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The Signpost: 20 September 2010

The Signpost: 27 September 2010

Hi – you're listed at Wikipedia:Portal/Directory as one of the maintainers of this portal, which is looking rather neglected at the moment and would seem to fail current standards for featured portals. I've raised a few issues on the talk page which might be of interest to you if you'd like the portal to keep its bronze star. Regards, BencherliteTalk 12:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey Nishkid! I was wondering if you could send me some PDFs for Al Pollard. Thanks! ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 00:31, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 October 2010

Wikipedia NYC Meetup Sat Oct 16

New York City Meetup


Next: Saturday October 16th, Jefferson Market Library in Lower Manhattan
Last: 05/22/2010
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wiki-Conference NYC 2010, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia Ambassador Program and Wikipedia Academy, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the May meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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The Signpost: 11 October 2010

Happy Birthday!

Hey, Nishkid64. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
-- SabrinaMagers talk 17:10, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia DC Meetup, October 23

You are invited to Wikipedia DC Meetup #12 on Saturday, October 23, 6pm at Bertucci's in Foggy Bottom. Special guests at this meetup will include Wikimedia CTO Danese Cooper, other Wikimedia technical staff and volunteer developers who will be in DC for Hack-A-Ton DC. Please RSVP on the meetup page.

You can remove your name from the Washington DC Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List.

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The Signpost: 18 October 2010

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LV (September 2010)



The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue LV (September 2010)
Front page
Project news
Articles
Members
Editorial
Project news

The results of September's coordinator elections, plus ongoing project discussions and proposals

Articles

A recap of the month's new Featured and A-Class articles

Members

Our newest A-class medal recipients, this September's top contestants, plus the reviewers' Roll of Honour (Apr-Sep 2010)

Editorial

In the final part of our series on copyright, Moonriddengirl describes how to deal with copyright infringements on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 25 October 2010

Ping! :-)

Hello, Nishkid64 … I happened to be reading this archived dialog and thought that I would ping you to let you know that I'm still around and active … Happy Editing! — 70.21.16.94 (talk · contribs) 23:23, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 November 2010

Wikipedia DC Meetup 13

You are invited to Wikipedia DC Meetup #13 on Wednesday, November 17, from 7 to 9 pm, location to be determined (but near a Metro station in DC).

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You can remove your name from future notifications of Washington DC Meetups by editing this page: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List.
BrownBot (talk) 13:44, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 8 November 2010

2007 Samjhauta Express bombings

Nishkid64, I think the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings needs some work to stay an FA; there have been a lot of developments in the investigations which are not covered appropriately. Do you want to have a go at updating it, or should it go to FAR? --JN466 17:28, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

I have nominated 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --JN466 22:56, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 November 2010

unblock on hold

Hello Nishkid64. 198.105.8.33 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, Beeblebrox (talk) 20:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I've actually decided to ask for wider input at WP:AN in order to resolve this quickly. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:12, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your attention and action in this matter. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Portal:Somerset at peer review

Hi, I put Portal:Somerset up for review on the peer review page a couple of weeks ago & haven't (yet) had any comments. If you had the time to take a look that would be great.— Rod talk 15:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LVI, October 2010

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The Signpost: 22 November 2010

Talkback

Hello, Nishkid64. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics.
Message added SBC-YPR (talk) 13:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010

English WikiProject News

After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.

Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set up the Indian chapter of Wikimedia have moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, a bot to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to Twitter was created and launched by User:Logicwiki.


What's New?

Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, while Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India was saved. Meanwhile, Chalukya Dynasty appeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.

The source code for the Article Alert Bot is now available and the bot itself is expected to be up and running very shortly. This means that article alerts for the Indian Wikiproject will again be available, enabling editors to easily keep track of developments in respect of reviews, nominations, deletions etc.

The date change vandal mentioned briefly in the previous issue made a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.

In October there was a heated discussion in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of Wiki San Roze's party symbol images by Hammersoft as copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.

Complete To Do List
News from Indian-language Wikipedias
  • The Bengali Wikisource, which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According to List of Wikisource page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010 in Coimbatore in June 2010.
Jimmy Wales introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles during his key note address at Wikimania 2010 at Gdansk.
  • The Hindi Wikipedia and its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into the WikiBhasha translation and contribution toolkit developed by Microsoft Research.


Community news
The first meetup in Delhi on 22 September 2010.

Mumbai and Delhi held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and Bishakha Datta met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, Hyderabad also held its first meetup.

