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Latest comment: 10 years ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015


SPI Script

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Hi Tim,

One thing I noticed that could be improved with the SPI script is the ability to add a block notice to IP addresses. The script blocks the IP just fine, but you have to manually add a block notice. Best, Mike V • Talk 03:05, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Hmm, OK. What block notices should it support? Just something like {{uw-block|time=Duration|reason=[[CASEPAGE|abusing multiple accounts]]}}, or should there be more? T. Canens (talk) 14:44, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Seeking to draw your attention to Azeri/Armenian nationalist POV issue

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Dear Timothy, I'm contacting you because you proposed putting discretionary sanctions on "all pages related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related ethnic conflicts, broadly interpreted." I just wanted to notify you that there's an edit war going on with the pages for Australian politicians Fred Nile and Marie Ficarra with one new editor pushing nationalistic POV on the issue of the Armenian genocide, in what myself and two other editors consider a BLP violation. I've opened a section on the Edit Warring noticeboard. Take care. -- Aronzak (talk) 05:44, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

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We received a large amount of feedback in our survey indicating that our readers found the idea of contributing to the Signpost difficult due to our opaque internal structure.
The Wikimedia Foundation released their Quarterly Report last week covering the three months October to December of 2014.
Last week, my colleagues on the Signpost produced a news report covering a minor controversy about a report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Written by the staff of The Lafayette Practice, a French research firm, it proclaimed the WMF as a leader in the practice of participatory grantmaking.
The Report this week is dominated by the Academy Awards, taking the top 4 spots and 13 of the Top 25.
In the first of what the author hopes will become a regular feature of the Arbitration report, the Signpost speaks to veteran arbitrator Newyorkbrad, who recently retired from the committee after almost seven years of arbitrating. The Signpost was keen to hear his thoughts on his time on the committee and on the past, present, and future of ArbCom.
Before being indefinitely blocked, User:FergusM1970 made more than 4600 edits on the English Wikipedia, spread over eight years. In the last two years, he was paid to edit several articles for clients that included the Venezuelan energy company Derwick Associates. We spoke with him about his experiences.
Numerous news outlets are reporting that the ___domain loser.com now redirects to the Wikipedia article for rapper Kanye West. Page views on West's Wikipedia article skyrocketed to almost 250,000 views on March 2, up from less than 19 thousand the previous day.
Two featured articles, four featured lists, and 38 featured pictures were promoted this week..
The Signpost has arranged to mirror Tech news from Meta-Wiki to supplement the long-form tech coverage in our infrequent Technology report..
Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, Wikipedians worked together to honor black history and to address Wikipedia's multicultural gaps in the encyclopedia, hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons throughout the United States, from February 1 to 28, 2015.

Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference

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Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015
 
 

You are invited to join us at Barnard College for Wikipedia Day NYC 2015, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

10:00pm - 9:00 pm at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, by W 118th St

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 21:59, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

The Signpost: 11 March 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation gave the Signpost an advance copy of the results of a survey of English Wikipedia readers regarding Wikimedia fundraising, due for official release today.
The community has arranged a number of commemorative initiatives focused on the gender gap, under the banner "WikiWomen's History Month".
ThinkProgress tech reporter Lauren C. Williams wrote a long article on how the Gamergate controversy has spilled over onto Wikipedia.
In an effort to protect and maintain the privacy of Wikipedia's thousands of editors, the Wikimedia Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the United States' National Security Agency, Department of Justice, and the Attorney General.
A dull week, with only three new entries in the top 10; a UFC champion, a Google Doodle and a Hindu festival involving people throwing powder at each other (though that does sound fun).
Six featured articles, three featured lists, and forty featured pictures were promoted this week.
I continue to be excited about the Core Contest because I see it as a way of encouraging the expansion of broad articles that are typically neglected by our article improvement incentives.

