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Fixing a ping

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Hi. I noticed you tried to fix a ping yesterday. Today while trying to figure out how to add "no ping" I ran across Wikipedia:Notifications which says "Note that the post containing a link to a user page must be signed; if the mention is not on a completely new line with a new signature, no notification will be sent." So you need a new line as well as a new sig. Doug Weller talk 10:53, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. The way to think about it is that people often adjust their comments which could potentially send multiple pings, one for every typo fixed in a comment even if the typo had nothing to do with the ping. To avoid that, a notification is only sent if the diff of an edit shows a new comment being added (that is, the edit is new text, not an adjustment to existing text, and has a ping and a new signature). Johnuniq (talk) 01:33, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
For whatever it's worth, the ping to Seppi and me, two talk sections above, did not go through to me (but I was watching here, so that was OK). (Maybe that's what Doug Weller was referring to, come to think of it.) --Tryptofish (talk) 02:18, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you all. I knew that to fix a ping requires, re-signing, but not re-signing on a separate line. I suppose the takeaway is to be especially careful about previewing posts with a ping in them. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:50, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you revert my edits? They were just questions for the RfA! 95.49.122.192 (talk) 23:41, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

They were not useful or appropriate questions. Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:42, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey

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On this day, 11 years ago...

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Hey, Newyorkbrad. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
Lepricavark (talk) 02:59, 25 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Of potential interest

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If you have a minute to take a look here, I would be interested in your thoughts.

CorporateM (Talk) 13:29, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (and beyond!)

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Saturday March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Join us at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at the Museum of Modern Art, 4 West 54th Street, on Saturday, March 11, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. There will be childcare, snacks, multiple trainings and panel discussions. People of all gender identities and expressions welcomed and encouraged to attend.

This year’s edit-a-thon kicks off at 10:00 a.m. with a conversation about information activism with writer Joanne McNeil and Data & Society Research Institute Fellow Zara Rahman, moderated by Kimberly Drew, the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, creator of the Tumblr “Black Contemporary Art,” and the person behind @museummammy on Instagram. Afternoon breakout groups will engage in focused discussions about related issues, including intersectionality and librarianship, power structures in notability guidelines on Wikipedia, and radical archives. --Pharos (talk) 18:46, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]


And a broader calendar of events on the theme this week/weekend, and the next:

  • Mar 08 - Gladys Marcus Library, Fashion Institute of Technology
11am - 5pm
in New York, NY
Wikipedia:NYC/FIT/Womens Day Edit-a-thon
  • Mar 11 -Purchase College Library
11am - 4pm
in Purchase, NY
Facebook event
  • Mar 11 - The Museum of Modern Art
10am - 5pm
in New York, NY
Facebook event
MoMA event
  • Mar 12 - Interference Archive
2pm - 6pm
in Brooklyn, NY
Interference Archive event
  • Mar 12 - Kickstarter HQ
10am - 5pm
in Brooklyn, NY
Eventbrite event
  • Mar 18 -SVA Library
12pm - 5pm
in New York, NY
Eventbrite event

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Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel

On the last Sunday of every month, the Boardroom at Ace Hotel New York hosts Action Equals History — a unique opportunity for New Yorkers to learn hands-on in a technology training/workshop session about the mechanics, practices and benefits of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. This is an opportunity for all to gather, share and work collectively towards a more robust account of history.

For this month, and following on the recent Art+Feminism campaign, we'll focus on building better edit-a-thon tools for a variety of different thematic campaigns, and user-testing them with the community. Towards a goal of advancing these tools for wider use with diverse local groups.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 05:14, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Another recent decision on whether and when courts should cite Wikipedia

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Some recommended reading:

Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:46, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Any literary editors around?

