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The Signpost: 26 March 2012

WikiCup 2012 March newsletter

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We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Conradh na Gaeilge Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Scotland Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to Vanuatu Matthewedwards (submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to Florida 12george1 (submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Wisconsin Miyagawa (submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:21, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2012

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

Progress report

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk)

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The Signpost: 09 April 2012

You're invited! New England Wikimedia General Meeting

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 New England Wikimedia General Meeting
The New England Wikimedia General Meeting will be a large-scale meetup of all Wikimedians (and friends) from the New England area in order to discuss regional coordination and possible formalization of our community (i.e., a chapter). Come hang out with other Wikimedians, learn more about ongoing activities, and help plan for the future!
Potential topics:
Sunday, April 22
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Conference Room C06, Johnson Building,
Boston Public Library—Central Library
700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116
Please sign up here: Wikipedia:Meetup/New England!

Message delivered by Dominic at 09:13, 11 April 2012 (UTC). Note: You can remove your name from this meetup invite list here.

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Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:47, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Admin nomination request/advice

Hello Juliancolton

I got your link from the admin nomination request list. Initially I wasn't much for admin privileges, but my pet project has me thinking it might be useful. I quit enjoy cleaning up Notable people lists on cities, towns, and villages. I've cleared four entire states. Afterwards I watchlist and patrol pages I've cleaned up. Recently I've been thinking that blocking the occasional IP vandal for a day or two might come in handy for my patrol work. My work also gets me involved with the occasional deletion discussion, when I run across a person not meeting WP:Notability. I also really enjoy doing the occasional biography page.

I appreciate your consideration and insight. My most likely controversy with nomination is my early edits years ago. I got active on Wikipedia creating biography pages for my father and brother. Only one withstood WP:notability, but the process was what got me excited about editing. I've refrained from conflict of interests since then. Cheers, Dkriegls (talk) 07:37, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Dkriegls,

I apologize for the late response. I haven't had time to check in much lately, and I can't say I expect to have much time to devote to the project or RfA matters in the next few months. I would be more than happy to help, but I think it would best for me to defer to another volunteer for the time being. It simply wouldn't be fair to you to be left hanging while I got my act together. Again, I'm sorry I can't be of more assistance. Juliancolton (talk) 00:14, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I will ask another editor :) Cheers Dkriegls (talk) 05:23, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

You're invited to Wiki-Gangs of New York @ NYPL on April 21!

Wiki-Gangs of New York: April 21 at the New York Public Library
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 Join us for an an civic edit-a-thon, Wikipedia meet-up and instructional workshop that will be held this weekend on Saturday, April 21, at the New York Public Library Main Branch.
  • Venue: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (NYPL Main Branch), Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227).
  • Directions: Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street.
  • Time: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. (drop-ins welcome at any time)

The event's goal will be to improve Wikipedia articles and content related to the neighborhoods and history of New York City - No special wiki knowledge is required!

Also, please RSVP!--Pharos (talk) 17:46, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 April 2012

Abuse Filter on the Article Feedback Tool

Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.

For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Dead link in article 'Alcove Reservoir'

Hi. The article 'Alcove Reservoir' has a dead link that could not be repaired automatically. Can you help fix it?


Dead: http://www.brainygeography.com/features/NY.reservoir/alcovereservoir.html

This link is marked with {{Dead link}} in the article. Please take a look at that article and fix what you can. Thank you!


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Poor close

Julian, you did a poor job closing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oyster Bay - East Norwich Public Library. Your close was merge to Oyster Bay. Did you even follow that link first? It's a disambiguation page. Even limiting ourselves to settlements in New York state, we still have a hamlet and a town. Which is it? D O N D E groovily Talk to me 22:19, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Are you sure he didn't make a mistake in the link he gave? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:11, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
That was two years ago, and it wasn't even my job to start with. The role of the closing admin is to decide whether the article will be deleted or retained, which includes merging, redirecting, or other editorial decisions; that part is up to the community. Where the content would go is to be decided by editors who either know what they're doing or want to jump in and figure it out. The link was simply a placeholder, since it was neither my position nor desire to spend time researching the topic as part of my procedural action. In other words, my close was fine, but thanks. Juliancolton (talk) 00:11, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Spot on

Well put. Of all the volunteer jobs I've done in my (relatively) long and unprotected life, this one is far the most casually abusive, and it staggers me how rarely people say kind and supportive things to each other. Sometimes it's not even the shiny thing that's needed, just a note -- "good work. Appreciated." We have a lot of burnout around here. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 00:25, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey, thanks, it's good to know I'm still making a little bit of sense. :) In the absence of pay or real-world accreditation, our only sense of accomplishment has to come from mutual appreciation. Agree that even a nice, unexpected note is more than enough to brighten one's hour—certainly, your post here made me feel good just by showing that you agree with a stance I took. I think I'm going to start doing that more from now on... thanks for the idea! Juliancolton (talk) 02:43, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, I liked what you said too. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 02:55, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

An issue with GAs

Hello, I have a small isuue I ould like to query about. I have noticed that a few Indian films articles have been upgraded to a GA status, mainly Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu and Rockstar. The main problems I have noticed about these articles is the fact that they are relatively low on content and therefor they don't cover all aspects on the film as it is require for a GA and secondly, the review himself has been making large copy-editing work and fixing some of the issues he himself has pointed out in the review. So my question,, is that legitimate? --Meryam90 (talk) 11:52, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I can't speak as to whether or not the articles meet the GA criteria (if they blatantly omit anything important, they should be re-reviewed or, ideally, improved). However, as to whether the review itself was acceptable, I don't see an issue with it. I for one encourage GA reviewers to take some initiative and fix minor issues themselves. It makes for a more collaborative editing experience, and it doesn't conflict with the spirit of the rule in question, which is to prevent obvious conflicts of interest. In this case, if a previously uninvolved editor finds the page via the GAN hub, and decides to review it, is is highly unlikely that they will have passed it out of personal desire. But again, if the article merely falls short of the GA criteria, that's another issue altogether. Juliancolton (talk) 02:48, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

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The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg.

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The Signpost: 23 April 2012

A little help...

Hello. I've nominated Ricardo Arjona as a good article, and i need help to get it reviewed, just to improve it. So, if you're interested in giving me a hand on this, I'll really appreciate it.

Truly. --Hahc21 (talk) 07:11, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 April newsletter

Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Conradh na Gaeilge Grapple X (submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Scotland Casliber (submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's New York City Muboshgu (submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.

65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Vanuatu Matthewedwards (submissions) and United Kingdom Grandiose (submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, England Ealdgyth (submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Michigan Dana Boomer (submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Bavaria Stone (submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. United Kingdom Jarry1250 (submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.

An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank United Kingdom Jarry1250 (submissions) and Bavaria Stone (submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:14, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXIII, April 2012

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The Signpost: 30 April 2012

Wikinews

Cough, in case you don't otherwise see it. Hope all's well. BencherliteTalk 20:22, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2012

Talk:Caroline Street (Key West)/GA1

I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:56, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2012

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
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Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles.

Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg

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A barnstar for you!

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Read something somewhere about boilerplate questions in the RfB, and saw #9. Stands out from the pack. Great job! Buggie111 (talk) 23:15, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2012

Deletion request

Please delete the redirect page Wikipedia:Why do we have outlines in addition to...? to make way for a page move.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:02, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXIV, May 2012

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