User talk:JarrahTree/Archive 43

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Welcome to your new user name[edit]

Welcome JarrahTree, it will take me a bit to get used to it and not see SatoSuro around anymore! Calistemon (talk) 21:47, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

About columns[edit]

Hello, JarrahTree

Thanks for the contribution on Camino (web browser), although I had to completely replace it. You see, Wikipedia consensus is against specifying a static number of columns (e.g. three) because the many problem they cause on too wide or too narrow displays. (Wikipedia Mobile skin categorically disregards them.)

Please consider using {{reflist|30em}} instead. This creates three columns on most modern displays but the column numbers might become lesser or more on smaller or larger displays.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 22:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 April 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Books and Bytes - Issue 11[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
  • New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
  • Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia

Read the full newsletter



MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:31, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 May 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

This Month in GLAM: April 2015[edit]



Headlines
Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.


et al[edit]

Et al

JarrahTree - a top 300 Editor of all time - Wow! I'm struggling down in the millions I'm sure.

I'm sorry but I couldnt find "et al" addressed in the link you gave. I went back to google and found the category https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_Explicit_use_of_et_al. However, it doesn't have a link to the rule either. Sorry to bother you but could you help me with a more precise hint of where it is please?

Ta.

On your other questions - I'm not a WA person but I rather my interest in Kondinin is that I am an agriculturalist. I holiday in the WA outback from time to time - Northern Wheatbelt in 2010 and eastern Kimberly last year, but haven't made it to Kondinin yet. I've worked on short ag and water resources advice contracts in Perth and Fremantle over the years, but there are few WA articles that I'd have the expertise to edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])

Railways[edit]

Every single railway line article in Australia, to my knowledge, that wasn't created by you uses the "...railway line" naming convention. I'm not going to get into a fight with you if you really want to have a "Australian pages created by SatuSuro" and an "Australian pages created by everyone else" naming system but obviously think it's unnecessary. The Drover's Wife (talk) 04:30, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 13 May 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Hello[edit]

Thanks for the wellcome. At the moment i'm searching for a page where i can request a block for this guy here but i'm kinda lost. The recent changes page here is a bit different than ours in Portuguese Wikipedia, where there is a link to ask for blocks. Can you help me? OnlyJonny (talk) 02:25, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 May 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

The Signpost: 27 May 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

please[edit]

I see you are being drawn into an WP:EDITWAR this is a warning that you need to take alternative steps to avoid the situation esculating Gnangarra 05:35, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 03 June 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Category:Cycling by city in Australia[edit]

Category:Cycling by city in Australia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. ELEKHHT 00:31, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch East Indies[edit]

Please see my proposal to delete Category:1830s in Dutch East Indies as Category:1830s in the Dutch East Indies already exists Hugo999 (talk) 23:12, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: May 2015[edit]



Headlines
Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

The Wikipedia Library needs you![edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Call for Volunteers

The Wikipedia Library is expanding, and we need your help! With only a couple of hours per week, you can make a big difference in helping editors get access to reliable sources and other resources. Sign up for one of the following roles:

  • Account coordinators help distribute research accounts to editors.
  • Partner coordinators seek donations from new partners.
  • Outreach coordinators reach out to the community through blog posts, social media, and newsletters or notifications.
  • Technical coordinators advise on building tools to support the library's work.
Sign up to help here :)

Delivered on behalf of The Wikipedia Library by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:16, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wolf Creek[edit]

Honestly, I've never seen the film, so I wouldn't know. Horror's not my thing, anyhow. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:39, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 June 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4[edit]

Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?

  • A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
  • A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
  • New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
  • SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
  • Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.


Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Beer[edit]

Hey buddy, I've just noticed a whole slew of edits by an anon editor User:59.101.78.112 which adds Australian pub to almost every article on Australian beers or breweries. What are you thoughts? Dan arndt (talk) 05:51, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 June 2015[edit]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Category:13th-century lamas[edit]

Please see my proposal to speedily rename Category:13th-century lamas to Category:13th-century Lamas Hugo999 (talk) 04:59, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That other account...[edit]

...I noted it in the ANI thread, I think; it was already there on the Dutch wiki. Just keep an eye on it: if it starts editing, which I doubt, I'll block it. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 03:13, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #232[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.


Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.



  • Development
    • Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
    • Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
    • Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
    • Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:37, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #233[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 19[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

Read the full newsletter



19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Blanked categories[edit]

Some were poorly named, others unlikely ever to have a sufficient number of articles to justify existing. Abyssal (talk) 22:58, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects are probably best, but it's probably not really important. Abyssal (talk) 15:19, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Want to help test advanced new tools planned for Recent Changes?[edit]

Hi JarrahTree! I’m reaching out to you because our logs tell us you’re an active Twinkle new user welcomer. The WMF Collaboration team is working on new tools that we hope will be useful to people engaged in reviewing recent changes, fighting vandalism or supporting new users. We want to test them for usability with editors who are experienced with relevant wiki work. If you’re interested in helping to shape this new technology—we’d like to hear from you.

The testing should take about an hour, will be conducted online, and will take place during the next few weeks. To participate, please email dchen[at]wikimedia.org with the subject line Twinkle Welcomer. Include the following information:

  • Username
  • Email where we can reach you
  • Your city or time zone
  • Best time to talk to you
  • Your primary use(s) of Twinkle or Recent Changes (e.g., reviewing recent changes, reviewing with a particular focus (specify), anti-vandalism, new-page review, welcoming new users, etc.)

Thanks! Dchen (WMF) (talk) 23:36, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

was currently being re-built[edit]

Re this edit to Railway Reserves Heritage Trail: 

The Koongamia platform, although in use for only about five years, was currently being re-built as public sculpture

"was currently" sounds like something the Doctor might say. For the benefit of those readers without a TARDIS, could you clarify that sentence please. (I'd fix it myself of course, but there's no inline cite to check. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:10, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania[edit]

Hey man, I didn't know you are heading to WIkimania. Im not going but I just noticed. Pyrusca (talk) 01:41, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 4 November 2016[edit]

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:52, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Challenges[edit]

Actually, most of the feedback I've received on the subject has been positive...I can't speak to others who have been involved, but a number of people have contacted me with thanks for alerting them about the challenges. And it seems to be working; it seems that a great deal of good content has come out of them.

Will the challenges be something viable to repeat? I don't know - I hope so. But once they're done, I, at least, hope to sit down and examine what's worked and what hasn't. See what can be improved in the future. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:02, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I haven't found an easy way of weeding them out. If there was, I'd use it - believe me. As it stands, I've tried AWB and Media Wiki for mass messaging, and I prefer the former; it allows me to control the message a bit better than does the latter.
To your point about encouraging editor retention - well, I don't think that's the goal of the challenge project, really. It's a content-generation project, and has less to do with retaining editors. That is a subject on which I have many opinions, most of which have been covered by others elsewhere.
Don't worry - I don't take the response personally. Frankly, there's very little online I do take personally. :-) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:09, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #234[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Map of the birthday parties

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

W.A. Heritage Trails Network categorization[edit]

Any response to [1] ? Mitch Ames (talk) 23:16, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:JarrahTree/Archive_43&oldid=748724173"