User talk:Evolution and evolvability/Archive 2019
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Nominate article for WikiScience Journal
Dear Mr Thomas Shafee
I am interested to improve and publish article "Immune systems" to WikiScience Journal. I have added on Nomination Page. Please kindly to evaluate it. Thank you Helito (talk) 04:33, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Helito: Hello. We typically put the article through academic peer review after the submitter has made significant contributions to improving the article to make sure it is up to date. After you have done so, we will be happy to start organizing the invitation of experts to critique the article. You are also welcome to approach the other authors of the article to update it with you. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 05:49, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for your response. Now I am improving the original article and put it on here. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints/Immune_system (I just finished making the outline) Helito (talk) 06:46, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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atp and ketons
Yes, I did not notice regulation section was continuation of glycolysis. Thanx for fixing! As for what is more common, I maybe have more info later AlexM202020 (talk) 10:11, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- @AlexM202020: Great! I look forward to it. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:42, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Merge
Hello TS - just to note that your recent merge tag for Parasitic life cycle does not bring up an area for discussion - it needs to be tagged using Twinkle. Would do this myself but then it would be my request - i would support this proposal. Best --Iztwoz (talk) 12:57, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
- @Iztwoz: Thanks for reminding me! I've made the entry here. I got completely side-tracked and forgot. I'll have to actually get into twinkle at some point - it's perpetually on my todo list! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 13:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Ways to improve Small protein
Hello, Evolution and evolvability,
Thanks for creating Small protein! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
Please add your references.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Boleyn}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.
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Boleyn (talk) 16:20, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
- @Boleyn: Thanks for the ping! I've added in refs and removed the tag. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 22:49, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
- Brilliant, thanks. Boleyn (talk) 07:45, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
| Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Template:Share templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Dirk Beetstra T C 07:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC) @Gerda Arendt: Thank you - By coincidence, it also comes whilst I'm at the WikiMedia Summit in Berlin! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
| Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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Email?
I had an alert that you had emailed me, but I don't seem to have actually received anything (and I've checked the spam folder too). Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:37, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Jimfbleak: Huh, how odd. Nvm, I've now posted the email text to your talk page instead. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 23:29, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
And another email
Hi Thomas. Thanks for the email. I have no objections in principle to submitting an article as you suggest. I have been rather casually considering this for one of the areas I am currently working on. (But have shelved the idea on the basis of ignorance of the procedure.) However, I was a little confused by the topic you suggested. It is not an area where I could usefully contribute at this level. I suspect that you may have been misled by the "Authorship" stats, which include my contributions to ensuring that web links and similar are secured against link rot. This inflates my character count considerably, without necessarily demonstrating that I have an advanced grasp of the subject matter.
So, sadly, I shall decline; but await a similar email in any area in which I may be adequately equipped 
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Gog the Mild (talk) 14:56, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
- Aha, that makes sense. I'd wanted to make sure that I contacted all the high-contribution editors for the article so as not to exclude anyone who did a lot of work on it. Now that I double-check with the whocolor tool I see what you're saying. Rather an oversight on my part given the array of FAs and GAs you've worked on in a far more extensive manner, and are within-scope of what the WikiJournal of Humanities tackles. Do you have any favourites that you've worked on? The articles on the Siege of Berwick (1333), Battle of Neville's Cross, Battle of Auberoche, or Battle of Bergerac are possibilities, but that's only based on articles that you've already worked on extensively, rather than new ones you might be interested in doing, so it's certainly only a suggestion. Feel free to move the conversation thread to your talkpage if you prefer to keep it there. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:10, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
- Continued on my talk page. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:24, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Thank you
Thanks very much for those edits to Rosetta Stone. I was intending to do it, but I had a rush of work connected with other forthcoming publications -- things somehow have to happen at the same moment -- and hadn't yet been able to give the time to it. Andrew Dalby 08:38, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Andrew Dalby: No problem at all, I enjoyed the read. The accompanying pdf will be formatted soon. It's now the 38th such article! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 10:19, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Wikijournal question–
Hi Thomas, thank you for bringing this excellent project to my attention. It is exactly the direction that I believe Wikipedia/Wikimedia should be going, driving further convergence with the academic world.
