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I've left a note regarding Jane McGonigal on the meta page for the Wikipedia Adventure. Ryan Vesey 18:59, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
I have initiated a discussion at Village Pump Proposals regarding applying Template:COI editnotice more broadly, in order to provide advice from WP:COI directly onto the article Talk page. Your comment, support or opposition is invited. Cheers. CorporateM (Talk) 19:44, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for everything! Tjanaka (talk) 19:23, 14 March 2013 (UTC) |
It was great to see you today. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:58, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the admin toolbar, which I have borrowed from you for my user page. Bearian (talk) 14:51, 19 March 2013 (UTC) |
Hello Ocaasi, Eduemoni has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni↑talk↓ 16:35, 20 March 2013 (UTC) |
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For your ongoing efforts to rationalize Wikipedia's COI editing policy. Altering fundamental policy at Wikipedia is akin to trying to steer a glacier with a curling broom. You have put in an extraordinary amount of work in support of the most sensible effort to regularize COI editing and to thereby open it to scrutiny. I thank you for your continued work and wish you the best for the ultimate success of the effort. Carrite (talk) 22:12, 20 March 2013 (UTC) |
The Help Project Newsletter Issue V - January 2013 | |
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Hello again from the Help Project! In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already. Another important and frequently used help page, Wikipedia:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages. In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Wikipedia:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
04:13, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
A couple of years ago we had a situation where UK reporters, working undercover, recorded senior executives at a UK public relations firm, bragging to potential clients that they employed a team of shills, who could covertly sanitize any wikipedia article for their clients. Their team was already familiar with wikipedia culture, and would establish, or had already established, wikipedia personas to perform the sanitizing edits, that would pass as the regular edits of regular contributors.
The example they told their clients about was an article I had written -- Dahabshiil. It is a somali-based hawala -- an Islam-compliant remittance company.
US security officials feared hawalas, assuming that the 911 hijackers had been financially supported by funds transferred to them via hawalas. Although the 911 Commission determined that the 911 hijackers received their funds through regular banking transactions, US security officials continue to suspect hawalas. Half a dozen captives in Guantanamo were held solely because they worked for a hawala. One of them worked for Dahabshiil.
The PR firm, Bell Pottinger, IIRC, told how the owner of Dahabshiil, who had moved to the UK, was disturbed because every time their potential business partners googled the firm, all the first hits were related to the Dahabshiil employee who had been sent to Guantanamo...
OK. I just checked your contribution history, and see that there was a discussion of Bell Pottinger and Dahabshiil at Wikipedia talk:Conflict of interest#BP and large company editing in general and I should presume you were aware of this situation.
So, why should we extend the assumption of good faith to User:Arturo at BP? We extend the assumption of good faith to individuals because we assume that when they work on the wikipedia they are putting the wikipedia's interest first. But I think we have to assume that Arturo's first interest is Bell Pottinger, and thus we should not trust any information shared with us publicly by Arturo or any other Bell Pottinger employee.
In the Dahabshiil example BP's sneaky, morally-blind rehabilitation process included describing Barre as a "former employee". Has Arturo, or anyone at BP ever acknowledged that this was not true? Geo Swan (talk) 13:18, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
I'm having trouble making the references work here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Cypriot_financial_crisis#Consequences
Can you help or tell me what's wrong?
Best, Djbaniel (talk) 03:05, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks Occasi! Djbaniel (talk) 02:24, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi, I just thought I'd drop by to say thanks again for all the work you've done to help get access to HighBeam, Questia, and Credoreference. I've found HighBeam and Questia very useful both on and off wikipedia. I haven't yet gotten much out of credoreference, do you know what type of information it is useful for? Ryan Vesey 16:13, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Ocaasi,
Is there a list of editors you have connected with articles, like with the NDAA 2012, that we can see? Like on the BP talk page, each of the pages where you have placed a special interest helper should have a declaration of that, and no - the archives are not the place for that declaration.
Further, would you consider perhaps that edits made on behalf of, in this case the US Congress, state that in each edit summary? For example, this diff - the edit summary which states This vote counts and mention of Jerry Moran do not belong in the lead, let alone in the first paragraph. could in the future be: "Edit on behalf of the US Congress; This vote counts..."
That would make it easier for editors to identify these helpers. Even with the requested talk page declaration, it would help to have each edit identified in this way too, since many editors don't bother looking at the talk page at all and usually it isn't needed.
Along with the talk page tag stating (for ex:) NDAA 2012 talk page at top (not archives) "User Darouet was assigned to help the US Congress by User Ocaasi; please contact Ocaasi at my talk page if any concerns arise". That would feel more supportive of the indie editor and acknowledge the fact that you can't ensure your editors are completely NPOV nor can you effectively monitor each page yourself.
My concern is that your editor removed information about which Congress people voted, saying it just didn't belong in the Intro, but without moving the information to a proper place. It was simply deleted. Do you stand behind this? Do you feel you have any responsibility for the edits made by your appointees?
Are you the only Admin or editor on Wikipedia taking part in this matchmaking service? If not, can I assume there is a list of all this activity somewhere? Transparency has got to be foremost in our minds when taking part in something like this, no? petrarchan47tc 19:22, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
I put the template connected contributor COI declaration at the top of the NDAA talk page. But there is a lot of misinterpretation here. I didn't "have" Darouet "help" the US Congress. I introduced a government employee on the talk page with a COI declaration, and then Darouet, who had been quite active previousy at the article responded, and this kicked off an intense discussion over what coverage was appropriate and sourced. Neither I nor Darouet were implementing edits "on behalf of" anyone. We were doing what Wikipedia editors do which is ruthlessly (politely) argue what's the most fair presentation of facts and present sources which back that up. There was no editing by proxy from US.GOV to Darouet. There was actual discussion and then editors without a COI made changes when there was consensus. For the record, I was personally extremely concerned about NDAA 2012 and went out of my way to let the government representative know that we were not going to parrot their views, that we would cover the controversy precisely as published sources had an in no way would simply make the changes they wanted made.