Arun Ram, Shiju Alex and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the Centre for Internet and Society, with the nineteenth meetup in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the community newsletter. Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.

Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by User:Bishdatta & User:Arunram. (Recorded by User:AshLin.)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a presentation to members of the public at the third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai on October 31, 2010.

The first Wikimarathon, where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in Bangalore and Chennai on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in Delhi also held a meetup the same day.

The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.

Wikimedia Foundation board member Bishakha Datta and Indian Wikipedian Srinivas Gunta co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the Wikimedia Asia Project.

Current proposals and discussions
  • This interesting discussion on the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Signed...

SBC-YPR, Sodabottle (Editors)

Tinucherian (Distributor)


This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.

Looking forward to more contributions from you!
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The Signpost: 29 November 2010

please help me

Hello my friend

Please please help me

I recently became addicted to the English Wikipedia

I, my friend from Syria and here in our state and Arabic Wikipedia blocked completely and Wikipedia English distorted the shape where I am suffering greatly modify the articles because of the disfiguration of the page and pictures do not appear also in each site and the reason is blocking partial carried out by the State on the English Wikipedia, I browse Wikimedia naturally through this Ip 64.185.238.44 is restricted by you and I can not modification of the amendment within it the more I want to copy the link and then the specific page on the fairest Ip your our state but the page that the shape of deformed when they enter our state of the private Ip

Please please help me remove the stop Ip imposed on the site are bypasstheweb which is the owner of this Ip 64.185.238.44

Please please help me محمد البكور (talk) 03:55, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Per this discussion and the fact that you are listed on {{PortalReviewVolunteers/List}}, this is to inform you that there are two featured portal candidates at present that need more input. Thanks. BencherliteTalk 11:53, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

NYC Meetup: Saturday, December 4

We meet outside by the trees at 5:00 PM.

Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting at 5 PM.

A particular highlight for the wiki crowd will be 'Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968', and the accompanying "WikiPop" project, with specially-created Wikipedia articles on the artists displayed on iPads in the gallery.

This will be a museum touring and partying meetup, so no excuses about being a shy newbie this time. Bring a friend too!

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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The Signpost: 6 December 2010

The Bugle: Issue LVII, November 2010

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The Signpost: 13 December 2010

The Signpost: 20 December 2010

The Signpost: 27 December 2010

User:Ekraus

Concerning this, don't you think he has used up his second chance by now? See his recent POV-warring and BLP violations [1]. Anyway, keep an eye on him. Colchicum (talk) 21:14, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

FAR

Hi Nishkid - Do you still plan to work on 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings while it is at FAR (review page located at WP:Featured article review/2007 Samjhauta Express bombings/archive1)? If so, I'll leave it in the FAR section for a while longer; if not, I'll move it to the FARC section. Thanks, Dana boomer (talk) 17:23, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 January 2011

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Nishkid64/Archive 68! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:59, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiXDC: Wikipedia 10th Birthday!

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

You are invited to WikiXDC, a special meetup event and celebration on Saturday, January 22 hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration in downtown Washington, D.C.

  • Date: January 22, 2011 (tentatively 9:30 AM - 5 PM)
  • Location: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), downtown building, Pennsylvania Avenue & 7th St NW.
  • Description: There will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Archives and you will learn more about what NARA does. We will also have a mini-film screening featuring FedFlix videos along with a special message from Jimmy Wales. In the afternoon, there will be lightning talks by Wikimedians (signup to speak), wiki-trivia, and cupcakes to celebrate!
  • Details & RSVP: Details about the event are on our Washington, DC tenwiki page.

Please RSVP soon as possible, as there likely will be a cap on number of attendees that NARA can accommodate.


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So I may be back...

Howdy, stranger. I stumbled back here while on break from university. It's been a while. How's everything with you? --SharkfaceT/C 18:25, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 January 2011

The Signpost: 17 January 2011

The Bugle: Issue LVIII, December 2010





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Help Maybe?

I saw you have alot of FLs and maybe i thought you would be interested in getting List of people from Chula Vista, California to FL? The city of Chula Vista cenntennial is this year and im trying to expand coverage of the city but some things im not an expert on. Spongie555 (talk) 04:44, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 January 2011

The Signpost: 31 January 2011

More possible Separesh sock puppets

Could you please take a look at User:Escoperloit and User:Jamean, they appear to be related to User:Tobebe who was recently blocked as a confirmed sock puppet of User:Separesh. Kurdo777 (talk) 17:30, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 7 February 2011

The Signpost: 14 February 2011

The Bugle: Volume LVIX, January 2011

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