I have one question regarding WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement#Confidentiality_2: can I avoid disclosing my identity post publication? The Balfour Declaration article, which I believe would be a good fit for WikiJournal Humanities, is in a contested topic area in which most editors consider confidentiality a prerequisite to editing. Onceinawhile (talk) 16:42, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Onceinawhile: So in general it is by far easier from a journal point of view to use named authors, since one of the ICMJE Authorship criteria:
"Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved."
- However, journals have published by pseudonymous authors in the past and there are provisions. We've aimed to avoid it as much as possible so far, since it could be an added layer of complication. However I'm happy to bring it up in the upcoming meeting next weekend. The journal would have to hold your identity confidentially to show that accountability can be maintained (there may be some OTRS-based or {{Committed identity}}-based solution) and could be indicated in the authorship declaration form. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:04, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Thomas, that makes sense. I was just reading something similar at Academic_authorship#Anonymous_and_unclaimed_authorship.
- It would be great if you could raise at your upcoming meeting.
- Onceinawhile (talk) 08:00, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Onceinawhile: No problem, I've added it to the agenda for Saturday. I've also contacted a couple of editors I know at other journals to ask their take. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:15, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Onceinawhile: Apologies. We didn't get around to discussing this. A pity, because I think it's a key question (meeting notes). I'll be at the top of the discussion list on next month. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:50, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update. By the way, the professionalism of your approach to this is very impressive. Onceinawhile (talk) 12:12, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Onceinawhile: Thank you for being patient with this. The initial discussions within the WikiJournals was to avoid pseudonymous submissions for now in order to to be cautious in establish accountability and credibility as the journals start up (Meeting notes here). You're welcome to raise the question at this talkpage to initiate more extended discussion though. Threre's is a somewhat related discussion going on about experimenting with officially publishing the peer review comments, but not the wikipedia article itself. This was initially proposed for important wikipedia articles where the main contributors are no longer on wikipedia and no current wikipedia editors step forward to submit the article (I guess a bit like WP:FAR rather than WP:FAC). T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 06:45, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Thomas, thanks very much for the update. Your approach at this early stage seems eminently sensible. I look forward to following the future success of the project, and perhaps will be able to contribute in future. Onceinawhile (talk) 09:37, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Onceinawhile: Thank you for being patient with this. The initial discussions within the WikiJournals was to avoid pseudonymous submissions for now in order to to be cautious in establish accountability and credibility as the journals start up (Meeting notes here). You're welcome to raise the question at this talkpage to initiate more extended discussion though. Threre's is a somewhat related discussion going on about experimenting with officially publishing the peer review comments, but not the wikipedia article itself. This was initially proposed for important wikipedia articles where the main contributors are no longer on wikipedia and no current wikipedia editors step forward to submit the article (I guess a bit like WP:FAR rather than WP:FAC). T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 06:45, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update. By the way, the professionalism of your approach to this is very impressive. Onceinawhile (talk) 12:12, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
June 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
- June 2019—Issue 003
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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| Cats | 4.79
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| Fisheries and fishing | 4.9
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| Dogs | 4.91
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| Viruses | 4.91
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| ToL | 4.94
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| Cetaceans | 4.97
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| Primates | 4.98
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| Sharks | 5.04
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| All wikiprojects average | 5.05
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| Dinosaurs | 5.12
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| Equine | 5.15
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| Bats | 5.25
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| Mammals | 5.32
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| Aquarium fishes | 5.35
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| Hypericaceae | 5.38
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| Turtles | 5.4
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| Birds | 5.46
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| Australian biota | 5.5
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| Marine life | 5.54
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| Animals | 5.56
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| Paleontology | 5.57
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| Rodents | 5.58
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| Amphibians and Reptiles | 5.64
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| Fungi | 5.65
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| Bivalves | 5.66
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| Plants | 5.67
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| Algae | 5.68
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| Arthropods | 5.69
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| Hymenoptera | 5.72
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| Microbiology | 5.72
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| Cephalopods | 5.74
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| Fishes | 5.76
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| Ants | 5.79
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| Gastropods | 5.8
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| Spiders | 5.86
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| Insects | 5.9
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| Beetles | 5.98
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| Lepidoptera | 5.98
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- Spineless editors overwhelmed by stubs
Within the Tree of Life and its many subprojects, there is an abundance of stubs. Welcome to Wikipedia, what's new, right? However, based on all wikiprojects listed (just over two thousand), the Tree of Life project is worse off in average article quality than most. Based on the concept of relative WikiWork (the average number of "steps" needed to have a project consisting of all featured articles (FAs), where stub status → FA consists of six steps), only seven projects within the ToL have an average rating of "start class" or better. Many projects, particularly those involving invertebrates, hover at an average article quality slightly better than a stub. With relative WikiWorks of 5.98 each, WikiProject Lepidoptera and WikiProject Beetles have the highest relative WikiWork of any project. Given that invertebrates are incredibly speciose, it may not surprise you that many articles about them are lower quality. WikiProject Beetles, for example, has over 20 times more articles than WikiProject Cats. Wikipedia will always be incomplete, so we should take our relatively low WikiWork as motivation to write more articles that are also better in quality.
