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Hi, Steven, I tried to write on your Wikipedia talk, was timed out several times, placed the message on your user page, only to find that it was already on the talk a few times ... - I have no other explanation than that the talk is perhaps a bit too long ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 10 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) 05:10, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
I wonder why some certain level 1 warnings still have passive voice like
I know some templates might of have been slapped with the "Hello, I'm Jimbo." type at the beginning, You can also see my active voice version of uw-disruptive1 here. Cheers, Dreth(talk) 13:12, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Thank youm I might as well make some active voices, might post them on my talk page. Cheers! Dreth(talk) 20:31, 4 November 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dreth (talk • contribs)
Hi,
Given that WMF is planning research on AfC and related Article creation ways, could I also request you to do research on the very related topic of a help desk for new editors? Having been very active in this area through Teahouse, IRC help channels, and also through OTRS and Help me requests, where I've had the chance to reply to help requests, I think our current help systems, atleast on Enwiki are very much unsuited for effectively helping newer editors, especially when to familiarize them to Wikipedia rules. We also have the Help Desk, where I haven't been yet.
I think that we would greatly benefit from having some sensible research to look through the effectiveness of these help desks and to locally design something better to suit what I think is quite an important, if not urgent need. If used correctly, it has the potential to also convert several good faith editors.
Do tell me what you think of it, and if you'd be interested in further discussions on the same
Regards,
TheOriginalSoni (talk) 17:35, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
I have felt like Cassandra around here for a few years, declaring that our new user experience poses an existential challenge to our project. I know there are a lot of Cassandras over at WMF too who've had the same experience I've had, of seeing a problem not everyone can see and wanting to fix something not everyone knows needs fixing. :) Good work. --HectorMoffet (talk) 04:26, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I see this is up for re-negotation.I hope this will be continued, and the original 100 can keep their links. I have been using it extensively in recent months to find background reading for a major project I have on to list all the Musical articles and biographies by Dr Burney from Rees's Cyclopaedia. I've been writing about Rees's Cyclopaedia for the last couple of years, and Burney's work was an important part of it. Commentators such as Scholes, Grant and Londsale all say how desirable a full listing would be. I will be severely hamstrung were my JSTOR concession removed. Kind regards Apwoolrich (talk) 19:06, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
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For dealing with the badgering of WMF employees (such as here), in a very civil manner. Happy editing! -- Ross Hill • Talk • Need Help? • 20:35, 14 December 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Steven. I just wanted to thank you and everybody on the Growth team for their help getting the Draft: namespace up and running. Please let everybody know that I sincerely appreciate their efforts and think this is a very positive step forward for the project. Thanks. 64.40.54.34 (talk) 05:19, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Drafts#Deletion_and_Draft: is all well and good, but I think it needs exposure to being ripped to shreds by the usual suspects. The question is where to suggest that happens from. Fiddle Faddle 23:06, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for effectively handling the Draft namespace and making sure it was implemented quickly. Hope to see more of such pro-active responses from the Foundation :) TheOriginalSoni (talk) 02:17, 18 December 2013 (UTC) |
Firstly, I want to thank you for all the great work you've been doing on Draft space. Several years ago, we noticed the editor retention trends. Later, Sue announced a fear that we've "lost our way". Drafts has restored my hope that WP can still show the kind of adaptability and openness we did in our youth.
More boringly, I want to point your attention to the proposition that some editors should be alerted to the existence of related drafts-- for example, if I go to ArticleName, I want to know if Draft:ArticleName exists. I think that's a change that would require staff.
Thanks again for all your hard and inspiring work. --HectorMoffet (talk) 14:11, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
"I think you probably would be surprised how much we know about activities like page creation." —Steven(WMF) in Nov'13
Sounds like a challenge! :-) If so, perhaps you can help. I'm trying to make a logical argument based on pragmatic number-of-editors information, but I don't have the data I need. Do you know, or do you know where I can find out the number of humans...
All questions are on enWiki only, ignoring other namespaces, global-cross-wiki-userright-holders, and other such corner-cases. I'm happy to do the queries myself, if there is already a page or a tool of some sort that will give me the answers... I just haven't found such a thing.
p.s. Motivation... somebody has proposed that to be an AfC reviewer, ought to require that the candidate-reviewer have (or be given) the pending-changes-reviewer-userRight. Back-of-the-envelope guesstimates suggest there are only about 3000 people *active* on enWiki with reviewer-userRights today... but WP:REVIEWER only gives the *total* count, many of whom could now be retired/inactive/etc. Rather than trust my guesstimate, I'd like some actual figures. Here is the motivating-discussion,[1] if you're curious. Thanks. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 01:48, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Template talk:DraftChecker#Redirects that you maybe interested in. Thank you.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 14:57, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
A proposal has been made to create a Live Feed to enhance the processing of Articles for Creation and Drafts. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to create a 'Special:NewDraftsFeed' system. Your comments are welcome. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:23, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steven,
Awhile back I asked - somewhere, I've searched through my contributions and can't find it! - where the text for the account creation page was kept, and you answered. You asked why I wanted to know, and I never got back to you; I've just seen something that reminded me to.
Basically, I was going to suggest that the account creation page has a small chunk of useful info added to it, perhaps as a tooltip on the user name field, explaining what can be included in user names - spaces, capitals and so on. That will hopefully save a bit of work for our bureaucrats by preventing rename requests like this one that only exist because people didn't realize that our user name policy is quite flexible.
