attacked on you instead you did on me else-here I wished you Happy New Year in advance, please be positive like other thousands of Wikipedia editors and come out from negative thinking, the world is full of professional and progressive Wiki editors who make positive and constructive edits for the development of articles,

You must be sorry for uncivilized language, Happy Editing, (101.53.244.100 (talk) 15:14, 31 December 2020 (UTC)).

• • • Mr. George Custer's Sabre (talk) you were requested on 31st December 2020 to please keep away from the useless reverts and deletions of contestants and Photograph in this article of Dur Mohammad Kassi but you are still stsnds on your agenda of an worthless editor who revert Constructive edits of worthy Wikipedian Volunteers Editors without making sense of Notability, You are clearly Violating constructive laws of Wikipedia instead discouraging the Wikipedia Volunteers and wikipidians editors for making constructive edits in articles,

I have once again checked and gone through the record of your Edit Contributions and I found your contribution more then 94% based on deliberately reverting and deleting the contents of Wikipedia Volunteers just to show your self as a professional editor and nothing else, for example you had reverted three times the Photograph of Dur Mohammad Kassi in the article with the remarks that you will show how this pic came, I had show you that how this pic has been provided to net, this Photograph is soul property of Prof:- PHD Haji akhtar Muhammad kassi brother of haji dur Muhammad kassi who released it From the personal collections of photographs of Dur Muhammad Kassi for public & Common use on 09-02-2010, and this was published in [[3]] on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 with permission of Prof:- PHD Haji akhtar Muhammad kassi brother of haji dur Muhammad kassi,

In another edit you reverted the name of the book of Dur Mohammad Kassi "The Art Of Documentary Production" to "last talk".

• • • • In other your edit like more you had reverted all the constructive information from the Article of Palay Khan with making no sense due to your nonconstructive edits this article is useless now.

In the light of above facts you are once again advised to refrain from my constructive edits by making unnecessary reverts,(101.53.244.101 (talk) 10:20, 27 January 2021 (UTC)).

Your Help is Required Please

I am Volunteer Wikipedia Editor and I have noted that UserGeorge Custer's Sabre (talk) is unnecessary reverting and deleting my constructive edits made in the different articles for details I am placing the chat details between my self and him, Kindly look into the matter to resolve it,

Best Regards(101.53.244.101 (talk) 10:32, 27 January 2021 (UTC)).

Minor fixes to userscripts

Hey Kaldari, just FYI it looks like you've got a user script seemingly in use by others that has some bare javascript global wg-style variables, at User:Kaldari/wikilove.js. You've also got four others, but they're quite old and AFAICT they're unused:

• User:Kaldari/ReferenceTooltips.js
• User:Kaldari/test.js
• User:Kaldari/refToolbar 2.0.js
• User:Kaldari/refToolbar.js

~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:28, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

re Red Cliffs, Victoria

@Cyberpower678: Re change[4] by InternetArchiveBot which I have reverted. Website http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp has been dead for some years and archived versions are available but they do not work as the javascript in it does not work. Hence I had flagged the reference as a dead link yesterday which the bot deleted but changed to an archived version which serves no purpose. I have flagged this link as dead in a number of locations with Werrimull‎ as recently as this morning. Can we stop the bot from archiving links to this website please. On 12 February I asked in Template_talk:Infobox_Australian_place that the travelmate website no longer be recommended for use because of its status but so far no action appears to have been taken.Fleet Lists (talk) 02:41, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Please be civil

This condescending edit summary is more than a little out of line. Please don't lecture me about my uncle's and brother-in-law's people. Guettarda (talk) 02:52, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@Guettarda: The comment wasn't meant for you specifically. It's just frustrating to see a bunch of completely new editors showing up and making a mess of these articles. I apologize if the comment was condescending. Kaldari (talk) 03:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Modifying comments after others have responded

Hey! Just a minor note, but it is generally best practice to mark edits that have been modified after others have responded (see WP:REDACTED). For example, using <del>...</del> or <ins>...</ins> for this modification. Thanks! — MarkH₂₁^talk 04:19, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@MarkH21: I would have, but I didn't notice your response until after I changed it, and since your reply still made sense, I figured it wasn't worth the trouble. Hope that's OK. Kaldari (talk) 04:27, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

This particular case doesn't really matter - I moreso just wanted to let you know the general practice in case you weren't already aware :) — MarkH₂₁^talk 04:30, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

HotArticleBot

Hi Kaldari. Can we use your bot in WikiProject Medicine of Malay Wikipedia? It will be good if we have them there. CyberTroopers (talk) 14:54, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

@CyberTroopers: HotArticleBot is only able to run on a single wiki and is configured for English Wikipedia. In order to run on Malay Wikipedia, a new instance of the bot would need to be created and configured. I don't have time to do this myself, but the code and instructions can be found at https://github.com/kaldari/hotarticles. Kaldari (talk) 13:54, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

That's so unfortunate. I'll try to figure out to solve it. Thanks anyways. CyberTroopers (talk) 13:57, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

So, you might the Creator of the Wikipedia Teahouse, I'm recognizing you. LooneyTraceYT (talk) 00:54, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

3O request at Talk:Rob_Brezsny#Trump_prediction

Good evening, I have responded to your 3O request at Talk:Rob_Brezsny#Trump_prediction. I hope it may prove helpful. Regards, Springnuts (talk) 19:42, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

اريد التحدث معك

اريد التحدث معك على الواتساب Moamelaldarraji (talk) 04:16, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kobe Bryant

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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

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The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

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Any chance you are still around? I thought the above BOT was useful and would not want it to die. If I can offer any assistance, please holler. Mjquinn_id (talk) 15:47, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Kaldari,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

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November 2021 backlog drive

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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Kaldari,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 807 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 848 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Kaldari,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

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TIP – New school articles

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