- Editor Spotlight: Showing love to misfit taxa
We're joined for this month's Editor Spotlight by NessieVL, a long-time contributor who lists themselves as a member of WikiProject Fungus, WikiProject Algae, and WikiProject Cephalopods.
1) Enwebb: How did you come to edit articles about organisms and taxonomic groups?
- Nessie: The main force, then and now, driving me to create or edit articles is thinking "Why isn't there an article on that on Wikipedia?" Either I'll read about some rarely-sighted creature in the deep sea or find something new on iNaturalist and want to learn more. First stop (surprise!) is Wikipedia, and many times there is just a stub or no page at all. Sometimes I just add the source that got me to the article, not sometimes I go deep and try to get everything from the library or online journals and put it all in an article. The nice thing about taxa is the strong precedent that all accepted extant taxa are notable, so one does not need to really worry about doing a ton of research and having the page get removed. I was super worried about this as a new editor: I still really dislike conflict so if I can avoid it I do. Anyway, the most important part is stitching an article in to the rest of Wikipedia: Linking all the jargon, taxonomers, pollinators, etc., adding categories, and putting in the correct WikiProjects. Recently I have been doing more of the stitching-in stuff with extant articles. The last deep-dive article I made was Karuka at the end of last year, which is a bit of a break for me. I guess it's easier to do all the other stuff on my tablet while watching TV.
2) Enwebb: Many editors in the ToL are highly specialized on a group of taxa. A look at your recently created articles includes much diversity, though, with viruses, bacteria, algae, and cnidarians all represented—are there any commonalities for the articles you work on? Would you say you're particularly interested in certain groups?
- Nessie: I was a nerd from a time when that would get you beat up, so I like odd things and underdogs. I also avoid butting heads, so not only do I find siphonophores and seaweeds fascinating I don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's toes. I go down rabbitholes where I start writing an article like Mastocarpus papillatus because I found some growing on some rocks, then in my research I see it is parasitized by Pythium porphyrae, which has no article, and how can that be for an oomycete that oddly lives in the ocean and also attacks my tasty nori. So then I wrote that article and that got me blowing off the dust on other Oomycota articles, encouraged by the pull of propagating automatic taxoboxes. Once you've done the taxonomy template for the genus, well then you might as well do all the species now that the template is taken care of for them too. and so on until I get sucked in somewhere else. I think it's good to advocate for some of these 'oddball' taxa as it makes it easier for editors to expand their range from say plants to the pathogenic microorganisms of their favorite plant.
- My favorite clades though, It's hard to pick for a dilettante like me. I like working on virus taxonomy, but I can't think of a specific virus species that I am awed by. Maybe Tulip breaking virus for teaching us economics or Variola virus for having so many smallpox deities, one of which was popularly sung about by Desi Arnaz and then inspired the name of a cartoon character who was then misremembered and then turned into a nickname for Howard Stern's producer Gary Dell'Abate. Sorry, really had to share that chain, but for a species that's not a staple food it probably has the most deities. But anyway, for having the most species that wow me, I love a good fungus or algae, but that often is led by my stomach. Also why I seem to research so many plant articles. You can't eat siphonophores, at least I don't, but they are fascinating with their federalist colonies of zooids. Bats are all amazing, but the task force seems to have done so much I feel the oomycetes and slime moulds need more love. Same thing with dinosaurs (I'm team Therizinosaurus though). But honestly, every species has that one moment in the research where you just go, wow, that's so interesting. For instance, I loved discovering that the picture-winged fly (Delphinia picta) has a mating dance that involves blowing bubbles. Now I keep expecting them to show me when they land on my arm, but no such luck yet.
