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CC for software

Hi Hazard-SJ, I came upon your HazardBot source code and noticed that it is licensed under a Creative Commons license. However, it is not reccomended to use such a license for software. Quoting the CC FAQ: Unlike software-specific licenses, CC licenses do not contain specific terms about the distribution of source code, which is often important to ensuring the free reuse and modifiability of software. Many software licenses also address patent rights, which are important to software but may not be applicable to other copyrightable works. Additionally, our licenses are currently not compatible with the major software licenses... I'll leave the choice of alternative license to your discretion. Thanks for open sourcing your tools by the way. :) Opencooper (talk) 16:23, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Opencooper: Hi, thanks for the note! I had in fact realized that about CC, and I still have a note to myself from over a year ago to change the licensing, but just haven't gotten around to it as yet. Thanks again for the note, I'm planning to get those updated later this year.  Hazard SJ  21:01, 11 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
Ahh okay, no worries then. Just thought I'd reach out in case you didn't know. Happy contributing! Opencooper (talk) 21:39, 11 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Bots Newsletter, July 2017
 

Greetings!

Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

BAG

BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!

BRFAs

We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions
New things
Upcoming
Wikimania

Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know!

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC)Reply


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To the dump!

WP:FIX Suggestion

This project is ready for October's data dump. Regards —SpintendoTalk 08:18, 10 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Decorate Talk Page

  Wikimedia Talk Page Award
The Wikimedia Foundation Appreciate Talk Pages
Dr. Theodore A. Biddle 15:42, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by PoliceSheep-Wiki (talkcontribs)

Thank you!  Hazard SJ  17:21, 22 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Fix common mistakes

WP:FIX is ready for the next data dump. Will there be one for October? Please advise. Spintendo (talk) 06:41, 31 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

WP:FIX is ready for the next data dump. Will there be one for October? Please advise. (Third request—reiterated to prevent archiving by Lowercase_sigmabot_III) Spintendo (talk) 04:08, 4 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Hazard-SJ. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

You've got mail

 
Hello, Hazard-SJ. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.Legoktm (talk) 01:57, 2 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Adopt-a-user - please check your details

Hello, I have been doing a cleanup of the ‘Adopter’ information page for the Adopt-a-user Project, located here. During my cleanup, I've removed several long-inactive and retired users, leaving just the most recently active ones, whether they're currently available (14 users) or not currently available (24 users).

In order to provide potential adoptees with an easy location to find people, the Adopter's page needs to be up-to-date with the latest availability information. Thus:

  • If you are no longer interested in being an adopter, even in the future, please remove yourself from the list, and delete any {{adopting}} templates from your user pages.
  • If you are still interested, but not currently available, please check the list to see if your details needs to be updated - especially with regards availability. (A dummy edit would show me you’ve checked and are OK with what’s currently there.)
  • Feel free to add a line at the bottom of your entry to show how many adoptees you’ve previously helped. I’m sure that would be of interest to newcomers, especially when you do return.
  • I have also cleaned out nearly 100 inactive editors still flagged as seeking adoption. That leaves just 18 people currently interested in being adopted.

You are receiving this message because you are listed as an adopter here, but have made relatively few edits over the last year or so.

Finally, as an editor with previous experience of adoption (unlike myself!), you might wish to respond to the (admittedly long) comments I've made here about how I think the project could be improved and got working again. I've also 'been bold' and tweaked the project pages a wee bit. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:47, 31 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018
 

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
BAG
BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things
Upcoming

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)Reply


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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talkcontribs) 03:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Loves Food

 
Curd Rice

Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grant success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 22:31, 29 April 2018 (UTC) Danidamiobi (talk) 22:31, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

List of Common mistakes

It's been 3 months since the last data dump for the list of common mistakes. Would be great if the bot could trigger this. Thank you!  spintendo  05:43, 6 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Spintendo: Hi, thanks for bringing that to my attention! The issue seems to have been caused by a new (unexpected, though seemingly useful) directory being added that threw off some logic that I wrote to dynamically generate the path to the dump file (I previously had to do this to locate the latest completed dump). It should be fixed now and I've manually started the task, so the reports should be updated within the next day or two. Let me know if nothing happens.  Hazard SJ  18:06, 8 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

Adoption

Hello Hazard-SJ, I saw your post on the Wikipedia adoptee offer and I would like to ask if you're currently available to adopt me and teach me everything you know about Wikipedia. I'm a fast learner but I don't know how to code in general. Thanks, Yanjipy (talk) 22:13, 23 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

On the other note if you're to busy please direct me to someone you also recommend. Yanjipy (talk) 22:23, 23 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

Adoption

I would like to be adopted and taught more about editing on wikipedia. Mostly wanting to fight vandalism and ensure pages are neutral and free of biases. I'm only a few hours old tho but spend lots of time learning new things on here. 90% of my browsing would be of automobiles. Dartman1313 (talk) 00:42, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018
 

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
  • Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.
BAG
  • There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
  • In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.
BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

Also

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

New things

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply


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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

 
 

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)Reply