Best, — Scott • talk 14:16, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steven. I've noticed this new tag in edit summaries in the past few days. "These articles are derived from our simple category-based suggestion system..." - do you have a list of these articles (especially BLPs) so other editors can keep an eye on them? --NeilN talk to me 17:42, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
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As a Learner i am admire from your work. best wishes for your new project work. Bharat teacher (talk) 06:46, 27 February 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Steven, I see you have thanked me for an edit i supposedly made, the thing is I don't recall ever doing it. I don't even know what it is about so I'm positive it's not mine. Any thoughts on this? Thank you!--Facu89 (talk) 23:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steven. As the Tech editor on the Signpost, I want to ask how you would like the announcement to be presented. If I'm correct, it will be rolled out with 1.23wmf20 on enwiki on April 3rd? That means the article will have to be done by Wednesday (officially) to stay ahead of the rollout. — Edokter (talk) — 12:46, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
As you mentioned the mobile version at VPT... I find it really irritating that there is no longer any way to permanently disable the mobile version on a device, or at least an obvious one. I have a feeling that this has been discussed before so thought I'd ask you why this was the case, rather than start a discussion somewhere. Dpmuk (talk) 23:07, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steven, I'll reply here as the Village pump is a bit crowded. I am very sorry for my error regarding bugs, I had not come across the error before, and there was a talk on Wiktionary (?) about bugs being caused (which I assume was another GF error. With regards to the vote, I very much doubt anything will be changed, even if (as appears likely) quite a majority want the old font back. I think it is useful for the WMF to know the opinion of the people it matters to (but note that given the decision was made by the WMF rather than through consensus, an idea of who popular the new font is useful. Lastly, why is it that our conflict of interest editing had mass banners across all articles, visible by all, editors and readers alike, when an equally massive change had not mass notification to editors, of the hundreds of thousands of editors who use en.wikipedia, 10,000 doesn't seem like such a big number. Apologies if my post was insulting in any way. All the best, Matty.007 09:27, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Re this, I am absolutely serious, and very willing to help try something along those lines. Most of my Wikipedia life is spent explaining what WP is not for to people who really wanted a LinkedIn or a Facebook, and I would dearly like to do less of it. As a first shot here is a proposal I made two years ago.
The words can certainly be tweaked, but we need to avoid softening them to the point where the message does not get across.
There is little point telling people that Wikipedia is not for promotion, because nobody thinks they are doing promotion. They are all convinced their edits are "purely informational", and they are simply using Wikipedia to tell the world about themselves, their companies, their good causes... My favourite, real, example is "This is written with no promotional tone" about an article which included "phenomenally successful... obsessive and extensive knowledge of fashion design... revered for his rare ability... an arbiter of taste... his inventive images... " A better way to put the message is "Wikipedia is not a place to tell the world about yourself, your company, your band... " which is the essence of WP:COI and the central point that many new users do not understand.
How can I help? JohnCD (talk) 21:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
--Alien Putsch resistant (talk) 20:22, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steven. Just hoping you could take a look at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 126#Prompt to create an account whenever I make an edit when you get a chance. To be clear I'm all for prompting unregistered users to create an account, but once the offer has been declined it seems excessive to continue prompting them every time they make an edit. Cheers, 101.176.89.125 (talk) 17:25, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello Steven, I had posted here because I was initially pointed to Okeyes rather than you. I'm not going to copypaste my comments, but I'd appreciate it if you could read and maybe consider them. Thank you. --84.44.195.210 (talk) 13:52, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey there. I was pointed here on AN.
I'd like to provide a little bit of feedback on that Sign Up nagging. For starters, you are insulting the intelligence of the very people you ostensibly want to sign up, by talking down to them as though they are customers or little children. Do you guys honestly believe that the type of person Wikipedia is hoping (or should be hoping) to recruit as an editor is dumb enough to buy into some corporate-advertising-inspired "Sign Up, here are the advantages for you"? Nope. They will feel insulted by this cheapness and dishonesty. Wikimedia/Wikipedia has an interest in getting these people to sign up, and that is exactly what the Sign Up notice should state in a straightfoward, honest manner: "Here's why we would like you to sign up". Then let them consider it.
Secondly, the nagging is insulting by implying that the kind of person whom you should want to sign up isn't capable of knowing that they can do so whenever they decide to.
Thirdly, it is just plain annoying to get this shoved into one's face. Way to make IP editors feel even more unwelcome.
All in all, I'd say disable IP editing, or don't. But please don't insult the intellect of the people you should want to sign up. And by that I mean that I'm currently not sure what kind of person you people actally want to sign up. Maybe you're going for people who actually don't notice that they can sign up whenever they want? The kind of person who will not notice the insult in presenting them with some lame advertisement instead of a straightforward message from adult to adult? If that's the kind of person you're looking for, then nevermind, you're doing a great job of alienating everyone else.
That's all. Feel free to forward this to the appropriate place or ignore it at you discretion. Also, fantastic elegant idea to not provide people with an avenue to respond to the nagging campaign. You know, to learn why some people may actually be turned off and turned away by that particular kind of wording, or by the sign up nagging in general. Just a thought. --85.197.12.42 (talk) 23:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
Heya Steven, I've taken on the JSTOR handouts. I'm trying to figure out who from the signup list already has access - are the first 100 applicants good to go? (I've started moving names over Wikipedia:JSTOR/Approved). Need to figure this out so I can get the next bunch of accounts out. Regards, The Interior (Talk) 18:26, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steven, here's the ping you requested . Although being logged in the whole time, I still got the new user guided tour for every article I accessed. This issue only occurred in article namespace and vanished after clicking through the tour a couple of times. Now things are back to normal; I could not reproduce the bug by logging in and out again or emptying my cache. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 17:02, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Steven,
I saw you and others described a way to use enums in php here [2] I think that's a good starting point. I wonder if and how the classes [3] i.e. TypesafeEnum can be used in another extension. The concrete problem I'm trying to solve are the enum like constants in the mw:Extension:Math see [4]
--Physikerwelt (talk) 16:01, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanx
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