3) Enwebb: I noticed that many of your recent edits utilize the script Rater, which aids in quickly reassessing the quality and importance of an article. Why is it important to update talk page assessments of articles? I also noticed that the quality rating you assign often aligns with ORES, a script that uses machine-learning to predict article quality. Coincidence?
- Nessie: I initially started focusing on WikiProject talk page templates because they seem to be the key to data collecting and maintenance for articles, much more so than categories. This is where you note of an article needs an image, or audio, or a range map. It's how the cleanup listing bot sorts articles, and how Plantdrew does his automated taxobox usage stats. The latter inspired me to look for articles on organisms that are not assigned to any ToL WikiProjects which initially was in the thousands. I got it down to zero with just copypasta so you can imagine I was excited when I saw the rater tool. Back then I rated everything stub/low because it was faster: I couldn't check every article for the items on the B-class checklists. Plus each project has their own nuances to rating scales and I thought the editors in the individual projects would take it from there. I also thought all species were important, so how can I choose a favorite? Now it is much easier with the rater tool and the apparent consensus with Abductive's method of rating by the pageviews (0-9 views/day is low, 10-99 is med, 100-999 is high...). For the quality I generally go by the ORES rating, you caught me. It sometimes is thrown off by a long list of species or something, but it's generally good for stub to C: above that needs formal investigation and procedures I am still learning about. It seems that in the ToL projects we don't focus so much on getting articles to GA/FA so it's been harder to pick up. It was a little culture shock when I went on the Discord server and it seemed everyone was obsessed with getting articles up in quality. I think ToL is focusing on all the missing taxa and (re)organizing it all, which when you already have articles on every anime series or whatever you can focus on bulking the articles up more. In any event, on my growing to-do list is trying to get an article up to FA or GA and learn the process that way so I can better do the quality ratings and not just kick the can down the road.
4) Enwebb: What, if anything, can ToL and its subprojects do to better support collaboration and coordination among editors? How can we improve?
- Nessie: I mentioned earlier that the projects are the main way maintenance is done. And it is good that we have a bunch of subprojects that let those tasks get broken up into manageable pieces. Frankly I'm amazed anything gets done with WikiProject Plants with how huge its scope is. Yet this not only parcels out the work but the discussion as well. A few editors like Peter coxhead and Plantdrew keep an eye on many of the subprojects and spread the word, but it's still easy for newer editors to get a little lost. There should be balance between the lumping and splitting. The newsletter helps by crossing over all the WikiProjects, and if the discord channel picked up that would help too. Possibly the big Enwiki talk page changes will help as well.
5) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-Wikipedia?
- Nessie: I'm not sure anything would be surprising. I focus on nature offline too, foraging for mushrooms or wild plants and trying to avoid ticks and mosquitos. I have started going magnet fishing lately, more to help clean up the environment than in the hopes of finding anything valuable. But it would be fun to find a weapon and help solve a cold case or something.
- June DYKs
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Re: APCs
Yes, the open access article has been cut very heavily by moving rather important parts elsewhere, while large chunks of texts were incorporated from a valid but outdated source. I was considering whether to integrate it with the text of https://peerj.com/preprints/27580/ , whose references would enrich the article significantly as well. Nemo 07:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
DYK for De novo gene birth
On 12 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article De novo gene birth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that de novo gene birth was once thought to be impossible but has now been observed in every species that has been systematically examined? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/De novo gene birth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, De novo gene birth), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
valereee (talk) 00:03, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #1—July 2019
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Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
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PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Image crediting
Thanks for your email about image credits in WikiJournal Preprints/Hepatitis E, but I think I'm probably the wrong person to be credited with the map in question. The map in question is a replacement for one I created (still around at File:LocationNamibia.png), and I guess the mention of me in the file information for the newer map is to acknowledge the earlier one. However, I don't think any of the newer map is my work -- it seems to have been made by User: Rei-artur. (In the event that I need to be mentioned anyway, though, I'm fine with just my username.) -- Vardion (talk) 01:21, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Vardion: Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the info. Sometimes the history of older images takes quite some unpicking! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 05:46, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
Update to Template:Space station size comparison
