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On 24 December 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Froebel star, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Froebel star (pictured), a common Christmas decoration in Germany, is created by folding and weaving four identical strips of paper? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Froebel star.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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I want to use this image from German Wikipedia. It has a suitable license. Can anyone please direct me to a "howto" or "best practice" description on what details I need to adhere to? Thanks, Pgallert (talk) 20:56, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi I am ready for another shot at Template:Did you know nominations/Thiophosphoryl fluoride with a varied hook, and some article changes. (And I will hold back on more additions myself). Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:11, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I hope you're enjoying 2012. User:Tim riley and I just worked on a new article for Alice Delysia, an actress. Would you mind nominating it for DYK? A hook might be: ... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own". All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:15, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
On 7 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Reiterdenkmal, Windhoek, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that it is claimed that the Reiterdenkmal (pictured), an equestrian monument in the centre of Windhoek, Namibia, is the only monument in the world where an ordinary soldier is placed on horseback? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Reiterdenkmal, Windhoek.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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On 11 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alice Delysia, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alice Delysia. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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On 29 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kareeboomvloer massacre, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that during trial proceedings of the Kareeboomvloer massacre, a prison official was requested to explain the meaning of life? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kareeboomvloer massacre.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 01:38, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I see you have been working on "bastard studies" recently. Can you have a look at its talk page because I found an article in the internet with the exact wording of the lemma "bastard studies" in our wiki. What do you think about that? Please tell me.--Dudy001 (talk) 21:17, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
For the good work you did on the GA nomination for God. Fascinating read. Comments seemed to points of Good Article criteria really well in a neutral fashion. Hard to do given the topic.
LauraHale (talk) 11:09, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I hope you are enjoying the new season. Would you be willing to nominate The Night Boat? The hook might be "...that although the Jerome Kern musical The Night Boat was an immediate hit on Broadway in 1920, it has not been revived, except in two concert productions." The article was created by User:Jfbarlow and me. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:03, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I just read your comments to PRONIZ on his Talk Page about Moret's interviews with people. Genuine biographies are cross checked and verified. You do not just write down what the person tells you that they are. Moret is a master of self-promotion, she is not a whistleblower, she was not the Berkeley Environmental Commissioner (she was one of nine citizen members of the Community Environmental Advisory Commission and I am glad to see that minutes of that Commission have now been posted in the bio, she is not a Geoscientist (she was the President of the fledgling Association of Women Geoscientist, which has formally cautioned her to not use their name as an endorsement of Moret's false claims about depleted uranium and atmospheric nuclear testing ( I expect that they would also demand no association with the false claims about High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) [www.haarp.alaska.edu], tectonic warfare, Fukushima, etc. Moret has had a tendency to use "me too" and follow claims made by Rosalie Bertell or Christopher Busby and then add embellishments. Her claim about the late Nobel Laureate Dr Glenn T. Seaborg having been so obsessed with the discovery of Plutonium (she adds by his assistants and his just taking the credit) that he carried a piece of Plutonium in his pocket and constantly fingered it turning his hands to claws should all by itself be grounds for Moret to be consigned to the conspiracy nut file. She has co-authorship of three geologic research papers, all of whom were derived from the doctoral research of colleagues. She was given the co-authorship because her skilled used of the new Differential Scanning Calorimeter instrument was critical to their research. She has not authored any scientific papers herself and only has one actual published paper in World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues, an obscure Indian journal that is carried in a number of college libraries. It is quite clear that the article, Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War”, July 1, 2004, never was critically reviewed by anyone with any scientific knowledge. I invite you to watch the video of her presentation at the 9/11 Truth Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. She claims that a worldwide epidemic of diabetes is caused by the depleted uranium cloud that comes from the DU use in the Gulf War and in Iraq and Afghanistan (DU was most likely never used in Afghanistan, that atmospheric testing caused reduced SAT scores, and later on has the claim about Dr Glenn T Seaborg (she starts with a news clip that is totally false) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5145492019596709070# Rhotel1 (talk) 23:07, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello again. I wondered if you would be so kind as to nominate a new article: Richard Armstrong. The hook might be that "... that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, succeeding the controversial Thomas Krens." Thanks in advance. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:38, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
On 18 May 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard Armstrong (museum director), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, bringing a curatorial background to the position? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Armstrong (museum director). If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Yngvadottir (talk) 16:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Someone editing from IP 196.44.146.4 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) needs some guidance. They have been posting text from the existing article Mumbwenge Combined School all over the place, including to the talk page of non-existent user:Martha Joseph, to Wikipedia:School and university projects/Polytechnic of Namibia here, to the DAB page Talk three times starting here, and so on. I blocked the IP for 24 hours from 14:11 UTC because this was causing disruption, and left a talk page message inviting them to set up an account and read some introductory pages. If you know who this is, you may be able to help them. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:30, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
