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Latest comment: 8 years ago by Bananasoldier in topic Draft:Drought in California

Books and Bytes - Issue 9 edit

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Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November-December 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
  • New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
  • Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:36, 8 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Draft:Drought in California edit

Good morning! I noticed that you created Draft:Drought in California, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind me contributing to it from time to time. Best, Bananasoldier (talk) 15:01, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Bananasoldier: but of course! Please feel free to do anything you like and move to published article when you think it's ready. I haven't had much time to edit the last few weeks so haven't worked on it; I'd be very happy to see someone else add to it! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hi, nice to see you editing! I've redirected the draft to the mainspace.   §Bananasoldier (talk) 04:35, 24 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

RfC: AfC Helper Script access edit

An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:11, 1 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

RfC: AfC Helper Script access edit

An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:14, 1 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

BIS 98 edit

Hi Phoebe,

I'm just checking in concerning the course page you created for Education Program:University of California, Davis/BIS 98 (W15). LiAnna said she thought it was likely a test, but it looks like you've included some assignment specifics there so I'm just making sure we set you up for whatever support you need.

Thanks --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:36, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hey Ryan! Thanks for checking in, and nice to meet you. I know it's a pretty stubby page, but it's actually not a test; it's a class I'm consulting with. It's a very different type of assignment though from the usual -- large-scale, minor edits. I realize this violates many of the best practices we've developed over the years for Wikipedia assignments :) That's intentional on my part though, and I'm keeping a pretty close eye on things. We're hoping to have one more pilot quarter and then evaluation; I'll write up what we did for everyone. I think we're ok for support for now -- if anyone asks about it, I'm taking full personal responsibility for cleaning up the articles in question if need be. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for clarifying and for the fast response. In general we like to stick to a particular set of best practices, yes, and to that effect we've been really pushing people to use the assignment design wizard where applicable. There's a copyediting option in there that I'd love your feedback on if you have time to check it out. That said, you certainly have enough experience using and helping people to use Wikipedia that nobody here is concerned if you veer from best practices. Unless you would prefer not to, I'd like to tag your course as supported by wiki_ed. That gives you access to the dashboard feature and extra support if you decide you do want it (e.g. the help of one of our content experts who can provide feedback directly to students and free brochures). --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:37, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Ryan! Sure, go for it -- if for no other reason than I'm curious what it looks like (I work with a fair number of faculty who are thinking about teaching with WP, so it's nice to be up on what we're doing). I haven't looked at the assignment wizard, I'll check it out. Say hi to everyone at WikiEd for me. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Great. I replaced the course page header with the newer version that links to the dashboard, turned on dashboard access (it should update within the hour if it's not working yet), added the wiki_ed support parameter, and added myself as online volunteer (I add myself by default for the instructor's benefit; you can remove me if you think it could be confusing). Ian (Wiki Ed) is the content expert who could help out your students. Thanks very much! --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:09, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Oh, and to follow up on I work with a fair number of faculty who are thinking about teaching with WP: We're trying to do a little active recruitment for this term, which means recruiting instructors to add a small assignment for terms that have already started or working with people at schools on quarter-based schedules who might not have started yet. If you talk to anyone who might be interested, it would be great if you could send them my way :)
Thanks again, Phoebe. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:15, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Quick question: I didn't notice at the time that the course end date is set to just a couple days after the course page was created. Was that intentional? Just making sure it shouldn't still be on the current course list. Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:23, 19 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Upcoming edit-a-thon in Richmond, Virginia edit

 
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Categorize articles with video clips edit

Hi Phoebe! In your recent bot request to categorize articles with video clips, you provided this link, which is no longer working. Was it the intent that the link would continue to be updated, so I do subsequent bot runs? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi @GoingBatty:, it would be nice to have ongoing runs, yes. I don't know why the tool is broken -- I'll file a bug about it. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 05:34, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Just noticed that this tool is now fixed, so I'm running the bot again to categorize another 700+ articles. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:36, 5 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
@GoingBatty: awesome, thanks! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 23:46, 19 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
Checked again and see that it's broken again. Where did you file a bug about it last time? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:02, 15 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Still broken, so I posted at de:Benutzer Diskussion:TMg Is that the right place? Thanks, and Happy New Year! GoingBatty (talk) 17:48, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8 edit

ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!
 
 

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Books and Bytes - Issue 10 edit

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Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
  • New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
  • TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review

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Some stroopwafels for you! edit

  Thank you for attending the editathon on Sunday. Lovely to see you as always! rachel (talk) 00:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Invitation edit

 
Thank you for using VisualEditor and sharing your ideas with the developers.

Hello, Phoebe,

The Editing team is asking for your help with VisualEditor. I am contacting you because you were one of the very first testers of VisualEditor, back in 2012 or early 2013. Please tell them what they need to change to make VisualEditor work better for you. The team has a list of top-priority problems, but they also want to hear about small problems. These problems may make editing less fun, take too much of your time, or be as annoying as a paper cut. The Editing team wants to hear about and try to fix these small things, too. 

You can share your thoughts by clicking this link. You may respond to this quick, simple, anonymous survey in your own language. If you take the survey, then you agree your responses may be used in accordance with these terms. This survey is powered by Qualtrics and their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy.

More information (including a translateable list of the questions) is posted on wiki at mw:VisualEditor/Survey 2015. If you have questions, or prefer to respond on-wiki, then please leave a message on the survey's talk page.

Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:13, 23 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

thanks for you thanks re climate fiction page and i would love to chat with you sometime about Wiki ideas, i love it, and i am reporter, editor, 65 in Taiwan sinc 1991. dan bloom, Tufts 1971 lit major (Chiayi77 (talk) 04:56, 24 March 2015 (UTC)).Reply

Sakata info edit

Thanks Phoebe, I wasn't aware of the Wikivoyages pages. I'll try and add some information for Sakata. It's my first time contributing to Wikipedia, so I'm still trying to get the hang of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sakburgh5 (talkcontribs) 05:26, 24 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Unconstructive edits and original research edit

Hello! I'm new here and was reviewing Wikipedia's core content policies when I noticed that an unconstructive edit was made over at Sophie Hunter's page by Lady Lotus (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sophie_Hunter&diff=653358418&oldid=653281992). I'm forwarding this request to you as I have seen that you are active with pages on Women in the Arts. Anyway, Lady Lotus has restored an edit that mislabels a production and removes a credit. User Corsican Honeymoon's edit should be restored due to the following reasons:

  • Calling the production Lucretia an installation is mislabeling the production because installations are inanimate and Lucretia has movements from performers, so it should be properly called performance art. Installation and performance art are entirely different things.
  • Putting the timestamp "(2011)" after Rape of Lucretia suggests that Rape of Lucretia was done in 2011 when it isn't. It's the performance art Lucretia that was produced in 2011 not the opera which was first performed in 1946.
  • Deletion of Magic Flute as credit when the provided reliable source explicitly says that Hunter has directed it. Per core content policy "No original research", an editor can't just remove a credit because she thinks the production didn't happen at all. That counts as vandalism.Medium Bae Cutie Pie (talk) 01:51, 25 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

A desperate scream from outside of the echo chamber edit

Hello Phoebe. Thank you for your work on wikipedia!

I came across another article on a topic which is very important to me today. I hope you don't mind if I share an excerpt:

"The main source of [Wikipedia's decline] is not mysterious. The loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers who might increase participation in Wikipedia and broaden its coverage." - The Decline of Wikipedia.

Is anything seriously being done about this by **you** today? Any widespread structural change initiatives?

Everyday there are more warnings to radically change course. This is the biggest long term problem facing the health of wikipedia. The history of technology shows that it is only a matter of time before a more inclusive upstart threatens wikipedia's dominance.

Thank you for listening! Namecheapblues (talk) 13:41, 27 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

A new reference tool edit

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Books and Bytes - Issue 11 edit

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Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
  • New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
  • Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia

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(Early) Welcome to MIT! edit

Hi Phoebe -- I just saw on your candidate page that you'll soon be joining the MIT libraries. Wonderful! Looking forward to meeting you and discussing ideas on how MIT and the community can integrate better with WP and mutually support each other. Best, Michael Cuthbert (Assoc. Prof. Music; chair of the Lewis Music Library Faculty Committee). [ etc: -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 20:53, 19 May 2015 (UTC) ]Reply

Mscuthbert thanks! Very cool. Looking forward to it and to meeting you as well. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:07, 9 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
Wonderful! See you around! - Myke -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 17:48, 9 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

A pie for you! edit

  Thanks for all your work as a trustee through your term. Having had fingers in pies but not for your benefit I thought you should have your own one.  :) GregKaye 17:02, 9 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
thank you :) I love pie. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 01:51, 29 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

The Wikipedia Library needs you! edit

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The Wikipedia Library needs you! edit

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12 edit

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Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
  • Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
  • Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
  • American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

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Eponymous Wikipedians edit

I finally got around to actually creating Category:Eponymous Wikipedians. Feel free to add yourself, pass the word around, etc. Or not, it's just for fun. (The category description could probably use some love as well.) C. Scott Ananian (talk) 13:50, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Books and Bytes - Issue 13 edit

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Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
  • Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
  • Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
  • Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

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This Friday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA edit

You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA on October 16! (drop-in any time, 6-9pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:29, 14 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science edit

You are invited! Join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

 
 
  • Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015
  • Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event
  • Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
  • Sponsor: New York Academy of Sciences
  • Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a "phyisical" event during the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in science to participate. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over three weeks, new participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in the field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome.
  • RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 11:07, 31 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Assistance with Paper Access? edit

Hi, Phoebe! I hope you've been well since last since we last spoke. Can you help me in obtaining access to the following paper please? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25410148 I think it would help with editing varenicline. Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 21:54, 8 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

November 2015 newsletter edit

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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Ceremony today edit

Hi Phoebe. The guy from the fan club today was me (I actually introduced myself, but I am pretty sure you did not hear).--Ymblanter (talk) 21:35, 25 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Ymblanter: Hello! I'm so sorry, you are right that I didn't hear (my hearing is poor and I was very distracted!) it was so great to meet you! thank you for coming and the kind words, and I'm sorry we didn't get to talk more. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 13:34, 29 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
No problem, I understand you were super-busy. It was great meeting you, and thanks for the nice and insightful speech.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:04, 29 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you! edit

  The Real Life Barnstar
Thanks for your very nice representation of the community in the "Wikipedia, an introduction - Erasmus Prize 2015" video. Pine 07:29, 26 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
I just watch the very nice video — thanks for your contribution.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:37, 28 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
Yes, you came over very well; thanks, Phoebe. Tony (talk) 04:05, 29 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, everyone! That's very kind. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 13:35, 29 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Books and Bytes - Issue 14 edit

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Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
  • Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
  • Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

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Merry Christmas and happy new year edit

Merry Christmas and happy new year. (:

--Pine

2016 edit

 
Happy New Year 2016!
Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.
   – Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:38, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Reply