Hello! IP editor 95.224.95.166 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been very, very keen to remove Template:Space station size comparison from articles because Tiangong-2 has been approaching the end of its orbital life; now that that station has actually been deorbited, I wanted to humbly ask you to update the template in the way that seems most fitting to you; once it's back up to date, I think it should probably be added to the articles of all the stations it depicts, as well as Space station, where this issue has been playing out. Thank you for your work! -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 18:19, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Bryanrutherford0: No problem. Thanks for letting me know! Since Tiangong-1 and -2 had the same layout, I've removed Tiangong-1 from the top section and changed the bottom section to indicate it refers to both Tiangongs. I've updated both the svg image and the interactive template. I've also added a note on talk:space station so that there's a comment there. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:24, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you! -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 15:20, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Bryanrutherford0: No problem. Thanks for letting me know! Since Tiangong-1 and -2 had the same layout, I've removed Tiangong-1 from the top section and changed the bottom section to indicate it refers to both Tiangongs. I've updated both the svg image and the interactive template. I've also added a note on talk:space station so that there's a comment there. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:24, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Tree of Life Newsletter
- July 2019—Issue 004
- Tree of Life
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The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
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For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
_female_eating_chick.jpg) 2) S&W: Over the years, you've taken photos of many different organisms from birds to insects to big cats; you have an extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
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4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
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Myxomatosis
Hi Thomas, I see the Myxomatosis article has just joined the list. I passed it at GAN this morning, and was startled to see it jumping straight to WJS. I suppose there is nihil obstat but I'd have thought there was an a priori assumption that more development or review might be advisable before this step. It's nom's first GA and indeed his sole article to date. On the plus side, his username does imply a certain expertise in the matter! All the best, Ian Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:47, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
- I understand it was by invitation, not a bad thing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:06, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
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DYK for Teladorsagia circumcincta
On 12 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Teladorsagia circumcincta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that sheep infected with the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Teladorsagia circumcincta. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Teladorsagia circumcincta), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
A psycho barnstar for you!
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- Thank you so much! The size of the conference was a real 'thrown in at the deep end' to the community, but people seemed to really appreciate the value and importance of keeping the information on wikipedia as accurate as possible and expanding it. The number of Top and High importance stub/starts in WP:PSY seemed to really hit home! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:43, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Gene Wiki articles by importance
A tag has been placed on Category:Gene Wiki articles by importance requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:25, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
- This category is clearly NOT empty and the tag has been removed. Liz Read! Talk! 16:25, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
Guest column about WikiJournal of Science?
Hi Evolution and evolvability, as you may know, I recently created the Tree of Life Newsletter. With the recent proposal about whether WikiJournal should be its own project, I was wondering if you would be interested in writing a piece for this month's newsletter. Basically, why should Tree of Life editors care about WikiJournal of Science? What do they and the public gain from submitting articles through this process? Let me know if you'd be interested. Enwebb (talk) 15:30, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Enwebb: Absolutely - I'd be happy to do so. What length would you prefer? There was a recent article in the Signpost that was aimed at a broader wikipedian audience, so something written for a biologist reader could be useful. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:17, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- Probably 3-4 paragraphs. It would be good to link to the Signpost article about WikiJournal so that people can get a more general background if they'd like, so you can focus more specifically on biology content. I think it would be advantageous for you to frame it as a persuasive essay, but that's obviously up to you. Many of the people subscribed to the newsletter are heavyweights in ToL in terms of content production, GAs, and FAs, which can be very time intensive. Why should they spend their time on WikiJSci? You can put the draft here when you're done. It's really open-ended but let me know if you have questions :) Enwebb (talk) 18:07, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- Ping @Chiswick Chap, Elmidae, Edwbaker, and Faendalimas: As the most biology-focused participants - feel free to also jump in on this. Here's the drafting link. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Enwebb: I just wanted to add a note to say thanks for suggesting the TOLN post. I love what you've done with it and it's been great to see it flourish. Perhaps the 'Newly recognized content' and 'Newly nominated content' and 'this month's DYKs' sections will be automatable in some way to allow you to focus on the interviews and such like? I could ask over at Wikipedia:Bot_requests if you like. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:52, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, happy to hear that you enjoy it! And thanks to you for agreeing to guest write a column. As far as automation, I wouldn't be opposed to that. I'm mostly pulling from the various article alerts pages, which I've watchlisted. It doesn't take too much time to do manually, though, so it's alright if it isn't doable. Enwebb (talk) 17:54, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Enwebb: I just wanted to add a note to say thanks for suggesting the TOLN post. I love what you've done with it and it's been great to see it flourish. Perhaps the 'Newly recognized content' and 'Newly nominated content' and 'this month's DYKs' sections will be automatable in some way to allow you to focus on the interviews and such like? I could ask over at Wikipedia:Bot_requests if you like. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:52, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Ping @Chiswick Chap, Elmidae, Edwbaker, and Faendalimas: As the most biology-focused participants - feel free to also jump in on this. Here's the drafting link. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
- Probably 3-4 paragraphs. It would be good to link to the Signpost article about WikiJournal so that people can get a more general background if they'd like, so you can focus more specifically on biology content. I think it would be advantageous for you to frame it as a persuasive essay, but that's obviously up to you. Many of the people subscribed to the newsletter are heavyweights in ToL in terms of content production, GAs, and FAs, which can be very time intensive. Why should they spend their time on WikiJSci? You can put the draft here when you're done. It's really open-ended but let me know if you have questions :) Enwebb (talk) 18:07, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
August 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
- August 2019—Issue 005
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Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric (this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
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1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Preloaddraft
Hey! I am working on a piece of documentation in my day job and stumbled upon you creating Template:Preloaddraft in 2015! What instigated that originally? What was the origin story? I know that @Pharos: adopted it pretty early on for the met, by you appear to have been building it before then. Sadads (talk) 17:20, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Sadads: Thanks for the ping. I originally built it for an extended editathon on women antarctic researchers (editathon page, Signpost writeup). Originally I was just going to make a small skeleton draft template (this one) for new editors to fill out to avoid the paralysis of a completely blank new page. However, I noticed that we would have problems if we were recommending for them to write in draftspace and use the AfC process, because a list of redlinks don't detect if a draft is present and people might accidentally duplicate work rather than collaborate on a single draft. So in the end I tried to write something that solved both at once. That's why I tried to make it a bit more versatile in loading different blank template articles for other editathons or redlink lists. I was thrilled that it started to be used by a few other groups! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:16, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- Very cool! I am going to mention that story in a blog post I am writing :) If I have more questions, I will make sure to reach out. Sadads (talk) 02:57, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Sadads: omg, I only just came across the
{{User sandbox+}}template (by ManosHacker) which also some some similar stuff to{{preloaddraft}}. Much of them should be folded together into a single system (e.g. their page templates). T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 05:54, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Sadads: omg, I only just came across the
- Very cool! I am going to mention that story in a blog post I am writing :) If I have more questions, I will make sure to reach out. Sadads (talk) 02:57, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Copying licensed material requires attribution
Hi. I see in a recent addition to Origin of replication you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:46, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Diannaa: Thanks for the note. I thought I's add the the
{{Academic peer reviewed}}but looking back I must have lost it in an edit conflict. I've added this now for completeness. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 23:48, 15 September 2019 (UTC)- That's not an attribution template, not sure what its purpose is. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:52, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Diannaa: Thanks. I'll aim to include the equivalent wording inside the ref tags in future per your diff. Initially the
{{Academic peer reviewed}}template (originally called{{Pubmed indexed}}) was intended as a combination of page-wide attribution license (similar to {tlx|InterPro content}}) crossed with content-quality notices (like{{Expert needed}}). T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:54, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Diannaa: Thanks. I'll aim to include the equivalent wording inside the ref tags in future per your diff. Initially the
- That's not an attribution template, not sure what its purpose is. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:52, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
You've sent me a email
You've sent me an email, but I didn't receive it.
