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GOCE November drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 38 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy-edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. All the barnstars have now been distributed. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing November and December 2011 from the backlog. For the first time since the drives began, the backlog consists only of articles tagged in the current year. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2690 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 56 requests outstanding before November 2012 as well as eight of those made in November. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the October 2012 competition, and prizes have been issued. The November 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The December 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our fourth tranche of Guild coordinators will expire at the end of December. Nominations are open for the fifth tranche of coordinators, who will serve from 1 January to 30 June 2013. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 21:13, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

The WikiProject: Good Articles Newsletter (December 2012)

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter Volume III, No. 3 – December 2012 For past newsletters click here

In This Issue Featured editorial: "Drive-By Reviews": A Retrospective About Reviews During Backlog Drives Project News: A backlog elimination drive is being held now at GAN. Good Articles of the Month: Our picks for November, 150+ promotions. GA Task Forces: Results from the Backlog Elimination RfC Member News: 227 members of WikiProject Good Articles and counting Read this newsletter Single-page Unsubscribe Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 3 December 2012

WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - December 2012

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This Month in GLAM: November 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue XI, November 2012 Headlines Africa report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Africa 2012, a roadway... to victory Australia and New Zealand report: State Library of New South Wales; Freopedia France report: Semanticpedia; Lobbying at Ministry of Culture Germany report: Roundtable of the cultural heritage of the Rhineland; QRpedia at the Hamburg Museum Italy report: Celebrating a milestone: WikiAfrica hits its goals Mexico report: Mexico/Spain editathon Netherlands report: Dutch GLAM activities in November 2012 Sweden report: Commons and endings UK report: Activities in Birmingham and Stafford; digitised books in London USA report: VIAFbot Edits; The Brooklyn Museum Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 finished Open Access report: The Open Access Media Importer at full speed; Publishers deliver inconsistent XML to PubMed Central; Importing from other sources Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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GOCE mid-December newsletter

End of Year Events from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The December 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best December copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC). Voting is in progress for the November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not. From Sunday 16 December to Saturday 22 December, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} from January 2012. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded. January 2013 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 January, February, and March 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2012. 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 January, February, and March 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. Coodinator election: Nominations are open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January to 30 June 2013. Nominations close on December 15 at 23:59 UTC, after which voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. >>> Blitz sign-up <<<         >>> Drive sign-up <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:35, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Userfication update?

Hi, back on 13:23, 18 October 2011 when I requested several userfications, I neglected to request the edit histories - can they be restored? Or is that a gnarly hassle? I'm trying to locate Norcross's registered Wikipedia account, basically, and can't in my own edit history. It's looking like at least one film is approaching notability.

[1] User:Lexein/TLIP ‎ (Userfying The Long Island Project)

[2] User:Lexein/SS ‎ (Userfying Sixteen Stories)

[3] User:Lexein/HFAD ‎ (Userfying Hero For A Day)

[4] User:Lexein/TBSC ‎ (Userfying The Balance of the Seventh Column)

[5] User:Lexein/EN ‎ (Userfying Eric Norcross (some fixes with formatting))

--Lexein (talk) 14:41, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

I'll get to this later today. — foxj 12:23, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Done. — foxj 01:26, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you. Spot-checking, I have to admit I'm puzzled by the 0-length articles and 0-length edits in TLIP, [SS, HFAD, TBSC, and EN. Should I have requested "full history restore"?. Is that even possible now? Sorry for the hassle. --Lexein (talk) 06:22, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure what's going on there either, but it would appear the data is still there. Looks like a bug more than a mistake. — foxj 00:04, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Ima file a bug. --Lexein (talk) 06:40, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 00:58, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Hey

No fair. Why did you blank my talk page. It's my talk page and you decided you felt like blanking it. Okay maybe it looked like spam but it's my userspace and I can do whatever I want with it, it's not like I was vandalizing or hurting someone. And how did you find me anyways because I'm just another random IP on this huge site why did you come to me. 24.218.157.186 (talk) 17:03, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Because, believe it or not, a talk page is for communicating with users. If you want webspace, look someplace else. — foxj 12:23, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

What if I pass it off as decoration like you have. 24.218.157.186 (talk) 02:10, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Except what you're doing is clearly not decoration. — foxj 01:16, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Can I please use a show/hide button to conceal it then? I know the code will still be there but it won't be immediately visible when someone comes to the page. 24.218.157.186 (talk) 01:51, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

There is absolutely no reason for it to be there. Why do you want to keep it so badly? — foxj 20:34, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

I wanted to use it as a sandbox for making something, but never mind now. 24.218.157.186 (talk) 17:17, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Please read WP:HOST. — foxj 21:22, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 08:08, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 starting soon

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