User talk:Enwebb/Archive 3
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BingNox
Hi, thanks for cleaning up the ref spam of this user. Do you intend to report them to a noticeboard? Cheers, --SVTCobra 16:20, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- SVTCobra I don't deal with refspam/vandalism very much, so I'm not super familiar with the protocol. Feel free to do it yourself if you want, or point me in the right direction and I'll make a report. Enwebb (talk) 16:23, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- I reported BingNox at WP:AIV. Cheers, --SVTCobra 16:50, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
Megabat
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Megabat has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Best of luck with the FA process.
Regards,
Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:22, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Giant golden-crowned flying fox
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Giant golden-crowned flying fox you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Starsandwhales -- Starsandwhales (talk) 20:20, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Tree of Life Newsletter
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- July 2019—Issue 004
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
![]() 2) S&W: Over the years, you've taken photos of many different organisms from birds to insects to big cats; you have an extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
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4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
* An example of cumbersome code: getting the layout of my responses to your questions. So dated, and no online spellchecker. |
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Your GA nomination of Giant golden-crowned flying fox
The article Giant golden-crowned flying fox you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Giant golden-crowned flying fox for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Starsandwhales -- Starsandwhales (talk) 21:02, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Josephine Groves Holloway
On 4 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Josephine Groves Holloway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after Josephine Groves Holloway's petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Josephine Groves Holloway. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Josephine Groves Holloway), 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.
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Hello. I want to congratulate on your work at DYK, especially your recent writing on Josephine Groves Holloway. Keep up the great work! FunksBrother (talk) 18:54, 4 August 2019 (UTC) |
- Many thanks, FunksBrother! Enwebb (talk) 13:40, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Guano you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:40, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
The article Guano you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Guano for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:01, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Congrats on your first FA! — Rhododendrites talk \\ 02:01, 30 August 2019 (UTC) |
Many thanks, Rhododendrites! I went to the article to admire the star for a moment, but I admit, it will be some time before I want to read that article again, phew! Enwebb (talk) 03:27, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
August 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- August 2019—Issue 005
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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![]() ![]() Guest column by Thomas Shafee (Evolution and evolvability), Editor in Chief of WikiJournal of Science
Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric (this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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WikiCup 2019 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Congrats for the work that you have done since more than 2 years in the Bat Task force! Well done and thanks! Fulup56 (talk) 14:11, 2 September 2019 (UTC) |
- Thanks Fulup56. I hope your efforts to improve bats in other Wikipedia language versions are also going well! Enwebb (talk) 14:58, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Hipposideros atrox
Hello! Your submission of Hipposideros atrox at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Nsk92 (talk) 20:03, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Arthur Lennox Butler
On 7 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Arthur Lennox Butler, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Lennox Butler. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Arthur Lennox Butler), 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.
Gatoclass (talk) 14:04, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
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Hello Enwebb,
- Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
- Coordinator
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
- This month's refresher course
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
- Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
- Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
- Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
- Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
- Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
- Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
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Your GA nomination of Big brown bat
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Big brown bat you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dunkleosteus77 -- Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 18:01, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Re: Shadrack Frimpong
Hello,
Thank you for your message. I am new to wikipedia and was unaware of some of the guidelines. I have been following Frimpong as a supporter for a few years and was excited that he now had a wikipedia page and wanted to contribute what I knew. I received most information from his LinkedIn account, so I tried to put it in. I apologize for any conflict. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.109.19.206 (talk) 00:10, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
- Hi 74.109.19.206, no hard feelings. Wikipedia can be a little daunting at first, as most people are unaware of its norms when they start editing. I'm happy to give you advice or answer any questions you have if you want to keep editing in the future. Also, let me know if you're aware of other impactful people who don't have biographies yet, particularly underrepresented groups. Enwebb (talk) 16:42, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Big brown bat
The article Big brown bat you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Big brown bat for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dunkleosteus77 -- Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 15:41, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Megabat scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the Megabat article has been scheduled as today's featured article for October 22, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 22, 2019, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.
For Featured Articles promoted on or after October 1, 2018, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.