Please write to my talk page or mail directly to porton@narod.ru --VictorPorton (talk) 15:47, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
- @VictorPorton: No problem. I've done both. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 01:53, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
QID
In answer to your question about qid - no I don't have one. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 03:08, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Whiteghost.ink: No problem. I've created one at Whiteghost.ink (Q69024245). I assume you want it unlinked to your real world life, but feel free to add any info relevant to your role as a WiR. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 06:58, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
2013 Wikipedian in residence for the Music Museum of Barcelona
Thanks for the work you've been doing, and for bringing me such good memories :) Here you have the websites that better describe the work I did at the Music Museum of Barcelona: This is the official Auditori website (The Music Museum is part of the Auditori), here you have the post at the Amical Wikimedia website, and here you have the Europa Press piece of news. You can also find some more links in my user's page. Moltes gràcies! --Marionaaragay (talk) 21:36, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Marionaaragay:! Your item is Mariona Aragay (Q69027188). Feel free to add any information to it. I'm looking forward to using the dataset to do some nice graphics. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 23:14, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
September 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
- September 2019—Issue 006
- Tree of Life
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Tree of Life subprojects and task forces by start year and whether currently considered active or not This month saw a vanishingly rare occurrence for the Tree of Life: a new WikiProject joined the fold. WikiProject Diptera, however, is also unusual in being a classroom project. Whether or not this project will stay active once the semester ends remains to be seen. It does not bode well, however, that WP:WikiProject Vespidae—a creation from the same instructor at St. Louis University—faded to obscurity shortly after the fall semester concluded in 2014. WikiProject Vespidae is defunct and now redirects to the Hymenoptera task force of WikiProject Insects. Since 2014, the Tree of Life has seen a string of years where one or zero projects or task forces were created. The only projects and task forces created since then are WikiProject Animal anatomy (2014), Hymenoptera task force (2016), Bats task force (2017), WikiProject Hypericaceae (2018), and now WikiProject Diptera (2019). The year 2006 saw the greatest creation of WikiProjects and task forces, with fourteen still active and the remaining six as "semiactive", "inactive", or "defunct". |
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Your draft article, Draft:Helen Barchilon Redman
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CptViraj (📧) 09:18, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Plese remove my wikidata item
Dear Evolution and evolvability,
Please remove my wikidata item. I am sorry, but i told you i was still pondering this matter. We have privacy laws in Europe, so i should be able to get this unwanted WD item removed. I trust you can remove it, thank you, Hansmuller (talk) 16:55, 13 October 2019 (UTC) PS I never create WD items for living and not very public persons before getting their permission.
- @Hansmuller: No problem. I've nominated the current item for deletion. I may still have to create a WD item for 'Anonymous wikimedian' to fulfil the structural need of recording that there was a WiR at e.g. Naturalis Biodiversity Center Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Q641676). If you need your information removed from the outreach:Wikipedian_in_Residence table, let me know or you can delete the relevant rows at this link. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 23:24, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
interesting
so what's the background on - or where are you going with - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:WiR_table_row - it would be interesting as there are so many dimensions to the different versions of it all... JarrahTree 01:56, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
- @JarrahTree: The aim is to automate, and make queryable, the old outreach:Wikipedian_in_Residence table. You can see the work in progress so far here. The idea is to be able to e.g. map where all the current WiRs are, or which regions are underserved, or what time of institutions, or what the most common length of time has been. Once the date fro mthe old table has been added to Wikidata, it should also be much easier to maintain across multiple sites. If you have a spare minute or two, feel free to add a row or two of the WiR table to wikidata! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:17, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info - some were short, and very one dimensionsal, some quite long and multidimensional, and even some more mysterious - one big problem is that outreach people have no interest in maintenance or consistency in their material here on wp en - and really should have a project at least - but its like the lightglobe and the social workers, its not whether the social workers can or not change it, its up to whether the lightglobe want to be changed... So in view of that, for you to even work towards and create a consistency to their information might be a bit of a shock to some of them... :) JarrahTree 02:47, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
- @JarrahTree: I hope that recording the info in wikidata catches on, since it'll make it so much more useful. I'm a big fan of the WiR format so I'd be happy to see at least a part-time a WiR in most major unis, libraries and museums. There was also a little discussion here about the wikidata item itself. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 03:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info - some were short, and very one dimensionsal, some quite long and multidimensional, and even some more mysterious - one big problem is that outreach people have no interest in maintenance or consistency in their material here on wp en - and really should have a project at least - but its like the lightglobe and the social workers, its not whether the social workers can or not change it, its up to whether the lightglobe want to be changed... So in view of that, for you to even work towards and create a consistency to their information might be a bit of a shock to some of them... :) JarrahTree 02:47, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk Pages
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
Edit Cards
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
Toolbar
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
re WiR table
Hello. I was also a WiR in Muzeum Miasta Łodzi (Museum of the City of Łódź) from October to December 2017 (Wikiproject page). For other WiR in Poland, the best person to contact is our GLAM coordinator Celina Strzelecka (pl:user:Celina Strzelecka (WMPL)). Regards. Gytha (talk) 13:02, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
B chromosome Suggestion
I was reading B chromosome and came across this prose stumble under "Function":
- "In some cases, B chromosomes act as In other cases, B chromosomes provide"...
