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Help me!

{{help me}} Please help me with... this is a test. Sm8900 (talk) 12:46, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Sat May 9: Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19

Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19 (May 9)

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Draft:2020s in United States in political history

I believe I have added some things to this article, but I'll take a look and see what else can be added. I'm rather busy right now, so I don't have a lot of time, but I will take a look. By the way, I think you cite the same article twice. And yes, probably in a week or so the 2020s article could probably be published. Michael E Nolan (talk) 15:55, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

okay, that sounds fine. I appreciate your reply, @Michael E Nolan:. no rush of course, whatever you wish to do is totally fine. I appreciate your help. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:21, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

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So, are there any reports on how things went at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Learn to Edit Wikipedia - Social Distancing Edition? Clearly I should have been paying more attention to your activities. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:44, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
@Jim.henderson: thanks, but there's not that much to report. what was your actual question? I'll be glad to discus further, if you wish. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 00:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

new message

here is a new message. ---Sm8900★✪ 🌎 14:16, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

test. ---Sm8900★ 🌎 14:18, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-14

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Tech News: 2020-15

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  • There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [9]

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Tech News: 2020-19

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  • Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [19]
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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to edit

You are cordially invited to edit Draft:Mismanagement of the 2019-20 COVID-19 pandemic. Calmecac5 (talk) 20:36, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Goings-on

We do have this...♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:39, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:History of the world (2016 – present)

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New discussions, copied from Ipigott talk page

Below is a discussion that was copied and pasted from User talk:Ipigott.

talk page re ideas

ideas page ready

Hi. as you requested, I have set up a draft page in my own user space with some of the ideas that we discussed. Could you please go there, and let me know what you think? Also, in the true spirit of Wikipedia, I invite you to edit it if you wish, or alternately, you can simply indicate any changes or edits that you'd like to see. I think I may have gone a bit over the best length, so I would like to edit it or shorten it if you think that would make ti more ffective. Please feel to let me know. thanks. the draft is at: User:Sm8900/item draft. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 01:38, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Sm8900: This appears to be a completely new approach rather than a basis for improving or adding more effective subpages to WP Council. I still think it would be useful for you to set out what you think are the shortcomings of the existing situation; that would provide a starting point for defining your goals. I'm not sure what the status of your new group would be. It could possibly be a task force of WP Council, or do you have other ideas? At this stage, although I am happy to help you along, I am not too keen to become involved in a new enterprise. I am far too busy with other priorities.--Ipigott (talk) 07:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Explanation of ideas and structure

