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Most active WikiProjects?

Hi. IIRC, there is a way to view or generate a list of the most active WikiProjects. Any ideas? Viriditas (talk) 02:06, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Check if this helps you: Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProjects by changes. --Anbu121 (talk me) 11:46, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I remember seeing it some time ago. You've been very helpful. Viriditas (talk) 12:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Help with external links

I AM TRYING TO POST THIS BLOG HOW DO I DO THIS

Hide promotional blog
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
VIVA 22 dba Texavision The digital division of TV pro The premier Spanish-language media company in Texas , announced the launch of its newest project HTOWN-TV transmitting online and mobile TV sites in a top Hispanic market. “This initiative strengthens our overall local media offerings, as Interactive plays an important role in the ongoing transformation of our local media business and in our long-term growth strategy,” This is part of Texavision’s ongoing effort to drive growth on the local level, as well as enhance user experiences and maximize engagement and traffic across all its digital platforms. Local website enhancements will consist of relevant and interactive content including more video and photo offerings with improved functionality, social media integration and easier navigation. Each site will have an upgraded publishing tool that simplifies the development and delivery of content across all of viva 22 Interactive Media’s local sites. Branding of local stations will also be more prominent on each site, including unique station URLs In addition to the new online and mobile sites that have already launched in Houston and New York. The initiative has already begun, and will continue through the end of the year. “These new sites are an integral step in providing our viewers with a comprehensive and fully engaging local interactive experience that further strengthens our connection with 2nd generation Hispanics at the community level,” said Walter Rosenthal. “These enhancements will grow our audience and engagement, while allowing us to better serve our advertisers and partners with expanded features and a stronger platform through which to reach our valuable audience.” Was re establish by daughter Jessica ann.

Rosenthal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.30.70.161 (talk) 03:24, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

DON'T! It all sounds far too promotional to be suitable for a Wikipedia article.--ukexpat (talk) 03:54, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Your attempt to post it in hip hop was successful, but another user immediately removed it. —teb728 t c 05:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Page Ratings Question

I was just wondering - why do some articles have "Page ratings" boxes at the bottom and some don't? How is it determined which articles get them, and what makes them show up only on these pages? Alphius (talk) 04:07, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool they are now supposed to be on all articles. In other words not on talk pages and forums like this one. I don't see them when I select a specific verstion from page history. Can you find an article the doesn't have article feedback? —teb728 t c 04:52, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Articles with Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5 have a "Help improve this page" box instead, for example Christmas. These articles are listed in Category:Article Feedback 5 and Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 05:27, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Okay, that makes sense. I'm pretty sure that the articles I saw without ratings boxes did have those boxes. Thanks! Alphius (talk) 04:32, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Is caption needed for every Chinese names?

In the article Menglianggu Campaign see the caption "(张灵甫)" appeared 32 times after each "Zhang Lingfu". Are these excessive captions?--Inspector (talk) 05:55, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I can't find anything in the manual of style that covers this. In my opinion, it is not excessive, though I would not require it. --ColinFine (talk) 11:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I consider it excessive. In general, I would follow the name "Zhang Lingfu" by the Chinese characters (and make it a link if there is an article on him) the first time it occurs only. Incidentally – I see this article was created, with most of its current content, by User:Dickhooker, who was later blocked for repeated copyright violation. I guess that he translated some Chinese text, replacing each occurrence of "张灵甫" by "Zhang Lingfu (张灵甫)". If I have time later, I will go through the article removing all the redundant name-translations. Maproom (talk) 12:22, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

administrators nomination

how do I put in a request for a administratorship — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shortfox (talk • contribs) 07:37, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Make some 10,000 productive edits over the course of the nest 2 or so years, don't cause needless conflict and try to make Wikipedia a better place, and perhaps you will be nominated--Jac16888 ^Talk 10:39, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

To expand on what Jac has said: WP:Requests for adminship says "The additional features granted to administrators are considered to require a high level of trust from the community." IN order to have any chance of being granted this role, you will first have to earn that trust. Read the page I linked to for more information. --ColinFine (talk) 11:34, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Site redirect

Hello.When i try to enter armaholic.com im redirected to wikipedia.org. Why is this happening? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.167.15.183 (talk) 11:27, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

No idea. It doesn't happen to me, and I'm positive that it's nothing that the Wikipedia site can be doing. My guess is that you have some malware, though I admit that malware that directs you to Wikipedia seems unlikely. You might find somebody who can give a better answer at the Computing section of the reference desk. --ColinFine (talk) 11:37, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Are you entering armaholic.com in your browser address bar or somewhere else? Does it happen when you click http://armaholic.com? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Prevailing_world_religion map

Respected sir/madam,

your map shows that only hindus live in india as after Dr. B. R. Ambedkar the people living in india as buddhist has increased.

The below is the one your statement

Deekshabhoomi

""From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Deekshabhoomi (Hindi: दीक्षाभूमि) is a sacred monument of Buddhism at the place where Babasaheb Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with his about 380,000[2] followers on October 14, 1956.[3][4] Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism is still a guidance for the masses in India.[5]""

Sir since 1956 the conversion is going on. And more and more people are getting educated they are making the note that the caste certificate should mention this untouchables of one time as "Buddhist" and should be free to live as a normal human being. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.63.150.112 (talk) 12:07, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

File:Prevailing world religions map.png attempts to show the prevailing religion in each country, or two religions when they're largely equivalent in numbers. According to File:Minority religions India.png, there were only eight million Indian Buddhists in 2010: that's fewer than the numbers of Sikhs and Christians, and far less than the country's 160 million Muslims. Right now, Buddhism should not be marked on this map as the country's prevailing religion. Nyttend (talk) 15:18, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Yacolt Burn

