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It seems like you are still working on it, but I wanted to express my appreciation for what I think are two fair and thorough section closes so far. --JBL (talk) 00:55, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello Wugapodes! You recently closed the discussion on the Administrator's Noticeboard in regard to editor Lightburst and their six month ban. My question is: should that user's comments in active AfDs be struck? Thank you. --Kbabej (talk) 22:34, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
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Good stuff. This songspam's on me! El_C 23:30, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
It's on the que, Wugapodes. Yeah, you gotta be an old school Nexpo fan for the longform. ;) He's at the top of his game with those 2 videos. Strong recommend for extra-potent disturbance (+WARNING). That's right, clpo13, I'm raising awareness of this growing danger. BTW, I'm watching Inversion (just saw latest ep today) and I'm pretty sure at this point the invading species are Guga. El_C 00:43, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for taking the time to be my mentor. I doubt I will be a big editor but I am looking to build a personal profile page on myself. How are personal pages created? Kind regards. --Prof Fintech (talk) 15:01, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Wugapodes, I just looked at the backlog report and archive and couldn't immediately figure out what the symbols mean, especially , which doesn't exactly scream "second opinion" to the uninitiated. I noticed in edit mode that it has a tooltip, but that isn't available in mobile and isn't very obvious for people like me who use popups. Could you perhaps add a header explaining the symbols? Thank you for running this bot! —Kusma (talk) 15:48, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I posted a question, on the Teahouse some time ago. I found some responses somewhat hostile, but recently discovered that the term "egregious" has indeed a more negative than formal connotation in modern English, which explains what happened a bit better than what I thought at that time. I thought of giving an apology there, but I guess it would now make more bad than good, and noticed your response. I did some legwork visible at User_talk:176.247.159.174 and made a little mess by unintentionally pinging lots of people. Some responses were welcoming, other pretty suspicious, can't really tell how justified this was in each case, but that lead me to abandon the task. I stated my research with a critic disposition, but found that the number of indef talk page protections is indeed negligible, but would be happy if my "research" would serve some purpose and guess some admin, you or some other interested one, would hand this better. The lists on that page should be accurate, I removed Talk:Anita Sarkeesian, because it seemed pretty similar to other cases from the following year, otherwise things should be well documented. My interactions with the blocking administrators should be retrievable by the contributions of the IPs who edited the linked IP talk page. As for my inclusion criteria: there were a lot of protected talk page archives, I don't see many good reasons why anyone should edit them and they made this kind of search more tedious, but that's pretty much all (other subpages were FAQs, copyrights or similar); I searched excluding redirects, which somehow excluded things like the main page, policies and help, which are likely protected for a good reason, the redirects that were left probably had some technical problem (the first example is Talk:Grawp, guess the other ones follow a similar pattern); for the disambiguations there was the arguably funny Talk:forum and the self explanatory talk:poop, possibly a couple of other exemples, but nothing that looked really out of place. I'm aware that you are currently running for ArbCom, so feel free to delay the answer or redirect me to some other admin/experienced user that may have more time and interest in similar tasks (frankly, given the size of enwiki, this doesn't seem to be a systemic problem, more a clean up for things that went annoticied, a case by case judgment seems both viable and appropriate in any case).176.247.193.5 (talk) 03:25, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
I am encouraged by your optimistic response to my question.
I would like to see a program where people who work on common freelancing websites will be solicited by generalized job notices for "editing wikipedia". The interview questions should stipulate prior paid commenting or voting work. The interviewer should then offer a bounty in return for information about the employer. This would be sort of like a sting operation, in that the prospective freelance employees would initially think this is just another job where they get paid to vote and comment. Only after a bit of online conversation between the interviewer and the prospective employee would the true nature of the project be established. The bounty payment should be enough to cover the freelancer's lost income for the next month, which is roughly how long the tutoring program would take. I am not completely sure what the amount should be, but for the program to work it must be competitive with what their enwiki employers are paying.
One month should be long enough to have individual tutors from enwiki--probably volunteer--but maybe WMF staff-- to work through the basics of wiki syntax and how to write a good article. The longstanding and legitimate, though seldom-utilized enwiki incentive page could be incorporated into this project somehow. Or as an alternative, the existing interwiki request pages could be modified to fit this project.
