User talk:BerikG

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If you need help with class contact me

Hello. I just sent you an email, but to find me on this site I am user:bluerasberry. Contact me if you need anything. I am a campus ambassador coordinator and expect to be able to connect you with the support you need. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Questions about Food Security revisions

Hello there, this is Mikele. I just have a few questions about your editing recommendations before I overhaul the page. When you said "Move the sections 11-11.3 to the top", did you mean to the top of the entire article? Or to just make it section 11 and mine section 12? And when you say that the current lead paragraph is too long, are you referring to Challenges to Achieving Food Security or to Gender and Food Security? (as a side note, I have written the sections from 11.3 to 11.5.2 but not 11 to 11.2.1) Thank you. Corinthiandiosa (talk) 02:17, 1 May 2012 (UTC)Corinthiandiosa[reply]

Hi there. If you have not written/edited sections 11 to 11.2.1, then please ignore my earlier suggestion about moving these up to the top of the entire article and integrating there. (You can, of course, do so, if you'd like improve the entire article!) Then, I don't understand why you chose to make Gender and Food Security a subsection of this Challenges to Achieving....section. Make "Gender and Food Security" section 12.BerikG (talk) 02:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)BerikG[reply]

That makes a lot more sense, thanks for the recommendations! Corinthiandiosa (talk) 03:09, 1 May 2012 (UTC)Corinthiandiosa[reply]

Whisperback

Hello. You have a new message at Gobonobo's talk page.

Orhand12's sandbox article

FYI: see User talk:Orhand12#Your sandbox. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Test Session

Sure..I am online.. Diksha41 (talk) 20:50, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question about feminist econ assignment

Aloha: I am confused about how we link to the class via Wikipedia. I have made the talk contributions, and will turn in the assignment, but I would like to link to the class as well. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Paula --PaulaStockman (talk) 19:48, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Titling

"Gender equality in..." would probably work, and there's a few examples of that title around - for instance, Gender inequality in Thailand. What you might do is create the "Women in..." as a redirect to the page in question. For moving, yes, ask on talk first and if no one objects go ahead and move it. If there's a problem for some reason, Requested Moves is probably an alternate option. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:08, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Accepting articles submitted through Articles for Creation

I see you have accepted several articles through WP:AFC. There are several technical steps needed to accept an article, and in at least two cases one or more of these was skipped, resulting in cleanup work. There is an automated tool that makes the job a whole lot easier: The Yet Another AFC Helper Script gadget which you can turn on in your preferences. It's in the Editing section of the Gadgets tab. You can read all about it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script.

Also, before accepting articles, please encourage your students to read Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and in particular the content policies listed at Wikipedia:List of policies#Content and edit their submissions if necessary.

Your students may also be interested in Did you know?, in which select articles which are less than 5 days old are linked to from the Main page.

Your students' projects are a valuable educational effort for them and for the project. I hope at least one of your students sees his submission eventually become a featured article. While few articles can make it to "featured" status, many can make it to good article status and almost all can be cleaned up enough to be rated "B-class" by the various WikiProjects the article is associated with. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 22:35, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

I am sorry to have created additional work for you. I am not up to speed on the steps needed to move articles from the sandboxes. I was going with Diksha's (my campus ambassador) advice on how to move from the sandboxes. By way of feedback, this is quite an investment for students, who can be overwhelmed with the Wikipedia steps of this assignment, and many of them will do it only once. I will mention the featured article option. A couple of students might be motivated by that and willing to put in the work. Thanks again. BerikG (talk) 00:40, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I hope they do look at getting their creations elevated to FA status. Just be aware that this frequently takes longer than the remainder of the semester, so they will likely be doing it for the benefit of Wikipedia readers everywhere, not for your class. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:40, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WAP template on Sudan article

I did not see

{{ WAP assignment | course = Education_Program:University_of_Utah/Gender_and_Economic_Development_in_the_Third_World_(Spring_2013) | university = University of Utah | term = Spring 2013 | project = }}

in Gender inequality in Sudan so I did not copy it to Talk:Gender inequality in Sudan. Please add it if it is appropriate to do so. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 22:42, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I will add the banner. Thank you for your careful work on the Sudan article. I am sure the student will appreciate it and it is helpful for me as well.BerikG (talk) 00:41, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Categories and references for student-created articles

Hi - I've come across several of the articles created by your students - thanks for your (and their) contributions to wikipedia. A few quick thoughts and suggestions:

Many of the articles haven't been placed in categories. I have tried to add them to a few, but others could be added as well. For example, look at the cats for Gender_inequality_in_Thailand
In cases where the students re-wrote and article (e.g. Women's health in China), they have often left out existing categories and templates from the original page - I have tried to restore them but it's best if they consider doing this when re-writing - keep the original cats and templates.
Finally, many of the the pages are not using the <ref>, Template:cite or Template:sfn or other such templates for citation - and instead doing raw cites. It may be worth showing them how to use the citation templates, as this makes navigation and management of cites easier - you can refer them to this page for more detail: Wikipedia:Citing_sources - they should ideally follow the citation style of the original article, or choose a consistent style if writing anew.

