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SuperHamster's Talk Page (Archive 6) This is Archive 6 of SuperHamster's talk page. It contains old discussions that are no longer active. Archive 6 contains discussions 501-600, ranging from 11 September 2015 to 2 May 2016. Please do not edit the contents of this page If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on my current talk page. Thanks.

Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.

• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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The Signpost: 09 September 2015

• Gallery: Being Welsh

• Featured content: Killed by flying debris

• Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity

• News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article

• Traffic report: Mass media production traffic

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

• In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined

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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.

• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

• Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access

• News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?

• In the media: Is there life on Mars?

• Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?

• Traffic report: Another week

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Email

Hello, SuperHamster/Archive. 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 at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

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• Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?

• Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

• WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania

• In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism

• Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators

• Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

• Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption

• Traffic report: Reality is for losers

• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

• Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

• Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs

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• In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?

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Wikimedia Highlights from September 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in September 2015.

• Drone photography of Versailles
• Wikimedia project milestones: Swedish Wikipedia hits 2 million
• What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina
• In September, we love monuments
• Reimagining the Wikimedia Foundation’s grants
• Wikipedia’s very active editor numbers have stabilized—delve into the data with us
• Should I pay for a Wikipedia article?

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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

• Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith

• WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States

• Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence

• News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate

• Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death

• Featured content: A fistful of dollars

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

• Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid

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Wikipedia Asian Month

Hi Kevin. I just set up the Wikipedia Asian Month page on English Wikipedia, and want to invite you to be a organizer of this event.--AddisWang (talk) 20:50, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey @AddisWang: Thanks for the invite! What sort of responsibilities does an organizer have? Sounds like a great opportunity, but I've got a lot on my plate and I'd hate to sign up for something I don't have the time to put towards! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:09, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

A few things, check the articles if fulfill the criteria. I will do this job as well, as well as other organizers. No need to do it until the ending of event. And also try to spread the information about the event and get more people involves. I'm not familiar with enwp and where could be great place for having more people interested.--AddisWang (talk) 05:28, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the grammar check btw, just updated those improvement on meta sample page.--AddisWang (talk) 05:33, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

@AddisWang: No problem re. the copyedits. That all sounds good to me, I'll be happy to help! I've got a few places in mind to help promote the event in the meantime. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:37, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

 Like--AddisWang (talk) 05:41, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Enwp could be the only place that led controversial if use CentralNotice (Banner), I'm not sure about the such kind of policy on enwp. While we can talk about it maybe in todays workshop~--AddisWang (talk) 05:48, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

@AddisWang: For sure - never really thought of the idea that other language Wikipedias would be less restrictive on central notices. We'll definitely talk about it in the workshop - until then, I'm headed to bed. Night! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:50, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Helping out

Hey, I added myself as a volunteer for your fall course. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help, as this sounds pretty darn cool. Makes me wish that I was an Ohio State student, to have a Wikipedia-themed student organization nearby. But alas, I'm in Virginia and no such luck, as the closest group that does edit-a-thons is about 1-2 hours away in any given direction. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:29, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey @Tokyogirl79: Thanks so much! It's awesome to have some extra help when needed - I'll let our members know you're an available resource :) Things are pretty quiet for now, but we've got a few events we'll be planning for next year that I'll keep you updated on.

On a sidenote, I attended your COI speech at WikiConference USA. Great presentation! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:18, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

• Really? (blushes) Thanks! That really was a Murphy's Law kind of speech (since my computer didn't want to work and somewhere along the line the computer ate my last two slides), but I had a great crowd there! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:46, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

With this ever dramatic world and winter coming, here's a cup of tea to alleviate your day! This e-tea's remains have been e-composted SwisterTwister talk 05:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks @SwisterTwister: great end to my day as I head to sleep :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:41, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Re