We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors up to the day of this TFA. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:44, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for the article on "a superfamily of bats containing one family, Pteropodidae"! - Hard to believe that was your first FA, it's great! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, thank you again! Perhaps I'll get around to writing another one eventually :) Enwebb (talk) 17:36, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Maggy Hurchalla
On 22 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Maggy Hurchalla, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after 78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her kayaks were seized? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maggy Hurchalla. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Maggy Hurchalla), 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.
valereee (talk) 00:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Halloween darter
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Halloween darter you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 20:42, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 23:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
September 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- September 2019—Issue 006
- Tree of Life
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DYK for Shadrack Frimpong
On 2 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shadrack Frimpong, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Shadrack Frimpong started a communal cocoa farm in Ghana, where villagers could work in exchange for free tuition at an all-girls school? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shadrack Frimpong. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Shadrack Frimpong), 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.
valereee (talk) 00:02, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Robert N. McClelland
On 18 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robert N. McClelland, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that surgeon Robert N. McClelland tried to save the lives of both John F. Kennedy and his assassin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert N. McClelland. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Robert N. McClelland), 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.
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Great work on Robert N. McClelland. Bearian (talk) 13:54, 18 October 2019 (UTC) |
- Thanks, Bearian! Appreciated. Enwebb (talk) 16:33, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Halloween darter
The article Halloween darter you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Halloween darter for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 21:41, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
2019 US Banknote Contest
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There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons. In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate. If you do not want to receive invitations to future US Banknote Contests, follow the instructions here |
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- The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
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DYK nomination of Coffin Cave mold beetle
Hello! Your submission of Coffin Cave mold beetle at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:32, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tricolored bat
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tricolored bat you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cwmhiraeth -- Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:20, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Halloween darter
On 31 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Halloween darter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the common name of the Halloween darter refers to the orange and black coloration that individuals develop during the breeding season? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Halloween darter. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Halloween darter), 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.
valereee (talk) 00:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Coffin Cave mold beetle
On 31 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Coffin Cave mold beetle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Coffin Cave mold beetle may not actually be found in Coffin Cave? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Coffin Cave mold beetle. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Coffin Cave mold beetle), 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.
valereee (talk) 00:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:
Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points
All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
October 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- October 2019—Issue 007
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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Hi Enwebb. I just sent the newsletter you requested at WT:MMS. There was nothing wrong with it, and you had everything formatted great. Can I suggest that you consider requesting mms rights yourself? I took a look through the archives, and you have made a number of good requests (also listed at [4]). If you have any questions, just let me know (if the questions are about how to properly send the message, feel free to try it out by spamming User:DannyS712/MMS testing). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 03:42, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
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Hello Enwebb,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 824 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- Second set of eyes
- Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
- Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
- Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
- Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
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Deep thanks for contributions to the Devils Hole pupfish page
I recently saw the insane amount of work and content addition you did for the Devils Hole pupfish article and felt the urge to thank you for it. Honestly its simply amazing to see and I am deeply grateful for the fact that you are willing to dedicate so much work. I wish you a good future and hope that you continue to make such contributions to Wikipedia. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 19:16, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
- The Editor's Apprentice, it was very kind of you to come along and say so! It's a fascinating little fish and I enjoyed learning as I wrote. I haven't picked my next article yet, but don't worry, I have no plans on going anywhere :) Enwebb (talk) 20:06, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [5]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to useMediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip
to set a different default block length for IP editors. [6]The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup Award
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Congratulations! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:53, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- thank you! Enwebb (talk) 03:13, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tricolored bat
The article Tricolored bat you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tricolored bat for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cwmhiraeth -- Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:01, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Would you like me to add this GA to my DYK nomination for the lichen which you can see here? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:37, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- Cwmhiraeth, sure! Thanks. Enwebb (talk) 16:33, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauth
database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [7]
Changes later this week
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom 2019 election voter message
Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Tricolored bat
On 25 November 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tricolored bat, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in Nova Scotia, the tricolored bat roosts exclusively in the dangling fronds of bony beard lichen? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tricolored bat), 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.
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Devils Hole pupfish
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Devils Hole pupfish you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 00:41, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [8]
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [9]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [10]
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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [11]
The
{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns"-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [12]
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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
November 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- November 2019—Issue 008
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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Class is in Session in the Tree of Life |
In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? ![]() Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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Christmas darter has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Enwebb. Christmas darter, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:01, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Devils Hole pupfish
The article Devils Hole pupfish you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Devils Hole pupfish for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 22:02, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [13]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [14]
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Your Undo Edit removed useful links !