Best regards, --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 21:05, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Obiwankenobi. I am not well-versed in the categories issue. The Thailand article was from last semester. I hope you provided examples with one from this semester as well. I try to impress upon them the importance of proper references but we have a ways to go in that. Thanks. BerikG (talk) 04:53, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've tried to categorize all of the articles from this semester as well, but I just did a first pass - many of them might be worthy in other cats as well.

In general the references are there, they just weren't using the <ref> template, or the Template:cite. For example, see [1] (this one is now fixed), Women's_health_in_China, etc - use of Template:cite is more nice to have, but has benefits; where as <ref> (or another form like Template:sfn should always be used. As for the categories, the best thing is to find a similar page and see how it is categorized. You can also use the search function to seek out categories (in advanced search you can just search for cats). --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 05:52, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Moving out of the sandbox

Hi, Gunseli. I see that User:Mtdillman was able to move the sandbox into the article namespace. Great job figuring that out; sorry that I just saw your request for help! The only thing that is slightly problematic is that an article (a stub, but still an article) already actually exists on Domestic violence in Chile (which I just discovered when looking for the article you asked about). Do you think Mtdillman will have the time to move the relevant information from her article into the older one? Then, we can ask an editor to delete the new article. Somebody might delete it soon, as it is a duplicate entry, but I don't want to see her/his hard work go to waste. It's a bit trickier when working her work into an existing article, as s/he should try to preserve whatever possible from the stub. Please let me know if s/he needs help! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 15:27, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

After merging the content from Mtdillman's contribution into the older article, do not "delete" Mtdillman's contribution. go to Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen and ask that the histories of the two pages be merged. Mtdillman may wish to use the {{underconstruction}} template while he is doing the merge to avoid edit conflicts. He may also wish to put {{merge-from}} and {{merge-to}} templates on the top of the two articles, with a discussion on the older article's talk page and let that sit for a couple of days before doing the merge. This is just to see if anyone objects. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 15:59, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. That is the 'wiki' way but it seems perhaps like a bit of overkill - the whole relevant edit history of Domestic Violence in Chile is by Mtdillman - whether saved as a series of edits or a single compressed edit doesn't make a difference IMHO. If many other editors had participated, saving the history would make sense, but as is, I'd suggest Mtdillman wait for the merger discussion, see if there is any feedback or pushback, and then just do the merge - the history of doing the merge would be preserved in the history of Domestic violence in Chile which would be sufficient IMHO. FWIW, I've tagged the articles for merge.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:21, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

After I placed the tag the merge was performed almost instantly by Mtdillman - it looks fine to me, it seems some of the original article was retained in any case, so no information was lost. I've left the other capitalization as a redirect, but we could also delete it - not sure if it's needed. I'm agnostic either way... --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. I just told Dillman to copy her revised article over the current stub article (with "violence" in the title in lower case), and after that the new article would be deleted. Was that a mistake?BerikG (talk) 21:08, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's fine - however rather than copy/paste, a merge would have been better - during the copy over the templates and categories were lost. Not a big deal, I restored them, as you can see in the edit history. It's all good. If you think having Domestic Violence in Chile as a redirect is useful we can keep it, otherwise we can delete - my vote is actually we don't need this as a redirect as this is not a standard capitalization, but the wiki way is probably to keep - as I said, I'm agnostic, so you can mark it for delete if you like - might be educational to see what the community thinks... :) --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 21:25, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Let's delete the old one (with the "V") since all of it is now in the revised article. BerikG (talk) 21:31, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done ok now nominated for deletion.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:09, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in the eternal wisdom of wikipedia, the redirect was kept. C'est la vie. :) Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#Domestic_Violence_in_Chile --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:14, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I guess there is no space problem!! BerikG (talk) 20:32, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Missing links on course page

Hi! I asked my colleague who works extensively with the Course Page software/bugs for some help on this one. For now, I'd recommend just asking your students to use the Wikipedia search bar and either type in the articles or copy & paste from the course page. They should get to the appropriate articles that way. Sorry for the trouble! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 00:32, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for surfacing this bug! The links are missing in cases where the student added the article before the page was created. (A recent update to the software, which fixed a more serious problem, introduced this one. The course pages use the unique id #s of the articles rather than the page titles, and there was no id for the articles that did not exist yet.) The solution is to have the students remove their articles and then add them again. (Unfortunately, this will also remove the reviewers.) We're working on a fix to prevent this issue in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 14:14, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this clarification. Removing the reviews (if students remove and then add back the articles) is not a good solution for us. So, I'll just the let these articles not have links on the course page. BerikG (talk) 16:11, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Time on WP

Hey, Gunseli! No problem with the question. WP is on UTC, but I encourage you to change your settings to reflect Salt Lake City, which will be easier for you (I have mine changed to PDT). Go to your preferences (top right link), click on the third tab that says 'date and time', change your time zone in the drop-down menu, and then hit 'save'. Hope that helps! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 21:24, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jami. I changed the time to America Phoenix and at first it seemed to reflect the local time, but now it is back to UTC! Why?!

