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Hello fellow member! WikiProject X needs your help!
We studied the various needs that WikiProjects have, and have come up with some ideas for our first round of WikiProject tool development. These include:
We are now looking for volunteer coders to work on these projects. If you are interested in developing these tools, or if you would to volunteer for other tasks, check out our new volunteers portal. Thank you for your help!
Cheers, Harej (talk) 20:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I have just tried my hand at closing the AFD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohi (2nd nomination). I think it met the criteria for a non-admin closure. Would you be kind enough to have a quick look and see if I have done the right thing? Thank you very much, AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 06:32, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Regal Show World is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: History of technology • Garbage picking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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Greetings! For this month's issue...
We have demos!
After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:
We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.
Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.
While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.
Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.
We need volunteers!
WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!
As an aside...
Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.
Harej (talk) 00:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Just did... :-) GregorB (talk) 07:26, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
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I logged in as Ooppss already used but it didn't let me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eerbbeeewww (talk • contribs) 02:13, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for taking the time to edit the page about The Strange Doors. However, could you explain what the edit summary "-ws" means? I'm new to Wikipedia, so it isn't clear to me. Many thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doorslife (talk • contribs) 09:17, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, could you please have a look at this AfD? The only opposing voter made the statement at a much earlier stage before many of the media sources had released their stories and interviews about the project. So, I'm wondering, can the AfD be closed per WP:SNOW? - Anonimski (talk) 20:18, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I think the new tab-based navigation is kind of excessive for the scale of the project. Something closer to the orignal design (links on the main page) should be sufficient and less intrusive. Would you mind if I revert the addition and try to figure out a more lightweight alternative? wctaiwan (talk) 01:53, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
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Would you be willing to swing by M._William_Phelps, the already shrill arguments of Nom now fly so so bizarrely in the face of policy that it may be time to close the discussion, or perhaps to draw in another experienced editor? [23] I'm not sure how to proceed with an editor who flatly misstates policy, when no other editors have come to the page and it has been up for weeks already.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:27, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey.
I just noted your theory that User:Bettifm was secretly blocked for sock puppetry.
That doesn't seem to be the case, based on the block log here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3ABettifm
They were blocked for removing the AFD notice, but the block was extended to indefinite based on the accusation of sock puppetry.
Since the original block was incorrect, it would stand to reason that the extension of the block was similarly incorrect. I was wondering if you could perhaps amend your claim that they were secretly blocked for sock puppetry from the AFD closure notice. Thanks.
Fingers crossed the admin that extended it from 1 week to indefinite sees their mistake and undoes the error. I'd hate to see a good editor like Bettifm banned based on something as silly as being bold by removing an AFD that should never have been there in the first place. I think we should assume good faith a bit more. Mister Sneeze A Lot (talk) 13:54, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Furthermore, per their own admission, User:Tamaora is a "sister editor" of Bettifm, and was not hiding that they were a meatpuppet of each other, per their own user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tamaora&oldid=655168116 . I am certain that this does not violate WP:SOCK and the indefinite ban of both was made in error. The 1 week block was maybe fair enough though. Mister Sneeze A Lot (talk) 13:58, 20 April 2015 (UTC)