Hi,
See this Undo Edit of yours: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deathwatch_beetle&diff=next&oldid=929894126
Under Line 21:
My link (https://web.archive.org/web/20191015140620if_/http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/Robinson2005UrbanInsects.pdf#page=79&zoom=auto,-78,343) opens on page 70, where the bottom right corner shows Deathwatch beetle. The number on the page is 70, not 79. It is page 79 of 481 in the pdf file, but that page has the number 70 in the top left corner.
The original URL (http://www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/Robinson2005UrbanInsects.pdf) opens for me, but eventually shows "The connection has timed out". The Web Archive link loads to completion, so I think it's better.
My link also has the advantage of opening directly to the point where Deathwatch beetle is mentioned, so the reader doesn't have to find page 70 manually and doesn't have to search for the text using Ctrl+F (find in page).
And the title of the book is actually "Urban Insects and Arachnids A Handbook of Urban Entomology". Urban Insects and Arachnids is in big uppercase yellow letters, and below it in smaller white letters is A Handbook of Urban Entomology.
Under Line 56:
The old link (https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/29571941/dwb_entomologia_2.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DHost_selection_behaviour_of_deathwatch_b.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20191130%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20191130T205913Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=e7ae45c4e2ad7430b5445cb70984160ce84c216be00fb2effe70869d53e5338b) does not open the pdf, showing an error instead.
Only Academia.edu has that paper, but you have to register to download the pdf file. My Web Archive link makes it easier for anyone to quickly open and download the pdf.
I make sure to preview my edits so that it opens for anyone. If you Undo my changes, my useful links get lost in the Revision History.
Before applying Undo to my edits, please compare my new edits to the old version, highlight the old URL, open in a new tab, most likely it won't open. Then open my new URL and you'll find it opens the paper perfectly fine, and keeps the reference active and verifiable.
Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 16:25, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Aku-PDF-Finder, I think it is better for page numbers to reference the actual text rather than the pages of a specific PDF version (especially when the link of that specific version takes the reader to that version). People have different ways of accessing texts. Some may have a physical version of a text at their disposal, or a full PDF version. I think references should list the actual page numbers as assigned in the text to be the most useful.
- I should have done a manual edit to restore the page numbers rather than reverting and changing the other links that you updated. Apologies. Enwebb (talk) 16:45, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
No worries! I added my links back. I'll keep an eye on it so it's not removed again. Take care! :)
Aku-PDF-Finder (talk) 15:45, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Christmas darter
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Christmas darter you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 19:41, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [15]
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [16]
Changes later this week
- You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [17]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [18]
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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Christmas Island flying fox
Hello! Your submission of Christmas Island flying fox at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 14:47, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Did you know nominations/Devils Hole pupfish
DYK nomination of Devils Hole pupfish
Hello! Your submission of Devils Hole pupfish at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Nessie (talk) 03:10, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
Sorry!! Earwig says 66.7% match with https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/devils-hole.htm. --Nessie (talk) 03:10, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- Reviewer of the Year
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This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
- Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
- Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
A Joyous Yuletide to you!
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020! |
Hello Enwebb, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
- All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- You can use
setlang
in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [19]
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20:05, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Christmas Island flying fox
![]() | On 25 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Christmas Island flying fox, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Christmas Island flying fox matures more slowly than nearly all other bats? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christmas Island flying fox. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), 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. |
— Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Egyptian fruit bat
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Egyptian fruit bat you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of FunkMonk -- FunkMonk (talk) 21:40, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Christmas darter
On 28 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Christmas darter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Christmas darter is considered a priority species by the state of South Carolina, but of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christmas darter. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Christmas darter), 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.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Added responses for newsletter interview.
I've added my responses to Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Newsletter/009/Story 1. Plantdrew (talk) 21:03, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!
Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
December 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- December 2019—Issue 009
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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News at a Glance |
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Editor Spotlight: Plantdrew |
We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
What projects are keeping you busy around the 'pedia at present?
What's your favorite plant?
What's your background like? How did you come to have a special interest in biology?
What's something that would surprised TOL editors about your life off-wiki?
Anything else you'd like us to know?
