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Thank you

for adding my photo to the Chantry Island, Hertfordshire page. Hadn't quite got round to it. MikeHobday (talk) 14:23, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

You're very welcome! I wasn't sure if it should go on Chantry Island (Ontario) or Chantry Island, Hertfordshire, but the context of the shrine helped :)
Are you liking the mobile upload feature? (Disclosure: I'm working with the team that developed it.) If you're into photographing things in your area, there's a neat Nearby feature in the works that lets you see articles near you, and if they don't have images, you can add them to the article via your phone. If you visit Settings and opt into beta, you'll see it in the left-hand menu. Cheers and happy uploading, Accedietalk to me 23:10, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Excellent, have found the "nearby" feature. Is there an easy way to add a photo direct to the article? MikeHobday (talk) 20:22, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
On articles that have no images or infoboxes in the lead section, you should see a big blue button at the top of the page that asks you to add an image. (An example of this kind of article is A cappella). If you're not seeing the button, double-check to make sure that you're logged in (it will only appear for logged in users). If you're still not seeing it, let me know! Accedietalk to me 23:56, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, still not seeing the big blue button! Maybe it's my phone (Galaxy SII)? MikeHobday (talk) 16:42, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
User:MikeHobday, do you have any gadgets installed? The button stopped showing up for me, too, because apparently desktop gadget code was leaking into mobile and causing problems. This should be fixed soon. I'll keep you posted :) Accedietalk to me 18:28, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Now working, many thank! MikeHobday (talk) 18:25, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Love the shirt
Just got the shirt through the Merchandise Giveaway Programme. Thanks for your vote of confidence!  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:37, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Shirt buddies!
Woo hooo! Lookin' good :) We clearly need to get you another one in Indonesian, though, to bolster our international recruiting... Accedietalk to me 23:45, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
  • "Saya menyunting Wikipedia" just doesn't have the same ring to it ;). Very nice! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:56, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

GOCE April 2013 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2013 events newsletter

We finished the April blitz and are preparing to start our May backlog elimination drive.

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Thanks!

Thanks for all your help with my Articles. Vibhabamba (talk) 22:54, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Wiknic 2013

Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making
Lake Merritt Wild Duck Refuge (Oakland, CA)

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

  • Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
    • Nearest BART: 19th Street
    • Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
    • Street parking abounds
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You're invited...

to two upcoming Bay Area events:

  • Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
  • Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 18:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Feminism in Russia

You may want to check this. There is a university course giving serious WP:UNDUE issues. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:05, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Hrmm... thanks for the heads up. I'll have a look! Accedietalk to me 18:21, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Yeah... AGFing on the paraphrasing/summary of the sources, it looks like a good-faith, high-quality addition... that belongs in its own separate article. Hopefully removing this graft and potting it in its own little garden won't cause too much fuss :) This is a good reminder that the Soviet section is on the verge of undue-y, too, and could also stand to get split off. Accedietalk to me 19:31, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
ETA: oh look, here's the syllabus. "In addition to allowing you to explore an aspect of Russian history you find most fascinating, this assignment will also allow you to consider the implications and responsibilities involved with creating and 'publishing' publicly-accessible information." Heh, yep, I'll say :) Accedietalk to me 19:39, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
  • Very much so... has the professor actually replied anywhere? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:50, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Not yet. Left him a message on his talk page. I split the article off regardless. Accedietalk to me 01:14, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
  • Alrighty, I'll be watchlisting it. Ironic how I was just emphasising the need for communication between lecturers and the Wikipedia community at a conference... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:20, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
  • Hello to both of you. I was wondering if you had suggestions as to how improve my communication with the Wikipedia community. I would like to continue this assignment since I believe both students and Wikipedia benefit from the process. Is there a way for me to guide my students a bit more effectively so as to not cause too much headache for editors and ensure my students' additions stay posted? Prof. Dumancic (talk) 19:07, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
@User:Prof. Dumancic - I think there might be some general resources at the Wikipedia Education Program pages. Crisco might know some more up-to-date onwiki documentation. In general, I think it helps to: 1) make sure your students are registered under their own unique usernames, and 2) to encourage them to build their articles onwiki (instead of in an external text editor). It looks suspicious to Wikipedians to see a huge chunk of text get added to an article in one edit from an anonymous user. If your student is creating an entirely new article, she can build it in her sandbox (link to it appears when you register an account, next to username and talk page links in the top right navigation). Last but not least, it's good to follow bold, revert, discuss policy: feel free to make bold changes, but if they are reverted, begin a discussion on the article talk page. Hope that helps! I know it seems like a strange, inscrutable space at first, but really we're mostly quite nice :) We just care about keeping the encyclopedia in good shape. Accedietalk to me 20:33, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

EMERGENCY

There are NO articles linked from the protect page!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Panpog1 (talk • contribs) 01:20, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks much for your help with creating a new page for my student.

I am relatively new to the wiki experiment and using the wiki as part of my class assignments.

Your helpfulness has motivated me to incorporate the wiki more seriously in my college classes and become more familiar with the editing process.

With sincere thanks, Marko Prof. Dumancic (talk) 18:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter

We have completed our May backlog elimination drive.

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GOCE June/July 2013 events

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter

We have completed our June blitz and are about to commence our July backlog elimination drive.

