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Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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 In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings. The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web. The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act. 
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Signpost update
The publication date for the Signpost is fast approaching, and your section seems to need a fair amount of work until it's publishable. Please continue working! Eddie891 Talk Work 15:10, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you! I will. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 18:20, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for tackling From the Archives. I'm trying to schedule for publication on Sunday noon-ish (Pacific time), if possible. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:04, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
- I apologize for not being able to contribute as much as I have in the past. I will continue to work on Humour and Essay. I will even try to come up with a "From the Editor" piece in the future. You are doing a great job. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 17:13, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for tackling From the Archives. I'm trying to schedule for publication on Sunday noon-ish (Pacific time), if possible. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:04, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).
Administrator changes
Justlettersandnumbers • L235
Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter
Interface administrator changes
- Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333
Oversight changes
- Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
- There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.
Technical news
- Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
- The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
- Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
- The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
- Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
- Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
Talk page stats
On August 1, this talk page had 566 pageviews! It was undoubtedly related to the block discussion. I love stats. Barbara ✐✉ 23:34, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Hey
I sent you a text. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 03:27, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you. I am eager to start my mentoring! Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 18:00, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
A goat for you!
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For creating crossword puzzle for Signpost and making me smile.
Nizil (talk) 14:20, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! I am glad you like it. I felt 'silly' and thought I would try it. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 18:43, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Sun October 14: Open House New York Weekend Upload Party @ NYU ITP and Indigenous People's Justice Edit-a-thon @ Interference Archive
  You are invited to join two events supported by the Wikimedia NYC community on Sunday October 14:
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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello Barbara (WVS), thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
- Community Wishlist Proposal
- There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
- Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!
- Project updates
- ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
- There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
- New scripts
- User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.
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October 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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  You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Triangle Arts Association in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 01:28, 23 October 2018 (UTC) | |
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Books & Bytes, Issue 30
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018
- Library Card translation
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
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Sunday Oct 28: Wikidata Birthday Party
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  Wikidata, the newest project of the Wikimedia movement, went live on October 29, 2012. Please join Wikimedia New York City as we celebrate its sixth birthday at the Ace Hotel. There will be (optional) lightning talks, casual conversation, and, most importantly, CAKE! No experience with Wikidata? No problem. This event is open to all.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues on Sunday!--Wikimedia New York City Team 15:32, 25 October 2018 (UTC) Bonus edit-a-thons on Saturday The day before the Wikiata Birthday, on Saturday, you are also welcome to join Archtober Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Bard Graduate Center or Black Lunch Table @ Magnum Foundation. Please RSVP to those pages if you plan on joining. | |
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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.  It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.
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Signature change
Please note that I have changed the appearance of my signature. Barbara ✐✉ 10:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
ADAM
Please note that ADAM is not public domain.[1] The NIH has just bought a license to it.
I have found blocks of it copied and pasted into articles (specifically nipple discharge). Are there other articles in need of clean up? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:16, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for letting me know. You have let me know this before (thank you!) and I have been unable to remove this material since I have been topic banned. I intend to thoroughly review all my contributions and referencing and remove these sources as soon as I am able. In the meantime, please delete those contributions that are problematic. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉23:00, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
- If you provide me a list of articles were you used ADAM I am happy to go through them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:34, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- Listing those articles would be a violation of my topic ban. Barbara ✐✉ 17:42, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- Will this help? Barbara ✐✉ 17:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks that is great. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:44, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
- Will this help? Barbara ✐✉ 17:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- Listing those articles would be a violation of my topic ban. Barbara ✐✉ 17:42, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- If you provide me a list of articles were you used ADAM I am happy to go through them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:34, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
- A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.
Technical news
- Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
- A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
- The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
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Ding dong!!
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Why are demons and ghouls always together?
What happens when you goose a ghost?
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Boo!
Hello Barbara (WVS):
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and hope you had a fun Halloween!
– North America1000 08:07, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
What do butter carving and huge pumpkin contests have in commons?
Both are staples of state fairs [2][3][4][5][6]. And apparently now of Signpost Humour columns. Next we have to get chain saw carving competitions in there somehow. How about the Seattle Chainsaw Pumpkin Carving Contest? Bri.public (talk) 22:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
The conference
Hi, Barbara! Just wanted to drop by and say hi, and wish you had been able to attend the conference. I was trying to juggle two events at the same time, the primary being All American Quarter Horse Congress where one of my granddaughters was showing her horse. I made it to the reception on Friday evening (in the rain) via Uber (my 1st Uber) and enjoyed every minute of it! When I got back to the fairgrounds, I realized that was probably my last opportunity to get out of the fairgrounds parking lot, not to mention the conflicting show schedules. I won't do that again. 😳 Hope all is well with you! Atsme✍🏻📧 15:12, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- That sounds like a wonderful event. I watch the Kentucky Derby just to see the horses walking and running, they are so amazing. I still want to get to your other documentaries when I have a minute. Please upload some of your horse images into commons so that I can admire them. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 15:16, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- I have a gallery filled with horse pictures on Commons, and if you want to see a splash of cutting horse history with pictures of the famous foundation cutting horses, see this page. Enjoy! 🐎 Atsme✍🏻📧 15:23, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- I had no idea that horses were bred for bucking! I am continuously amazed at what I don't know...about horses. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 15:26, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Yes ma'am - they're called "rough stock". Rodeo bulls are also bred to buck. Dawnleelynn created and was the lead author of American Bucking Bull. It's all about temperament and athletic ability. Breeder's look for the ones who can do the twist. 😉 Atsme✍🏻📧 15:35, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- I had no idea that horses were bred for bucking! I am continuously amazed at what I don't know...about horses. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 15:26, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- I have a gallery filled with horse pictures on Commons, and if you want to see a splash of cutting horse history with pictures of the famous foundation cutting horses, see this page. Enjoy! 🐎 Atsme✍🏻📧 15:23, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. |
Hello Barbara (WVS),
- Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
- Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
- If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
- We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
- With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.
