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North and South Okanagan pages

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Please see Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#South_Okanagan_and_North_Okanagan. Note also I just stripped the "visitor attractions" from articles that were not visitor attractions.Skookum1 (talk) 05:25, 5 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Inkaneep and Nk'mip - Inkameep?

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Inkaneep Provincial Park is south of Okanagan Falls, Inkaneep is between Oliver and Osoyoos though on the Osoyoos IR No.1, but isn't there an "Inkameep" campground at the SE corner of the Canadian portion of Osoyoos Lake, right below Nk'mip Wines and the Desert Centre, run by the band? And "Inkameep" is the old anglicization for Nk'mip, right? Was confused today when creating the article stub for Inkaneep, British Columbia from BC Names but I see now that 'm' makes all the difference. Just checking though; not often BC Names is in error,but sometimes they are.Skookum1 (talk) 10:46, 26 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Counties

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I've boldly added the American counties of Ferry, Douglas and Grant. Although they are not part of Okanogan County itself, they are part of the general region, the Okanogan Country (or Okanogan Valley). However, only some portions of these counties are, with the exception of Ferry. See here I'm just offering an explanation. TBrandley (TCB) 15:55, 4 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject X is live!

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Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

"Okanagan"

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The usage and topic of Okanagan is under discussion, see talk:okanogan -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 05:05, 5 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

A new newsletter directory is out!

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A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

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Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

User script to detect unreliable sources

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I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

  • John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)Reply