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The Signpost: 01 January 2014
- Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
- Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year
- In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
- Book review: Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
- News and notes: The year in review
- Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
- WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
- Featured content: 2013—the trends
- Technology report: Looking back on 2013
The Signpost: 08 January 2014
- Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant
- Traffic report: Tragedy and television
- Technology report: Gearing up for the Architecture Summit
- News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"
- WikiProject report: Jumping into the television universe
- Featured content: A portal to the wonderful world of technology
The Signpost: 15 January 2014
- News and notes: German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
- Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published
- Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
The Signpost: 22 January 2014
- Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
- News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
- Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume
- Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
- Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki
- In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager
- Traffic report: No show for the Globes
The Signpost: 29 January 2014
- Traffic report: Six strikes out
- WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
- News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
- Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
The Signpost: 29 January 2014
- Traffic report: Six strikes out
- WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
- News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
- Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
The Signpost: 12 February 2014
- Technology report: Left with no choice
- Featured content: Space selfie
- Traffic report: Sports Day
- WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia
The Signpost: 19 February 2014
- News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
- Technology report: ULS Comeback
- WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
- Featured content: Holotype
- Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
The Signpost: 26 February 2014
- Featured content: Odin salutes you
- WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience
- Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
- Traffic report: Snow big deal
- Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism
(test) The Signpost: 05 March 2014
- Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
- Discussion report: Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?
- Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup
- WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
The Signpost: 12 March 2014
- Traffic report: War and awards
- Featured content: Ukraine burns
- WikiProject report: Russian WikiProject Entomology
The Signpost: 19 March 2014
- WikiProject report: We have history
- Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
- News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny
- Traffic report: Into thin air
- Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
The Signpost: 26 March 2014
- Comment: A foolish request
- Traffic report: Down to a simmer
- News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
- Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
- Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
- WikiProject report: From the peak
The Signpost: 02 April 2014
- WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
- Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
- Featured content: April Fools
- Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
The Signpost: 09 April 2014
- News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
- Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
- Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
- Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
The Signpost: 23 April 2014
- Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
- News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
- WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism
- Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
- Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
- Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
The Signpost: 30 April 2014
- News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
- Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
- Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
- WikiProject report: Genetics
- Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
- Featured content: Browsing behaviours
- Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google
The Signpost: 07 May 2014
- Traffic report: TMZedia
- WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
- In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
- WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
- Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
The Signpost: 14 May 2014
- Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
- WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
- Featured content: On the rocks
- Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May
- Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look
The Signpost: 21 May 2014
- News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
- Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles
- Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
The Signpost: 28 May 2014
- News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
- Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
- Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
- Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014
The first edition of The Pulse has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. That newsletter is here.
The newsletter has been sent to the talk pages of WP:MED members bearing the {{User WPMed}} template. To opt-out, please leave a message here or simply remove your name from the mailing list. Because this is the first issue, we are still finding out feet. Things like the layout and content may change in subsequent editions. Please let us know what you think, and if you have any ideas for the future, by leaving a message here.
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:23, 5 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Medicine.
The Signpost: 04 June 2014
- News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
- Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
- In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Autumn in summer
BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors
Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 11 June 2014
- News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
- Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
- Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
- Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
The Signpost: 18 June 2014
- News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
- Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
- Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
- Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
- WikiProject report: Visiting the city
The Signpost: 25 June 2014
- News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan
- Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
- Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
- Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
- Featured content: Showing our Wörth
- WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
- Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects
The Signpost: 02 July 2014
- In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
- Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
- News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
- Featured content: Ship-shape
- WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
The Signpost: 09 July 2014
- Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
- Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
- Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
- News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative
- Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
Medical Translation Newsletter
Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce
This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.
note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you *sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject MedicineSpotlight - Simplified article translation
Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.
Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:
- WHO's list of Essential Medicines[1]
- Neglected tropical diseases[2]
- Key diseases for medical subspecialties like: oncology, emergency medicine (list), anatomy, internal medicine, surgery, etc.
We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.
What's happening?
- IEG grant
I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.
- Wikimania 2014
For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.