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I'm looking for some guidance on categories to add an article into. Everything I try turns out to be a redlink, so I must be doing it wrong. Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I look at similar articles and copy from there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:45, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If you're not sure, just shove it into a high-level category (Category:American authors, Category:Songs etc) and someone will come along fairly soon to add new categories. Don't overthink it—categories are useful for the internal administration of Wikipedia, but the readers couldn't care less. (The WMF probably have the raw figures—paging WhatamIdoing—but I'd lay money that incoming traffic to any article via wikilinks in other articles is orders of magnitude higher than traffic via categories, given that I'm certain 99.9% of Wikipedia's readers don't even know that the category trees exist.) The important thing is that the article is linked on other articles on which you think there's a reasonable possibility that readers of Article A will also want to know about Article B. ‑ Iridescent 16:52, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't heard any information about page views for cats, but I'd follow Iridescent's advice.
762,167 people read Valentine's Day on 14 February. (I picked it because the big seasonal spike might be handy for comparisons.) Just 78 people looked at Category:Love that day, and 91 people looked at Category:February observances. (I picked these because they're most closely related to the subject.) That's about a 4500:1 ratio in favor of the article. Even if every single person who visited those categories came from the Valentine's article, and even if every single person who used the categories was a non-editor, then less than 0.02% of readers used those categories. This suggests that categories are generally unpopular.
But every single person was not an editor, of course. One of the things that we know is that readers are more likely to use mobile devices than desktop computers, and that editors are very much more likely to use desktop systems. So here's a different way to look at this question: just 32.5% of the people reading that article were on a desktop computer, but 98% of people visiting Category:Love and 80% of people visiting Category:February observances were using desktop computers. This suggests that editors are at least several times more likely to visit the categories than non-editing readers.
My conclusion is basically the same as Iridescent's, then: categories are nice, but 99.9% of readers aren't using them. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:48, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Going back to the original question: Adding Category:Poems to The Inner Room is fine. Someone had already added the obvious Category: Works by Arthur Conan Doyle, so you could check whether Category: Poems by Arthur Conan Doyle exists (it doesn't at present), but there are tools to find articles in the intersection of two categories anyway. If you do feel the need to overthink it, then a more algorithmic approach would be to look at the Category:Poems page and decide whether any of the sub-categories there would be more appropriate, following down the tree. Category:Poems by dateCategory:Poems by yearCategory:1898 poems is a possibility; as might Category:Poems by writer's nationalityCategory:British poems; however Category:Poetry by writer is a dead-end in this case. That approach is usually possible whenever you can identify a top- or high-level category, although it's somewhat time-consuming. Also enabling HotCat in your Preferences/Gadgets takes out some of the tedium by suggesting auto-completion alternatives as you type. Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 00:04, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks everyone for your comments. @RexxS: I thought about "1898 poems" but I'm not sure it fits; the poem was published in 1898, but may have been written a couple of years earlier, and in fact, because of its implicit reference to events in Doyle's life, his biographers might be quite interested if they could pin down the date it was actually written. There is no "poems by Doyle" category because this is his first poem to get an article, and I'm not sure how many more there will be. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:07, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I added that category to the article. If someone thinks of a better one, they'll change it. Categories change all the time. Jonathunder (talk) 15:13, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. Thanks. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:14, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) I suspect that "Poems by year" will refer to date of publication as often as not, but your point about the uncertainty remains – although we should remember that categories are primarily intended for navigation to related articles, so poems published in the same year are about as related as poems composed in the same year (i.e. not very well related at all). An option could also be Category:Poems by dateCategory:Poems by decadeCategory:1890s poems, which might make more sense if it were better populated (but the gnomes insist on diffusing entries down to the most specific category as if that were necessarily a good thing). Cheers --RexxS (talk) 15:23, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, once in a blue moon, you can go home again after all ...

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... or, lagniappe while chasing song memories on Youtube. See Echo Beach#Thirtieth anniversary version. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:15, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article has received lots of IP vandalism since its creation. If you think it appropriate, would you kindly semi-protect it for a substantial period of time? Thanks for any help. -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:08, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like another admin already got to this. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 19:30, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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