What's going on here is COI disclosure from representatives, presentation of sources and suggestions, and individuals making changes they see as reasonable, and non-COI editors taking responsibility for them. You've made your point that COI declarations from representatives could be more visible, but that's something I've always worked towards. Seriously, these people are doing what they're encouraged to do, in the WP:COI guideline! When Jimmy Wales, who's been as firm as anyone about a bright line against direct editing says, "I think that accusing [BP employee] Arturo of ‘skirting’ Wikipedia’s rules in this case is fairly ludicrous – unless ‘skirting’ means ‘going above and beyond what is required in order to be very clearly in compliance with best practice....” then I think it's maybe a sign that the concerns here are getting blown out of proportion or are misdirected towards the wrong party. I have to leave it there for now, because there other projects I want to spend time on. I still would like to incorporate your feedback into future guidance. I think it should happen on the WP:COI and WP:PSCOI pages, so that we can bring in others input and move towards constructive changes to those texts. Ocaasi t | c 16:45, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I've just noticed that you changed a post of yours after I had replied to it, making my reply seem meaningless. Would you mind going back and restoring your original post, then clarifying/updating underneath it? Otherwise, I look as though I responded to something that you didn't say. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 19:01, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
The Interior (Talk) 19:41, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Coursera is offering a course on gamification that you might be interested in. [1]. Ryan Vesey 04:26, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
So here's the idea I had. It's very rough, and I know a thousand holes could be shot in it, but I wonder whether it could be made to work. It seems to me that we would have a win-win situation if we could iron out the wrinkles. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:24, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I thought that your comment on WBB's talk page was very astute and productive and I took the liberty of quoting you in my comment here at the WBB RfC. I hope this is alright with you. If you find it objectionable in any way please contact me and I will remove it ASAP. Thanks for your kind consideration. Best, -- — Keithbob • Talk • 15:10, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi. I was notified on my talk page that I had been approved for a Highbeam account and a Credo account. I received the Credo email with instructions and have been using it, but I never received an e-mail from Highbeam. Is there any way to get this taken care of? Thanks. Strebe (talk) 04:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Just a note to say I've now read Slimvirgin's talk page, so have a deeper appreciation of what you are going through, and what motivated your desire to write the draft on COIReview. However, it hasn't changed my views. I am sorry you are taking some abuse. but my opinion is that some have an unreasonable expectation of how Wikipedia works and should work. If widespread, it needs addressing, but if one or two, it does not need boilerplate, it needs pointed responses to one or two. If I can help, let me know.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:36, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
thanks. i enjoyed the interview and learning how to set up an account.--Chasedavidsonsmith (talk) 19:31, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi! Last year I got the activation code for HighBeam Research; do you know if it is possible to renew the 1-year free period? Thank you very much, --Delfort (talk) 13:21, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:51, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey, interview style is cordial and effective, I know these things can be challenging.
Dbarrett5959 (talk) 16:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Ocaasi. Thanks very much for your support of the project and especially for your work at WP:TWL. I think it's a great benefit to the community. I mentioned you and TWL at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 58#Time for the next step in our evolution? and thought it would be courteous to let you know about it. Kind regards. 64.40.54.241 (talk) 06:13, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
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This is all really good stuff that you have here. Really, there are only a few tweaks to making it pretty darn awesome!! --Alliglass (talk) 18:58, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi, I'm here again :-) You told me to ping you after two weeks, so..I'm here :-) Any news? Thanks a lot! --Delfort (talk) 08:05, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi. I've modified the Teahouse "Great Answer" large badge slightly to include the message and signed parameter's inside the box and am wondering if you can update the script to include them as well. Thank you. Technical 13 (talk) 15:55, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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This is a test using my beta script replacement to include the previously unused parameters.
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Hey Ocaasi :). I'm dropping you a note because you have signed up for the Notifications, or Echo, newsletter.
If all goes according to plan, we should be launching Echo on en-wiki either tomorrow, or next Tuesday - I'll drop a followup tomorrow when we know what's happening. Should the launch succeed, we'll begin the process of triaging bugs and gathering feedback on what features work, what cause problems, and what we should do next; I hope you'll help us out on these fronts by leaving any comments you might have on the talkpage.
Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:06, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I searched for "copyright violation detection tool" and saw your archives listed a few times in the results. I'm learning how to be a reviewer over at AfC and in addition go through the requirements to get reviewer rights (yes, I know the two are not tied together, yet...) Are you aware of any toolserver tools or userscripts that I can use to test an article to see if it is copy-pasted from (an)other site(s) and return url(s) if that is the case? Thanks. Technical 13 (talk) 12:17, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Due to my self-perceived success with the modification to the large template, I've decided to tackle adding the ability to specify a number of badges received in the Wikipedia:Teahouse/Badge/Small template and have set up a series of -sandbox templates (Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host-sandbox, Wikipedia:Teahouse/Badge/Small-sandbox, Wikipedia:Teahouse/Badge/Answer-sandbox, Wikipedia:Teahouse/Badge/Easter egg-sandbox, Wikipedia:Teahouse/Badge/Host-sandbox, Wikipedia:Teahouse/Badge/Question-sandbox) and have been testing the changes on Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host landing#Technical 13. For some reason, setting the value of badges to "yes" or "1" changes the placement of the badge. Also, the easter-egg badge seems smaller to me, and I'm not sure why. I know you are familiar with some of this coding stuff, so I figured I'd have you look at it and see if you can offer some improvements. I'm also asking Soni, Writ, Heather, and Sarah to take a peek at it as well and see if we can't get it working right. Thanks. Technical 13 (talk) 22:22, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I just found WP:Village pump (technical)#Temporarily disabling WikiLove on English Wikipedia and thought it might be of interest to you. Should we post some kind of notice on the Teahouse page someplace? How would we go about doing that, is there a template designed for host notices? Technical 13 (talk) 23:26, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. I just happened to see the old (fall 2012) comments/discussion on User talk:Mugginsx Talk page re Credo Reference.
