User talk:Thehelpfulone/Archive/July 2012

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The Signpost: 02 July 2012

• Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism

• Op-ed: Representing knowledge – metadata, data and linked data

• News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool

• In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?

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• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 13:14, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2012

• Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo

• News and notes: Russian Wikipedia blackout; WMF tools; Wikitravel proposal revisited

• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football

• Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'

• Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 12:20, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Magician vandal

Could you please take a look at this. I'm pretty sure I'm right here but not 100% and the guy has been doing it to other articles as well. --Kangaroopowah 21:20, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

• Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair

• News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone

• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling

• Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

• Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years

• Featured content: Taking flight

• Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

• Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 12:46, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback newsletter

Hey all!

So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the #wikimedia-office ^connect channel, and another at 01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike

• From the editor: Signpost developments

• News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown

• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics

• Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans

• Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia

• Featured content: When is an island not an island?

• Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 12:49, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, June 2012

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, June 2012

Hello Thehelpfulone,

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Translation Notification Bot (talk • contribs)

Possible problem with the bot

I came across some strange edits by the bot here, where it has attempted to add a reflist 7 times without success. I've seen lots of times where it has added a reflist, but whatever has happened to the page can't be solved by this, and it doesn't try again. I've not seen this behavior before, is it something new or a bug?Sarahj2107 (talk) 18:57, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Sarah, apologies for the delay in responding, I appear to have missed this message. That is very peculiar behavior, I'll check if there have been any other problems with the edits. Thanks for letting me know about it! The Helpful One 11:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

DRN-wizard-loader

Hi!

Could you fix this? Helder 22:55, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Just as a note, I replied to this on the Village Pump in this diff. The Helpful One 11:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Thehelpfulbot adds reflists to dab pages

Hi, a suggestion for improvement:

Disambiguation pages should never have references, and thus should never have {{reflist}}s.

Would it be possible to change Thehelpfulbot's behavior so that instead of adding a References section to a dab page, it instead just flags the page in some way? Thanks, NapoliRoma (talk) 22:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Napoli. Do you have an example of where Thehelpfulbot was adding references to a dab page? I know that they shouldn't have references and I'm not so sure it could be tweaked easily to flag a dab page that has reference on it, but perhaps it's a problem with a particular user or group of users adding references to them? The Helpful One 11:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

This was the particular edit I noticed.

Perhaps the bot could add [[Category:Disambiguation pages with references]] (which in turn could be added to Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup? Alternatively, it could drop a note on the disambiguation project talk page whenever it encounters such a thing.

I'm not totally clear on whether either of these ideas are kosher or useful, but the "category" idea seems more appropriate if there are lots of such pages, the "drop a note" idea might be better if only the occasional page turns up. Thanks! NapoliRoma (talk) 21:20, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2012

• Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; Best Wiki Paper Award

• News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's cheap shot at WP

• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing

• Featured content: One of a kind

• Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 13:07, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with #wikimedia-e3

Very cool of you. Thanks! --Ori.livneh (talk) 17:53, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

You are most welcome! :-) The Helpful One 19:16, 31 July 2012 (UTC)