- Integration progress
There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.
- Swedish
Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May. - Dutch
Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie. - Polish
Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
(This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration - Arabic
The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
- Integration guides
Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.
Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [3]
News in short
- To come
- Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
- Proofreading drives
- Further reading
- Translators Without Borders
- Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign
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The Signpost: 16 July 2014
- Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
- Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
- Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
- Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
The Signpost: 23 July 2014
- Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
- Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
- News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
- Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
The Signpost: 30 July 2014
- Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
- Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
- News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
- Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World
- Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
- Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
The Signpost: 06 August 2014
- Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
- Traffic report: Ebola
- Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
- Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
The Signpost: 13 August 2014
- Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
- Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective
- Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
- News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
- In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
- Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
The Signpost: 20 August 2014
- Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
- WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
- Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia
- Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
The Signpost: 27 August 2014
- In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
- News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
- Traffic report: Viral
- Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
The Signpost: 03 September 2014
- Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
- Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
- Traffic report: Holding Pattern
- WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
The Signpost: 10 September 2014
- Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
- Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
- WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
The Signpost: 17 September 2014
- WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
- News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
- Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack
- Featured content: Which is not like the others?
The Signpost: 24 September 2014
- Featured content: Oil paintings galore
- Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
- Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
- WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
- Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
The Signpost: 01 October 2014
- From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
- WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
- Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
- Featured content: Brothers at War
The Signpost: 08 October 2014
- In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires
- Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
- Traffic report: Panic and denial
- Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
The Signpost: 15 October 2014
- Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
- Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
- Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
- Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
- Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
- WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
The Signpost: 22 October 2014
- Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
- Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV
- WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
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The Signpost: 29 October 2014
- Featured content: Go West, young man
- In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
- Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
- Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
Thanks
Thank you for telling me about sandboxTheTallSomething (talk) 10:30, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
November 2014
Hi. Thank you for your help with the vital work of patrolling new pages. I noticed that you are not marking some of the pages you've reviewed as patrolled. Please do remember to click the 'mark this page as patrolled' link at the bottom of the new page if you have performed the standard patrolling tasks. Where appropriate, doing so saves time and work by informing fellow patrollers of your review of the page, so that they do not duplicate efforts. probably a Huggle limitation ? have no clue, had to patrol article :/ Avono♂ (talk) 15:56, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- seems to be a huggle issue, posted it on feedback board. Avono♂ (talk) 16:08, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 05 November 2014
