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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter (4th Quarter 2012)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2012
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Wikipedia Ambassadors update

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You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Wikipedia:Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

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First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.

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After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

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3. If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors ^connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

Ambassador training and resources

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013

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The Center Line: U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2013

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The Signpost: 11 February 2013

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The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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Invitation to a discussion: Wikipedia and legislative data

Hi Avicennasis/MainArchive, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!

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Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, March 9!

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You are invited to a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29

In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:16, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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DC meetups on April 19 and 20

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

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I noticed AvicBot is fixing double redirects, and in looking up whether I was boneheaded or not (I am) I noticed it's not on this list of bots that fix double redirects - you may wish to fill out its entry at your convenience. -- stillnotelf is invisible 18:40, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Lac a Hache, British Columbia -> Lac la Hache, British Columbia

my bad, I meant this to be to "la" not "a" but my keyboard stuck on the 'l' key didn't notice until just now. Redirect now in way of fixing this myself. Please fix thanks.Skookum1 (talk) 09:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

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Saraiki language

Dear, Saraiki is a language, it is not a dialect. Riasti dialect, Shah puri dialect,Multani dialect, Multani language, Thalochi dialect, Thalochi ,Derawali dialect articles. I suggest merging these articles , as the all these are same. And also be Redirected to Saraiki language. Also Jhangvi dialect is dialect of Saraiki. Kindly See these External Links #1 and #2.

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AvicBot and redirects from userspace

This is a feature request, not a bug report; I've not spotted any misbehavior. The "How to use sandbox" section of Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions has a question regarding a userspace sandbox: a page was created in userspace, moved to AFC space, moved to mainspace, and AvicBot correctly fixed the double redirect. Is there any way to tell the bot not to fix double redirects from userspace to mainspace, since confusion can arise for new users? Nyttend (talk) 04:28, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

{{Bots|deny=AvicBot}}should do it. There are other bots that fix redirects, though, so {{nobots}} might be better. ^Avic_ennasis @ 04:54, 28 Iyar 5773 / 04:54, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Left of Center (song)

Greetings. Please change the redirect on Left of Center (song) from Left of Center (Sirius) to Left of center, because:

1. The Sirius page is about a radio station, not a song;
2. The Sirius page is mentioned on the disambiguation that is Left of center;
3. There are at least two actual songs called "Left of Center" with references already (Suzanne Vega, Serj Tankian)
4. It could probably be argued successfully that the Sirius station was named because of the Suzanne Vega song.

I have attempted to fix this myself, only to be undone. So I try this route.... -- Hooperswim (talk) 21:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done Redirects can be repointed easily - but you shouldn't point a redirect at a redirect, which is why AvicBot fixed it again. this edit should solve the problem and show the difference. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:17, 14 Tamuz 5773 / 05:17, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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AvicBot: Talk:St Jude's Anglican Church

The bot has twice reversed my redirect (for the talk page but not the article). There is no double redirect, something seems to have gone wrong with the bot. In the mean time I have blanked the page - the Talk page is empty anyway. Thanks.--Mhockey (talk) 14:51, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) This edit by you points the page to Talk:St Jude's Church which itself is a redirect to Talk:St Jude's Church, Kensington. There is no problem with the bot. ^Avic_ennasis @ 21:27, 15 Tamuz 5773 / 21:27, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I see the problem now - actually two problems. 1. My redirect should have been to Talk:St. Jude's Church, not Talk:St Jude's Church. 2. After an old move of St Jude's Church the original page was correctly redirected to the dab page here, but the original Talk page was not redirected, so it was left as a redirect to the wrong page. Now if someone could do a bot to check that talk pages follow article pages...--Mhockey (talk) 23:12, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

AvicBot and BLP

Please see this contribution page: [1].  This was used to attack a politician at 2013-06-15T17:56:13.  The edit was reverted at 2013-06-15T18:53:57.  But by 2013-06-15T18:44:19, AvicBot was spreading the BLP violation. 

