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This Month in Education: January 2020[edit]
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Feb 19: WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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The Signpost: 1 March 2020[edit]
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
This Month in Education: February 2020[edit]
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This Month in GLAM: February 2020[edit]
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March 18: First ever ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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RILM access[edit]
Thanks for posting that unbelievably timely bit of news. I'm using the coronavirus 'pause' to (re-)explore an extensive ontology for the performing arts. The drop in air/car travel may be good for the environment, but I have contributed to the death of many trees as the sheets of A3 cascade from my desk. Being able to test the ability of my designs and structures to fully capture a wide range of very rich (musical-related) content will be invaluable. Grazie! Scarabocchio (talk) 12:05, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
- Prego! You're welcome! - kosboot (talk) 12:57, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
- I see that you are in the GLAM group. I have a few former colleagues from IAML in mind for bouncing ideas off, but if you have any suggestions for anyone who might span across from the 'preserving arts' to the performing side, please drop me an email. (and stay safe!) Scarabocchio (talk) 14:32, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 March 2020[edit]
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
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- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
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- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
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- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
This Month in Education: March 2020[edit]
This Month in GLAM: March 2020[edit]
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DYK for Renée Gilly[edit]
On 21 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Renée Gilly, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Renée Gilly studied under her parents and became a leading mezzo-soprano at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where she sang roles such as Bizet's Carmen? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Renée Gilly. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Renée Gilly), 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, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
April 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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The Signpost: 26 April 2020[edit]
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
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- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
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- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
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Issue 38, January – April 2020[edit]
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Issue 38, January – April 2020
- New partnership
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This Month in Education: April 2020[edit]
Sat May 9: Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19[edit]
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This Month in GLAM: April 2020[edit]
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May 20: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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Music publishing[edit]
Hi! There is a History of music publishing which is pretty rudimentary. It could make sense to merge the article Music publisher (sheet music) with this imo, and I would be prepared to support that. If you then wanted to improve it, I would be happy to help (if you want). Then the article Music publisher (popular music) could go its own way (or, improved, merge itself with the History article). Best, --Smerus (talk) 15:19, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for finding that. Yes, I think all these articles should go into History of Music Publishing - and then perhaps if enough content is added to the current state of things, that could be forked off to a new article without the need to distinguish between pop and classical. - kosboot (talk) 15:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 May 2020[edit]
- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
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- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
This Month in Education: May 2020[edit]
This Month in GLAM: May 2020[edit]
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020[edit]
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June 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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This Month in Education: June 2020[edit]
Can you add a better (more accessible) source for his full name than the one we cite? Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 June 2020[edit]
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
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This Month in GLAM: June 2020[edit]
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Some baklava for you![edit]
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The Signpost: 2 August 2020[edit]
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
This Month in Education: July 2020[edit]
Schenker's "racism"[edit]
Bob, I think that some words should be added to the Heinrich Schenker article about his alleged "racism". And I think that you should do that, as principal author of the article. This might however be a sensible matter these days in the US and particularly in the SMT – a matter to which, as European, I'd be less sensible. Would you like to discuss this elsewhere? I cannot imagine, despite my trying to remain anonymous on WP, that you don't know who I am. In any case, I can easily find an email address to reach you. Tell me. — Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 19:40, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree. The problem is that so few people have written about it. I wish I could tell people that when I was processing the collection, Schenker had made "folders" out of the daily Viennese newspapers - and what they said was far worse than anything Schenker said. - kosboot (talk) 01:43, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
- Two points – and a third:
- 1) WP is not the place to enter a debate about this. Viennese newspapers could be mentioned in a rejoinder to Philip Ewell, for instance in MTO, but not here. In any case, the quarrel that Ewell opened is not so much about Schenker himself than about present-day American theory and the SMT. (Ewell's mention of the etymology of "slave" is ridiculous: in what sense can an English etymology concern Schenker, who didn't speak English? And Barry Wiener shew in JSS how biased Ewell's quotations from Schenker are.) I didn't understand the problem with Timothy Jackson and his management of the JSS but, obviously, neither that concerns Schenker himself. As to tonal hierarchy being inherently racist, what is one to do of Schoenberg's theories (in Harmonielehre) about the tonic being the king, the other chords his vassals? But, once again, WP is not the place for such discussion.
- 2) Nevertheless, the Heinrich Schenker article should mention the problem, otherwise it participates in the silence. There are some writings that could be mentioned about it, e.g. Carl Schachter's "Elephants, crocodiles, and Beethoven" (Theory and Practice 26, 2001), or Martin Eybl, Ideologie und Methode, Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1995, or Nicolas Meeùs, Heinrich Schenker. Une introduction, Liège: Mardaga, 1993, who writes about nationalist statements in the Erläuterungsausgabe of op. 101: "One remains confounded at the sum of personal frustrations and of bitterness of which such texts bear testimony." If WP mentioned some of these – which, it may be interesting to note, are 20 to 30 years old, i.e. before the translation of Der Tonwille and, for two of them, before that of Das Meisterwerk –, an important step would have been done in giving the matter its true dimension. (I am afraid nevertheless that the debate would not stop.)
- 3) Even if this is not for WP, I think that if one were to consider the matter more closely, it may appear that Schenker's "racism" exists at different levels and differently at various moments: (a) he share the latent racism of his days, in Europe and in a world that certainly were generally racist; (b) he appears to have had reasons to be contemptuous of the Slavs around 1912, probably because of the Balkan League; and (c) he became frantic after WWI, up to the point of abandoning some of his previous interest e.g. for Rameau's theory of the fundamental bass.