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

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We announce with sadness and gratitude that Signpost publication and newsroom manager Pine will be stepping back to focus on other Wikipedia and Wikimedia-related endeavors.
This process is now entering its long-awaited final phase with the upcoming SUL finalization, scheduled for April 15, less than a month away. ... Wikimedia Foundation chief talent and culture officer Gayle Karen Young announced her retirement from the Foundation this week. Young will be replaced in that role by interim chief operating officer Terry Gilbey. According to the Foundation's job description for the title as it was applied in the past, Gilbey will be in charge of "overall administration and business operations of the Wikimedia Foundation."
On March 13, Kelly Weill of Capital New York revealed that numerous Wikipedia edits originated from 1 Police Plaza, the headquarters of the NYPD. Most of the attention has focused on a number of their edits to articles about incidents of alleged police brutality and controversial police practices.
The publication of the Wikimedia survey findings on fundraising questions came three months after significant concerns were voiced about the design and wording of the December 2014 fundraising banners and e-mails.
Four featured articles, four featured lists, and thirty-five featured pictures were promoted this week.
If not for Kayne West's dubious repeat at #1, the 2015 Cricket World Cup (#2) would have made the top spot, albeit in a generally slow news week.
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Old SPI case

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5 years ago, you ceremoniously banned me, without so much as my feedback.. at the behest of a now-disgraced Wiki user who claimed I was a "sock puppet". As a result I essentially all but gave up helping Wiki because of the bite.

I have been asked by my research company if I would like to add new information regarding graphine oxide doping and manufacturing processes at the Wikipedia and want my good name reinstated so I may do this.

I am still quite upset that a troll can misuse your goodwill to protect himself while prosecuting his numerous edit wars.

Please keep in mind, per your prior comments.. what "looks like a duck" is not always a duck.

Weissman129 (talk) 02:23, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

@Weissman129: You were blocked for a week, not banned; and I wasn't the one who blocked you either. However, if you make edits like this while logged out, it's rather easy to make others think you are socking. T. Canens (talk) 15:03, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Well now that I can sign in I'll be sure to go fix that and sign it thank you! Now back to the point.. when will this be removed? You had input into it at the time don't back track now. Weissman129 (talk) 03:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Remove what? The SPI case? Are you claiming that the IPs in that case are not you or that they are you but you don't think you did anything wrong? T. Canens (talk) 03:06, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Bach

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As you probably know I received the advice to contact you. Bach's birthday seems a good day to start a conversation, with Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:52, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: You'd need to be more specific. T. Canens (talk) 14:57, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
I will but not on Sunday, church on Sunday, with 15th-century insight on justice (a work in progress), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:19, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't like to look back, but Bach's birthday reminded me of my birthday present for him two years ago. I told you above that I wrote a GA on his composition. I have written all GAs (not counted) and FAs (2 so far) related to Bach. Once a constructive discussion on Robert Stoepel resulted in an infobox on 4 March 2013, I felt that it was time for Bach as well. I found the discussion less constructive, and I miss GFHandel since. - Now I was tempted to suggest a short infobox for Bach (as Handel has one) but instead dedicated my latest GA to the victims of the infobox wars and translated an article by GFHandel to German, - you may have read in the Signpost that I translate articles of the missed. I would like the wars to end. What can we do? - I normally love my restriction, - it saves me much time to walk away after two comments. Others should do the same, - I can't return to defend a user who has no idea what he stepped into (and myself), my name being mentioned 9 times so far. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:21, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

I can't help smiling looking at Laurence Olivier: I am threatened with sanctions because of a third comment, while others revert an infobox without a comment, twice in two days, and edit war over the request not to edit war, mentioning consensus where there is obviously no consensus. This edit made my day. Kafka at his best. Is this what the arbitrators had in mind with their decision? - My idea: not the article writers but the readers should decide. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:36, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

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Last week the WMF announced the release of its long-awaited open-access policy.
Once when I was young, growing up in the 1990s, my father pulled his collection of railroad slides out from the basement, set up his projector, and shared a glimpse into American railway history with our family.
Four featured articles, three featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.
The Wikipedia Commons annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded, with 6,698 people voting, its largest participation yet.
This week's list is reminiscent of lists from the early days of this project: a preponderance of famous faces, Reddit threads, and Google Doodles.
The authors attempt to answer the question "Who are the most important people of all times?" Their findings clearly show that different Wikipedias give different prominence to different individuals.
A university gives a top Wikipedia editor free and full access to the university library's entire online content—and the Wikipedia editor, who is unpaid and not on campus, then creates and improves Wikipedia articles in a subject area of interest to the institution.
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