You're still logged in? It will still be in a 24hr clock, but it should keep to your time. Not working on Mountain? (Also, I'll add your talk page to my watchlist so I can try to see if you post anything here instead of my talk page) JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 07:56, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another question: is there a way to know how many hits a particular Wikipedia article gets? My students were curious about this? :) BerikG (talk) 04:42, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yep! They can visit this link. You must copy the exact title of the article for it to show up, and you can look at individual months. Glad they're engaged! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 07:56, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! This is most interesting for the curious!BerikG (talk) 21:56, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Women's health in India at GA

Hallo, I saw you contributed a little to this article. I am not sure if the original WAP author is still around (hasn't edited for a month), and wondered if you'd care to help get it to GA? My review indicates it is very nearly there so it shouldn't be too arduous. Would be great if you could lend a hand. All the best Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:22, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya!

I came across one of your editors and discovered that you're running a class where they edit Wikipedia as part of the grade. I was just going to give a bit of a recommendation that when forming new articles, they might want to try creating it in their userspace first. By this I mean that instead of posting it in the mainspace at "Article subject title" they would create the article at User:Username/Article subject title. This would enable them to take their time creating the page without immediate fear of it being deleted or otherwise tinkered with. It might not gain as much attention as a mainspace title would, but it would definitely benefit people who are new to editing since they wouldn't have to worry about an entire day's work disappearing overnight due to a deletion or to come back and find that the article has been completely changed. I'll post in your class's talk page as well, as I would also like to point them towards our Teahouse, which is a great place for any questions they might have about any general subject. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:48, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The sandbox and userspace are basically the same thing, as the sandbox is considered to be in your userspace. However the thing about userspace in general is that they could create multiple articles at the same time, which means that they could have multiple drafts for one article. In other words, they could make an article about Oscar Wilde at User:BerikG/Oscar Wilde but then find that they want to create another version of the article while keeping the other one open so they can use it for reference and the like, so they could do User:BerikG/Oscar Wilde (2). They could also use it to create a second article about something else entirely, such as at User:BerikG/Avaya phone systems. (Just sort of pulling names at random and using them with your username.) I typically create things at a specific title (User:Tokyogirl79/Article name) and then I use the sandbox for compiling sources and testing edits in general. There's no true wrong or right way to use your userspace/sandbox, though. I just suggested that more because that's how I tend to do it, and because it frees them up to make multiple articles in their userspace in case they need to make multiple drafts without wiping out the previous version. I know that sometimes when I'm editing stuff that's more in-depth, I tend to want to have two copies just in case I need to revert to something or look back at something without changing the prior version or having to go back into my history. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Tokyogirl79: Students are now working with the sandbox; so I won't complicate their lives even more at this point. For my benefit though, how does one create an article/articles in one's userpage? Can you outline the steps/commands? Thanks. BerikG (talk) 22:18, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Commodification of the womb

Our processes for maintenance tags, just for the record, don't require the original tagger to come back and reassess the article themselves — maintenance tags can be removed at any time by any user who's satisfied that the maintenance concerns have been adequately resolved. So if you think the article's good enough now to no longer require the tags, you're allowed to detag it yourself and don't need my personal permission. Bearcat (talk) 18:56, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks. I will delete those tags then (I have not done this before!).BerikG (talk) 19:33, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, we're always going to be new at something (*grin*) Bearcat (talk) 00:51, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SEWA Support

Hello! I am in a Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities course and have the semester-long project of improving the Wikipage for Self Employed Women's Association. I noticed your valuable feedback on the talk page and would like to know if you have some recommendations for me. My plan is to give a more complete picture of SEWA in the introduction section, completely rewrite the history section, and add a section on modern successes of SEWA. Thank you! Ghv2 (talk) 01:46, 28 September 2016 (UTC)Ghv2[reply]

Gender Gap task force invite

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New WikiProject which you may be interested in: WikiProject Women's health

Hello, BerikG!

We would be delighted if would like to participate in WikiProject Women's Health. This the effort to improve the coverage of women's health topics on the English Wikipedia. We hope you will be interest in becoming part of the project. Please add your name to our Project page and look at the talk page to find out what we're up to and what we have accomplished on behalf of women. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you very much.

The scope of the project is currently being discussed here. --The Vintage Feminist (talk) 15:08, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions on Africa

Hi BerikG, We’ve noticed that you edited articles related to Africa. Thank you for your great contributions. Keep it up! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:06, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]