I don't have time to research it now, but being as I am a rather citation/source-oriented editor, if you or Credo are looking for other wikieditors who can correctly/carefully use a reference source that lets wikieditors get behind paywalls for Wikipedia purposes, feel free to contact me in another few weeks when I expect to come up for air. If they/you are not, no worries. Wikipedia gets better at the margins, little by little in any case.
Cheers. N2e (talk) 00:45, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, You signed up to participate or view in this month's GLAMout. We'll be using Google Hangout, but unfortunately the link to the Hangout won't be available, until 15 minutes beforehand. We'll post the link as soon as possible at Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#Link
Time: 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC) Coordinator: Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Anchor topic: VIAFbot and authority control in EN:WP, and on Wikidata.
Howdy! I would like to invite you to join with a local edition of the Great American Wiknic this June :) Also, please add any preliminary details to Wikipedia:Wiknic#2013 Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 17:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey.
Would you mind using EdwardsBot to spam the talk pages of interested people [2] with this, or something like it?
Wikimania 2013 will be held in Hong Kong August 7-11. Presentation submissions have now closed. Here are the health-related proposals. Please add your name to the bottom of each presentation you might be interested in attending - it will help the organisers decide which presentations to approve:
Here are some other proposals which talk about sciences in general but which are of direct interest to Wiki Project Med:
If it's just as much trouble to do it with the bot as it would be to do it by hand, let me know and I'll do it, but if it's relatively easy with the bot, I'd appreciate your help. Cheers. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 01:29, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Done Ocaasi t | c 21:54, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
I had submitted an article on 'Cullen Investments', which was declined on 17 April 2013. Here's the link for your reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Cullen_Investments
Previously the article was declined on 31 March 2013 due to insufficient references considering which the reference list was updated considerably.
This time the reason for rejection is 'promotional stuff'. I'll be grateful if you can help me with the editing and successful submission of the same article. Additionally it will be good if you can point out a few lines in the article which sounds like promotional stuff.
Thanks
Ingoddess2805 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ingoddess2805 (talk • contribs) 10:04, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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--> I hope this helps you in your revision of the article and happy editing! Technical 13 (talk) 11:09, 6 May 2013 (UTC)Hi, you're probably the wrong person to come to with this, but my HighBeam login still works, but I can only look at the first paragraph or so and it invites me to sign up to a free trial. Has my account expired? Thanks and I really appreciate the work you did to get the accounts in the first place. :) --Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 15:08, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:54, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You might remember that I gained access to this a few months back and it has been a tremendous help. However for a good week or so now I've been unable to access the full articles and although my log in works the access of the articles doesn't. Can you find out what the problem is?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:34, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Gilderien says he is having the same problem. Surely it hasn't been a year already? Has it expired? I thought it was going to be renewable?? I value it as a resource above anything else really aside from google books and it has allowed me to produce some GAs and some really good articles on subjects I'd otherwise not have been able to work on to that level of quality.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:47, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Got to reapply I see, Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications#Renewal account♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:52, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! I saw the short notice in the Stethoscope about this project and I was wondering if you, Doc James or Michael Turken (his Wikipedia name doesnt appear) would like to write a short article on the project for the Wiki Education newsletter. [3] We "publish" on the 15th and would love to include something for May. The newsroom is at [4]. Michael is more than welcome to contact me! Thelmadatter (talk) 03:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
For quoting Pinky and the Brain on your userpage I believe you deserve this cookie. Just don't eat it with the milk that Pinky just ejected from his nose. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:42, 13 May 2013 (UTC) |
Hi TWA folks!
It's been a long time since we worked on The Wikipedia Adventure together, but this spring I proposed the game for an Individual Engagement Grant and it was accepted :)
I spent the last two months refining the script and getting ready to build the game using Guided tours. I am working with an amazing designer and getting expert curation tips from the Grant program leader.
Here is the full 7-mission text version of the game: http://jatspan.org/twa2.html#29
I'd love to have your feedback on it, before I get started with the build. I would love it if you would leave any thoughts, tips, comments, recommendations, suggestions, ideas, or concerns, at WP:TWA/Feedback.
Hope you're doing great,
--Ocaasi 14:00, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Hello! :D
RexRowanTalk 14:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for the cat :) Ocaasi t | c 14:55, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
At your suggestion, I posted some proposals on Village Pump to try to get "move subpages" permissions, here, here, and here. As you can see, they seem to have gone nowhere, either because of lack of interest from other people in this issue, or not quite enough support. I just now discovered that this permission was originally restricted to admins in 2008. Reading over that discussion, I don't see anything there that would conflict with the idea of allowing one or another of the "trusted user" groups ("filemove" or "rollback") to have it.
Do you have any suggestions about where I should go from here? Maybe repost to VP/PR but with more info? What is required to get a consensus and actually get something done?
