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The Bugle: Issue XCI, October 2013
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GOCE Blitz wrap-up; join us for the November drive
Guild of Copy Editors October Blitz wrap-up
 Participation: Out of eleven people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we copy edited 42 articles from WikiProject Film's backlog, reducing it by a net of 34 articles. Hope to see you at the November drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor. Sign up for the November drive!
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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
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POV tag meaning
Please read carefully the text of the tag: Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. and follow the instructions. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:56, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
DYK nomination of The Execution of Gary Glitter
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DYK for The Execution of Gary Glitter
 | On 14 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Execution of Gary Glitter, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that after The Execution of Gary Glitter, a 2009 mockumentary showing Gary Glitter being hanged, the subject's complaint to Ofcom was turned down? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Execution of Gary Glitter. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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The Bugle: Issue XCII, November 2013
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November 2013 GOCE drive wrap-up
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The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)
Welcome to the second issue of The Wikipedia Library's Books & Bytes newsletter! Read on for updates about what is going on at the intersection of Wikipedia and the library world.
Wikipedia Library highlights: New accounts, new surveys, new positions, new presentations...
Spotlight on people: Another Believer and Wiki Loves Libraries...
Books & Bytes in brief: From Dewey to Diversity conference...
Further reading: Digital library portals around the web...
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The Wikipedia Library Survey
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The Bugle: Issue XCIII, December 2013
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GOCE December 2013 Blitz wrap-up and January Drive invitation
December Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors
 The December blitz ran from December 8–14. The theme for this blitz was articles tied in some way to religion. Seven editors knocked out 20 articles over the course of the week. Our next blitz will be in February, with a theme to be determined. Feel free to make theme suggestions at the Guild talk page! The January 2014 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in October and November 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2013. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in October and November 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there!  Coordinator election: Voting is open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January through 30 June 2014. Voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:24, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
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GOCE 2013 Annual Report
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The GOCE has wrapped up another successful year of operations! Our 2013 Annual Report is now ready for review. – Your project coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978 and Jonesey95 Sign up for the January drive! To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue XCIV, January 2014
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re:thanks
Sorry for your loss. However I fail to see why it is my fault. Correct talk threading is important, otherwise eventually you will never understand who answers to whom and about what. So my edit was not as useless as you suggest. (Actually, your previous edit was a similar attempt to untangle the chaos, IFAIU) Second, edit conflicts happen in wikipedia in huge numbers in numerous talk pages where many people shout at each other at the same time:-) and if one is careful, there is no loss, just nuisance. May be you need a better internet connection. Another good idea (which I am using when I am working from poorly connected location) is to use a simple text editor to write a big chunk of text and then cut and paste text into wikipedia. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:25, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Kyiv
Chaos! I haven't corresponded with you for a while, but I'm very concerned about what is going on in Ukraine right now, and would dearly love to hear your take on it, if you're willing to share. You can email me at saukkomies at gmail dot com. --Saukkomies talk 05:07, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
March GOCE copyedit drive
| Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors
The March 2014 backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles in need of copyediting. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copyedit all articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and to complete all requests placed in January 2014. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copyedits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: number of articles, number of words, number of articles over 5,000 words, number of articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and the longest article. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Gravity
Good: bringing up a contentious issue on the talk page.
Bad: not waiting for anyone to have time to participate in the discussion before going ahead to make changes.
I've reverted your changes for the time being. Please do not view this as me having a different opinion than you. As soon as consensus is reached you can go ahead and re-add your changes back again, no problemo.
IF such a consensus is reached, that is.
Cheers and have a good one, CapnZapp (talk) 19:16, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
- I've added a link to various British notables weighing in on the issue. Ta, CapnZapp (talk) 19:18, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue XCV, February 2014
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Books & Bytes, Issue 4
News for February from your Wikipedia Library.
Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers
Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement
American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia
Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th
Going Global: TWL starts work on pilot projects in other language Wikipedias
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The Bugle: Issue XCVI, March 2014
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GOCE March drive wrapup
| Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
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| Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Thanks to all who participated in the drive and helped out behind the scenes. 42 people signed up for this drive and 28 of these completed at least one article. Final results are available here. Progress report: Articles tagged during the target months of December 2012 and January 2013 were reduced from 177 to 33, and the overall backlog was reduced by 13 articles. The total backlog was 2,902 articles at the end of March. On the Requests page during March, 26 copy edit requests were completed, all requests from January 2014 were completed, and the length of the queue was reduced by 11 articles. Blitz!: The April blitz will run from April 13–19, with a focus on the Requests list. Sign up now! – Your drive coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Books & Bytes - Issue 5
The Wikipedia Library
- New Visiting Scholar positions
- TWL Branch on Arabic Wikipedia, microgrants program
- Australian articles get a link to librarians
- Spotlight: "7 Reasons Librarians Should Edit Wikipedia"
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The Bugle: Issue XCVII, April 2014
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RE: Jack Parsons
Here's my heads up to say that I'm finished with editing the article for now and you can go ahead with the copyediting work when you wish. JJARichardson (talk) 21:13, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation
| Guild of Copy Editors April 2014 Blitz wrap-up
Participation: Out of 17 people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 28 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the May drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by
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Glad you're back
Don't know if you're watching the requests talk page, but I only saw your post today. Glad you're feeling better(ish) :-). All the best, Miniapolis 01:37, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
- Thx - problem was sort of dealt with, then flared up once the first course of antibiotics finished - so hoping to be back on now the "working week" is over and I have some free time :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 01:17, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
| | Hi Chaosdruid, you accepted a request made at the GOCE Requests page to copy-edit the article Jack Parsons (rocket engineer). Your last edit to the article was at 17:54, 25 April 2014 (UTC) and you haven't yet declared the copy-edit done on the Requests page. Please tell us whether the copy-edit is completed—or whether you intend to complete it—so the request can be archived, left alone or returned to the list for someone else to work on. If no update is received and you make no further edits to the article in seven days a GOCE coordinator will strike your acceptance and return the request to the list. Thank you. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 00:12, 10 May 2014 (UTC) |
I'm glad you're feeling better and promise I won't touch the article today! JJARichardson (talk) 12:36, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Which skins were affected? I don't see any report suggesting that on VPT, nor I have seen them affected when I was investigating this bug (which should by now be fixed, but it's not definitely confirmed yet). It was just gadgets that were broken (including ones that are enabled by default, which is probably the source of some user confusion). Matma Rex talk 01:14, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
- The first one, which I added to at the very top. It was making the skin display incorrectly, bypassing my settings. That is a skin issue is it not?
