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Wikipedia:Numbers[edit]
Sorry for the late reply. Feel free to reuse that title for Wikipedia: Notability (numbers), or a redirect to it. Cheers. —Michael Z. 2007-10-08 20:49 Z
Help Project newsletter : Issue 4[edit]
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
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Help Project newsletter : Issue 5[edit]
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Hello again from the Help Project! In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already. Another important and frequently used help page, Wikipedia:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages. In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Wikipedia:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
WikiProject:REHAB update[edit]
You signed up for WikiProject User Rehab
Hi there, I'm RDN1F. It's come to my attention that you've signed up for WikiProject Rehab, but since that time the project has retired. I've decided to take it upon myself to rejuvenate the project - but I could do with your help. If you are still willing to help mentor (or even give me a hand in bringing this project back!) leave a message on my talk page
RDN1F TALK 16:32, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Help Project newsletter : Issue 6[edit]
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Issue VI - April 2013 |
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Open Help Conference The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation. It has been suggested to send a team from Wikipedia/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Wikipedia's help. There may be support available for volunteers to attend from the Participation Support program (and your editor is certainly hoping to be there!) Please join the discussion in Meta's IdeaLab if you're interested, and/or have suggestions about what we could work on. |
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Highlight/colors[edit]
Template:Highlight/colors has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:23, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Precious anniversary[edit]
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Draft created[edit]
Hi, sorry for the posting at Deletion Review. I have created a draft with the tips you mentioned from my own research on the net. Please check it here:- Draft:Mandar Agashe. Hope it's fine else you can delete it. Thanks 123.201.54.119 (talk) 11:55, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Modified comment[edit]
Apologies, I had to slightly modify a link that you added to Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2022 January 11. It was blacklisted after you had added it, and was completely freaking out AnomieBOT. It looks like the bot has now completed the move or whatever it was trying to do. If you wanted to alter the link in a different way, please feel free to do so. You'll likely hit the spam filter if you try to revert it to a "live" link again, though. Kuru (talk) 01:43, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
RfC in final stages of development[edit]
Hello SmokeyJoe. An RfC is in the final stages of development which you may be interested in. I am messaging you because you participated in talk page discussions in 2011 which led to the initial inclusion of wp:noconsensus.[1] Any ideas or help you may wish to contribute before the RfC goes live will be appreciated. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 22:57, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
WP:AFC Helper News[edit]
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
- AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
- The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Process question: MR possible?[edit]
In the following abstract situation:
- RM is closed and the article is moved
- A dissatisfied editor undoes the move against the RM close,
Can MR be used to uphold the RM close?
This concerns the situation that is currently discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Move warring at Killing of Ashli Babbitt (/ Shooting of Ashli Babbitt). I was worried that my request at MR would be declined, as I would not have been challenging a close. So in this instance I opted for ANI, but maybe MR could have been more useful? I saw that you are active at Move review and are probably able to answer this. Thanks in advance. twsabin 00:27, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- For example... can I start a Move review on the move undoer's behalf, using neutral wording and/or quoting them, with the intended goal of the move actually being endorsed? Would that be seen as misuse of the venue, or even abuse of process? I guess it could be seen as a waste of time, but ANI seems like an even bigger waste of time now, and actually quite counterproductive... twsabin 00:48, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Twsabin: SmokeyJoe and I go back a ways and his talk page has been on my watchlist for a while. Specific to the Babbitt question, as you've likely gathered please hold off on opening anything else until the ANI resolves per WP:FORUMSHOPPING. I'm curious to hear his thoughts on this, though, since this is a weird one. Maybe asking for advice/attention at WT:MR instead of starting an actual move review? VQuakr (talk) 01:03, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- Abstract question. Ok. I have not seen anything so far.
A dissatisfied editor undoes the move against the RM close
- Either, the move was out of order in some obvious way, and I expect an excellent edit summary or a link to a talk page explanation, or, the dissatisfied editor is out of order and should be talking instead. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- I'll continue in the abstract realm: The edit summary contains a potentially relevant objection of a procedural sort, that may or may not correspond to reality. No talk page, no amending the close. twsabin 02:24, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Draft:Vladislav Sviblov[edit]
Could you see a draft of this article? Валерий Пасько (talk) 18:27, 3 April 2022 (UTC)