Thanks! Klortho (talk) 15:37, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, someone at WP:RX said they coundn't access this article. They think is is because it is a business document. Are all wp Highbeam accounts limited? I think it may start at page 23, written by Brie Childers. My email is on and thanks in advance.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:55, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello there, it has been a year I have been subscribed to Highbeam. The service has proven very useful in my activity as a mediator on the French Wikipedia. It seems I cannot log in any more. Do you have any idea if this is normal, as the year is finished, or if the subscription can be extended ? Thanks in advance, — Racconish Tk 20:12, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I've got the results of counting the highbeam.com links per your request, with a lovely graph. See User talk:Johnuniq#Highbeam results. Johnuniq (talk) 05:05, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm delighted to see you'll be in Amsterdam, and look forward to meeting you there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:45, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Can you have a look to see if I had made any applications for that in the past? ISTR some process where you had to post to a talk page and present a detailed case for yourself to be given access or something like that. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:23, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. A little bird tells me you might have access to JSTOR - I don't (and I'm waaaay down the list for sign-ups), so I was wondering if you might be able to dig up some info for me. I've just created a stubby little article about Hu Zhengyan, who was a fairly important figure in Chinese art history. The lack of sources in English is a bit of an issue, but there's one absolutely ideal source (25 pages of biographical discussion) here - the problem being, of course, that I can't see any of it beyond a very tantalising Page 1. If you can obtain the article for me, expand the content of the Wikipedia page or just give me a few pointers based on what's in the source, I'd be tremendously grateful. All the best, Yunshui 雲水 13:16, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. I just noticed that my Highbeam account has expired - whilst it was useful, I'm happy for the free account slot to be allocated to someone else, rather than renewed. Given that I tend to work on East Asian articles (for which Highbeam doesn't have a great deal of coverage), I reckon someone who spends their time on US pages would get more use out of it. It's been a great tool, though, and I'd just like to say thank you to you for setting the project up. Much obliged, Yunshui 雲水 08:20, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
:D
Pvm99 (talk) 04:28, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Something in the hidden code isn't working properly and when someone cuts and pastes the info onto their page, they don't get the right formatting. I was able to copy the actual code from the example shown above it and get it to work, (nice job!) but I can't see what is messed up in the revealed version and don't want to risk messing it up.
Aggie80 (talk) 18:32, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
((subst:User:Ocaasi/badegeometernew))
and it will work. Great eye! Ocaasi t | c 19:09, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Aggie80 (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm fine with the additional level. I'm still playing with my bio page, it think the justification/centering is going to depend on the individual and how they set things up. It's an easy enough change either way, even I can handle that and I haven't done coding for a couple of decades! Aggie80 (talk) 21:23, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Jake,
Good to meet you last weekend; I hope you got home OK.
http://www.artnet.com/ is a subscription website which lists artworks sold at auction. It would be great if it (or one of its competitors) could be included in the Wikipedia Library. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:17, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Also of use would be Oxford Art Online (part of the same family as the ODNB; OED, etc). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:05, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
I tried to find you at IRC. But couldn't find. Anyway
PS- Please do anything that notifies me that you have answered.--Pratyya (Hello!) 11:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
What does it mean by "Add Bold"? Pokebub22 (talk) 21:59, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
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Snuggle, the newcomer socialization tool I've been building, is finally ready for general use. All you need to do to get started is point your browser to https://snuggle.grouplens.org. Let me know if you run into any trouble. I'll be watching WT:Snuggle. Or you can also just contact me directly. Thanks for your patience.
See also:
--EpochFail(talk • work) 19:46, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.
Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
you have to correct the links on your bot messages in de. I've done it here. Cheers, DestinyFound (talk) 21:24, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi, I've been stuck on Botik of Peter the Great for a while now. It's really close to FA status, but I need to find a little bit more information for the soviet & post-soviet era sections. I'd also like to find some way to mention the stamp that I include in the text. How good are you at searching for resources? Do you think there's any chance you might be able to find something? Ryan Vesey 03:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Yo, Ocaasi, sorry for taking a while to respond, but I have on my talk page. I'll also be idling on IRC for a while, so if you happen to be on, just ping me, and we can talk more specifically if you like. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:22, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for the information you provided on Tamil wikipedia about The Cochrane Library, thank you for your consideration.--Senthi (talk) 19:14, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for suggesting I apply for access to the Cochrane Library. I have now. - Rod57 (talk) 14:31, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Ohai. –Quiddity (talk) 20:11, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
It was great to meet you today, and my wife and I really enjoyed the interaction with a wonderful group of Wikipedians and WMF staffers. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 03:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Great to meet you yesterday. Thanks also for sending me the invitation. This gives me a chance also to practice using the talk pages! RaymondYee (talk) 23:10, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaaasi,
Thanks for the update on The Cochrane Library. Actually I have access to the Library due to a national subscription from the Government body- ICMR (http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/FreeAccess.html#INDIA). Do I need to sign up?
I was one of the people who initiated the talks with the Collaboration for this purpose. I am glad that it has finally worked out officially. I also have had a project for the purpose of updating evidence based content in medical articles.Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Evidence_based_content_for_medical_articles_on_Wikipedia#Articles_to_be_updated_with_newer_evidence. Check it out and comments are always welcome.
Manu Mathew (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, thanks for letting me know about this. I have access to the Cochrane library through work, but it was kind of you to notify me Adh (talk) 23:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Ocassi, This is sarindam7 (talk · contribs). Thanks for the heads up on the Cochrane access. But I am not very active on WP anymore (for now) and wouldn't want to waste a valuable ticket. Just letting you know. Thanks again. Sarindam7 21:10, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
I think a number of people, like me, have applied when we already have access. I just assumed I wouldn't because I can access very little yet some people in other countries seem to have journal access through their library. But I'm wrong and in the UK we have access. You might want to ping those UK editors who have signed up. Colin°Talk 11:07, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, I think it was you who posted on other wikis about this access using EdwardsBot? I'm afraid the link is still broken even after correction. It needs a preceding colon before the link to create an interlanguage link, like so: [[:en:w....]]. I have corrected gv.wiki but you'll need to do the others yourself. -- Shimmin Beg (talk) 10:33, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for connecting with me about CREWE's work. It would be great if we could talk again about the Basware stub and discuss how to deal with some current issues it has.
