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GOCE February 2018 news

Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Books & Bytes - Issue 27

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Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• New collections
  • Alexander Street (expansion)
  • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
• User Group
• Global branches update
  • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
• Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
• Bytes in brief

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June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. >>> Participate in the June elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 28

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Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018

• #1Bib1Ref
• New partners
  • Rock's Backpages
  • Invaluable
  • Termsoup
• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
• Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
• Bytes in brief

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August GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors August 2018 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the August 2018 GOCE newsletter. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Guild's June election; your new and returning coordinators are listed below. The next election will occur in December 2018; all Wikipedia editors in good standing may take part. Our June blitz focused on Requests and articles tagged for copy edit in October 2017. Of the eleven people who signed up, eight editors recorded a total of 28 copy edits, including 3 articles of more than 10,000 words. Complete results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the seventeen people who signed up, thirteen editors completed 194 copy edits, successfully removing all articles tagged in the last three months of 2017. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are here. The August blitz will run for one week, from 19 to 25 August. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the August blitz! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 29

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Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018

• New partners
  • Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
• Wikimania
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Books & Bytes, Issue 30

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Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

• Library Card translation
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
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Adding Image with consent of copyright holder

Hello

I received a message about some edits that I made to an article yesterday which appear to have gone now. The change was simply to add an image (a portrait shot) to the info-box section of an entry about a person. I uploaded the image to the wikimedia commons site (I think) selecting the license type the copyright holder had chosen (in discussion with me), adding the OTRS tag which I believe should direct editors to that system. The copyright holder had already sent an email (using one of the relevant templates) expressing their willingness to release the image. She has now also sent (as requested by the wikipedia editor who received her original template email) a further email, confirming the url of the uploaded image and my user name.

Did I do something wrong? Do I need to wait until that image has been fully accepted into the Wikimedia Commons site before I can add it to the infobox?

HA Glasgow (talk) 11:59, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello HA Glasgow. Thanks for going through all the hassle of uploading the image to Commons and getting the OTRS tag. It looks like something in the the image file name was spelled wrong or missing (maybe it was simply the ".jpg") in the article. I found the image you uploaded to Commons and added it (and your other edits) back into the Gareth Hoskins article. Thanks for asking about how to get this right. Please feel free to let me know if you have any other questions — I hope you continue to edit on Wikipedia! - tucoxn\^talk 14:30, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Tucoxn Thank you so much for your help. This is the first attempt at editing anything on Wikipedia and uploading an image for which I don't hold copyright was perhaps a tall order as a first go. Glad the edits are all now in place though and thanks again for your help. HA Glasgow (talk) 09:59, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Tucoxn. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Historicity of King Arthur

😂 - I was still working on it - got sidetracked for a minute and forgot to add Note above Ref. Thanks for catching it. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 20:52, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

December 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition. Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits. For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits. Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits. For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles. The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now! Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Texas cities

Hi - Thanks for reverting the vandalism that occurred just before my edit on List of cities in Texas by population. What would you recommend for verification of the revised data? The link given is to the city's 2010 data on American Factfinder, the Census Bureau's official web publishing site, so I'm not really sure what else would qualify. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:48, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@Ken Gallager: The combination of vandalism and reverts related to the statistics for Beaumont, Texas seemed a little confusing at the time. I think the only thing to do is to verify that the numbers for Beaumont, Texas are correct and remove the {{Verify source}} template. Thanks! - tucoxn\^talk 15:33, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I've verified the number and will remove the template. "Revised" census figures are a little strange; the number originally published for 2010 still displays in the table, but the revised number appears in a popup. --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:07, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

• OAWiki
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Tucoxn, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 17:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Need your help for India National Team jersey design

Hello, Recently following your activity at football kit pattern template, i am here to ask you for a help. Recently a new jersey design unveiled for India national football team for coming AFC Asian cup, its different from general straight stripes or parallel stripes, or boxes. I have gone through Template:Football kit/pattern list#Stripes 2, but didn't find such stripes on arm. Here is the new jersey design, https://www.foxsportsasia.com/football/asian-football/afc-asian-cup/1002013/afc-asian-cup-2019-india-national-team-kit-and-price-revealed/ It has "orange" colour tiger stripes on arm, pattern of which i didn't get anywhere. Can anyone please design the "home" and "away" color for the article, to put in the infobox. It will be a great help. Than you Dey subrata (talk) 17:02, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Dey subrata: Thanks for asking but I don't do much graphic design and I mostly edit Template:Football kit/pattern list when there is a broken link or wikitext/code to correct. It looks like you got a favorable reply from Vectorebus, though. Please let me know if I can assist with anything else. I'm looking forward to seeing the new jersey design! - tucoxn\^talk 17:54, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, just seen the Vectorebus's reply. Hope the editor can help out something. Dey subrata (talk) 18:15, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Good day, please have a look at the new stripes design I added for the Blue Tigers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Football_kit/pattern_list#Stripes_2. The stripes are quite thin and intricate, but hopefully it works. Regards, Vectorebus (talk) 08:25, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

VectorebusIts more than satisfactory, thank you, its really great, i never thought someone will even get close to this design. Thank you Dey subrata (talk) 22:26, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Vectorebus, that looks amazing. Great job designing those sleeves! I see it's already being used here and here. In other news, it seems like Six5Six^{Intentionally Red} (the uniform sponsor) has been create-protected, due to repeated COI and copyright violations (See User talk:Sachinjadhav0640#Conflict of Interest) — Dey subrata be careful if you re-create or re-write that page. - tucoxn\^talk 16:47, 31 December 2018 (UTC)