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Julia Ioffe‎

I've blocked IP range 2603:9000:a202:1d00::/64 for 72 hours. If they hop to another range, please let me know and I will semi-protect the article. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:33, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Hyperbolic asteroid

Could you give a second look to your revert of my changes to Hyperbolic asteroid? I made a series of changes (one of which was a correction of my own typo). The overall change I made was to bring the article in line with the reference to ʻOumuamua, which is an asteroid from outside the solar system. I can add it to the Talk page for debate if this is off base. Hiberniantears (talk) 16:13, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Small update, I called it out as an asteroid, not a comet. I mention this because you call attention to my possibly calling it a comet in your revert note. Hiberniantears (talk) 16:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Second small update. I did some digging, and I think this is the source creating confusion, from JPL is cited in the ‘Oumuamua article. Hiberniantears (talk) 16:43, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

@Hiberniantears: the JPL database is one of few still claiming that it is an asteroid. Much more people agree that it's a comet, [1] [2] and the most recent studies say that it's neither [3] [4]. Cheers, wumbolo ^^^ 16:58, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! That was a helpful reply. Although I must now conclude that it is a spaceship. :-) Hiberniantears (talk) 17:14, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

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What arbcom case are you referring to here? Jytdog (talk) 16:06, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

@Jytdog: This. Read the indef rationale: [5]; I don't think I can explain it better. If an editor was indeffed because a comment is perceived as harassment (after the ArbCom decision), the comment better be removed. Cheers, wumbolo ^^^ 16:49, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

The correct thing to link to, would have been the block log, which applied that arbcom ruling to that comment. I understand what you meant now, thanks for answering. Jytdog (talk) 16:54, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

What does this mean?

I would like to know what the following response means:

Seriously? The midterms are tomorrow! Right now, FiveThirtyEight has the House at 87.5% for Democrats, and the Senate at 83.2% for Republicans. Politico reports 216–197 for Democrats, not counting the toss-ups. wumbolo ^^^ 20:52, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

What are you trying to imply here? Please help me understand. --Tarage (talk) 19:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Tarage: that the other editor didn't AGF when looking at a userbox. Well, it's been cleared out now, I was right, and it doesn't matter anymore as MF is unblocked. wumbolo ^^^ 20:09, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Help me to understand because I am still not seeing it. Where was it stated that he was banned because of a userbox? --Tarage (talk) 22:07, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Tarage: she wasn't banned because of it, but because of it, Floq didn't support an unblock. wumbolo ^^^ 22:10, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Hmm... I don't see that but okay. Thank you for informing me. --Tarage (talk) 22:11, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #022, 11 Nov 2018

Welcome AmericanAir88

Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:

Way to go!

Where's Evad?

Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.

He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.

Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.

The conversion continues

Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.

One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.

This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.

Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.

This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.

Going wide...

We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.

We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...

Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:

{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}

Using both maxheight=120px and overflow=Hidden produces this:

Project's status

There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.

Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.

Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.

Until next issue...

See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:47, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi. In that Fred Bauder thing, I see you suggested I violated Wikipedia:Rollback#When to use rollback. I did not use WP:Rollback, I used Twinkle's "Rollback" tool which uses the Wikimedia "Undo" function, and that policy does not apply to it. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 07:43, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

OK. wumbolo ^^^ 08:13, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Portals wikignome task

We need Category:Portals with titles not starting with a proper noun added to the remaining portals it is applicable to.

Differentiating these from capitalized subjects will enable many types of tasks.

I've tried Hotcat to place the category on some of the portals. It is pretty fast.

Thank you. — The Transhumanist 14:18, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Train Portal

Please elucidate your recent category addition, is "Trains" not a proper noun? Wiki itself says: Some proper nouns occur in plural form (optionally or exclusively), and then they refer to groups of entities... --Janke | Talk 09:07, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Wumbolo,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder/Evidence. Please add your evidence by November 27, 2018, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 21:05, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

"Gossip"

You removed a section about a controversy between Gabbie Hanna and RiceGum from both of their respective pages on basis of "gossip" because YouTube was used as a source. How can YouTube be discredited as grounds of gossip when both of those people are YouTubers using that platform for their livelihoods. Also, there are other references in both articles basing a YouTube as the source, how come those can stand but the controversy section can’t? VoltronUniverse (talk) 00:09, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@VoltronUniverse: per WP:BLPREMOVE, controversies are a big no-no unless you can provide and cite WP:SECONDARY third-party reliable sources. YouTube is not reliable, see WP:RSP for a quick overview of what is reliable for what. wumbolo ^^^ 07:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@Wumbolo: but there were other third party sources sighted. The YouTube sources weren’t even that necessary.