Thank you! It looks nice! I'm thinking the WP:GN instead of CentralNotice, what you think is the best message we can put on that Notice? We use "November 2015 will be Wikipedia Asian Month, will welcome your participation!" currently on CentralNotice--AddisWang (talk) 22:40, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 October 2015

• Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

• News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched

• In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"

• Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus

• Featured content: A more balanced week

• Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications

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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

• From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help

• News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles

• In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA

• Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying

• Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement

• Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth

• Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages

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• Community letter: Five million articles

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Demo video for judging tool

Hi, here is the demo video that you can see how the tool works and how to judge the articles during the Wikipedia Asian Month. The template we use is here en:Template:WAM user. -- m:User:AddisWang

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone

• In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?

• Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad

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WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

• Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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WikiCup Award

Awarded for participating in the 2015 WikiCup. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 19:33, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

1st week of WAM

Hi

I'm very excited that Wikipedia Asian Month has many great articles already in the first ten days. To better help us understand how we are we doing on Wikipedia Asian Month, here are some small tasks:

1. Please update the data of your Wikipedia at m:Wikipedia Asian Month/Data, it does not need to be accurate.
2. A few Wikipedia has join the WAM, you can update it on the local page. Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Cantonese Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia and Vietnamese Wikipedia.
3. Try to get some media coverage on your local medias. Report the media coverage and find resources at here.
4. There is a user box that you can encourage participants to put on their user page. m:Template:User Asian Month‎

— Addis Wang via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in October 2015.

• Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony
• Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
• Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item
• District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected
• Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

• Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed

• Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee

• Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review

• Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling

• In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys

• Traffic report: Doodles of popularity

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

• Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

• In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing

• Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world

• Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running

• Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:35, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

One Week Left!

Hi there!

Thank you for volunteering to organize Wikipedia Asian Month - we are doing something amazing! We are expecting to have 1,000 participants improving over 1,500 articles, possibly making Wikipedia Asian Month the largest long-term edit-a-thon ever. Here are a few tasks that need to be completed at the end of the event, as well as some tips you can take to achieve greater success.
Requirements:

1. Check all submitted articles before 15th December, 2015, and send me a data set that includes: total number of submitted articles, number of qualified articles, total number of participants, and articles selected for DYK. For the few Wikipedias that allow article expansions, please also send me the number of new articles vs. improved articles. Use this page to submit results.
2. List all qualified organizers, up to five on each Wikipedia. Qualified organizers are ones who work actively; those who only have their name on the page or just made a few constructive edits for the event (less than, say, 5-10 edits) will not be counted. Due 20th December, 2015. Use this page to submit organizers.
3. List all qualified editors who can receive a postcard on here at meta. Also, please determine the Wikipedia Asian Ambassador of this year. For some Wikipedias, we are also honoring the second greatest contributor as an ambassador, as long as they have created at least 30 articles. Please talk with me about these potential additional Ambassadors. Due 25th December, 2015. Use this page to submit Ambassadors.
4. Create a local results page. A sample page will be provided soon. Due 30th December, 2015.

Tips and Extras:

1. Place {{WAM talk 2015}} on talk pages of qualified articles to record that it was created as a part of Wikipedia Asian Month. If your Wikipedia does not have an equivalent template, make one! See this talk page example to see the template in action.
2. Translate the message at this page. This message will be sent to all participants on your local Wikipedia to encourage their participation. Let me know when you finish the translation. For some Wikipedias that have fewer editors, you can send it by yourself.
3. If you haven't started to check articles, try to give at least one result to each participant to let them know their contribution are qualified, or why they do not qualify.
4. If you find out that some editors on your local Wikipedia are editing Asian Content but haven't sign up yet, send them a short invitation to ask them join. All edits made in November will be counted regardless of when the editor signed up.

Rules Clarification:

• Since it is hard for organizers to keep the checking process very quickly, and may cause some editors who submit five articles being told one of their article does not qualified after the end November. We will still send postcards to those who submit five articles but one of those does not qualified with a minor problem. Minor problems include:
  1. Needs a few words to reach 300 words.
  2. Has a less-important issue tag.
  3. Needs to count one or two edits in the end of October or beginning of December to be qualified.