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Hi Ocaasi. I have a proposal for you. I'm planning to hold an office hours next Wednesday (1600 UTC) to gather Wikipedians who mentor newcomers across Wikipedia, to discuss the state of things and figure out if Snuggle can help. Would you be interested in working with me to gather wiki-mentors and come up with topics for the session? I've got a brief write-up (still very Snuggle focused) that I've been working on with Technical 13 and TheOriginalSoni. If you're interested, I'm happy to broaden the topic appropriately. --EpochFail(talk • work) 21:46, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind. πr2 (t • c) 19:27, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi! We've just deployed some fixes to the VisualEditor. These include:
In the meantime, testing is proceeding well, and hopefully we can get some more fixes out over the next couple of days. If you're interested in helping out, we have a set of open tasks we'd really appreciate your assistance with :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:06, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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I just got a moment to take a peak and it looks like your script is well on its way and is developing above my pay grade atm. If there is anything I can do, let me know, I'll be on IRC all day. Good luck! Technical 13 (talk) 11:57, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi
We just deployed another VisualEditor release; bugs fixed include:
Not specific bugs, but other things; cacheing is now improved, so people should stop seeing temporary breaking when the VisualEditor updates, and RTL support has received some patches. I hope this newsletter is helpful to people; I'll send out another one with the next deployment :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:16, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
We’ve redesigned IdeaLab to make awesome collaborators and shiny new ideas easier to find.
You’re invited to the (re)Launch party!
Come visit and create a profile, share or join an idea, and tell us what you think about the updates!
Hope to see you there! Siko (WMF) (talk) 18:45, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi! Another set of patches :). Today we have:
More on Monday, I suspect. Hope you have a good weekend :). I should also have some news about the IP launch pretty soon. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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thanks so, so much for let me knows about the offering of Cochrane (in Wikipedia Library),... for medical editors here,... hoping also can reach the requested minimum of 1000 edits during the following month, or 2,...
...saying also that i really sorry cannot be here the previous weeks, and months, for external situations (in ways of solution),...
...thanking you again,... and congratulating you also for your new position here, as admin,... sending you my regards,... --Cpant23 (talk) 13:49, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I've been doing some research on how Wikipedia uses the news media. Specifically, I've compiled a dataset of about 250 news websites and the number of times Wikipedia links to each of them. Given your experience with providing Wikipedians with access to sources, I wanted to share my preliminary findings with you to get your thoughts and feedback.
Here is my (very preliminary) writeup: User:GabrielF/NewsCitations
I'm still working on this, but I would greatly appreciate any thoughts that you might have on either the methodology or the results before I present it to the Wikipedia community at large.
Best wishes, GabrielF (talk) 17:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. --EpochFail(talk • work), Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 18:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Just wondering if you had any news to share about the renewal. The Banner talk 17:17, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Great work!
The Banner talk 17:30, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi; hope you had a decent weekend :). We've got a pile of patches, some of which went out on Monday, some yesterday:
There are a lot more improvements coming, but that's it for Monday and Tuesday. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:26, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Ocaasi. I've been looking for places that I can get free research accounts for a while now on Wikipedia and came across the Wikipedia Library. After reading the page a few times I still have no idea how it works but decided to give a helping hand. I live in Toronto and submitted a request for 5-10 (I know, its nothing, but still may help some users) free one-year research accounts for the Toronto Public Library's online database. I got an email today saying that management will be looking into the request soon and I should get a response in a short while.
IF they do agree to donate some memberships, what do I do?--Dom497 (talk) 23:07, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, any idea how long before Cochrane receives and processes account requests? I really could use that access right now. I know, they're free and I am in no position to argue, but still.... would be really helpful to have, sooner rather than later!! Any info updating us on the status would be great. Thanks again for co-ordinating. Zad68
18:59, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi. The newest updates:
Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:01, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Occassi,
BO | Talk 08:24, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Dear Ocaasi,
I apologize for the inconvenience, but have no other way than appealing for administrators’ help recover a deleted article.
I published a film article entitled Drits (Derivas), a film by Portuguese director Ricardo Costa. It is the second film from an autobiographic trilogy, Faraways. The article was kept untouched by several months. To my surprise, it was recently eliminated and redirected to the director’s page with no discussion. I undid the redirection, but saw the article was proposed to deletion. Reason: independent, verifiable, secondary resources. I argued that the article couldn’t have but primary sources (the producer’s ones) as it is an upcoming film, like many others listed at upcoming films. A film that has not yet been premiered or distributed may not be commented. Besides, none of the films so listed has ever been deleted or even contested.
At last, in discussion, user User:reddogsix proposed that the article should be renamed to Drifts (film) or similar, and at the same time put at the disambiguation page of Dritf this reference «Drifs, unreleased film by Ricardo Costa (filmmaker). I created a new page for the same article entitled Drifts (Portuguese film). As the semantic root “drift” seemed to be the problem, I replaced the article name to Derivas (Drifts) and published it once more with some improvements. As a result, the article was fast deleted and I blocked for three days.
In the meantime, a new article about the trilogy was published: Faraways, which was proposed to fast deletion as well by the same user, User:reddogsix.
Although unreleased, although having no reliable secondary sources, Drifts is unquestionably an outstanding film for its uniqueness and characteristics: autobiography, comedy, docufiction, metafiction in one. I guess that “outstanding” may be a synonym for “notable” in such cases and that articles like this shouldn’t be deleted without previous cared analyses: important information may be lost.
This sequence of interventions is clearly a personal attack by User:reddogsix, supported by two or three user friend. It has no other explanation. It contributes in nothing to improve articles quality. Mists article, which I created on 10 September 2010, is the latest example. The article structure was unreasonably modified, loosing clarity and useful content.
NOTE: sent to 30 administrators.
