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ARCHIVE PAGE 58: October 2012
The Signpost: 01 October 2012
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales
Does Wikipedia Pay? is a Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... The Signpost spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.
- News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners
Following considerable online and media reportage on the Gibraltar controversy and a Signpost report last week, the Wikimedia UK chapter and the foundation published a joint statement on September 28: "To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK's trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK's governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest."
- Featured content: Mooned
Five articles, three lists, and nine images were promoted to "featured" this week.
- Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty
The Toolserver is an external service hosting the hundreds of webpages and scripts (collectively known as "tools") that assist Wikimedia communities in dozens of mostly menial tasks. Few people think that it has been operating well recently; the problems, which include high database replication lag and periods of total downtime, have caused considerable disruption to the Toolserver's usual functions. Those functions are highly valued by many Wikimedia communities ... In 2011, the Foundation announced the creation of Wikimedia Labs, a much better funded project that among other things aimed to mimic the Toolserver's functionality by mid-2013. At the same time, Erik Möller, the WMF's director of engineering, announced that the Foundation would no longer be supporting the Toolserver financially, but would continue to provide the same in-kind support as it had done previously.
- WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series, we spent some time bonding with WikiProject James Bond. The project is in the unique position of having already pushed all of its primary content to Good and Featured status, including all of Ian Fleming's novels, short stories, and every film that has been released. Work has begun in earnest on the article Skyfall for the release of the new Bond film later this month. The project could still use help improving articles about Bond actors, characters, gadgets, music, video games, and related topics
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Answer to your last message.
Hi Invertzoo, Thanks for your help to show me how should be written a readable article. I will do my best to follow your advices. Don't worry if you notice that I get inactive for a while because I go soon abroad in the Indian Ocean on a boat for 5 months. Best regards from France. Bastaco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bastaco (talk • contribs) 09:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Bot Articles
Ah, I was wondering why there are so many pages for different species. Thanks for the time-waste prevention! I don't have a particular interest in natural history - just an interest in science. I typically just hit click on 'Random article' and see if I can find data or anything relevant to the article if I'm interested enough it it. Regards. Thricecube 19:48, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
WikiWomen's Collaborative
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The Signpost: 08 October 2012
- News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
Wikipedia in education is far from a new idea: years of news stories, op-eds, and editorials have focused on the topic; and on Wikipedia itself, the Schools and universities projects page has existed in various forms since 2003. Over the next six years, the page was rarely developed, and when it did advance there was no clear goal in mind.
- WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
On this day five years ago, the WikiProject Report debuted as a new Signpost column with an overview of WikiProject Biography. Today, we're celebrating two milestone: five years of the WikiProject Report and the tenth birthday of our first featured project. WikiProject Biography is by far the largest WikiProject on Wikipedia, with over one million articles under the project's scope. As a comparison, WikiProject Biography is three times larger than Wikipedia's second largest project, and if WikiProject Biography were split into its 14 subprojects and work groups, it would still make the list of the 20 largest WikiProjects... four times.
- Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk
This week the Signpost interviews Arsenikk, an editor of six years who has brought sixteen lists through our featured list process, mostly regarding transportation in Norway but also about the 1952 Winter Olympics and World Heritage Sites in Africa. Arsenikk tells us about why he joined the project, what moves him, and how editors can join the sometimes daunting world of featured lists.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for September 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment). Three of the seven headline items in the report have already been covered in the Signpost: problems with the corruption of several Gerrit (code) repositories, the introduction of widespread translation memory across Wikimedia wikis, and the launch of the "Page Curation" tool on the English Wikipedia, with development work on that project now winding down. The report also drew attention to the end of Google Summer of Code 2012, the deployment to the English Wikipedia of a new ePUB (electronic book) export feature, and improvements to the WLM app aimed at more serious photographers.
- Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
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snail in the garden
Dear Zoo,
I hope you are well. At home in the garden yesterday I photographed a small native snail. It was identified as probably being the carnivorous Vitellidelos dulcis. On the same leaf I also photographed a Red & Black spider. Hopefully you or Mr. Snek can expand the snail article.
Recently I was in the jungle at Boorganna Nature Reserve, there was a rainforest snail shell the size of a tennis ball. Too bad it was so old and decayed, that identification was impossible.
kind regards, Peter Poyt448 (talk) 06:33, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
- Hello Peter, always great to hear from you. What a superb image of the small snail! Thank you! Could you say roughly how long it was from tip to toe when active? And how cool to see a land snail shell the size of a tennis ball, even if it was tremendously eroded. All good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:31, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 October 2012
There is wide agreement among English Wikipedians that the administrator system is in some ways broken—but no consensus on how to fix it. Most suggestions have been relatively small in scope, and could at best produce small improvements. I would like to make a proposal to fundamentally restructure the administrator system, in a way that I believe would make it more effective and responsive. The proposal is to create an elected Administration Committee ("AdminCom") which would select, oversee, and deselect administrators.
- In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
This week saw a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.
- Featured content: Second star to the left
On the English Wikipedia, five featured articles, ten featured lists, and four featured pictures were promoted, including USS Lexington, a ship built for the United States Navy that, although ordered in 1916 as a battlecruiser, was converted to an aircraft carrier. It was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea during the Second World War.
