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Adoption program

Hi Sumsum2010. I have absolutely no problems with you copying the adoption program. I nabbed the concept from User:Hersfold myself, and adapted it to my own needs. Feel free to make any changes, the questions I used were more about getting people to think about the lesson, rather than right or wrong answers. Any questions, or anything I can help out with, let me know. WormTT · (talk) 08:21, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Looks like you've got most of it. You'll need a preload for the final exam though, as it's generated on the fly. Have a bit of a look where I've got the preload templates, perhaps try out the button too. If things go wrong, you can always pick up anything else at a later date. WormTT · (talk) 13:58, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Just a note that I've changed my copyright lesson, as I've had some comments that it was out of date or too complex for new users. You may want to have a look User:Worm That Turned/Adopt/Copyright WormTT · (talk) 08:36, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Note

I'm gonna start the discussion sometime tomorrow, and just wanted to make sure that you were on top of either the awards or the notice (or both). Nolelover Talk·Contribs 18:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Off to format the notice. I will show you the draft before I send it out. Sumsum2010·T·C 19:36, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
How's this? Sumsum2010·T·C 19:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Looks good. I made a couple of minor fixes and added a place for the link. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 21:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, soon as I see you've started the discussion I'll start AWB. Sumsum2010·T·C 03:47, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Done! Please, don't be afraid to edit anything I've said. Remember, this should be coming from WWF, and not just me (I purposely tried to make it sound that way). Nolelover Talk·Contribs 14:16, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
AWBing the notice now. Sumsum2010·T·C 23:11, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Great. BTW, are you still planning to add a special notice to the notifications of those few users? Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:23, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
And I hafta go offline right now, so can you close the drive? Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:49, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
I'll ask them in a separate section of their talk pages. I'll close up, hopefully we'll have more people to help with closing in August. =)Sumsum2010·T·C 23:52, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Couldn't stay away. Left dinner to come close a drive. Heh. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 00:07, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
I'd do the same, don't worry=)Sumsum2010·T·C 01:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

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Adoption offer - Accepted - Alex146

Hi Sumsum2010;

Thank you very much for your offer to adopt me. Yes, I am still interested and I accept adoption. While I (think I) have a handle on how things work here, having read the material in my welcome page three times - carefully, the last two times - I seem to be stymied by the overwhelming level of detail that it seems to take, and by the fact that nearly every topic I can think of has already been addressed - at least it seems so.  :-)> As a result, my rather limited involvement so far has only been random bug fixes.

My interests are engineering - electrical, electronic, computer, nuclear - and some of the sciences - higher math, nuclear physics, probability and statistics, etc. but that should not be a limiting factor on what you have for me.

Again, thank you for adopting me. I look forward to doing this. (I recently got a new job, having been downsized back in September, but I should still be able to participate.)

--Alex146 (talk) 21:38, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I've created your adoption page at User:Sumsum2010/Adoption/Alex146, along with your first lesson. Sumsum2010·T·C 23:01, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Not sure if I should respond here or in the page noted above. I did both. Thanks. -- Alex146 (talk) 01:48, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
On the other one is good, that will keep everything in one place. Sumsum2010·T·C 01:50, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify Discussion Invitation

Sumsum2010·T·C 23:22, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 June newsletter

We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was Scotland Casliber (submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by Ohio Wizardman (submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by Norway Eisfbnore (submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.

No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

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Hopefully you'll see this fairly quickly. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 02:53, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Got it. Sumsum2010·T·C 03:23, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
And again. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 03:31, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
And replied. I've got my email in another tab, so I'll be on top of it when replies come. Sumsum2010·T·C 03:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive invitation

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting.

This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated.

We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words".

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Message Delivery Bot

Hey, thanks for your contributions to WikiProject Wikify. I am also part of WikiProject Christianity and would like to use the Message Delivery Bot to inform members of an upcoming election. Could you please give me some advice on how to use it? Specifically about how I can add the members who I would like to send the message to. Do I need to input each member manually? Ryan Vesey (talk) 21:26, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

In the Infobox on the userpage, it will say "Operator: EdoDodo and others" click on the others link. Then click on the link that says New Request. Here you will have to fill in the form. It should instruct you on what to do at this point. You will have to input each user into the box. When you click on each box, a "help" box will appear next to it. If you can't get it to work, you can give me the message and user list, and I will send it, as I am an "approved user" (meaning I can approve requests and my requests will automatically start). Sumsum2010·T·C 22:19, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
I should be able to figure it out then. It's just a lot of manual work. I have well over 100 users that the message will be sent to and I only have a member list to go off of. I will probably create and update a user message page in the future. Ryan Vesey (talk) 22:23, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Ok, I'll check the waiting requests page and approve it for you when it shows up. Sumsum2010·T·C 22:44, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll let you know when I create it. I am hoping to leave the current discussion in place for another day or two before I create the request. In addition, I am only about 1/3 of the way through the list of members in my attempt to remove members who are no longer active on Wikipedia. Ryan Vesey (talk) 22:48, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Ok, that'll work. Sumsum2010·T·C 23:04, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 July 2011

Wrap-up (of sorts)

Well, our discussion has been running for just over a week now and activity is dying down, so I'll see if I can summarize what we learned.

