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Hello everyone, just checking in. It's been over two years since I stated I went on hiatus. This will remain my status till November, due to university. I look forward with great anticipation to a period in which I have enough free time to contribute as substantially as I once did. —Anonymous DissidentTalk 13:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Science lovers wanted!
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| Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 01:49, 17 April 2012 (UTC) | |
Sydney meetup
Hello, you expressed interest in future meetups, a meetup will be held on Saturday May 5th at the Alexandria Hotel, further information can be found on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing you there!
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*waves*
Hey, I just wanted to say hello - I saw your name on Seresin's talk and just had a good long walk down memory lane about the glorious days of the TSQUAD. Good to see you around dear! :) Keilana|Parlez ici 07:01, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for dropping by, Keilana! There's something indefinably pleasant about seeing old friends still here, among the ever-changing sea of new faces. :-) —Anonymous DissidentTalk 07:35, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- Absolutely, and considering how many of those familiar faces I had found to have moved on when I returned, it's even better to see old friends still kicking around. Keilana|Parlez ici 16:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello
Good lord! You've been here a very long time :) I thought of you as an early editor on julian assange - hope you're enjoying the wiki! Privatemusings (talk) 11:54, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Military history coordinator election
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Sydney edit-a-thon invitation
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Main page appearance: The Covent-Garden Journal
This is a note to let the main editors of The Covent-Garden Journal know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on January 6, 2013. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 6, 2013. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegates Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), Gimmetoo (talk · contribs), and Bencherlite (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you can change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
The Covent-Garden Journal was an English literary periodical published twice a week for most of 1752. It was edited and almost entirely financed by novelist, playwright, and essayist Henry Fielding (pictured), under a pseudonym. The Journal incited the "Paper War" of 1752–1753, a conflict between a number of contemporary literary critics and writers, which began after Fielding declared war on the "armies of Grub Street" in the first issue. His proclamation attracted multiple aggressors and instigated a long-lasting debate argued in the pages of their respective publications. Initially waged for the sake of increasing sales, the Paper War ultimately became much larger than Fielding had expected. Further controversy erupted in June, when Fielding expressed support for a letter decrying the Government's 1752 Disorderly House Act in the Journal. His remarks were viewed by the public as an endorsement of the legality of prostitution. The final issue of the Journal was released on 25 November 1752. In its last months, poor sales had resulted in a transition from biweekly to weekly release. Ill-health and a disinclination to continue led Fielding to end its run after the 72nd number. (Full article...)
Precious
road less traveled
Thank you for quality articles, such as The Covent-Garden Journal and Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, for helping to understand why Wikipedia is not a sinking ship (but one under construction), for taking the road less traveled, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (10 June 2007, 25 October 2008, 1 April 2009)!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you; that's very kind! —Anonymous DissidentTalk 12:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, - it made Alpine route better ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- A year ago, you were the 357th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, co-author of Alpine route, photographer of the sapphire, missing, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:50, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
- Three years ago, you were recipient no. 357 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
| Ten years! |
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- 10 years, in a way ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
- Amazing how the time has passed! Anonymous Dissident (talk) 14:43, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- 10 years, in a way ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
- Seven years precious ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi AD
Following the drama at BN, I'm trying to come up with a statement all Crats could agree to. Please take a look, below.
I am quite content to do this onwiki -we have always worked transparently, except where secrecy is essential (ie RTV). I think we should be able to wordsmith a statement acceptable to all, and I think it's an important thing to do.
- In my opinion, this issue has come about through an unfortunate proliferation of documentation: policy, guideline, how-to etc
- I am not convinced that there is community consensus on all of the points encapsulated in those various pages
- I am unhappy at what may be described as some or all of: inconsistencies, inaccuracies or lack of clarity in that documentation
- I do not believe that any of the issues we have faced have been caused by Crats trying to widen their powers
- I would like to see the issues clarified, based on consensus, and for the documentation to be updated accordingly
- I'd like to thank Griot-de for generously withdrawing the rename request
Signed
[crat sig]
Lmk what you think. Many thanks, --
- I'm not sure what all this is about Dweller. If you can give me more context, I'll consider a signature, should it still be required. Regards, —Anonymous DissidentTalk 12:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Sydney meetup on Thursday
Notification of proposal to ban Spanish articles from Did You Know?