@VoltronUniverse: there was one other website cited, but it doesn't seem particularly reliable (the author doesn't seem to have previous experience), and per WP:EXTRAORDINARY, a good source is required here. wumbolo ^^^ 18:41, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

WP:NPA

Regarding this posting at WP:ANI:

It's a requirement -- at the very least, common courtesy -- to:

1) Notify the editors that you're demanding to be blocked

2) Provide the slightest shred of evidence to back up your claim

2a) you should use the adjective "obvious" only when something IS obvious, and not as a substitute for actual reasons.

If you don't, then someone could wind up blocked, all right, just not whom you intended. --Calton | Talk 00:39, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I just pointed out that the discussion obviously had to get some attention. I did not have a specific list of users in my mind, so I would rather that an admin takes their time to judge each discussion participant separately. Some may need warnings; some may need blocks. wumbolo ^^^ 10:46, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Gamemaster's screen

Hi Wumbolo. Do you really consider that "Gamemaster's screen" should be deleted? why? Kintaro (talk) 19:45, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@Kintaro: My reason is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gamemaster's screen. WP:NPRODUCT says that we need third-party coverage to have an article about a product. wumbolo ^^^ 19:56, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry but you completely missed the point. Let us put it that way: "Nike Air Max 90" is to "shoe" what "Dungeon Masters Screen" is to "Gamemaster's screen". You got it, right? a gamemaster's screen is only a type of accessory used in roleplaying-games, same as dice or character sheets. The article "Gamemaster's screen" is not affected by WP:NPRODUCT, same as nor it is the article "shoe". Please, proceed as it is due and remove the delete notice. Kintaro (talk) 20:20, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Wumbolo, I moved the present discussion to the deletion talk page. Regards. Kintaro (talk) 23:37, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Your participation at AfD

Could I ask you to please stop nominating articles for deletion? I just took a look at some stats, and in the past 6 months you have nominated 110 articles for deletion. Of those, 22 have successfully been deleted or redirected, and 82 were kept. 5 of your nominations are still open, but 4 of them are also headed towards a keep result. I don't want to give you a hard time, but might I suggest finding some articles to expand instead? You've done some excellent work in that area, and it would be great to see more of it.

I hope that you will take this message in the spirit in which it was intended, which is to help each other contribute in ways that are best for the project. Cheers. Brad v 05:16, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

I think I'll replace the AfD's with NPP, which is not purely AfD noms, when I'm in that mood. wumbolo ^^^ 08:19, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018

There are now 4,180 portals.

Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?

I know we can. But, that is up to you!

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Jingling along

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).

In closing

We'll keep it short this issue.

Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.

Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Chodakiewicz

You're wrong about 3RR. And look at the talk page, no one except Volunteer Marek wants it out. I saw people saying I'm a fascist at the edit warring board! which is crazy but for some reason I can't respond there. Can you post this for me please, you guys got it all backwards, he's the one trying to present a far right guy as mainstream. 2A01:4A0:4A:52:0:0:0:E2DA (talk) 22:01, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of I'm with Her (band)

Hello! Your submission of I'm with Her (band) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 18:42, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for I'm with Her (band)

On 7 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article I'm with Her (band), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hillary Clinton is not with I'm with Her? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/I'm with Her (band). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, I'm with Her (band)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:03, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Wumbolo,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018

Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...

Portals status

We now have 4,620 portals.

And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...

Can we make it?

The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Evad is back!

After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.

Be sure to welcome him back.

Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner

User:FR30799386 is working on making {{Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.

Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.

Upgrade of flagship portals is underway

Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).

So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.

Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.

Spotting missing portals that are redirects

In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.

Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.

The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.

Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.

To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.

What's new in portal space?

Here are the new portals since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Ship Index pages

Just for info, as you asked in your edit summary on SS Beme "how was I supposed to know". The clue is in the article's inclusion in Category:Set indices on ships, which links to the explanation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Guidelines#Index pages. Best wishes. Davidships (talk) 14:37, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

I got it. Best wishes to you too. wumbolo ^^^ 14:39, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners

Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.

User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{Portal image banner}}...

So, this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Becomes this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Here's the code for the above banner:

{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}

To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.

About that end of the year goal...

We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).

We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!

And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.

Congratulations!

What's next?

The 10,000th portal mark. But...

...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:

The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
Update the portal building instructions.
Update the portal guideline.
Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

Happy New Year!

Wumbolo, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.

Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 12:17, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Linda Sarsour

I see you are interested in Linda Sarsour. Would you like to review her article for GA?MagicatthemovieS (talk) 16:43, 15 January 2019 (UTC)MagicatthemovieS

The article isn't nearly stable enough. wumbolo ^^^ 20:05, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Vital Level 2

Your proposal to remove Myth at Level 2 looks unlikely to pass. Would you be willing to support swapping Myth with Folklore? Rreagan007 (talk) 03:37, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't know. Mythology should be restored from the merge fwiw. wumbolo ^^^ 09:37, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

@Rreagan007:, @Wumbulo, I assume that user 2.190.157.226 it is the same user what 2.190.14.240 and maybe Ios2019 (Iran). Dawid2009 (talk) 08:06, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019

Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...