where
- "In some cases, B chromosomes act as XXXXX. In other cases, B chromosomes provide"...
shows at XXXXX where apparently the trailing part of a sentence was intended to be. This happened in this April edit by you which was generally a quite good improvement of the article. The problem sentence was in the middle of a move and revision of an existing paragraph. That earlier paragraph had a sentence I'm guessing corresponded to this one; it said "In general it seems unlikely that supernumeraries would persist in a species unless there was some positive adaptive advantage". I'm not knowledgeable enough to concoct something good for XXXXX, so perhaps you could revisit that sentence and fix it up. Thanks. --R. S. Shaw (talk) 18:20, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
- @R. S. Shaw: Thank you so much for spotting this! I've now gone in and fixed it. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 22:46, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
October 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
- October 2019—Issue 007
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Eukaryote hybrid genome
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:17, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- You obviously put a lot of work into Eukaryote hybrid genome, but the initial edit, which formed the basis for the lead, is copied from this which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia. Of the material you added to this article comes from appropriately licensed journals. Can we discuss how to fix the problem?S Philbrick(Talk) 13:24, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Sphilbrick: Thanks for the notification. The content of the lead was adapted form the released version of the STORRE repository "Fulltext - Accepted Version" that was only embargoed until the publication date of the journal article. That embargo should lift now that the PLOS genetics page is published doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008404 (under CC-BY). For earlier provenance, see the draft on plostopicpageswiki. I think it is therefore compatible with Wikipedia's licenses, despote the repository not having indicated the embargo lift yet. I'm happy to add a note at the article talkpage if that's a more useful venue. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:39, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
- Evolution and evolvability, I think a note would be helpful in case someone else notes the comparison between the text and a source apparently not licensed acceptably. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:40, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Sphilbrick: Very good point. I'll add something on the talkpage summarising, and might do something similar as a standard step in future simlmlar situations. Thanks for your engagement in this! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 01:02, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
- Evolution and evolvability, I think a note would be helpful in case someone else notes the comparison between the text and a source apparently not licensed acceptably. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:40, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Sphilbrick: Thanks for the notification. The content of the lead was adapted form the released version of the STORRE repository "Fulltext - Accepted Version" that was only embargoed until the publication date of the journal article. That embargo should lift now that the PLOS genetics page is published doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008404 (under CC-BY). For earlier provenance, see the draft on plostopicpageswiki. I think it is therefore compatible with Wikipedia's licenses, despote the repository not having indicated the embargo lift yet. I'm happy to add a note at the article talkpage if that's a more useful venue. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:39, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
November 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
- November 2019—Issue 008
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life?  Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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WikiJournal of Humanities
Hi E&E.
Six months ago you suggested that I submit an article to the WikiJournal of Humanities and flagged up several possibles from "my" FAs. I replied "not now, but I will get back to you". This is me getting back. I would like to submit Razing of Friesoythe, an article I created and which should be coming out of FAC soon. I believe that it adds a modest something to the sum of human knowledge.
I wonder if you could direct me to someone at the WikiJournal of Humanities for me to ask a couple of questions? (Around the mechanics of the submission process; and the extent to which I could, should or may tweak the article prior to submission.)
Thanks
Gog the Mild (talk) 17:28, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Gog the Mild: Hi. The main relevant talkpage is v:Talk:WikiJournal_of_Humanities and there should also be a contact email listed here. The page for nominating existing Wikipedia articles to go through the process is WP:JAN. In case they're useful, there are also some additional general guidelines here. Aside from a few cosmetic differences (e.g. numbered figures with attributions in fig legend), it's also possible to include a section of OR (perspectives/outlook/etc) in the journal version that is omitted from Wikipedia. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:05, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. Just what I needed. I shall get on with it. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:34, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
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December 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
- December 2019—Issue 009
- Tree of Life
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We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
What projects are keeping you busy around the 'pedia at present?
What's your favorite plant?
What's your background like? How did you come to have a special interest in biology?
What's something that would surprised TOL editors about your life off-wiki?
Anything else you'd like us to know?
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