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December DYKs |
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Your GA nomination of Poinsettia
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Poinsettia you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Starsandwhales -- Starsandwhales (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for editing for the first annual Tree of Life Decemberween contest!
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Tree of Life Decemberween contest participation barnstar | |
Thank you for all the hard work you did on Liguus virgineus, Christmas Island earwig, Christmas darter, Poinsettia, and Christmas Island flying fox for the contest. Unless my math is off (again), you earned 19 points! I hope to see you in the next contest! --Nessie (talk) 20:15, 6 January 2020 (UTC) |
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [20]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).
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21:20, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Christmas darter
The article Christmas darter you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Christmas darter for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 21:01, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [21]
- Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [22]
Changes later this week
Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [23]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).
Future changes
- Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [24]
- You can use
<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [25]
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Devils Hole pupfish
On 16 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Devils Hole pupfish, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a court case about the Devils Hole pupfish (examples pictured) went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Devils Hole pupfish. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Devils Hole pupfish), 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.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the
python2
tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [26]The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [27]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.
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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Have a look at this. User:Chiswick Chap, maybe you have an opinion too. Drmies (talk) 01:17, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
- Hm. I guess there are a few things to be said about it. Firstly, it's properly cited. Secondly, I expect it's a sock given the careful formatting of the citation. Thirdly, it has a jokey (unencyclopedic) tone with "pungent" in there, ho ho ho. Fourthly, it's a *very* small piece of primary research. Fifthly, and let's be frank, it has next-to-no relevance to the subject of the article. So, Drmies, I'd have deleted it too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:20, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Drmies and Chiswick Chap. I agree that the inclusion of this content is problematic, as it is a pretty small footnote in the human uses of guano, and should not be given its own section. If further scientific applications are found, it could become part of the article again in the future. Enwebb (talk) 14:14, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you both. I was struck, first, by the "XXX" stuff in the citation, which struck me as odd, and then by the "pungent" joke. Thanks again. Drmies (talk) 15:45, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Drmies and Chiswick Chap. I agree that the inclusion of this content is problematic, as it is a pretty small footnote in the human uses of guano, and should not be given its own section. If further scientific applications are found, it could become part of the article again in the future. Enwebb (talk) 14:14, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
- Hm. I guess there are a few things to be said about it. Firstly, it's properly cited. Secondly, I expect it's a sock given the careful formatting of the citation. Thirdly, it has a jokey (unencyclopedic) tone with "pungent" in there, ho ho ho. Fourthly, it's a *very* small piece of primary research. Fifthly, and let's be frank, it has next-to-no relevance to the subject of the article. So, Drmies, I'd have deleted it too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:20, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Joseph Henry Loveless
On 27 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Henry Loveless, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the identification of the body of outlaw Joseph Henry Loveless more than 100 years after his death is the oldest successful identification by the DNA Doe Project? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Henry Loveless. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Joseph Henry Loveless), 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.
Gatoclass (talk) 11:54, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [28][29]
- Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [30]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.
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18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Egyptian fruit bat
The article Egyptian fruit bat you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Egyptian fruit bat for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of FunkMonk -- FunkMonk (talk) 15:21, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Homero Gómez González
On 31 January 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Homero Gómez González, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:57, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).
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20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
January 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- January 2020—Issue 010
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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The vital articles project on English Wikipedia began in 2004 when an editor transferred a list from Meta-Wiki: List of articles every Wikipedia should have. The first incarnation of the list became what is now level 3. As of 2019, there are 5 levels of vital articles:
Each level is inclusive of all previous levels, meaning that the 1,000 Level 3 articles include those listed on Levels 2 and 1. Below is an overview of the distribution of vital articles, and the quality of the articles. While the ultimate goal of the vital articles project is to have Featured-class articles, I also considered Good Articles to be "complete" for the purposes of this list. Animals (1,148 designated out of projected 2,400)
Plants, fungi, and other organisms (510 designated out of projected 1,200)
Many articles have yet to be designated for Tree of Life taxonomic groups, with 1,942 outstanding articles to be added. Anyone can add vital articles to the list! Restructuring may be necessary, as the only viruses included as of yet are under the category "Health". The majority of vital articles needing improvement are level 5, but here are some outstanding articles from the other levels:
· Abiogenesis
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January DYKs |
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