((Help me)) Histmerge for an expansion in user space? I have expanded the existing article Aminuis in my user space here. The original article has not been edited during my expansion. I had a similar situation before and was told by an administrator that HISTMERGE is not the way to go in such situations. Should there not be a way to incorporate the user space history into the new version of the article? Thanks, Pgallert (talk) 10:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
I was recently looking for a country article to make into a GA, and thought Namibia would be my best choice. I am just asking your opinion, is Namibia ready to be a GA? Oakley77 (talk) 00:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
I put up a new article for Connie Ediss. Would you be so kind as to nominate her for DYK? The hook might be something like: "... that Connie Ediss, in a string of popular musicals from 1896, became known for her 'buxom bourgeoise' characters." -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
On 4 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Epukiro, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded missionary stations at Aminuis and Epukiro in rural eastern Namibia at the beginning of the 20th century? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
On 4 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aminuis, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded missionary stations at Aminuis and Epukiro in rural eastern Namibia at the beginning of the 20th century? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
On 4 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Connie Ediss, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that comedienne Connie Ediss, in a string of popular London musicals from 1896, became known for her "buxom bourgeoise" characters? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Connie Ediss. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:05, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Pgallert! I have an important message for you regarding Wikimania. Please check your email and respond as soon as possible. Thank you so much! Jwild (talk) 16:35, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. I hope your summer is going well. Would you mind nominating Theatre music for dyk?
All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
On 26 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that chief Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo is a National Hero of Namibia partly because of his uncooperative behaviour and his refusal to pay taxes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Best wishes Victuallers (talk) 08:02, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
I responded to your comments on the Did You Know? review for Stanley Lebergott. Futurist110 (talk) 22:13, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
I have now fixed the hook. Futurist110 (talk) 21:57, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
-- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 19:11, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Peter, I currently don't have an easy solution for your problem. The only thing I can think of is to reach out to the WikiProjects once you know which topics your students cover. When it comes to creating a special offline Wikipedia, you might want to reach out to my colleague Jessie Wild (jwild[at]wikimedia[dot]org) at the Foundation. She's been active in that area in the past. All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 00:50, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
On 31 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Constance Kgosiemang, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Constance Kgosiemang was the political leader of Tswanaland, a bantustan in South-West Africa? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Constance Kgosiemang. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
This question had received no answer. I go through and try to give answers to people who have not gotten any after several days, but I think this person could use more help and you've tried to help him before. Thanks.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the offer. I've always been an avid scholar on elements of Namibia's rich past; it would be delightful to work with other like-minded editors here. What is the procedure for joining WikiProject Namibia? --Katangais (talk) 18:44, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Good day Peter, I have recently created the Namibian Wikipedian category...you may want to add yourself and other to the group,Thanks! ---Category:Namibian Wikipedians|Pgallert--- Elianamwiha 13:38, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Have you seen Kiwix / http://kiwix.org/ ? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:56, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Peter. Just wanted to let you know that any of the Namibian students are welcome to come by The Teahouse should they have any questions about article creation, referencing, formatting, or guidelines. We're a friendly bunch, so all questions and confusion is welcome! I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 08:25, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I think User talk:Ileka212113275 is one of your flock. Their user page, starting "Namibia economy is the way to go" was tagged as an ad; I moved it to a sandbox but it was deleted by another admin as copyvio. I could not see how to generate the special project welcome that I noticed at User talk:Gmulala, so I have just given a standard ((welcome)) and some advice. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:27, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Ester Ndessy 212028375 (talk · contribs), who has identified herself as one of the students at Wikipedia:School and university projects/Polytechnic of Namibia/Information Competence, September 2012/Marketing, is in serious danger of being blocked based on disruptive editing (see the warnings on her user talk page). If you have a way to contact her off-Wikipedia, you may want to speak to her. She doesn't appear to be heeding the warnings or friendly advice being given to her, and may not understand how to access her own talk page. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:44, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Peter. I know you're aware of the problems arising from the work of the students at Namibia Poly; I just wanted to alert you to a couple issues that I've run across in the normal course of things, so that you know of them. First up there are a couple of copyright problems addressed on Cartel82's talk page, which you may wish to address with the students concerned. I've also (prior to realising their affiliation with the project) deleted pages created by User:Mmvula, which were unambiguous and unsalvageable promotion. Yunshui 雲水 08:52, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
A very thanks to you Peter for telling me to avoid such articles and I am very thankful for your support , help and suggestions. I also want your help to delete the article ...