- The reason I made the title of the section what it was, was to stop people from starting new sections for "skin" problems, like the other three we already had which included "skin" and "gadget" problems. Without knowing how to fix it, or what the problem is, how do/did we know if it is just gadgets, or a java script issue, or a site-wide issue? I also feel that you failed to follow BRD. I made it, you changed it, I put it back (with exp in my summary) then you changed it back again calling it the "correct" title. A bit disappointing that you could not have just left it as it was - and with no explanation or a message here.
- The other problem is:
- "I use Vector and am getting all the faults, font size, double pop-ups on hover, TW issues, gadget failures. Chaosdruid (talk) 18:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- "I use the default skin, I haven't changed it, no text size issues, but repeated gadget failures Matty.007 18:53, 16 May 2014 (UTC)"
- "I use Vector and am getting all the faults, font size, double pop-ups on hover, TW issues, gadget failures. Chaosdruid (talk) 18:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Here the other editor is stating that the default skin has no font size issues, while the Vector does. So, how is that not related to skin-choice? Chaosdruid (talk) 14:28, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
- "Vector classic typography" is a gadget, as evidenced by the fact that it is available from the "Gadgets" tab of preferences. If you see the standard, larger font restored, then that's a gadget failure and not a skin problem. (And yes, it's not good that this community uses gadgets to override skin behavior without explaining what is going on, which causes this type of confusion every time technical issues appear.)
- WP:BRD is not a rule, and not even a guideline. I felt that not following it was worth the benefit provided by clearer section title in this case. I don't see what you mean by "no explanation or a message here" when it was you who undid my changes without notifying me.
- I don't understand your last point. Vector is the default skin, and all of the issues you mentioned seem to refer to gadgets ("font size" I explained above, I don't know what you mean by "double pop-ups on hover" but MediaWiki itself has no popups at all, "TW issues" can only refer to Twinkle which is a gadget as well). Matma Rex talk 20:26, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
- Put more simply, if the people requiring help saw this as a skin issue and/or a gadget issues, to avoid repetition they were moved to a new section "Skin and gadget"
- If anyone came along needing help, they would see "skin and gadget issues [todays date]"
- Instead of creating a whole new section for their perceived skin failure, which is the same as the gadget failure, they would post there.
- Any that had created a new section were moved into the section I had retitled, and sorted into the various subsections (not by me I might add).
- You removed the skin part, and anyone coming in with a perceived skin failure, would create a new section if they did not realise that the "Gadget failure" was for them.
- It is not about being absolutely correctly defined, it was about perception of what the failure was. Chaosdruid (talk) 16:41, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Replies:
- Maybe someone should have stated that, and that the error was nothing to do with the skin, but it was an overall gadget problem - until then we were clueless.
- So perhaps some listening to the community should be performed? Maybe give them the option instead of forcing.
- BRD - that is correct, it is a courtesy which helps to stop ill-feeling between editors that occurs, and reverting without explaining why is discourteous.
- I made a bold change to move all the sections into one, and to organise them as "skins and gadgets" until we knew more about what the issues were.
- You decided the title was wrong, and changed it without any discussion with me (did you even check to see who created the section title?).
- If BRD was followed, it would have been returned to the original title until the discussion finished. (you B, me R, we D)
- My last point is that the editor only saw it as (perceived it as) a skin issue, and was so unfamiliar with Wiki he did not know it was the default. How could you not understand that? Chaosdruid (talk) 16:53, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue XCVIII, May 2014
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Books & Bytes, Issue 6
The Wikipedia Library
- New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
- TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
- TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
- New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more
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GOCE June 2014 newsletter
| Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone! Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here. Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
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As a significant contributor to that article, you are invited to participate in a discussion about its title. All input welcome. Thank you, walk victor falk talk 14:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed
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The Bugle: Issue XCIX, June 2014
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GOCE July 2014 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights:
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