You really need to check where the infomation that the burn was also in Oregon. It did not cross the Columbia river. It was the far North end of Skamania County. so there is no possible way for it to cross over. To lump all the fires at that time together would be a total missreputation of the facts.Please check info on the park rangers site. for that time an area. --Mahd0058 (talk) 18:15, 16 December 2012 (UTC)--Mahd0058 (talk) 18:15, 16 December 2012 (UTC)--18:15, 16 December 2012 (UTC)Mahd0058 (talk)

This is really a matter for the talk page of the article concerned. Britmax (talk) 19:00, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion for a listing in List of oldest companies

--RDH050366 (talk) 20:18, 16 December 2012 (UTC)Dear Sirs:

I would like to suggest a new entry in the Oldest Companies listings. Worthy Park a sugar estate started in 1672. Below is their web site. http://www.worthyparkestate.com/heritage.php

Thank you

Robert Hopwood

List articles should contain only entries which have, or could have, their own articles, which in tern depends on whether or not they are notable by Wikipedia's criteria: principally that they have been written about in multiple independent reliable sources. If Worthy Park has been written about, then it can have an article and be added to the list. --ColinFine (talk) 00:32, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

There is no requirement that items in a list be linked - red or blue. Rmhermen (talk) 21:55, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

How to archive a page

Anybody knows how to save a page? I'm currently working on User:Yerevanci/Armenian American and I use links of the United States Census Bureau a lot for the article and I noticed that those links aren't stable. I know about the WayBack Machine, but that's not what I want. I need some kind of a program that will save the page as it is at this exact moment. --Երևանցի _{ասելիք կա՞} 20:52, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Yerevanci. Try http://www.webcitation.org/ Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 09:00, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

How to get the Daily feed for Did you know and On this day sections?

Hello, I was just wondering if it is possible to get the daily feeds for Did you know and On this day sections in every language as RSS, XML or in JSON format. I'd like to have those sections displayed on my mobile app and in order to do that we need the feed in JSON or any possible format that is convertible to JSON. Please advise.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.133.33.107 (talk) 20:41, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Domenic Fusco

How do I publish my biography? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Domenic Fusco (talk • contribs) 21:03, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

We strongly advise that you don't. See above for why. Maproom (talk) 21:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

You will not be able to publish it on Wikipedia, but please see self-publishing and list of self-publishing companies for information on how to publish your biography.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:49, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

WikiBios (unconnected with Wikipedia) may be of interest.--ukexpat (talk) 15:03, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Pet Peeve

I love reading Wikipedia. But I am a stupid American and cannot stand the Metric system. I don't get nearly enough from a Wiki article when I have to stop to convert distances from kilometers into miles, or kilograms into ounces, etc. I wish you would mention these differences when referencing them. For what it is worth, thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.151.242.163 (talk) 22:47, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

If you think an article can be improved by provided both measurements, be bold and fix it. You can use the {{convert}} template. Guidance on when one or the other or both measurements should be in the article, is available here:WP:UNITS RudolfRed (talk) 23:00, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

As the "WP:UNITS" page says, we generally try to include both metric and American units — the pages that annoy you aren't in compliance with our guidelines. Science articles are an exception, since virtually everything scientific is done in metric, but when you find a non-scientific page that doesn't include American units, the page definitely needs a little work. Nyttend (talk) 01:01, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

credit confusion

To Whom It May Concern:

Please leave the credits for Pamela Hickey & Dennys McCoy on the SABRINA: SECRETS OF A TEENAGE WITCH as they are currently. Somebody keeps taking them off. We (Pamela Hickey & Dennys McCoy) were the Developers, Story Editors, and pilot writers for the series and we can send you contracts to prove this. They are trying to take our names off the article because they took the production to France to earn French Tax credits -- in order to keep the tax credits they are trying to get rid of our names (we are U.S. citizens and they don't get tax credits for us). This is a nasty situation whereas they are trying to wipe out over a year of work we did. As I said, we can produce the contracts to prove what we are saying on the page.

Best --

Dennys McCoy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.112.179.78 (talk) 22:57, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I added a section header to your question to seperate it from the one above. RudolfRed (talk) 23:00, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

For others reference, this is the article: Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch You should raise your concern on the article's talk page. Do not engage in an edit war. WP:DR shows how to resolve a dispute. You will need reliable sources to back up your changes you want. RudolfRed (talk) 23:03, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

If you are going to edit that article, I encourage you to rewrite the "Premise" section so that it makes some sense. Maproom (talk) 23:18, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

My thanks to Recollected, who has now made sense of the section.

I am afraid your contracts are not acceptable as sources, because there is no way that an arbitrary person at some time in the future can find them to verify the information. That is why we require that information be referenced to published reliable sources. --ColinFine (talk) 00:35, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Harry Mark Petrakis

The title is "Harry Mark Petrakis." I am currently writing a full-length article on Mr. Petrakis to replace the "stub" that is currently on your site. Please remove the word "stub." Mr. Petrakis does not the idea of millions of Internet users potentially seeing that word on his page. I will be sending in the article to your wiki shortly. Regards, Genevieve de Ronsart — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genevieve de Ronsart (talk • contribs) 23:22, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

After you have made the article more complete, you can remove the stub tag. If you are working for Mr. Petrakis, please head the guidance at WP:COI RudolfRed (talk) 23:48, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not here to publicise Mr Petrakis or anybody else, and his approval for the article on him (which is not "his page") is neither sought nor needed. While the article has hardly any information, it is a stub, and should say so. When somebody adds well-sourced material in a suitably neutral tone, they may remove the 'stub' tag. --ColinFine (talk) 00:42, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Please read the guideline page on stubs. "Stub" simply means that the article is nowhere near complete; it says absolutely nothing about the subject of the article. Nyttend (talk) 00:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)