Regards Elianamwiha (talk)Elianamwiha 10:04, 8 October 2012 (UTC) |
I've cleared the autoblock on your school (caused by User:Teonilla.211046981 gteting blocked for spam) because it affected User_talk:Maureen212073680. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:04, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Just to keep you in the loop, I've left a message on Vihash's talkpage regarding User:Tunga Haulofu's copyright violations. Cheers, Yunshui 雲水 10:37, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
On 14 October 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cordell Schachter, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Cordell Schachter oversaw the development of a web-based application that reduces the duration of New York City street construction inspections to one day? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cordell Schachter. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:46, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I presume, based on what I'm reading in your students' contributions, that you suggested to them to write an article about their own village. Tempting subject, but generally a bad idea. While your students may be very familiar with their own villages, each little village of Namibia is unlikely to be sufficiently notable to merit an article. There will not be sufficient reliable sources on which to draw to build a properly verifiable article that goes beyond the mere location of the village, and possibly its population. The articles I've read so far will not be acceptable as Wikipedia articles (I've already declined one students AFC submission based on a lack of reliable sources. If your exercise is merely for them to create user space articles to practice Wikipedia editing and formatting, that's fine. If your exercise is for them to create meaningful encyclopedia content, you need to reconsider the assignment. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Pgallert! Would you mind nominating Cordell Schachter for DYK? A possible hook would be
"...that Cordell Schachter oversaw the development of a web-based application that permits New York City street construction inspectors to process inspections in one day instead of three?" -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:51, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
We're getting problems because students are posting stuff that is pure spam in appearance - I left a message on User talk:Rebekka 201005735, and now find User:Teonilla.211046981 is blocked for spam too, and User:Ndafuh was caught in an autoblock and then blocked for spam. The material they are posting looks like straight copies of stuff, which is copyright violation WP:COPYVIO. They probably aren't intending to spam, but they should be told about these problems. I'm going to try to lift the autoblock, but it may be set again if any more of this stuff is found by another admin. Peridon (talk) 15:08, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
See User talk:Hax-Tulipo and User talk:Ambango. Your tutors seriously need to work on getting this information across to their charges. I and presumably other editors are having to spend excessive amounts of time clearing up after students who are, in effect, breaking the law, and given the hundreds of students and thousands of contributions involved, this is no easy task. I've now looked at the contributions of perhaps twenty to thirty of these students - not once have I encountered anything that would make a noteable improvement to Wikipedia, and in most the cases I've seen, they have violated either at least one of the core content policies or the site's copyright terms. I'm not trying to lay blame at your door, just expressing my frustration at the fact that so much time is being invested (by the students and by Wikipedia editors and administrators) for so very negligable a result.
In other news, I've not found a better way of dealing with content copying than that outlined in the discussion we had on my talkpage recently; if students attribute content with their first edit summary, that will suffice - just - to skirt the copyright issue. However, I don't believe I've yet seen a single one who has done this. Yunshui 雲水 12:42, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Pgallert, though I'm sure organising student new-editors is the proverbial "herding cats", just wanted to say that I have seen several pretty decent articles come out of this project so far. I noted the huge influx of Namibia articles so figured there must be an outreach there, and tracked down your project and page. Of the AFC submissions, I've approved a good 10 or so Namibia articles that were at least "minimal threshold" for publication as-is, and hopefully those students will continue to improve them in their coursework. I've found a few that simply weren't sourced well, or were opinion pieces vice informative articles, but seeing the frustrations on your talk page I just wanted to note that some of your students are doing a really proper job.