Updating Username on Approved Users list for AutoWikiBrowser
Hi Graeme, i am approved user for using AutoWikiBrowser, My old username was Abutorsam007 which is listed here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage#Approved_users But since i have updated my username it's not been updated on said page as its protected. Rerquesting you to please update my name there.( !dea4u 05:57, 6 November 2014 (UTC))
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Thank you very much!( !dea4u 10:23, 7 November 2014 (UTC))
Hello
Hello (I'm not sure whether I'm writing in the correct section) I'm replying based on your message you left me :) The reason why I reverted the edit to a previous one was because the article is about Buddhism in Iran, while some parts of the text (which I removed after turnig it back) is about Buddhism in Central Asian nations and regions, and therefore have nothing to do precisely with te article "Buddhism in (the country) Iran" Such information all belongs (in my opinion) in a article that should be named "Buddhism in Central Asia", or "Buddhism in Eastern Regions where Iranian-speakers live/lived"
Regards and I hope I managed to make my reason clear — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.241.201.16 (talk) 11:40, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your motivation, will need your guidance in future. !dea4u 06:50, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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* BM College of Management & Research Indore (www.bmcollege.net.in)]
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!dea4u 12:37, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
- I have no idea why you would consider that bracket beneficial, but you removed it anyway with this edit. Huon (talk) 17:40, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia ads
I have deployed Wikipedia ads template on my userpage, But the size of this ad is small, I wish to reconfigure this ad so that it fits to my profile(increasing height & width). How can this be accomplished? ( !dea4u 05:37, 6 November 2014 (UTC))
This would need a change to Module:Wikipedia ads.Looking at the module code gives me an urge to rewrite the whole thing, and especially to change the format of Module:Wikipedia ads/list. It could be possible to add a hack to make the images resizable until someone gets around to rewriting it, but personally I would prefer a rewrite. If you want to have bigger ads straight away, you can add a random Wikipedia ad directly to your userpage by using[[File:Qxz-ad{{#invoke:random|number|235}}.gif|800px]]. This displays a random file from File:Qxz-ad1.gif to File:Qxz-ad235.gif, with a width of 800px. Some files using this pattern of filename do not exist, however, so when those files are randomly selected, the code won't work. And it won't detect new ads. But for the most part, that code should do what you want. Change the width to suit your setup. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:40, 6 November 2014 (UTC)- @!dea4u: Sorry, it looks like I completely misread the module code (and the template documentation). It's already possible to change the width of Wikipedia ads with the
|width=parameter. There is more info in the template documentation. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 18:44, 9 November 2014 (UTC)- An update: I've just found out that I wasn't actually going crazy - Frietjes added the width parameter on 6 November, pretty soon after I made my first post in this section. I've since completely rewritten the module (and fixed a few bugs and instances of invalid HTML); hopefully now it will be easier to read and maintain, particularly for people who are adding new ads. The new version also supports the width parameter, so you can keep using it as before. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 11:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Great!, @Mr. Stradivarius: Thank you for guidance on this case and updation of module. Yes, you were right about Frietjes adding the width parameter at later stage. Same was also shared by him on Template_talk:Wikipedia_ads#Change_in_Dimensions( !dea4u 06:53, 12 November 2014 (UTC))
- @!dea4u: You're welcome. Also, Frietjes is a her, not a him. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 07:46, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
- An update: I've just found out that I wasn't actually going crazy - Frietjes added the width parameter on 6 November, pretty soon after I made my first post in this section. I've since completely rewritten the module (and fixed a few bugs and instances of invalid HTML); hopefully now it will be easier to read and maintain, particularly for people who are adding new ads. The new version also supports the width parameter, so you can keep using it as before. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 11:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
- @!dea4u: Sorry, it looks like I completely misread the module code (and the template documentation). It's already possible to change the width of Wikipedia ads with the
Change in Dimensions
I have deployed Wikipedia ads template on my userpage, But the size of this ad is small, I wish to reconfigure this ad so that it fits to my profile(increasing height & width). How can this be accomplished? ( !dea4u 05:37, 6 November 2014 (UTC))
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|width=, but keep in mind that the images used for these ads is fixed, so making it larger will not look the best since the images will be stretched beyond their native resolution. Frietjes (talk) 17:30, 6 November 2014 (UTC)- Thank you Frietjes for adding code
|width=, Is there any way whereby resolution of images could also be adjusted in base template{{Wikipedia ads}}( !dea4u 07:08, 12 November 2014 (UTC))
- @!dea4u: No, this would require uploading new versions of all the ad images, which is obviously not practical. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 08:20, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Busy topicon
Hi, I felt need of Busy topicon for Template:Busy, i have designed one template at User:!dea4u/sandbox. Please check & suggest improvements. ( !dea4u 15:36, 6 November 2014 (UTC))
- It looks good, I'd change the click target real life or something besides the other template though. perhaps then move to Template:Busy topicon — xaosflux Talk 15:56, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for suggestion, i have created Template:Busy topicon, Please correct, if any mistake done from my end. Also add this topicon to suitable category in Template:Top icon(i feels it should be added to OTHERS) ( !dea4u 17:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC))
- @!dea4u: I updated Template:Top icon templates to include. — xaosflux Talk 14:17, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Replacing native busy image with new one
I am experimenting on replacing native image <Busy_desk.svg> of template:busy with a new one. Please check Template:Busy topicon/sandbox , current size is 24, but it is too big as compared to other icons at Template:Top icon. please suggest the size & if new image would be more attractive.( !dea4u 06:10, 12 November 2014 (UTC))
Vandalism warnings & block
I used STiki version 2.1,to warn following user User talk:125.34.54.177 for vandalism, I selected Vandalism classification in Login panel for this purpose. To my observation warnings for vandalism were issued as "User warning for unconstructive editing found using STiki". Initially i thought user might have been blocked from editing as i have issued him many warnings(as what happens in other tools like Huggle, Igloo etc.) but when i saw his talk page, no final warning was added, So i used Twinkle to issue him Final warning & reported the case at Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism#User-reported. Is there any option which could be added in STiki; where in case of such emergency(where User/IP is vandalizing wikipedia) we can issue him warnings in increasing order of their wrong actions like General Note >Warning>Caution>Final Warning>Request Block & so on such that Bots/Admin could block User/IP immediately( !dea4u 11:26, 13 November 2014 (UTC))
- @!dea4u: STiki has considerable logic to auto-increment warning levels in an intelligent manner (designed to play nice with Huggle's system and other tools), and some aspects of that failed here. First, STiki should have never created a second section labeled "November 2014". There was already one with that exact title, which STiki created just seconds earlier. STiki's policy and that of other tools is to append warnings to the existing section (assuming there is one that matches the month/year). Why this happened is a bit perplexing, but 'replag' (replication lag on the WMF servers) is a leading candidate since the two warnings were made only a couple of seconds apart (the failure to escalate the warn-level on the second warning also corroborates this). This might not be STiki's fault, but STiki poorly handled the situation after that.
- At every subsequent warning STiki asked "does this user talk page have a 'November 2014'" section on it?". My code was always returning the first such section, parsing it to find the highest level (the level 1), and saying "give this user a level 2 warning". Then that warning was getting appended the 2nd "November 2014" section. Rinse and repeat; the process continued through several warnings. To wrap-up, identically named sections were a problem spot, and I've coded up a fix that will be pushed in the next release. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 01:03, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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Exposé vs Expose
Dear Jeff, Please enlighten me over this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raymond_Franz&oldid=635368836&diff=prev regarding exposé vs expose. I felt expose was more accurate word because of Etymology of exposé which is borrowed from French.( !dea4u 12:45, 25 November 2014 (UTC))
- In English, expose is a verb meaning to uncover, and exposé is a noun, and is the word in question. See wikt:exposé. (In French, exposé is used for both the verb and the noun.)--Jeffro77 (talk) 13:11, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
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can you help me on the page list of turkic dynastites and countries it says This article currently links to a large number of disambiguation pagesTurkic_ Warrior 14:12, 4 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mehmeett21 (talk • contribs)
Dabbing
Hi, your dabbing of [[Suryanvanshi]] to [[Suryanvansha|Suryanvanshi]] is turning my watchlist green today. Is it really necessary? I know the idea of avoiding redirects but the sheer volume is creating a massive amount of work for me because I then have to check every article that you have adjusted. Wikipedia won't break if the change isn't made or if you limit yourself to, say, ten a day. - Sitush (talk) 15:34, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Buddy, Thanks for highlighting this to me. It is not necessary, but is needful. This [[Suryanvanshi]] was linked from 130 articles. So i thought of directing these ambiguous links in single day, But i can't. Yes you were right about sheer volume it is creating, Please don't worry about this dabbing for [[Suryanvanshi]] to [[Suryanvansha|Suryanvanshi]] as only 41 are left, which i will complete by today. Please bear with me. Thanks for support & Patience.( !dea4u 04:58, 5 December 2014 (UTC))
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Issue with Dab solver
Hi buddy, Is there some technical glitch currently going on with Dab solver? because when i am trying to fix Disambiguation at Articles with the most disambiguation links The new link which openes is showing "No redirect found" with details on page as "We've moved! We're sorry, but the user-supported tool you have attempted to reach did not leave a forwarding URL where we could automatically redirect you."( !dea4u 04:31, 13 December 2014 (UTC))
- Dabsolver is now at http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Dab_solver. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:02, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Russ, thanks for sharing the update, But the problem is- Earlier when we use to click on FIX for any particular list in Articles With Multiple Dablinks or at Disambiguation pages with links it use to forward our page to URL where we could automatically correct dabs(Example: https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Lifeforce_(film)). But now it can't be done. Now i will have to manually enter article name in link provided by you at http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Dab_solver & then only i can edit. Please suggest how i could use Dab Solver in easy way without hard labour as i was using earlier?( !dea4u 09:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC))
- Whoever is responsible for setting up those fix lists in the first place will need to update the code so that it calls Dabsolver at its new address. bd2412 T 17:36, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Russ, thanks for sharing the update, But the problem is- Earlier when we use to click on FIX for any particular list in Articles With Multiple Dablinks or at Disambiguation pages with links it use to forward our page to URL where we could automatically correct dabs(Example: https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Lifeforce_(film)). But now it can't be done. Now i will have to manually enter article name in link provided by you at http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Dab_solver & then only i can edit. Please suggest how i could use Dab Solver in easy way without hard labour as i was using earlier?( !dea4u 09:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC))
About Tamsui Line (TRTS)
Dear !dea4u, You sent me a message saying I edited it for no reason? How? However, Xinyi Line Extension has opened last year, that's the reason why I deleted the future extension content.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Evadingness (talk • contribs)
- Hi Evadingness, Thankyou for sharing the information, But in the article Tamsui Line (Taipei Metro), you removed the section of Future Expansion giving the reason as Xinyi Line has been already opened., that "Future section" was regarding the Tamsui Line (Taipei Metro) connecting to Elephant Mountain. So my query here: Is Tamsui Line (Taipei Metro) been connected to Elephant Mountain in present timeline? Also how will a wikipedia user got to know about the authenticity of your shared information that Xinyi Line has been started. Please remember to add some source to confirm the infomration you know about.( !dea4u 11:23, 17 December 2014 (UTC))
- Sorry !dea4u as I didn't put my signatures here. BTW After Tamsui Line it connects to Xinyi Line which heads to Xiangshan (Elephant Mountain).Evadingness (talk) 11:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC)EvadingEvadingness (talk) 11:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Evadingness, Thanks for answering my query. I have corrected the article, as done by you earlier & removed the section Future Expansion since Tamsui Line (Taipei Metro) is connected to Elephant Mountain in present timeline.( !dea4u 11:41, 17 December 2014 (UTC))
- Sorry !dea4u as I didn't put my signatures here. BTW After Tamsui Line it connects to Xinyi Line which heads to Xiangshan (Elephant Mountain).Evadingness (talk) 11:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC)EvadingEvadingness (talk) 11:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Evadingness, Thankyou for sharing the information, But in the article Tamsui Line (Taipei Metro), you removed the section of Future Expansion giving the reason as Xinyi Line has been already opened., that "Future section" was regarding the Tamsui Line (Taipei Metro) connecting to Elephant Mountain. So my query here: Is Tamsui Line (Taipei Metro) been connected to Elephant Mountain in present timeline? Also how will a wikipedia user got to know about the authenticity of your shared information that Xinyi Line has been started. Please remember to add some source to confirm the infomration you know about.( !dea4u 11:23, 17 December 2014 (UTC))
Thank you for your work on the anti-vandal patrol. This was caused by two of us trying to restore Australia (2008 film) at the same time. I restored to a point JUST after another had restored to a separate point, which resulted in some confusion. Good catch on your part! Name Omitted (talk) 01:29, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
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Help regarding User:Zhaofeng Li/Reflinks
Hi Koala, I need your help in using User:Zhaofeng Li/Reflinks tool for fillling Wikipedia:Bare URLs. But i am not able to understand how to use this tool. Please guide me.( !dea4u 07:23, 20 December 2014 (UTC))
- Just click through, and put the article name of your choice in the page name box. Koala15 (talk) 15:39, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Issue with Dab solver
Dear Jaga, I am very interested to work on Disambiguation & i was using your tool at Articles With Multiple Dablinks & Disambiguation pages with links. 1-2 weeks back when we use to click on FIX for any particular list for fixing disambiguation it use to forward page to new URL where we could automatically correct dabs(Example: https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Lifeforce_(film)). But suddenly last week i was not able to edit because when i am clicking on FIX , The new link which opens is showing "No redirect found" with details on page as "We've moved! We're sorry, but the user-supported tool you have attempted to reach did not leave a forwarding URL where we could automatically redirect you." Now i will have to manually enter article name at Dab solver & then only i can edit. Please suggest how i could use Dab Solver like the earlier way which was much easier & less time consuming. Awaiting your assistance.( !dea4u 05:07, 20 December 2014 (UTC))
Done I've converted the pages to go to dispenser's website. Let me know if I've missed anything. --JaGatalk 04:28, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you JaGa for directing relevant pages to dispenser's website. It is now working perfectly fine. You are genius and have reduced my workload.( !dea4u 04:53, 3 January 2015 (UTC))
Hi Nick Number, You are doing awesome job in Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links#DAB_Challenge_leaderboard. I need your guidance in filling Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. I wish to learn about tool you are using for this case, because earlier when i use to click on FIX for any particular list in Articles With Multiple Dablinks or at Disambiguation pages with links it use to forward our page to URL where we could automatically correct dabs(Example: https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Lifeforce_(film)). But now it can't be done. Now i have to manually enter article name in link at http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Dab_solver & then only i can edit. Please suggest any smarter way to accomplish this tedious job. Thanks.( !dea4u 11:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC))
- I'd love to help you out with this, but I'm afraid I do things pretty much manually and I haven't had any part in putting together these tools. One thing that has saved me a lot of effort is the Clippings extension for Firefox. It lets me set up hotkeys for each potential disambiguation as I go, so I can easily fill in subsequent ones. To troubleshoot the automated tools, I'd recommend posting on the project Talk page. Nick Number (talk) 13:51, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Can we move WP:DPL to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disambiguation_pages_with_links since WP:DPL is Active Wiki Fixup Project under Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia. Suggestions required.( !dea4u 06:13, 23 December 2014 (UTC))
- This page is already part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation. Why does it need to be moved? Is the existing title hurting anything? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:14, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- I would prefer not to move it. I access the page often, and don't need to type the extra characters. Also, this is a general-purpose fix-up project for the entire community. Wikimedia even gives free t-shirts to the most active participants! bd2412 T 14:37, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- The appropriate move destination would be Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Disambiguation pages with links, if you wanted to formalize its hierarchical relationship with the project. I have no opinion on that move. -- JHunterJ (talk) 15:02, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- This would still be a necessary process even if the WikiProject didn't exist, so to me it seems fine where it is. Dekimasuよ! 20:04, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Difference
What is the difference between Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation & Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links? because both are wikiprojects & aimed at same objective.( !dea4u 06:23, 23 December 2014 (UTC))
- "Disambiguation pages with links is a project that patrols the incoming links to disambiguation pages" (its first sentence). It's not a WikiProject, but part of WikiProject Disambiguation: Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation#Repair incoming links. -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:49, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Userbox edits
Hello !dea4u, I just reverted your recent changes to Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Userbox. Your recent edits to that userbox added a "See also" section and the text "* Template:DPL topicon (Top Icon)" to the column of userboxes on my page and all the others who use that infobox. SchreiberBike talk 05:40, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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2014 Lahore Building Fire
Hi Faizan, I have created an article 2014 Lahore Building Fire, But not have much information about the incident. It would be great if you could contribute some thoughts on article page.( !dea4u 11:06, 30 December 2014 (UTC))
Doing... OK. Faizan 11:12, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
- Done Article moved to a more suitable title, updated, and expanded. Faizan 21:14, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
December 2014
!dea4u,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Avono (talk) 21:07, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you very much & i reciprocate same wishes for you too.( !dea4u 08:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC))
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