Hi Ian. thanks so much for your points above. you make some great points. by the way, my name is Steve. since I have your real name, we might as well do the introductions. nice to meet you!! I will also email you. thanks. anyway, to answer your highly relevant points above, I totally agree with you. yes, this is something totally new, and yes, maybe it's easier to attach this to WikiProject Council, in order to avoid setting up entirely new things, and instead use the existing resources there. I'd be glad to do that; however, to do so, I will definitely need your help. if I set up a whole new resource, that I seek to establish at WikiProject Council, then I will need a clear reason and a clear firm foundation for doing so. the only way that I will be able to do is if I have a clear core group of existing, highly-active WikiProject coordinators who are already on board with this, already see it as helpful and necessary,. and who are willing to help out and to be vocal.
I need those coordinators to actively participate right on day one, just to express their confirmation that they are going to be actively part of this, and they see it as relevant. otherwise the supporters of the status quo at wikiproject council will simply seek to discourage me. even though my goal is to help others and to build new helpful and relevant resources, they will try to depict this as simply an attempt to set up a whole new structure that we don't need. so any help would be appreciated.
further details:
Okay, so here is how we proceed. I plan to set up broad umbrella groups to encompass entire topical areas. so we would have one umbrella group for history, one for politics, one for the arts, one for science, one for pop culture and so on and so on. once we do that, then within those umbrella groups, we could have various working groups, based mainly on function, but also based on topical area. so we could have one working group within history for helping new editors, one for sharing methods for improving articles, one for exchanging info on running a WikiProject. or alternately, we could make it much simpler; we could have one working group for experienced coordinators on active wikiprojects, and then that working group would be to enable them to share ideas and methods on any topics that they see fit to share.
underneath the working groups, we could have task forces. these would be outgrowths of the working groups, based on what active editors wish to set up. if no one has any ideas for task forces, then they would not exist. it would only be based upon real ideas from active editors, who seek to actively work on them and be available to exchange ideas.
okay, so to do all this, i.e. in order to propose all this, and then act upon it, and then set up pages for this, I need the active, vocal support, from a group of experienced, established WikiProject coordinators, right at the outset, and available on a constant basis. If I go to WikiProject Council by myself, and try to propose this on my own, it will not go as well.
okay, so what do you think of this? to start with, if you agree with this effort, and can help out, I'd like you to please approach one, two or three of your fellow coordinators at WP "Women in Red." let them know that although we will not need their constant input on a continual basis, we will definitely need their vocal input and support right at the outset. otherwise this project will never get off the runway for takeoff; as we're rolling to the runway, every AA gun of the WikiProject Council will be aimed at us, to make sure this never gets off the ground. so if I do know that I have a core group ready, and prepared to support some of these initial ideas, then I'm ready to get started right away, to move ahead now, and to start setting up pages, and initial expressions of these ideas, in order to present to others.
okay, so what do you think of all this? I am totally open to every single comment, input or feedback that you may have. I would really welcome your input and insight. Please feel free to let me know. by the way, Bluerasberry has already been of great help in expressing ideas and comments, so I am tagging him for comment as well. Please feel free to write back. I appreciate your help. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 15:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
Sm8900: As I said before, I am too busy with other things to be able to devote much time to all this. Once you have put together a fairly solid plan, let me know and I'll take a look. Good luck!--Ipigott (talk) 15:29, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
ok, no problem. I will get started on drawing up a detailed plan within the very near future, and will send to you just to keep you up to date. I really appreciate your help. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 15:31, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Town Hall

I'm sure you're right that most editors have no idea about options for community communication. I imagine your interest in involving as many people as possible is most likely with if you:

thanks Michael E Nolan. appreciate your reply. ok, if I get some support for that from others, then I may go that route. however please note that adding pages to an existing active project like WikiProject Council requires a tangible community consensus; so if I do try to make this happen, can I count you to come there, to indicate your explicit support for making this happen? Please let me know. I really appreciate it. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 05:32, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Count me in. Michael E Nolan (talk) 05:47, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
terrific. thanks!! I'm planning to let some time go by, just to collect some input, ideas and feedback, i.e. to see what others think of this, and what their preferences may be. I will keep you posted. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 05:54, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
@Michael E Nolan: your feedback is extremely helpful. I will put you down as favoring a sub-page at WP:Council. that sounds fine. I am going to tabulate the answers received on a page in my own userspace. I will also copy and paste people's replies including yours. I hope that's okay; if it isn't let me know. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 12:22, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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A cup of tea for you!

Here to return the favor :) c (talk) 16:47, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
thanks, Hippymoose17. appreciate it! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

May 20: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

May 20, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Tech News: 2020-21

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  • Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [28]
  • Advanced item Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [29]
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Tech News: 2020-23

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  • There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [30]

Problems

  • There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [31][32][33]
  • The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [34]

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.

Current events

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests.

Drive and blitz reports

March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.

Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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Tech News: 2020-22

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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

June 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

June 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

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This month, we'll check in on the global WikiCup race and have as featured speaker our local champion and frontrunner, who is trying to win it by writing as many new New York City articles as possible, as well as other local and global topics.

Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Your draft article, Draft:Tuna cannery

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Your draft article, Draft:2020 in Israel

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Your draft article, Draft:United States-Iran crisis

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Your draft article, Draft:2020 in Libya

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Drafts of timelines of current events

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Your draft article, Draft:2010s in business

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Your draft article, Draft:2010s in sports

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Your draft article, Draft:2020 in Europe politics and government

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Your draft article, Draft:Private social services

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2010s in Iraq political history moved to draftspace

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2010s in Iran political history moved to draftspace

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The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020

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The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020

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Your draft article, Draft:Iran–United States conflict

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October 18: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC (plus weekend editathons)

October 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

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Megs, the date above is wrong! could you please fix? thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 18:22, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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