Thanks for your attention, User:Tertulius 22:06, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Are you somehow involved with this and this. It's been brought up at WP:ANI#Message forgery.—Kww(talk) 17:35, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 18:54, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
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On step seven of the "Earth" mission, the link points to Special:MyPage:TWA/Earth?tour=twa7&step=8
, when it should point to Special:MyPage/TWA/Earth?tour=twa7&step=8
. I know the project is obviously not ready for prime time, and there are plenty of bugs/typos just waiting to be discovered, but from a development point of view (at least in my experience) sometimes it helps to have easy-to-fix specifics. Cheers, Theopolisme (talk) 04:48, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
--Pine✉ 05:46, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Visual Editor must be enabled to experience The Wikipedia Adventure. I do not have it disabled. I went through parts of The Wikipedia Adventure! I am using Internet Explorer 10 (Windows 8). Earlier today I read that Internet Explorer is not yet supported by Visual Editor. I wonder how I managed to do that. I did not save any of the pages it created. It was unusual and you should know about it because you wrote The Wikipedia Adventure (most of it). As an aside, the sentence about non-technical editors, women and old people mostly applies to me, except my profession was copy-editing technical and scientific educational material. I am a Pennsylvania Dutchman from Union County. From an old (73) person's perspective: Why focus on recruiting and retaining high school and college students when there are so many older people available? That's all. Respectfully, Tiyang (talk) 06:06, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi.
Been a while, sorry I didn't help out that much with the Wikipedia Adventure. I personally think you've done a great job and should be really proud of the work you've done. What's more, the interface is extraordinary, I had no idea something like that could be integrated into the encyclopedia.
Looking at the MfD, the biggest issue people seem to be coming up with is the MMORPG issues (something I mentioned when we were thinking about names). Similarly, the character and the "space" theme are very cartoony, and seem to appeal primarily to demographics that we already have. I know I preferred the owl back when that was suggested, because it was "cute enough" but still looked professional.
I was just wondering how hard a rebrand would be at this point in time? Looking at some non-MMOPRG names (dropping things like "adventure" or "quest" and most importantly "play")? WormTT(talk) 10:07, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Gilderien... that's a much better idea! This is my bug to fix of course, but if you would be willing to help I would certainly appreciate it. Thank you. Ocaasi t | c 13:46, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
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It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages (T54012), scrolling (T54014) and deleting (T54013) on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are <ref>s defined inside a <references> block (T53741). Users of Opera 12 and higher have had their web browser removed from the browser black-list, mostly as a result of work by a volunteer developer (T38000). Opera has not been fully white-listed yet, so these users will get an additional warning and request to report problems.
Significant changes were made to the user interface to de-emphasize VisualEditor. This has cut the use of VisualEditor by approximately one-third. You can read about these at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Updates/August 1, 2013, but they include:
There have also been many smaller fixes, including these:
Most of the Wikimedia Foundation staff is traveling this week and next, so no updates are expected until at least August 15th. If you're going to be in Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013, say hello to James Forrester, Philippe Beaudette, and the other members of the VisualEditor team.
As always, if you have questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:30, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
The Help Project Newsletter
Issue VII - August 2013
Hello from Hong Kong, and the Wikimania DevCamp! Just a quick bulletin to update everyone on recent goings-on:
Suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter.
If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name.
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I've wrotten some notes in meta:Grants:IdeaLab/facilitate some actions on Commons for wikiArS participants. Have a look, drop your ideas about and join if you want. --Dvdgmz (talk) 07:49, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Welcome to the School of Open Writing Wikipedia Articles Class (#WIKISOO)! You look like a very experienced user ;) so please help out anytime. Our main course page here should be your home page. Post questions at any time on our class TALK page. So glad you signed up - feel free to contact me with questions. - Sara FB (talk) 15:34, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Two hydrogen atoms bumped into each other. One said: "Why do you look so sad?"
Frowning, the other responded: "I lost an electron."
Concerned, the first one asked, "Are you sure?"
The other replied ... (I'll tell you the punchline of this joke if you tell me what the status is on the WP:COCHRANE accounts! Pleeease!!)... Zad68
13:51, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I can't remember if I requested this again, can you see to it that I have my subscription renewed, I've badly missed it the last 3 months.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:42, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello Ocaasi,
I had been approved in 2012 for the 1-year subscription to HighBeam and Questia; unfortunately, circumstances in RL forced me to take an extended on-and-off vacation from Wikipedia for the past year, and so I never was able to utilize the subscriptions. I have now returned to active editing once more, and would like to return my focus to content creation, and I would like to inquire whether it might be possible to obtain the subscriptions at this time. I located no login information in my e-mail inbox, and so I don't think that I ever activated the subscriptions at all.
Thank you in advance for your assistance, -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:53, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
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Both VisualEditor and MediaWiki were upgraded recently. For VisualEditor, this is the long-awaited post-Wikimania update with many bug fixes and enhancements. Work also continues on speed at opening and during use, as well as on the bugs reported here and at other Wikipedias. The full report is at Mediawiki.
References are displaying properly, even when nested (T52749) or in image captions (T2000. Reference lists are now always fully populated with references (bug 50094). Firefox users can insert an existing reference in the first paragraph (T54159). Opera users no longer see corruption of categories when a reference was added (bug 50385).
Stray spaces are being stripped from the start of paragraphs to end one of the common <nowiki> problems (T53462). We also fixed a round-tripping bug that caused desirable whitespace in templates (used to make templates more legible, e.g., by putting each parameter in an infobox on a separate line) to get corrupted (bug 51150).
Wikilink handling was improved. Users are not allowed to create internal links to invalid titles (titles that are actually impossible due to limits on acceptable character combinations in titles, not redlinks) (T35094). You can extend wikilinks, but it won't do so over a wordbreak (like a space) (bugs 49931 and 51463).
A handful of fixes to the user interface were made. The toolbar doesn't float over personal tools after opening a dialog or the inspector (T54441). Toolbars were also re-written to be collapsible/expandable, with room for more icons. Buttons in dialogs can now be activated using the Tab ↹ and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ key commands (bug 50047). This saves time for editors, because you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to click a button. We fixed a handful of bugs that affected only certain articles or certain browsers, including toolbar buttons in Firefox (bug 51986) and dialog panels that didn't always scroll correctly (bug 51739). Bugs with undo/redo getting confused have been fixed (T54113).