- News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks
The volunteer-led Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and interested community members are looking at Wikimedia organization applications worth about US$10.4 million out of the committee's first full year's operation, in just the inaugural round one of two that have been planned for the year with a planned budget of US$11.4M.
- Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost
A trial of the first phase of Wikimedia Deutschland's "Wikidata" project–implementing the first ever interwiki repository—may soon get underway following the successful passage of much of its code through MediaWiki's review processes this week.
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals
This week, we experimented with WikiProject Chemicals. Started in August 2004, WikiProject Chemicals has grown to include over 10,000 articles about chemical compounds. The project has a unique assessment system that omits C-class, Good, and Featured Articles. As a result, the project's 11 GAs and 9 FAs are treated as A-class articles. WikiProject Chemicals is a child of WikiProject Chemistry (interviewed in 2009) and a parent of WikiProject Polymers.
gastropods
Re: your offer, i would be very interested in any more stub-related work for the project if you have any! thanks again :) FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 23:24, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
- Well, that's extremely kind of you to offer to help, FoCuSandLeArN! I noticed your new stubs because we have a bot that lists for us any new articles that have certain snail and slug-related key words in them, and I am the person who checks those listings every day. Actually I do feel that we could use a lot of help with making more freshwater snail stubs, and probably also numerous land snail and land slug stubs. I have to think a bit about where I should ask you to start, and what I should ask you to use as references, unless you have some suggestions yourself? I was just about to ask one of our members to create a new list of articles on species where there is no corresponding genus article, maybe that would be an OK place to ask you to start making new stubs once I have that list... But there are alternatives too. Invertzoo (talk) 23:45, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
- I just found out yesterday from another project member who runs a bot, that we have only one article with a genus red-linked in the taxobox, and I fixed that one, so we are all up to date on that... which is terrific! Invertzoo (talk) 21:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
- One possibility that you could do right now if you like, FoCuSandLeArN, is to go to Trochoidea (genus) and make stubs for all 10 of the species that are currently red-listed there, using Ref 2 on that page (the AnimalBase list) as a reference to back up your stubs. If you are going to do that, you should use the species article for Trochoidea betulonensis as something to copy and paste and then tweak to fit the additional species one by one. By the way, I have not yet cleaned up the other blue-listed species stubs in that genus yet, but I will be doing that tomorrow morning. As you can see, T. pyramidata has a nice image already, so you could add that to the appropriate stub. It would also be great if you can copy the project template from the talk page and put that on to the talk page of any new stubs you make. Let me know if you are going to start that process and I will keep an eye on what you are doing. Also please feel free to ask me any questions you may have! Good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 01:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Trochoidea seetzenii
Now that I've double-checked, Trochoidea seetzenii isn't listed on AnimalBase...but that's because it's now known as Xerocrassa seetzeni. Should it be made into a redirect instead, then? FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks FoCuS! I just got back from working at the museum so I'm a bit weary and out of it, but yes, that stub should be turned into a redirect (you know how to do that, right?), but first we need to list that new "combination" Xerocrassa seetzeni, on the Trochoidea (genus) page in the Species list section, putting it as a synonym at the very bottom, like this:
- Trochoidea seetzenii is a synonym for Xerocrassa seetzeni
- We also need to put in a new reference on the genus page. The new ref is AnimalBase how it now is in 2012. They updated their info since 2008, and now we need to update ours. Thanks so much for all your work! Invertzoo (talk) 22:11, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 22 October 2012
- Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective
Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
- Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule
One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.
- Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced
Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
- Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
- News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
- WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
- Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
so sorry
for your tendinitis :( hope you get better really soon. I used animalbase as a reference, but yes, don't worry I do know how to add in-line references. I will be creating all the articles today.
Talk to you soon, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:35, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, from Oliver Puertogallera.
I don't mind if my article "Chart of English animal nouns" is deleted, as suggested by one editor. As for your inquiry if the info was from one source -- No, I compiled the info from various references (dictionaries, encyclopedias, science books, English books) over the years.
Please excuse me if I make any mistake of procedure in answering your inquiry. There is so much (confusing info) to learn about Wikipedia procedures, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.
If I have to put four tildes, here they are: Oliver Puertogallera (talk) 05:01, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
About English animal nouns
Thanks, Invertzoo, for your advice. I'll look through some dictionaries or encyclopedias, for source references. Oliver Puertogallera (talk) 15:28, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Note to self
Some suggestions for stubs that FoCuS might want to create:
- Currently red-linked genus stubs for the Veronicellidae, land slugs
- Currently red-linked species stubs for the genus Vertigo, land snails, BUT FIRST make a proper ref for Animal Base info, and check that list for all the species.
- Three red linked species at the land snail genus Vallonia, but may each need a reference.
- One red-linked genus link at the land snail family Valloniidae, would need a ref, but there are plenty in a Google search.
- Current red-linked species stubs in the genus Tryonia, small freshwater snails, but each one will need a suitable reference. But decide first... does Tryonia belong in the Cochliopidae or the Hydrobiidae?
Invertzoo (talk) 18:19, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
- Hello there, Invertzoo! Hope you're better. Just finishing up on the Veronicellidae slugs today because I've had a hectic week. Will continue with the other tasks as next week progresses. Talk later! :) FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:29, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 29 October 2012
- News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.
- WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.
- Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.
- Featured content: On the road again
Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.
- Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news
A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.