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GOCE July 2013 news report

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
  • Participation: Out of 30 people who have signed up for this drive so far, 18 have participated. If you have signed up for the drive but have not yet participated, it isn't too late. If you haven't signed up for the drive, sign up now!
  • Progress report: Thus far we have reduced the number of May/June 2012 articles to just 124 articles, so we're on the right track. Unfortunately, for the first time in GOCE history, the number of articles in the backlog has actually gone up during this drive. While all participants are currently doing a fine job, we just don't have as many of them as we have had in the past. We have over 500 editors on our mailing list, but only 18 editors who have done a copy edit for the drive. If you're receiving this newsletter, it's because you have an interest in copy editing. Join the drive! Even if you only copy edit one article, it helps. Imagine how much progress we could make if everyone chipped in just one article.

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GOCE July 2013 copy edit drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter

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Wikimania

Tried hunting you down on day 3, didn't get a chance to say goodbye. It was nice meeting you though! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:03, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Sadly, I started feeling achey/flu-ey on Saturday and ended up mostly staying in bed and missing the rest of the conference, including the beach party :-/
But it was so great to meet you! Your comments at the Flow talk were insightful and illuminating, as I knew they'd be. Thank you for the lovely gift, and I hope we'll meet up again soon! In the meantime, catch you on the wiki :) Accedietalk to me 18:33, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

GOCE Blitz wrap-up and September 2013 drive invitation

Guild of Copy Editors August Blitz wrap-up

Participation: Out of sixteen people who signed up for this blitz, nine copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 26 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the September drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, and The Utahraptor.

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Request for Recommendations/Advice

Hi Maryana! Thank you for your post on the talk page for "Maria Popova." The team and I are very happy to know that we have your support for our project. In regards to your recommendation to get Popova to donate a picture of herself would you suggest reaching out to her through email or is there a better way to go about it?

I understand that you must be busy with your work as well as all of the other articles that you contribute to on Wikipedia, but I was wondering if you had any suggestions about the content and structure that I originally outlined on the talk page? If you have any initial suggestions or comments, we would greatly appreciate any that you may have. If not, we will go ahead and dive right into our edits this weekend and check in with you once we feel like we have reached a milestone (most likely sometime early or mid next week).

Also, do you know of any way to attract more attention to the talk page for Popova? The reason why I ask is because our instructor would like us to get feedback from as many Wikipedians as possible. If you have any contacts that you think would be interested in contributing feedback to our initial outline or edits, we would be more than happy to hear what they have to say as well. Thanks again!

Ric.chi (talk) 13:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Ric.chi, oh my, I'm so sorry for not getting back to you sooner!! I'm glad you found some great volunteers to help out on this. I'll have a look now and see if there's any last-minute assistance I can offer. Apologies again for leaving you hanging! From a cursory glance, it looks like the students did great, though :) Accedietalk to me 00:41, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Talkback: motivations behind editing Wikipedia

Hello, Accedie. You have new messages at Maryana (WMF)'s talk page.
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—Ahnoneemoos (talk) 01:28, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors September 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
The September 2013 drive wrap-up is now ready for review.
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GOCE Blitz wrap-up; join us for the November drive

Guild of Copy Editors October Blitz wrap-up

Participation: Out of eleven people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we copy edited 42 articles from WikiProject Film's backlog, reducing it by a net of 34 articles. Hope to see you at the November drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, and The Utahraptor.

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Happy Halloween!

 TheGeneralUser has given you some caramel and a candy apple! Caramel and candy-coated apples are fun Halloween treats, and promote WikiLove on Halloween. Hopefully these have made your Halloween (and the proceeding days) much sweeter. Happy Halloween!


If Trick-or-treaters come your way, add {{subst:Halloween apples}} to their talkpage with a spoooooky message!

Hi Maryana! Wishing you a very happy Halloween :-) TheGeneralUser (talk) 22:03, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Please for to fix

Ukrainization seems okay, but Russification of Ukraine is pretty bad. Steven Walling • talk 23:23, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

November 2013 GOCE drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors November 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
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You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!
Hi Accedie! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco.

Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors.
Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here!

SarahStierch (talk) 08:45, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

GOCE December 2013 Blitz wrap-up and January Drive invitation

December Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors

The December blitz ran from December 8–14. The theme for this blitz was articles tied in some way to religion. Seven editors knocked out 20 articles over the course of the week. Our next blitz will be in February, with a theme to be determined. Feel free to make theme suggestions at the Guild talk page!

The January 2014 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in October and November 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2013. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in October and November 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there!

Coordinator election: Voting is open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January through 30 June 2014. Voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

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GOCE 2013 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2013 Annual Report

The GOCE has wrapped up another successful year of operations!

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Adding translations in Ukrainian

Any progress? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:17, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

GOCE February blitz wrapup

Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2014 wrap-up

Participation: Out of seven people who signed up for this blitz, all copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 16 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978.

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March GOCE copyedit drive

Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors

The March 2014 backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles in need of copyediting. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copyedit all articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and to complete all requests placed in January 2014. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copyedits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: number of articles, number of words, number of articles over 5,000 words, number of articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and the longest article. We hope to see you there!

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You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited!
The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history!

The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library.

You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 22:16, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrapup

Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
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Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to all who participated in the drive and helped out behind the scenes. 42 people signed up for this drive and 28 of these completed at least one article. Final results are available here.

Progress report: Articles tagged during the target months of December 2012 and January 2013 were reduced from 177 to 33, and the overall backlog was reduced by 13 articles. The total backlog was 2,902 articles at the end of March. On the Requests page during March, 26 copy edit requests were completed, all requests from January 2014 were completed, and the length of the queue was reduced by 11 articles.

Blitz!: The April blitz will run from April 13–19, with a focus on the Requests list. Sign up now!

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April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation

Guild of Copy Editors April 2014 Blitz wrap-up

Participation: Out of 17 people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 28 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the May drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978.

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GOCE June 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone!

Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here.

Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28.

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GOCE July 2014 newsletter

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