The tutoring project should have an achievable objective, such as to prepare the non-English speakers to create a decent article in their own language, or to translate an English article to their own language. Both are marketable skills that they could advertise on the various freelancing websites. The skills learned would have a very limited degree of transfer offwiki--I'm thinking of wordpress.
An English speaking editor could volunteer as a tutor in exchange for having the non-English speakers work on translating articles of their choosing into their own native language wikis. Articles which they want to see translated could be posted the incentive site or interwiki site(s). A "fair" exchange of time could be arranged, such as 1 hour of tutoring via online chat or skype in return for, say, 500 mainbody words of translation. This would have to be arranged on the honor system.
The ultimate outcome of the project would be to convert the current body of lower-skill freelancers to either higher skill freelancers or independent volunteer editors. Higher-skill freelancers will be able to charge more for their work, which should help reduce the likelihood of recidivism into paid commenting and voting in the years following their participation in the program. My opinion is that paid commenters and voters are not interested in corrupting enwiki decision making processes; they just see it as any old job, and as a task that is simple enough to do with a lower degree of wikipedia experience.
Enforcement-wise, I see the bulk of present-day enforcement in this general area going against the non-English speaking editors, and also most enforcement going to paid editing policy violations in articlespace. The outcome of this project would be to step up enforcement against the sort of paid editing which is intended to subvert Wikipedia's consensus-building structures, and to levy the penalties against the employers rather than the employees.
The program could taper off once employers' behavior changes, and the current practice of paid voting and commenting becomes less common.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 04:59, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
I was wondering if you have thoughts on the comment you made here a month ago (scroll to the bottom), in light of the fact that both accounts that were participating in the discussion were indeed sock puppets of an indef banned user [6] [7] and your "warning" was an extremely one sided commination which basically SUPPORTED these pretty obvious sock accounts and threatened long standing users, myself included, who were just stating the obvious. I'm concerned that if you're on the Committee and there are requests for Arbitration or such, made in particularly sensitive areas, this kind of lack of sound judgement can be easily exploited by the perennial, long term and unscrupulous sock masters (since this may be of limited interest to others I'm not posting this on the Questions for Candidates page). Volunteer Marek 08:17, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
Since I can't vote for you, I'll do some campaigning in your favor! What do I do? Let me know on my talk page. BubbaDaAmogus (talk) 00:39, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
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21:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello @Wugapodes: i try creating redirects in a mainspace but it doesn't appear, can you fix this bug? Vitaium (talk) 00:06, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
There's been quite a bit of contentious discussion regarding the AfD for Mass killings under communist regimes. The nominator, Cygnis insignis received this message on their talk page. I greatly respect your ability to resolve issues without needing to take actions, so I was wondering what you'd recommend be done in this situation. The user that left the message is awfully inactive, so I wonder if it's just an empty threat, but I don't know how that affects how one would respond to such a message. Hope you have a good start to the weekend :) Santacruz ⁂ Please tag me! 23:39, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Wug. Thank you for your courage to run in this year's ACE. This kind of scrutiny can sometimes be as challenging as an RfA - if not worse. Some candidates ran on a platform for changes in Arbcom. Now comes the cliff-hanger of waiting for the results. 52% of the votes were cast on day 1 of the ballot. You might find this analysis of the campaign to be of interest. You are welcome to leave your thoughts on its talk page. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:15, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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What edits need to be done on this document? --USWikiUS (talk) 22:47, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
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Congratulations on winning the ArbCom elections! I, on behalf of all "Intermediate" Wikipedians, I hope to see a big bundle of progress made now. A lot of us editors want to help you make this place better. Thanks for all you do, good luck! BubbaDaAmogus (talk) 14:23, 17 December 2021 (UTC) |
Thank you for the barnstar, Bubba, and for the work you've been doing on Western New York articles! I'll do what I can on the Committee to make improvements, but let me know if you ever need a hand. I know a few archivists and librarians in the Buffalo area, so if you ever need access to resources for article writing, let me know and I'll do my best to track them down! — Wug·a·po·des 22:37, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
You’re welcome. How do you know all this? Let me know on my talk page. BubbaDaAmogus (talk) 02:18, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
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