  1. First off, you and I are still here. We might add some administrative officers, but you and I are still co-ords.
  2. The backlog is really friggin huge and our members realize that...but they continue participating, which is good. Check out the activity levels of the GOCE's latest drive. :/
  3. We've got the WP:WPBIO idea.
  4. The drives do work, with some touch-up.
  1. Possibly use the month-by-month goal system.
  2. Also, possibly lower reqs for barnstars.

That's basically what our members have said, not necessarily my opinion. Anything I miss? Nolelover Talk·Contribs 14:21, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Now, my real reason for coming here: what would you think of taking on Ryan as an AdOff? He seems to have a good head on his shoulders, and he would be in charge of our outreach division. IOW, he would be in charge of everything outside our four walls: the Bio idea, the pre-drive stuff (reward boards, etc.), and he'd be one more pair of hands to have around. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 14:30, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
I that covers everything. I think we should lower the barnstar to 15 articles in August to add a little more incentive. I like the idea of having Ryan as a assistant. Kerowyn also looks to be a good candidate for an AO. Sumsum2010·T·C 19:19, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Well, I responded to the barnstar issue at WT:WWF, so we should probably keep that there (i.e. in one place). Anyway, yes, I think Ryan would do good and having maybe Kerowyn (remember that she did mention school though) and WC as "on-call" members would work out. Thoughts? Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:05, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
That sounds good. Sumsum2010·T·C 23:22, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

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We could add {{nobots}} to the page to disallow bots as long as we remembered to remove it when/if he comes back. Ryan Vesey contribs 23:12, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Done, that should keep the spam bots from viciously attacking the retiree. Sumsum2010·T·C 23:17, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 25 July 2011

drive quotes

I was poking around through Wikiquote, and I found some inspirational-type quotes to go at the top of the Wikify project page. I don't know if there is a list somewhere, or if we just came up with the quote on the fly, but I thought it would be nice to have a few to hand. I posted them here so as not to take up space on your page. --Kerowyn Leave a note 03:27, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Usually I just think up a random name put it in and find one. The Douglas Adams one seems like the right kind of quote. Sumsum2010·T·C 05:00, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Sweet. Could you tell me how to change the quote? I poked at the wiki markup text for awhile, but couldn't figure it out. Kerowyn Leave a note
At Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify/Frame its on the third line, I would have done drive related stuff yesterday but I was 4 wheeling an going down in the Burro Schmidt Tunnel. Sumsum2010·T·C 04:13, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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August 2011 Wikification Drive

Old newsletter discussion

Heya Sumsum, do you remember an old(er) discussion somewhere regarding the size of the newsletter? I searched Guoguo's archives but couldn't find it, and since I don't currently have the time to search yours, I figured I'd just see if you remembered. I think we need to fix that before we publish, since there's just so much white space. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:45, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Nevermind, found it. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:48, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are New Zealand Adabow (submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and Russia PresN (submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (White-bellied Sea Eagle, from Scotland Casliber (submissions)) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer (submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!

There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:45, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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August drive

Hi Sumsum, as a member of WP:WIKIFY, I've a little concern over the quality of wikification is happening in this drive. A user Assassin's Creed is active in this drive, but his work doesn't seem appropriate for our project; let's go through an article he wikified, like John James Bond, articles has unnecessary wikilins of clerk, brother-in-law, majesty should be linked to Queen Victoria, reference, and has several disambiguation links– public service, Carlton House, assistant, English and Conquest, and leave alone presence of any infobox or proper lead. Note that I found this type of problems in all the articles he wikified. I don't have any grudge with this user, but I've encountered him before and his hunger for high edit counts and history of not following guidelines/policies is no good for our project (more here). Also, when this type of users remove maintenance tag [for wikification] then those articles remain untouched by other users, who could actually wikify. I just appeal you to resolve this kind of matters, thanks and regards. — Bill william comptonTalk 11:36, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out, I'll look into it. This drive seem to have had a rash of problem wikifications. Hopefully we can get the instructions clearer so people can't mess with the system. Sumsum2010·T·C 20:37, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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