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Latest comment: 12 years ago by DeltaQuad in topic Sierraparis or Erythema checkuser results


The Signpost: 03 July 2013

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Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.
Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.
The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.
The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.
Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.
This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.
The fundamental idea of an infobox is clear: keep it simple and limited to essentials. At some point, however, these basic principles seem to have been abandoned, in favour of an approach akin to "the more the merrier".
Five articles, six lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

Sorry...

Latest comment: 12 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

...I know you're swamped with emails, however I do have an unblock on hold pending an email I sent you on the 10th. Cheers, --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 17:46, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Ping--Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 16:51, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I must have been reading your email late at night and marked it read. How I missed seeing this on my talkpage...I don't even know. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 19:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
I have a tendency to fly under the radar at times...Thanks for your help (again)! --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 19:55, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 July 2013

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This week, we explored the fantasy worlds of video game developer Square Enix by interviewing WikiProject Square Enix. The project began in September 2006 as a spin-off of WikiProject Final Fantasy, but today covers that, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and a variety of other game series, with exceptions explained in the interview below. The project is home to 32 pieces of Featured material and 104 Good and A-class articles.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
Last week the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual plan for July 2013 to June 2014. It provides a surprisingly frank view—of past achievements and failures, and future goals and risks—that could be afforded only by a non-profit that is confident and beholden to no commercial or political interests.
Four articles, five lists, and sixteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds was opened. Voting on the Tea Party movement case continued, after a failed attempt at moderated discussion. A group tasked with deciding the content of the lead section of the Jerusalem article has reported back to the committee. Applications for checkuser and oversight permissions close on 22 July.

ACC

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Hi DQ, Elockid would like you to have a look at this request. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:00, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

OPP bot

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Hey DeltaQuad - did anything ever come of your note here regarding a bot for OPP?--Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 21:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Might of, but if anything did it got lost in my last computer reformat a long time ago. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 17:12, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Okie dokie. I may get around to dumping all the old closed entries in the archive. But today is Friday, and the weather on the Westerly end of this great country of ours is fab, it will have to wait for another day. Cheers, --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 17:41, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

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The Washington Post reported Tuesday on the most controversial articles on various language Wikipedias as determined by a cross-continental research group.
This week, the Signpost delved into the vast and complex areas of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that make up religion. WikiProject Religion has been around since 2005 and has a complex scope, in that it only takes articles that deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense, along with any articles that do not have a dedicated daughter project.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Contributors to Wikivoyage, the sister project adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. ... The Wikimedia Foundation has announced via press release that it has partnered with Aircel to provide free mobile access to Wikipedia.
Death hangs over the top 10 this week, as tragic deaths both past and present continued to cast their pall over an already troubled world. The death of Corey Monteith led to a spike in interest in the man himself, his girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele, and the show that made them both famous, Glee.
Twelve articles, seven lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Infoboxes was opened. The evidence phase continues in Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Voting on the proposed decision continues in the Tea Party movement case.

Maurice07: One IP is not enough

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi DQ. Sorry for disturbing you but if/when you have any time please see this new SPI of Maurice. Thank you. Best regards. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 22:37, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi DeltaQuad, Dr's recent baseless claims really broke my nerves. He claimed that every action made by me. I see it as a personal revenge. I also wonder what the reason and sent message your talk page [1] but it immediately deleted after five minutes.[2] Not spoken to him in anyway unfortunately. He claims that the IP numbers of the same address. This is really ridiculous. I prove this with a few examples. They are found in the history of some of the articles. Look at:

All IP changes and Dr's claims of IP's were made in Turk Telekom.It's internet access provider in Istanbul and 14 million people live here. Check it: [4] and [5]. The doctor labeled IP addresses, it full of contradictions. For exple: 78.184.196.148 is Istanbul-based [6] but 78.184.244.26 Tekirdağ-based [7] How is known from same building? According to the theory of the Dr.K all of these IP addresses and edits belong to me. While there is no concrete evidence, a user can not blame. I'm banned of Greek-Turkish topic banned, aware of it but I don't think that the user being objective. Thank you. Maurice (talk) 02:18, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Sierraparis or Erythema checkuser results

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Hi, DeltaQuad. I had noticed that the colloidal silver pages were a lot less noisy lately, but I didn't realize that Ryanspir had been blocked as a prolific sockpuppet until just a few minutes ago. Looking at that case, it appears that a couple of weeks ago someone flagged Sierraparis (talk · contribs) and Erythema (talk · contribs) as potential socks for a check. Neither came up as related to Ryanspir, but you did make an offhand mention that one of them had a second account that did not – at the time – appear to be in violation of the sockpuppet policy: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ryanspir/Archive#11 July 2013.

As of a few hours ago, Erythema was topic-banned from medical pages, and Sierraparis cautioned: [8]. Obviously I don't know to whom the second account belonged, how recently it was used, what topics it edited, or – most important – whether or not it belongs to the editor who was topic-banned or just the one who was cautioned. Either way, I suppose, the use of the alternate account for editing medical topics would be problematic, whether as an outright violation of the topic ban, or as evasion of scrutiny.

Can you keep an eye on the situation, and issue any cautions necessary? Cheers! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:33, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

I was just coming here to say this exact same thing, with diffs and links and everything! So... what Ten said. Thanks... Zad68 15:01, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
I've been watching for activity for the past few days, and neither of the accounts that matched have edited in the past three days (3 days used for ambiguity). While I note the restriction, the user has not violated that sanction or the sockpuppetry policy directly as I see it. So at this point, I'll just keep an eye on it as best as I can. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 00:29, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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