Best Wishes,
Addis Wang

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:In the news

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WAM

Hi there Kevin. I'm going to be direct here. I have 2 queries.

1. How do I know that my article fulfills the requirements. (There hasn't been any review from 24 November). Is there any way I can check that?
2. Is this in Simple English Wikipedia alive?

Thanks in advance and please, notify me/use a talkback message after you reply this.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:33, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Notifying @Titodutta: here. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Pratyya Ghosh: Thanks for your questions. I use Dr pda's prosesize tool to calculate page sizes and word counts. I recommend that you install it and use the tool yourself to easily see if your contributions meet WAM's requirements. It's a useful gadget to have for general use after WAM, too. As for WAM on the Simple English Wikipedia: I didn't even know that was going on! I didn't sing up as an organizer there (it looks like the page was simply copied over from the English Wikipedia), and I've removed myself from the list there. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's active there either. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:42, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

• Pratyya, I have checked your lone article. Your article is tagged with copyvio template, it might be a Wikipedia>>Mirror>>Wikipedia's sub article issue. Please check it. --Tito Dutta (talk) 11:49, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

  Tito da, that copyvio is not actually my creation but it was previously at 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Finals. I moved that to 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Knockouts to create a free space for 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Final. Rather than this I don't know if there's a problem with my other works. Though the 2007, 2014 and 2013 CT is not my creation but it was under 4K bytes and didn't have 300 words. I actually increased these articles to 4K+ bytes and 300+ words.

  PS: what did you mean by "lone article"? --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:29, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

• Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone

• News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations

• In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia

• Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films

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Wrap-up

Hi there!

We made it! The first edition of Wikipedia Asian Month has successfully ended! While your efforts are still needed since the wrap up stage is another big challenge for us. I understand everyone is busy in December, I will trying to cover everything we need in this message, hopefully can make this easier.
Guideline

1. Check all submitted articles before 15th December, 2015.
   1. When you do so, please make a category that includes all articles of WAM. My approach is using the {{WAM talk 2015}} on the talk page of all articles, and generate a category for talk page.
   2. If you already submitted result on this page, please take a look that I add another column for articles selected for DYK. It could take a while for DYK process, you can fill that column later.
   3. You don't need to provide bytes column since I'm looking for a easy way to not brother us too much.
   4. When you checking articles, if you ever find an article submitted about Bashkortostan, Russia, please list them out. Bashkortostan community would like to send a postcard to whoever create that article.
2. List all qualified organizers, up to five on each Wikipedia. Qualified organizers are ones who work actively; those who only have their name on the page or just made a few constructive edits for the event (less than, say, 5-10 edits) will not be counted. Due 20th December, 2015. Use this page to submit organizers.
3. As you submit the qualified participants on this page, please also use P, O and A to mark them so I can know how many postcards should they receive. P(Participant), O(Organizers), A(Ambassadors). Please review the page if you submitted already. This is due 25th December, 2015 as previously mentioned.
4. We will make a barnstar for whoever contribute to Wikipedia Asian Month, a user box for whoever accomplish the mission, and a ribbon bar for Ambassadors. It will be distribute after we have all qualified editors.
5. You can find me on Facebook as Addis Wang, easiest way to talk with me for any questions or need my assistance. Leaving a message on meta is another option.