Images, in addition to getting references displaying correctly, also saw improvements with a set-empty |link=
parameter no longer corrupted (51963). We corrected thumbnail images' display so that they look don't wrong in some contexts (bug 51995). Inserted images no longer explicitly set their alignment, but instead inherit the default position in compliance with the Manual of Style (bug 51851).
More edit notices, warnings, and metadata like information about Pending Changes on an article now appear as appropriate (bug 49699). When new articles are created, users are now shown the <newarticletext> message (bug 51459). VisualEditor now handles templates that set "meta" items (like a category) and nothing else better (bug 51322). If the database is locked when a user tries to save with VisualEditor, they now get a message telling them as such and an opportunity to try again, rather than a silent failure (bug 51636).
When you save the page, having the default preference set to "mark all my edits as minor by default" no longer overrides the setting in the save dialog (bug 51515). If you open VisualEditor from a section edit link, the section's title will be pre-filled in in the edit summary box when you go to save it (bug 50872). The size of the save dialog box in the Monobook skin has been fixed (bug 50058). Also, wikipage content handlers like sortable tables are re-run automatically after saving (T53565).
A very early version of the mathematics equation editor is now available for testing on mw:Mediawiki. If you would like to help improve the user interface for math editor, please test out the extension at mw:Mediawiki:Sandbox and leave your comments directly at the discussion page for the Math Node User Interface at Mediawiki. You should be able to use your regular username and password should to login to Mediawiki.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:49, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Fred! So glad you signed up. Two things:
Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 13:30, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
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At least two participants have real name as username (such as: Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/People#Titodutta). So, it is getting duplicated. --Tito☸Dutta 11:42, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Consider Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Libraries for the fall. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:33, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
I have filled out the short form for the free access to Cochrane Collaboration as you suggested in my talk page. But haven't received any username and password yet. May be it takes some time, I donno. can you please put a note regarding this in my talk page. Thanks..--Kalaiarasy (talk)
In the agreements with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, and Cochrane, did any of them request/suggest/invite/wish for attribution in citations? I see in all the citation examples for Credo, HighBeam and Questia (no examples yet for JSTOR or Cochrane) that the provider is always mentioned, either with the |via=
or ((subscription required)) with via= option. We've been discussing this over at Help talk:Citation Style 1#Resolution?, and I'd appreciate your take on how much, if any, emphasis should be placed on this in the Help documentation Help:Citation Style 1#Work and publisher. Please join the discussion there. --Lexein (talk) 14:53, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was trying to register my Questia-account as followed up to your mail from 29/8/2013. Strange enough I get a message "We could not find a promotion matching the promotion code you provided." Promo already expired? The Banner talk 10:27, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for your continued contributions especially the High Beam subscription project which has been of immense value to so many editors!! — Keithbob • Talk • 20:01, 31 August 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Ocaasi, I got the message of approval of my Cochrane account through Edwordsbot carrying your signature. It directed me to a a SurveyMonkey form, but inspite of filling the form and submitting it, no account seems to be forthcoming. Could you plz help me. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 11:47, 1 September 2013 (UTC).
Hi Ocaasi, I have used HighBeam profusely over the past year but now my subscription seems to have expired and I am once again handicapped in my research and ability to contribute to content creation. I've listed for the January group but if there are any cancellations from the August group I could really use a HB renewal right away. Thanks so much !! -- — Keithbob • Talk • 19:53, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi there! I just wanted to follow up regarding this. Can anything be done? Thanks, -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:56, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
I went to check up on those links you pointed me to in our earlier discussion, and saw JSTOR on the list - a place I remember seeing several journal articles linked to. But they take 100 people and the waiting list is 273 people, the oldest since April last year. That's why I'm entirely dissuaded from applying - I've no idea what, if anything, I'm going to be looking up at JSTOR in 2015 or whenever. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 11:57, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
This Thursday's VisualEditor update was mostly about stability and performance improvements, and some preparatory work for major planned improvements, along with bug fixes for non-English language support and right-to-left text. Everything that the English Wikipedia received today has been running on Mediawiki for a week already.
Officially, the problem with the link inspector not linking to a specific section on a page (bug 53219) was fixed in this release, although that critical patch actually appeared here earlier.
A number of bugs related to copy-and-paste functionality were fixed (48604, bug 50043, bug 53362, bug 51538, among others). Full rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor is expected "soon".
In other fixes, you can no longer add empty ref tags (<ref/>
) (bug 53345). Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text. This was fixed in bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (bug 53507).
Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:53, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
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Please don't delete things on the Wikipedia,like on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWA/Badge. ==WIKIGEEK4970== 06:59, 4 September 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikigeek4970 (talk • contribs)
Thanks!!==WIKIGEEK4970== 06:23, 11 September 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikigeek4970 (talk • contribs)
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Thanks to you for your good work!!! ==WIKIGEEK4970== 06:24, 11 September 2013 (UTC) |
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Looking forward to seeing you! Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:48, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.
As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add <u>
(underline), <sub>
(subscript), and <sup>
(superscript), <s>
(strikethrough) and <code>
(computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.
In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references (bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label (bug 51670).
In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl+0 sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl+1 up to Ctrl+6 sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl+7 sets it as pre-formatted (bug 33512). Ctrl+2, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.
Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" (bug 50452).
Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application (bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.
Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug 53503).
Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter (bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again (bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.