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ArbCom 2018 election voter message
Hello, Barbara (WVS). Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Tomorrow's the day for comfy stretch pants...
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- Thanks so much, the elastic on my stretchy pants gave way and I accidentally killed a couple of innocent bystanders. I should have accepted the offer to be a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. Barbara ✐✉ 23:44, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
December 2018 at Women in Red
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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
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GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.  In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.
Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
Gallery - caption
I appreciate your addition to the Gallery in the latest Signpost. This is not a criticism but you might just want to know that captions appear by default on the images in the some views such as on my mobile devices. This could change the gallery's appearance in ways you didn't anticipate. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:56, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- YIKES! Another error to add to my scorecard. Thanks for letting me know about this. It is a very nice feature. Nice job on the Signpost. You are the best! Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 14:56, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).
Administrator changes
Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz- Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike
Interface administrator changes
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
- Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
- To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
- Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
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
- Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.
2018 WIKIPEDIA BEST EDITOR AWARDS
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First Place |
| PRESS RELEASE: On December 7, 2018, Wikipedia presented the First Place Blue Ribbon Award to editor Barbara (WVS) for the fine work that she has done to expose the dangers of carrots.[[7]] While some reviews expressed alarm over the possibility that the nakedness and the lewdness in her article were not appropriate for Wikipedia, especially its younger readers, Wikipedia CEO Jimbo Wales spoke at the presentation saying that he believed that Barbara handled the delicate subject in an informational manner though perhaps with just a touch of humor to make the threat more presentable. Gandydancer (talk) 17:05, 7 December 2018 (UTC) |
- Oh dear, looks like no ultimate punishment this time. I guess my inner sadist will never be able to forgive Jimbo.
Tlhslobus (talk) 18:37, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
- Jimbo is showing up as being blocked on my screen. Thank you. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 16:34, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
December 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan, near Columbus Circle. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 03:21, 13 December 2018 (UTC) | |
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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello Barbara (WVS),
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
- Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.
See also the list of top 100 reviewers.
- Less good news, and an appeal for some help
The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
- Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019
At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Signpost
Hi. I don't want to sound impatient but will you be submitting your usual humoour colums for the next issue? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:38, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
- Yes! Thanks for checking up on me. I know I am usually early. I have reasons for being late but they don't matter at this point. Writing humour is a good thing for me and I need to do it. Thanks for the note. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 00:52, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- Done! Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 01:26, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes, Issue 31
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018
- OAWiki
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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January 2019 at Women in Red
 January events:
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Merry Christmas !!!
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CAPTAIN RAJU(T) is wishing you a Merry Christmas!
This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. |
- Thank you so much! How kind of you! Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 00:08, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! |
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Hello Barbara (WVS), may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
It's here now, but will be gone as quickly as it arrived
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Happy Holiday Cheer!! |
in the spirit of the season. What's especially nice about this digitized version: *it doesn't need water *won't catch fire *and batteries aren't required. |
and a prosperous New Year!! 🍸🎁 🎉 |
Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
| Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support.  Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects. There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine. Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.
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Happy New Year, Barbara (WVS)!
Barbara (WVS),
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year, Barbara!
Some celestial fireworks to herald another year of progress for mankind and Wikipedia. All the very best , Barbara,
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:
- G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
- R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
- G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.
- The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
- Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.
Technical news
- Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
- At least 8 characters in length
- Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
- Different from their username
- User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
- Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.
Arbitration
- Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.
Miscellaneous
- Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
- Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
January 13: Wikimedia NYC invites you to Wikipedia Day 2019
| Sunday January 13: Wikipedia Day 2019 in NYC | |
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 You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day 2019, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 18th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event features keynote presentations, panels, lightning talks, and, of course, open space sessions. And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
We especially encourage folks to add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 20:34, 3 January 2019 (UTC) | |
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Ok i removed all that scarp and thanks for advice.
Tuwein (talk) 17:42, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks so much. If you need more help, just let me know. I think you be a great editor. Keep on contributing. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 17:50, 14 January 2019 (UTC)