I don't recall exactly which ones I've approved (Caves of Namibia is a great first try), but if you like I can drop you a running tally as I run across more publish-worthy (though all still requiring further improvement) Namibia articles. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:03, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
I'll do some pondering on it, but for future iterations it may really help to make topic proposal and approval a significant phase, with tutors willing to make a clear call as to suitability. I'm seeing some of the following:
So as you note, some clarity on WP:EC and WP:NOT might be a good initial focus, lest students waste weeks trying to develop something that can never be an article, that already exists, or fighting with other students for who gets published first on the same topic. MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi there!
It looks like you've got a lot of work in your in-tray at the moment. Is there anything I can do to help? If you need a hand with anything, just shout... bobrayner (talk) 17:27, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
How about getting new course members (and possibly the tutors too...) to sit for a time looking through the random pages you can get via that little button? A ten minute or quarter hour session flicking through there might give them a better idea of what an encyclopaedia is. At CSD we get a lot of people who, I'm quite sure, don't know what an encyclopaedia is (but who can find their way round Facebook and Twitter far better than I could). I might write a little essay about what an encyclopaedia is and does. In the meantime, have you seen WP:PRIMER? This was set up as an intro for beginners, and is excellent. There again, it may not be so for students who have never seen an encyclopaedia. I've worked with kids of assorted abilities, including an eight year old cousin who was delighted to receive a grown-up dictionary for her birthday ("It's got a THEEZ-orus in it! I NEED one of them!") and a fourteen year old inner city kid who had to do something to a fairy tale for English homework, and who didn't know any fairy tales (and she and her two street-wise mates were crying at my sad telling of The Ugly Duckling). Let me know what you think - and what sort of approach might work best. Peridon (talk) 15:25, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
I sympathise with your problems of slow connections as described on your user page. Even in the world of fast internet, one can still have problems. I have more than once taken steps to archive user talk pages because they are too big to edit on my tablet PC (typically greater than 100k bytes, in case you are worried I might attack this page).
Re speed: have you tried using the mobile version http://m.wikipedia.org/ ? You access it via that link or by adding .m into any URL, eg. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pgallert for this page or the "mobile view" link at the bottome of each page. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 19:51, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm having a problem with Sylvia Kwenani User talk:Sylvia Kwenani 201035383. She keeps posting an article from The Namibian, and doesn't seem to take any notice of what I'm telling her (and she's even posted it on her talk page, so she does know where that is!). Perhaps you might be able to get through where I'm not. I don't want to really block her, but someone else might do it. Cheers Peridon (talk) 21:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Wanted to give you a heads up, I dont see a mention of the non-public data policy in your statement, your required to "confirm that the candidate will fully comply with the criteria for access to non-public data" in your WP:ACE candidate statement, its a formality but you should add something about it. It doesn't count against the word limit. Monty845 23:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Take care. =) Kurtis (talk) 00:28, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to mention that I liked your footnote at the bottom of your questions page. Nicely phrased response. - jc37 18:34, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
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For patience in dealing with admins on one side, lecturers on another, and students in a panic on the third front. Peridon (talk) 19:44, 11 October 2012 (UTC) |
Strongly seconded. What you're doing is a huge, difficult and largely thankless task, and you deserve a whole barnful of barnstars for tackling it with calm, level-headed professionalism. Yunshui 雲水 06:55, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Peter,
We need to get in touch with you about using your photo and appeal for this year's fundraiser, please contact me as soon as you can at vgrigas@wikimedia.org, or on my talk page. Thanks! Victor Grigas (talk) 23:03, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
I started an article on Jean Forbes-Robertson, together with User:Tim riley. A hook could be "...that Jean Forbes-Robertson, a Shakespearean actress, frequently played Peter Pan?" -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:55, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
User:Jack1956 and I also started an article on Dandy Dick Whittington. A hook could be: "...that May Yohé starred as Dick in the 1895 comic opera Dandy Dick Whittington?" -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:03, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for running for ArbCom, Pgallert. I'm a bit disapointed that the fact that you aren't an administrator (yet – hint, hint) factored so strongly in the votes, but I'm sure that you'll get the opportunity to contribute to the Committee in the years to come. — Coren (talk) 22:24, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Can you please return to this review and look at my proposal? --Moscow Connection (talk) 20:53, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
From: Northamerica1000(talk) 06:38, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
On 26 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jean Forbes-Robertson, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Jean Forbes-Robertson, a Shakespearean actress, frequently played Peter Pan? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jean Forbes-Robertson. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |