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Help test better mass message delivery

Hi. You're being contacted as you've previously used global message delivery (or its English Wikipedia counterpart). It doesn't feel so great to be spammed, does it? ;-)

For the past few months, Legoktm has built a replacement to the current message delivery system called MassMessage. MassMessage uses a proper user interface form (no more editing a /Spam subpage), works faster (it can complete a large delivery in minutes), and no longer requires being on an access list (any local administrator can use it). In addition, many tiny annoyances with the old system have been addressed. It's a real improvement! :-)

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WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Canada Sasata (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and New South Wales Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

The did you know (DYK) eligibility criteria have recently changed, meaning that newly passed good articles are accepted as "new" for did you know purposes. However, in the interests of not changing the WikiCup rules mid-competition, please note that only articles eligible for DYK under the old system (that is, newly created articles or 5x expansions) will be eligible for points in this year's WikiCup. We do, however, have time to discuss how this new system will work for next year's competition; a discussion will be opened in due course. On that note, thoughts are welcome on changes you'd like to see for next year. What worked? What didn't work? What would you like to see more of? What would you like to see less of? All Wikipedians, new or old, are also warmly invited to sign up for the 2014 WikiCup.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:18, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

HighBeam access, email needed

Hi, we tried to send you your HighBeam access code but you don't have email enabled. Could you email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com so I can send you your code? Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 08:09, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

Talk:Lufthansa Flight 615/GA1

Gilderien, it's been over a month since you opened this review, and you haven't been back to do the actual reviewing. I notice that it's also been three weeks since you edited on Wikipedia—I hope all is well, and you'll be back soon. However, since it has been that long, I think if you aren't back in the next week, the best thing would be to put the nomination back in the reviewing pool If you do return, you can always take this article again to review if it's still available. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:16, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

Meeaw!

Hi. As BlueMoonset said, you haven't edited for three weeks. I hope everything's OK. Best wishes,

RainCity471 18:18, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Precious again

list of good deeds
Thank you for quality articles on places, especially churches such as Church of Saint Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswaldkirk, and for "good deeds", as you call your contributions, and I call this, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 274th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:LTE Advanced

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

Query about "estimated annual readership" counter.

Dear Gilderien, On 30 August, 2013, you awarded Jamesx12345 the 'Quarter Million Award' and, in your message, you indicated that his article on James Clerk Maxwell had an "estimated annual readership of 451,150". At your convenience, please would you kindly let me know how you determined this estimate? Is there a facility in WP that returns such a value for any article? I am aware that WP articles have a stats page but I have not seen a field or button that returns an 'estimated annual readership' count, or a 'total readership count'. Thank you very much for your time and guidance with this, whenever convenient. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee. (talk) 22:23, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

The number is, I believe, calculated by multiplying the 90-day total by four. Pretty crude, but using this tool currently gives 389944. I'm not sure how those numbers are calculated, but there are a number of reasons those figures could be inaccurate, not least that many people read the page for all of 5 seconds. But I digress... Jamesx12345 22:28, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Dear Jamesx12345; Thank you very much for your prompt reply. Your answer makes abundant sense; it's strange that WP doesn't provide better stats for yearly counters, since I imagine it must keep track of all the raw data anyway. It would be particularly useful to have, amongst all article stats, default counters for: 1) the number of annual 'reads-only' and 2) the number of annual 'edits', don't you think? That way, we could all easily gauge the two very different types of 'access' to any given article. In any case, many thanks for taking the time to answer my query. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee. (talk) 22:53, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2013

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter


Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 21:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

AfD

Hi. You may wish to check out what we generally do with non notable primary (elementary) and middle schools. Any questions, don't hesitate to ask me. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:53, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

  1. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
  2. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions)
  3. Canada Sasata (submissions)
  4. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
  5. New South Wales Casliber (submissions)
  6. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions)
  7. London Miyagawa (submissions)
  8. Poland Piotrus (submissions)
  9. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

  • New South Wales Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
  • Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
  • Portland, Oregon Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
  • Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
  • Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
  • Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
  • Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
  • Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
  • United States Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
  • The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to British Empire The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
  • Finally, the judges are awarding Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 01:00, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 October 2013

Portal peer review

Hello,

I have just closed a portal peer review that you had started because the review had went unedited for several months. As I'm sure you can tell, the portal peer review process is rather understaffed, and I apologize if you didn't get what you were looking for. If you are still interested in working with portals, either the one that you brought to PPR or another one, and are looking for advice, please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally by leaving a message on my talk page. I would be happy to help.

Sven Manguard Wha? 21:34, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 November 2013

WikiCup award

In recognition of your participation in the 2013 Wikipedia:WikiCup. J Milburn (talk · contribs) and The ed17 (talk · contribs) 15:29, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

I would like to be Adopted

If your interested, please adopt me. Here2HelpWiki3-to-talk 17:58, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Huggle 3

Hey Gilderien! I am Petrb, one of core developers of Huggle, the antivandalism tool, which you are beta testing (according to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers). I am happy to announce that Huggle 3 is ready for some testing. You can read more about it at WP:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta. Please keep in mind that this is a development version and it is not ready for regular use. That means you must:

  • Watch your contribs - when anything happens you didn't want, fix it and report a bug
  • Frequently checkout source code and build latest version, we change it a lot

If you find any problem with a feature that is supposed to work perfectly, please let us know. Some features are not ready yet, it is listed in known problems on Huggle3 beta page, you don't need to report these - we know it! So, that's it. Have fun testing and please let us know about any problems, either using bugzilla @ http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or #huggle connect. Please respond to my talk page, I am not going to watch your talk page. Thank you Petrb (talk) 10:57, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 November 2013

Please comment on Talk:Deafness

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Thank you

Thank you for the welcome-back and the offer to review the page I put up at DYK. :) Do you think it would be useful if I complete my mentorship with you? I get the feeling that in the past few weeks since I returned, I figured most of it out myself, but if you think it could be useful, I'd happily continue where we left off. (Or, if you generally have a final test for those you mentor, perhaps I could do that?)AddWittyNameHere (talk) 00:07, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

If you wish to continue the mentorship there are another five or so lessons, Deletion, Policies and consensus, Templates, Vandalism, and Working the 'pedia, followed by a final test (which I haven't written yet) - I think this would be useful but if you would rather I could test your knowledge with the super-hard test whenever :) P.S. I reviewed your article, I would have normally just made a couple of changes myself but it's considered bad form to approve an article you've edited really.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 00:24, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
No problem, and the plus of doing it this way is that I learn more from doing it myself than watching someone else do it. I agree on the points regarding the image and the hook, but I've checked the paraphrasing and feel that in nineteen out of the twenty-six flagged cases, it's not in fact paraphrasing, or unavoidable paraphrasing. However, I won't bore you with a huge wall of text when I already left such a wall over there. I'll think I'll continue with you mentoring me. Deletion seems to be no problem for me. I've tagged two pages for speedy deletion, which both were indeed speedy deleted (one attack page, one talk page without article/borderline attack page) and commented on one AfD where the outcome was exactly what I 'suggested'/'voted'/'argued' for. Policies and consensus could be useful, haven't really had to deal much with them, though I think I know most of the theory. Been spending a fair amount of time reverting vandalism and other disruptive edits, but more knowledge never hurts. Same for working with the 'pedia. Plus, if I know most of it as well as I suspect, it probably won't take me long, and if I don't know it as well as I suspect, it's a good thing I start it again, eh? AddWittyNameHere (talk) 02:13, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Ah, sorry, I didn't mean that all the cases were close paraphrasing, just one or two, I should have probably mentioned that :p --Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 16:22, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Oh well, the crash-course "figure out what is or isn't too close paraphrasing and make solid arguments explaining why you feel so" no doubt will be useful at some point in the future. :P AddWittyNameHere (talk) 17:56, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

US State Challenge

Hi Gilderien. Regarding US State Challenge, do you want to move it to your space as we're clearing out some of the links from RBN? Just noticed British Historic County Challenge, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:56, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I haven't had very much time to spend onwiki recently but I shall in the future so thank you it would be great if you could do this.--Gilderien Talk to me|List of good deeds 08:25, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

Rabbit Hole official webpage

Hello, you reverted a change I had done which was to change the link to an inexistant wikipedia article into the official link to the software's author website (which indeed looks a little bit weird but it's really the official webpage). See for yourself: http://mw2n1.dreamhosters.com/iphone/free-visualizers/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.83.73.89 (talk) 22:36, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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