If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:58, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I filled the short form on the 30.8 but still did not get my mail about the access. Could you please check? --Yoavd (talk) 09:53, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I responded a month ago, and still don't seem to have anything. I checked my spam folder ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:50, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi. I noticed at sq:WP:Kuvendi#Free_Research_Accounts_from_Leading_Medical_Publisher._Come_and_Sign_up.21 your post generated red links. It's not a very active project (their main page has been going down lately), but I thought whatever it is that caused this might be affecting other inter-language links you've been posting. Best regards. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ((U))) while signing a reply, thx 13:57, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Ocaasi ... I responded to the survey, and have checked my spam folder ... but do not have any notice on Cochrane. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:06, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi, Wikipedia:HighBeam/Approved shows that my account has been renewed but I'm still unable to access complete articles. — Bill william comptonTalk 12:27, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi. Just a quick note as a matter or courtesy to let you know I'm mentioning you at User_talk:Merrilee#Displaying_Dewey_numbers_on_Wikipedia_pages Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 20:50, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
I have E-mail enabled now, I changed usernames but it should work now. Seattle (talk) 13:15, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
What's the grant/research you are working on/proposing that involves/involved User:Anne Delong? See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Editor Retention#Reviewing the Anne Delong phenomena. It is imperative that this moves forward. I'm told you have proposed something similar? Please enlighten me so that I can give my formal support. (Reply on my Talk page or I won't remember shit.) —Ahnoneemoos (talk) 03:20, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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You're an Ambassador. That is, unless you remove your name. =) Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ((U))) while signing a reply, thx 18:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
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You did wonderful work with so far. Is LexisNexis also on the radar to become a partner? You would make me really, really happy when you could achieve that! They offer a lot of Dutch sources that at present are out of my (financial) reach... The Banner talk 22:13, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
I saw that my name got moved to the "completed" page, and I think I saw an email flash through my inbox about it, but I can't find my new Highbeam code in any of my mail folders. Can you resend my code, I seem to have lost it. Thanks! Livit⇑Eh?/What? 16:34, 15 October 2013 (UTC) Livitup, sent! Ocaasi t | c 17:14, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ocaasi. I'm dropping you a note to let you know (or remind you) about Flow, the structured discussion system for Wikipedia that we're building. You may have heard about some of the longer-term vision for Flow in the past, but in the last two months we've been moving quickly to narrow down the short-term scope of the project, and we're keen to get feedback.
First: we've written up an explanation of the "minimum viable product" – the set of features that will be in the first, on-wiki deployment. Because discussions on Wikipedia are complex and varied, we're approaching Flow development as an incremental process of uncovering user needs for different types of discussion. The first release will be limited to a few WikiProject talkpages only, with the goal of testing out our first stab at peer-to-peer discussion functionality and improving it based on feedback from the WikiProject members who use it. If you've got any thoughts on the MVP, or on the philosophy we're trying to follow with this software, let us know on the Flow talkpage. If you know of a WikiProject that might be interested in testing this out, let Maryana know on her talkpage :)
Second: we're having a set of discussions around some experimental features we'll be trying in the first release. These include indenting and nesting of comments and comment editing. If you've got any practical thoughts on these, we'd appreciate hearing them. For background and feedback on the design, there are the ongoing set of design iteration notes, a Design FAQ, and a page for design feedback.
The software prototype is still in early development, and changing daily in small ways, with major goals updating every 2 weeks. If you've got comments about other bits of the software, we'll be holding an IRC office hours session in #wikimedia-office at 18:00 UTC on 17 November to talk about Flow as a whole, and fielding questions on the talkpage before and after then.
Third: this is a pre-newsletter announcement of a new WP:Flow/Newsletter signup page! If you'd like further updates, details, and requests for input, please add your name there.
Thanks, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:02, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, "MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable
".
The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).
There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).
Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:00, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Not sure who to notify of feedback I realize I sounded pretty critical in my feedback, but TWA is a really great initiative. Good luck! Ross Hill (talk) 23:40, 16 Oct 2013 (UTC) 23:40, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Enabling shouldLog: true
as a part of gt.defineTour
will automatically log TWA according to Schema:GuidedTour. I did the first one for you, as an example. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 23:50, 16 October 2013 (UTC) CC: Sbouterse (WMF)
I hope you don't mind, I've moved the signup for TWA from the Teahouse Question Forum to the Teahouse talk because WP:TH/Q should only be for Q&A. I've replaced the section with a link to the talk page. Thanks! Ross Hill (talk) 00:57, 17 Oct 2013 (UTC) 00:57, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
This is a kind of odd idea, but I was wondering how if at all useful it might perhaps be if we could somehow do something like I indicated at the Library talk page, and maybe, somehow, get some sort of category for pdf files at wikimedia commons set up here which would include the various generally full text public domain pdf files which people have and will upload. I have myself started with some of the religious reference sources in the PD, and have about a twenty-page list of other PD reference sources from a catalogue of reference works based on the first 300 or so pages of it. Making it easier for editors to find reference sources, even those dated ones, might be useful for some of the content which isn't quite so current, and certainly can help establishing notability of some of the topics. Unfortunately, I have no idea whether we have such categories in one WF entity for use in another WF entity, or even a really clear idea where to discuss the possible creation of such. John Carter (talk) 18:35, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
As you previously participated in related discussions you are invited to comment at the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC for AfC reviewer permission criteria. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:36, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
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Interesting idea! I got as far as "Galactic Challenge" after selecting from the multiple-choice list of possible user pages. (I selected the "Sofy" user page.) At that point, I can't click either the "Continue on the adventure" link or the double blue arrows. I'm using Chrome 30.0.1599.101. Seraphimblade Talk to me 03:37, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Detailed feedback is AWESOME. I will dig throught it all. Cheers, Matty. --Ocaasi t | c 19:45, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
, Matty.007, technically we're in alpha until we start inviting those thousands of new users in November. Then I'll update the tag... Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 14:43, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Possibly of interest --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:08, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi!
You're very welcome, and thanks for the barnstar. – Ypnypn (talk) 16:23, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
G'day, Ocaasi. I just wanted to say thanks for the barnstar. And that if you need anything else to be tested, I'd be happy to see what I could do. Tambelon (talk) 17:14, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Thank you very much for the barnstar. I hope I was of at least some help to you, and I shall try to do more.
Perhaps this is obvious, but I had a question regarding the creation of an alternate account for testing purposes: is that the preferable thing to do? Or, to put it another way, why exactly would one do that?
Again I thank you for the barnstar! As the Crow Flies (talk) 22:02, 24 October 2013 (UTC)