New participants

A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:

Harvesting categories tool prototype

DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.

New portals since last issue

What else is going on

There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.

DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.

Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.

Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).

Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 09:11, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sammy Woodhouse

Hello! Your submission of Sammy Woodhouse at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! originalmess^{how u doin that busta rhyme?} 04:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Jolo

Whack! — Sca (talk)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019

Portal styles

For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.

If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.

Conversion continues

There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.

You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".

Flagship portals: the portals on the Main Page

Speaking of upgrades...

The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:

Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.

The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.

As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.

Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.

And be sure they are on your watchlist.

New portals since last issue

Keep 'em coming!

Deorphanizing the new portals

As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.

What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.

Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...

Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.

That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!

To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.

It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.

Good news indeed.

Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!

And, that's a wrap

That's all I have to report this time around.

No doubt there will be more to tell soon.

Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:17, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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The reply-link newsletter, issue 1

Hi! Welcome to the new reply-link newsletter, which I made because the ol' list on the reply-link talk page was unwieldy. In case you haven't been following development recently, I've sent out some new updates that should let it reply basically anywhere, even in transcluded pages or under hatted discussions (two locations people have been wanting for a while). Reliability has also gone way up, as I've implemented a couple of sanity checks that help prevent the script from responding to the wrong message. Unfortunately, that means the script fails a bit more often. Anyway, try it out if you haven't done so in a while, and let me know what you think! I always appreciate feature requests or bug reports on the talk page. Happy replying! (Signup list/Unsubscribe) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:23, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

yay wumbolo ^^^ 08:51, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

test 1 wumbolo ^^^ 08:59, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

@Wumbolo: test 2 wumbolo ^^^ 08:59, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Sammy Woodhouse

On 3 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sammy Woodhouse, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an interview with Sammy Woodhouse sparked an inquiry revealing the sexual abuse of about 1,400 children in Rotherham, England, between 1997 and 2013? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sammy Woodhouse. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sammy Woodhouse), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Carl Benjamin

You removed Template:UK far right and from Category:Far-right politics in the United Kingdom from the page Carl Benjamin. I am not objecting to that by any means, but I do have a question. If such removals have been made, then should the link to Carl Benjamin's article in Template:UK far right also be removed? It does not make sense that he should continue to be in that template if he is not being described as a figure involved in UK far right politics in his own article. --Thenewguy34 (talk) 02:48, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Done. wumbolo ^^^ 10:50, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019

Here's a quicky status report:

Old-style portals: 1,018

Single-page portals: 4,367

Total portals: 5,385

But of course, there has been more going on than just that...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is up and running!

Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.

What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.

We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.

When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.

Get ready...

Get set...

Go!

Another sockpuppet infiltrator has been discovered

User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.

When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.

The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:

And the corresponding talk pages:

New portals since the last issue

Keep up the great work

Until next time, — The Transhumanist 09:06, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019

Where we are at:

Single-page portals: 4,704

Total portals: 5,705

The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down

You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).

Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!

Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Indefinitely_semiprotecting_the_refdesk#Proposal_II:_Shut_down_the_Ref_Desks

The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...

The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...

Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.

For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch

10,000 portals, here we come...

We're at 5,705 portals and counting.

New portals since issue #28

Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.

What's next for portal pages?

There are 5 drives for portal development:

Create new portals
Expand existing portals, such as with new sections like Recognized content
Convert or restart old-style portals into automated single-page portals
Link to new portals from the encyclopedia
Pageless portals

Let's take a closer look at these...

1: Creating new portals

Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.

Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.

Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.

2: Expanding existing portals

The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...

Improving and/or adding search parameters to better power the Did you know and In the news sections.
Adding more selected content sections, like Selected biographies.
Adding and maintaining Recognized content sections, via JL-Bot.
Adding pictures to the image slideshow.
Adding panoramic pics.
Categorizing portals.

More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.

3: Converting old portals

By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.

There are two approaches here:

A) Restart a portal from scratch, using our automated tools. For basic no-frills portals, that works find. But, for more elaborate portals, as that tends to lose content and features, the following approach is being tried...

B) Upgrade a portal section by section, so little to nothing is lost in the process.

4: Linking to new portals

Or "portal deorphanization"...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.

And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.

5...

See below...

New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...

Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.

What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?

Quantum portals.

What are quantum portals?

Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.

Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:

...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...

Introducing...

Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).

Keep on keepin' on

...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:07, 14 February 2019 (UTC)