It is my technical understanding, perhaps flawed, that double redirects are entirely ok.  So would it be possible to not "fix" a double redirect until at least 24 hours has elapsed?  Thank you, Unscintillating (talk) 21:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Scouting images

AvicAWB tagged a number of Scouting images with {{Non-free logo}} that already used {{non-free Scout logo}}. Since | was not set on {{Non-free logo}}, all these images are now in the categories Non-free images with NFUR stated Non-free images for NFUR review. --  Gadget850 ^talk 10:53, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Sorry, I did not know about that template to scrub against. I'll get that fixed for future page edits. ^Avic_ennasis @ 11:45, 16 Tamuz 5773 / 11:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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This edit of AvicBot has replaced a perfectly correct redirect to an article by a buggy redirect to a dab page, asserting that the old redirect was a double redirect, which was wrong. D.Lazard (talk) 17:10, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

No bug - the page Axiom (computer algebra system) was a redirect, briefly, per this edit. At the time AvicBot made his edit, the page was a double-redirect. ^Avic 00:29, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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AvicBot thinks gfdl is a bank in Hawaii

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When I typed gfdl into the search bar, I was surprised to end up at an article about First Hawaiian Bank, an article that never mentions "gfdl".

I see that article about a bank also currently has redirects from GNU Free Documentation License/Secondary sections, GNU Free Documentation License/Secondary Sections, GNU Free Documentation License/Front-Cover Texts, GNU Free Documentation License 1.2, GNU Free Documentation license, GNU free documentation license, GNU Free Documentation Lisence, Gnu free documentation license, Gnu Free Documentation License, GNUFreeDocumentationLicense, Free Documentation License, GNU Free Document License, Gnu Free Document Licence, Text of the GFDL, Back-Cover Texts, GFDL license, GNU/FDL, GNU FDL, GDFL, etc.

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I went ahead and reverted 3 of the worst (see Special:WhatLinksHere/First_Hawaiian_Bank). I hope this doesn't mess up whatever action you eventually take, Avicennasis.--Auric talk 00:38, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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User:Avicennasis/todo/creation

By a long train of rabbit trails, I ended up on this page and noticed how it has repeatedly been moved by bots against your wishes. I've given it full protection against pagemoves, so admin rights will be required to move it; hopefully this will prevent bots from moving it inappropriately. Should an adminbot come along (and thus move it without you being unable to revert it), or should you decide that you want it at some other title, leave a note at my talk page or post a request at WP:RFPP, and any admin will be happy to unprotect it for you. Nyttend (talk) 05:13, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

User:Avicennasis/todo/creation

I just now happened upon this page's history of inappropriate pagemoves by bots. In order to prevent such pagemoves in the future, I've given it full pagemove protection; only admins will be able to move it. Should you decide that you want it somewhere else, or should you find that an adminbot has come around and moved it without you having the ability to put it back, leave a note at my talk or post a request at WP:RFPP. Nyttend (talk) 05:16, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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216		Egg (talk)						Add sources
2		Caralluma burchardii (talk)						Add sources
11		Nomenclature code (talk)						Add sources
117		Coastal management (talk)						Add sources
122		Groyne (talk)						Add sources
11		Submersion (coastal management) (talk)						Add sources
55		Tezpur University (talk)						Cleanup
208		Emergency vehicle lighting (talk)						Cleanup
28		Falls Church High School (talk)						Cleanup
0		Turritella banksii (talk)						Expand
0		Chicoreus banksii (talk)						Expand
0		Mitra nivea (talk)						Expand
21		Reston Town Center (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
202		Silvassa (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
31		Biosocial criminology (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
14		Modern recession of beaches (talk)						Merge
22		Beach evolution (talk)						Merge
18		Apomorphy (talk)						Merge
14		Fundus (seabed) (talk)						Wikify
78		Diccionario de la lengua española (talk)						Wikify
111		Culture of Assam (talk)						Wikify
3		Solenostemma argel (talk)						Orphan
0		Ceropegia dinteri (talk)						Orphan
1		Erica plukenetii (talk)						Orphan
13		Akmon (talk)						Stub
5		Asclepias purpurascens (talk)						Stub
5		Madiya language (talk)						Stub
6		Cliff stabilization (talk)						Stub
3		Asclepias amplexicaulis (talk)						Stub
8		Khortha dialect (talk)						Stub

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