- Do I leave it up to you to modify the article? — Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 09:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
He may have been many things, but he clearly was a writer from Vienna. Feel free to add, or if necessary, create, more categories. There are lots of articles in Category:Writers from Vienna. It could be subdivided. Though as I read the article he is more notable for what he did after he left Austria. Rathfelder (talk) 16:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: July 2020[edit]
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Sun Aug 16: Great American Wiknic NYC & Beyond[edit]
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This Month in Education: August 2020[edit]
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Kind of a musical theater question.[edit]
Hi Kosboot, I don’t think pur paths have crossed on-wiki before, so hello. I’m here because I have a sort-of Librarian/New York City/musical theater-related question that has stumped several people. It’s a cartoon from Puck magazine, January 13, 1886 (reduced size version linked here).
It portrays various New York personalities of the time as characters from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. I also dug up the issue text describing the cartoon in Hathi trust, here. Puck snidely compares people to Mikado characters, but what has me scratching my head overall is why? (some pretty nasty caricatures in there). I’m missing something. Can you possibly point me to some place to find the answer? (“Historic analysis of Puck 1886” doesn’t Google very well...)
The reason I’m curious is a Montana reason—the man in the top right overlooking the crowd, “Daly”, clearly is Marcus Daly, known as one of Montana’s “Copper Kings.” But in 1886, I didn’t think he was a celebrity back east (by 1896, maybe, but...) so how did he wind up in a Puck cartoon? (I’ve run this past two other historians and both agree it’s Daly and both are as puzzled as I am) Copper wire was used for telegraph lines, so “the lines of the Western Union hang in festal festoons” may reference his copper mines, and he was born in Ballyjamesduff, Ireland, so he might be the “nobleman from Ballykillrowdy” (definitely sarcasm...) but still... why? Thoughts? Know anyone who might help? Montanabw(talk) 05:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- Hi there User:Montanabw - what a very interesting image. I know The Mikado pretty well but I think this cartoon depends on knowledge of the political and social status of the persons represented. Satire is often based on reputation as well as current events, so some of the references could be for issues long before the 1886 date. I did a hasty search on the Chronicling America site, choosing 1880-1886 and limiting to New York - nothing. But something comes up for Illinois (from 1880). You might want to do a couple of searches to get a feel for what was going on in the U.S. at that time to get a better understanding of the image. It's so rich it practically deserves an article itself. :) - kosboot (talk) 13:59, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- My thinking as well. Individually, the people are easy to identify on a superficial level (the slap at Elizabeth Cady Stanton is an easy one, for example). A number of them are New York political figures (Samuel Tilden, Maxwell Evarts, and so on. What I probably need is someone who has studied Puck, I suppose, and knows his standard tropes. All I found online was someone’s college thesis, though... and not all of it. Wonder who knows 19th-century satire? Montanabw(talk) 15:32, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- I'm thinking the date of January 13 is so close to the beginning of the new year - maybe this was a rejected image for an end-of-the-year or beginning-of-year issue? Perhaps look at the last few issues of 1885 to see if they had a year end summary that might explain the image. - kosboot (talk) 16:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- My thinking as well. Individually, the people are easy to identify on a superficial level (the slap at Elizabeth Cady Stanton is an easy one, for example). A number of them are New York political figures (Samuel Tilden, Maxwell Evarts, and so on. What I probably need is someone who has studied Puck, I suppose, and knows his standard tropes. All I found online was someone’s college thesis, though... and not all of it. Wonder who knows 19th-century satire? Montanabw(talk) 15:32, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 August 2020[edit]
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Books & Bytes – Issue 40[edit]
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This Month in GLAM: August 2020[edit]
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This Month in Education: September 2020[edit]
Sat Sep 26: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up[edit]
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The Signpost: 27 September 2020[edit]
- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
The Signpost: 27 September 2020[edit]
- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
This Month in GLAM: September 2020[edit]
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October 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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This Month in Education: October 2020[edit]
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The Signpost: 1 November 2020[edit]
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This Month in GLAM: October 2020[edit]
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Books & Bytes – Issue 41[edit]
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Issue 41, September – October 2020
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October 18: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC (plus weekend editathons)[edit]
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Chopin talk page issue[edit]
Hello, I noticed that you apparently copy-pasted the entire Chopin talk page into itself with this edit, which caused the talk page to grow by 47,514 bytes. Could you please remove the duplicated portions, while keeping the comments and changes that have been added/made to it since then? Thank you. Toccata quarta (talk) 03:38, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2020[edit]
- News and notes: Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"
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- Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia
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This Month in GLAM: November 2020[edit]
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Chopin’s homo- hetero- or asexuality talk[edit]
Hi Kosboot,
Just to inform you: I put a request on the Dispute resolution noticeboard.--Chip-chip-2020 (talk) 14:55, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
December 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC[edit]
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This Month in Education: November 2020[edit]
Buon Natale![edit]
May you have very Happy Holidays, kosboot ...
and a safe New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music.
Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 10:30, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Precious anniversary[edit]
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Good wishes on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:56, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you so much Gerda Arendt! I appreciate all the work that you do and accomplish! - kosboot (talk) 14:24, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2020[edit]
- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
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- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
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- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
This Month in GLAM: December 2020[edit]
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This Month in GLAM: December 2020[edit]
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