Further Actions

1. You are welcome to submit an blog post draft for Wikimedia Blog at here about Wikipedia Asian Month in your local community, a specific story is more welcomed. I will help on that, and maybe integrate stories from different communities together to make a enough length articles. So don't hesitate to submit a short paragraph.
   1. A specific story about WAM. Like how some volunteers contribute in the event makes them special.
   2. A one sentence statement from you or participants about how you feel about Wikipedia Asian Month; why you like the event; what do you think we need to improve next year
   3. A short introduction about your community if it has not been introduced yet on Wikimedia Blog. Goals, current problems, why your community special etc.
2. Sorry for the rough pages on meta. I will make a more beautiful page for all organizers and Ambassadors to honor their great contribution for Wikipedia.
3. Next year: Many communities show their interest to hold this event again next year. We want to plan it in advance. If you represent a Wikimedia affiliate in Asia, please considering to include around 100 U.S. dollars in your annual grant application or similar. So Wikipedians around world can have a taste on your country or region next year! A mail list will be set up and inform you in next update. We will definitely make this event easier to participant next year, and improve our tool to give a better experience for both organizers and participants.

My Best Wishes and appreciation,
Addis Wang

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:01, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

That IP

Can't really do a rangeblock with the two IPs, one of which an IPv6. Do you have a list of IPs that have been used? Did we ever have an SPI, or a registered account? I don't think so but I could be wrong. If there are frequently targeted articles, we can semi-protect, of course. To put it another way, sorry, there's really nothing I can do right now; there's no point in blocking that IP. If you have more (articles, IPs), ping me and we'll see what we can do. Take it easy, Drmies (talk) 03:19, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

@Drmies: Thanks for the quick response! SPI investigations from months ago are here; past ANI reports (that include IPs) are here and here. I'm busy ATM with last minute school things, but I'll keep an eye out for the next few days and will see if page protections are necessary. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:43, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Last-minute school things? A student asked me Tuesday if he could have a conference with me about his paper, for which he had just changed topics. Tuesday was the last day of class; the paper was due the day before. Don't be that student! Drmies (talk) 04:33, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

@Drmies: Wow! I won't be that student. I might be working on this group project until 1:49 tomorrow when it's due at 1:50, but it will not be late, I can promise you that. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:02, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Category:Grand Theft Auto V screenshots

Category:Grand Theft Auto V screenshots, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The1337gamer (talk) 18:03, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 December 2015

• Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?

• News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

• In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches

• Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes

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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
• Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
• Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
• Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
• Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
• Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
• Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
• Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
• Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
• Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
• France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
• Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
• Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
• Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
• Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
• Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
• Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
• Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
• Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...

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Thanks. I've had a great 2015, but I can't speak for 2016 yet (sorry). Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 20:10, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Hey dude, have a great holiday and and a super year ahead. IMO, you are one of the few "last great Wikipedians", and I respect you highly. Have a Merry Christmas! Wonderfl (reply) 07:42, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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2016

	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 22:41, 30 December 2015 (UTC)    –

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A barnstar for you!

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HAVE THE BEST 2016 YEAR EVER wait.......... never mind there is only one 2016 well....... HAVE THE BEST YEAR EVER !

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Can you please check my page and tell me what is wrong with it as someone has requested it for speedy deletion while it does NOT contain anything which will break any legal conditions! Abhinay Banker (talk) 18:43, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

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Vandalize? This Account's User (talk) 06:53, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Have fun! Shftin2gear (talk) 21:28, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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Good Job

	Here's some Celery
	Love this Shftin2gear (talk) 21:35, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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Could you catch the list here and integrated into this page? Thanks--AddisWang (talk) 22:12, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

 Done ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:52, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

Cheers mate! Chrisw80 (talk) 05:50, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

@Chrisw80: Same to you! Keep up the good work. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:52, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Milgram obedience study

Hello SuperHamster,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Milgram obedience study for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Vinod 08:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

@Vinodtiwari2608: The page I created was a valid redirect to another article. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 09:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Cites and sources for Count of Mayalde

I´ve placed cites and sources for the page Count of Mayalde, could you eliminate the notes or advices you put to the respect? ....Can I eliminate them?. I think so.

Thank you. --Siredejoinville (talk) 16:56, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

@Siredejoinville: Done, thanks! In cases where you've obviously met the requirements of the tag, you're free to remove them yourself, too. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 16:58, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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