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Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
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  You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day NYC 2018, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 16th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with keynotes, plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
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Cambodian Rock Stuff
Hey, just wanted to let you know that there has been some more chitchat of interest over at Talk:Ros Serey Sothea. DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:55, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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This Sunday! Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference (updated speakers + schedule)
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 Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott (Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community. See Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 speakers + schedule And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
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The Signpost: 16 January 2018
- News and notes: Communication is key
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FYI, when you placed this tag, you probably didn't notice that a different editor made that edit. Regards, AzureCitizen (talk) 03:17, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- @AzureCitizen: Ah! I did notice, but then I wrote the wrong name anyway. :) Thanks for the note. Fixed now. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 03:24, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- No problem, all good... AzureCitizen (talk) 03:26, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Two of my favorite editors under the same header! I hope all is well with you both. (Rwaytz = Ruth666, by the way.) Rhodo, I haven't been ignoring your effort to re-focus the discussion on how to describe TST; I've just been hesitant to disrupt the relative calm there. I'll be returning my attention to it shortly, it seems. I'm going to stalk your edits to a DRV-in-progress first, and comment. I noticed Jobas has been active at the AfD and the article under discussion. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 22:59, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar!
'nuff said! DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 20:58, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 26
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Issue 26, December – January 2018
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- Bytes in brief
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Liev Tuk
Hey, last month we were in a discussion elsewhere about the folks on Cambodian Rocks and you mentioned trying and failing to find anything on Liev Tuk. Romanization of his name has been all over the place and I have seen references to Liv Tuk, Lieu Thaert, Ly Tek, and Leav Tek in various places, and there are probably more names out there but I believe they're all the same guy. Anyway I found a little bit of research on him. See this: [1]. Scroll down and you will see a description of the guy (as Leav Tek) at the bottom of page 8. Not enough for an article but it might soothe your curiosity a bit. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:14, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Doomsdayer520: Thanks. FYI I'm not ignoring this; just waiting for a free evening to jump into the multiple searches. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 23:22, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites: While we're at it, I would like to do some serious work to clean up the Sinn Sisamouth article. If you have a minute, please see Talk:Sinn Sisamouth#Citations and Verifiability. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 13:39, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Rhododendrites,
I followed your advice and the fake page has now disappeared. So, all done successfully, great thanks to you. All the best. Regards, Chris Oxford.Chris Oxford (talk) 18:33, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Chris Oxford: Good news. Thanks for following up on that. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 23:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
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Clarity on discussion
Hi Rhododendrites! I was typing up a reply over at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Concerning image changes on animal articles when it was closed. I just wanted to clarify that, while my initial comment focused on the image changes the user was making, I was not, at all disregarding their ability to choose lead images which feature the animal's full body. Rather, I should have been more explicit in pointing out their continued attempts to replace images which were obviously better than their pick – against MOS:LEADIMAGE, despite being told many, many times about the guideline and others related to images. (Such as multiple instances of moving the previous lead image they replaced to another position against WP:PERTINENCE.) I also did mention BRD in edit summaries and on an article talk page, but no actual conversation occurred on talk pages.
Without the ability to understand our image-related guidelines, I don't see how will they ever be able to contribute positively. I simply aimed to find a way to convey this to them, so I needed a more experienced editor who has more extensively dealt with new user behavior such as this. I have little doubt the user is acting in good faith (despite the rapid rate at which they swap images) but their insistence on obviously poor choices were disruptive in absence of discussion, not a content dispute. (e.g. this pick over the previous in November and still in place, this pick over the previous which I mentioned took way too much effort to fix, and this one multiple times (and others) over this featured picture). I'm just becoming impatient and annoyed, having attempted to communicate with them at least eight separate times since November. :[ Rhinopias (talk) 23:12, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
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- @Rhinopias: My comment was mainly to say that it's a debate I've seen multiple times, with no clear guidance, and that he/she should really consider BRD before it does result in sanctions. Of course, it looks like Swarm indeffed the account anyway, so my prediction about likely admin action was incorrect. :) FWIW if someone changes the picture for the worse, you would be right to just revert. If they keep doing it (as I know he/she has in this case), it is a problem, but an easily solved one that doesn't really need to have anything to do with image guidelines. I wonder if the best approach in the future might be to ping a wikiproject or other editors of the page for a third opinion. I'm generally happy to give a third opinion in matters for which my opinion isn't a given (i.e. where it would be canvassing), and I feel pretty neutral on the subject of animal pictures, so would be happy to jump in if that would be helpful (not that I know what I'm talking about -- it can just help to have even one other person involved sometimes). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 23:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Noted! The only other situation I've encountered long-term with an editor that didn't collaborate I posted on ANI successfully, so that's why I brought it there. But a WikiProject may be a good venue (if there's a) next time. I will say though that I think "an easily solved one" doesn't really account for this user's particular activity, which was especially significant in October/November (here). Many of the user's earlier image changes (which may or may not be beneficial) had misrepresenting edit summaries (like the anole one, "That's better.", or the various "Updating image"/"Image maintenance" or whatever) or didn't have one, so the edits that have followed are simple fixes or bot edits and the image change may have not been seen on many of the articles. It'd be different I think if a user is continually making a poor image change less often each day on higher profile species. Rhinopias (talk) 23:39, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your thank you
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Most of the time I assume that no one notices my editing, but your thank you is very rewarding and appreciated. The Very Best of Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 06:22, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Barbara (WVS): I just happened across SandyGeorgia's thread at WTMED and was happy to see you dove right into one of the articles. In addition to just being good Wikipediaing, it's an important subject that I would've had no idea was problematic if I read it for my own edification (the sort of thing I should do more of). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 06:37, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Barbara (WVS): By the way, you should check out the Visiting Scholars Slack channel. It's only just getting started, but if you don't already use a Wikipedia-related chat service, it might be up your alley as an easy way to connect with other Wikipedians. (it's in an email I sent a few weeks ago, though the invitation should've come separately). I'm hoping that it'll become a useful way to share sources, share topic ideas, ask questions, or anything else. No problem if you don't think it would be a good fit for you, though. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 06:44, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
- Sandy was right in insisting that articles on screening should rise to the top of the ProjectMed to-do list. I just roll my eyes when I take a look at the recent changes log and see so many edits related to pop-culture med/health articles. I'll take a look chat service, but I am already quite gifted in chatting and others might be better served by silence from my side of the peanut gallery. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 06:47, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Barbara (WVS): Ha. Just thought of it because of the "assume that no one notices" comment. :) If it's not of use to you, that's fine. A few of us are logged into Slack all the time regardless (Wiki Ed and Wiki NYC both maintain active Slack channels). I think Women in Red has a channel that I've been meaning to look into a for a while, too. I like that it functions both synchronously (like normal chat) and asynchronously (like posting a message for someone whenever they log in), but I appreciate that it could be redundant/unnecessary for others. :) Thanks again for all your work on that article. I'll leave you with this unrelated picture I just uploaded. At the Chinese New Year parade on Sunday, a brief encounter between a tiny colorful bird and a large colorful dragon. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 07:15, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #1—2018
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Recent changes
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