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Thank you for the note. Sorry for the late reply - I took the whole weekend off from Wikipedia; something I haven't done in a long while.
Today I found myself at war with an editor named Dbachmann. He's been waging a campaign based on misstatements and rhetoric to do everything he can to move the set of outlines to portal space. None of his reasons make any sense, but he's relentless. He's using a somewhat backhanded approach, as he ignores the points raised against him and simply repeats his arguments somewhere else. He venue shopped WP:AN previously, and today he venue shopped WP:ANI. Presumably it was to pick up supporters for his cause. There doesn't appear to be a trick in the book he isn't willing to try.
He tried to intimidate/recruit one of WP:WPOOK's younger members (Highfields) today to help him in his move effort. Practically demoralized the guy. See the discussion at User talk:Dbachmann.
Dbachmann hit a couple related guidelines (WP:OUTLINE and WP:STAND).
He also moved the article on outline and redirected the original page to a disambig! I put in a request to have it moved back until the attainment of a new consensus (there was no consensus for the move), but the request hasn't been granted yet.
I've added the various threads to the end of WP:OOKDISC. It's not pretty.
I'm not sure what to do.
Since you are my mentor, I figured you'd be the best person to get feedback from on this.
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 03:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Posting at ANI is exactly what I did. Not sure if it helped, but he seems to have stopped.
Either his hoopla or the increased exposure to the outlines (from the links we've continued to place in the encyclopedia), stirred up a few more opposers to the project. Fortunately, supporters rose to the occasion to address each concern raised. They did a fantastic job.
As the weeks roll by, WP:OOK is attaining more and more credibility. People are starting to get it, and those supporting it are articulating themselves and OOK's purposes better.
The discussions concerning OOK can be found at WP:OOKDISC.
I took about a week off from WP, which gave me time to think about how to proceed.
The project breaks down easily into 4 areas of effort:
There's lots of work to be done, and we still only have handful of people working on them.
So recruiting is still the highest priority.
Within the span of a month or less, I'd like to recruit several hundred editors to develop outlines.
How can I accomplish this?
The Transhumanist 22:51, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.
Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...
Thank you.
Here's what else has been going on...
There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.
The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!
Keep up the excellent work.
The Transhumanist 01:21, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
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...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.
It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.
But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.
I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
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