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There is currently a proposal to ban articles concerning a large area of southern Andalusia from appearing on the Main Page of Wikipedia in the Did you know? section. This would affect a significant number of articles within the scope of WikiProject Spain. If you have a view on this proposal, please see Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs#Proposal for one-year moratorium on Gibraltarpedia DYKs. In addition, you may have a view on an alternative proposal to lift restrictions on Gibraltar-related articles on DYK - please see Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs#Proposal for lifting the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs. Prioryman (talk) 14:38, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
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Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:04, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
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Merger discussion
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Steve Darcis discussion
Hello
Just wanted to say hi and ask how university is treating you. It seems that both of us have gone over the hill when it comes to editing here, no? bibliomaniac15 05:10, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
- Hi there, old friend. It has been a very long time indeed. University goes well. Are you yourself studying, or working, or...? I do wish I had time to edit. Maybe one day we'll ride again, hey? —Anonymous DissidentTalk 13:19, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
- Biblio! I saw this on my watchlist and was totally delighted to see you're still around occasionally. :) AD - glad to hear university is going well, what are you studying? :D Keilana|Parlez ici 17:05, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
- Hey Keilana! I'm studying pure maths, which I'm really loving. Are you almost done with your study? —Anonymous DissidentTalk 10:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
- Ooh, that's fantastic! One of my childhood friends does game theory in Canada. She's scary brilliant. I'm one year through my undergraduate studies, I'm doing molecular biology with a smattering of Arabic and Islamic Studies and it's wonderful! I'm so glad you're enjoying university. :) Keilana|Parlez ici 16:04, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
- It's like a little reunion up here. :) Will be entering my last year of university. bibliomaniac15 18:32, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
- Ooh, that's fantastic! One of my childhood friends does game theory in Canada. She's scary brilliant. I'm one year through my undergraduate studies, I'm doing molecular biology with a smattering of Arabic and Islamic Studies and it's wonderful! I'm so glad you're enjoying university. :) Keilana|Parlez ici 16:04, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
- Hey Keilana! I'm studying pure maths, which I'm really loving. Are you almost done with your study? —Anonymous DissidentTalk 10:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
- Biblio! I saw this on my watchlist and was totally delighted to see you're still around occasionally. :) AD - glad to hear university is going well, what are you studying? :D Keilana|Parlez ici 17:05, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
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WP:FOUR RFC
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Please remove the Pricasso link on the main page
This is likely the most controversial article on Wikipedia right now. User:Russavia is in the process of being de-bureaucrated for trolling Jimbo with this article. There is no way this would get through the DYK process if it had been brought to the attention of large numbers of Wikipedians. In short this is a pretty "good" example of what's wrong with Wikipedia/Commons governance. Please remove asap. Smallbones(smalltalk) 00:39, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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Sydney September 2013 edit-a-thon invite
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Invitation to Sydney editathon - Saturday 23rd November
There is a backstage pass coming up to be followed by an editathon in the State Library of New South Wales on Saturday 23 November. This is the first time that an Australian cultural institution has opened its doors to us in this way and will be a special opportunity because the Library is providing: one of its best rooms; its expert curators (along with their expertise and their white gloves); a newly launched website (containing new resources); and of course, items from its collection (including rare and usually unavailable material) which we can look at, learn from, and use, to improve WP articles. For example, on the chosen topic (Australia and WWI), the Library holds many diaries and manuscripts from the period.
As you can see from the Library's project page, they have connected this editathon with their own work. They have already set out a wide range of resources to make things easier for us. Please sign up on the editathon project page if you can participate either online or in person with other Wikipedians. Hope to see you there! (Sorry if you've received this message before - I did a quick check but didn't see it.) 99of9 (talk) 10:43, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits/Blacklist
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WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II
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WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II
For our freedom and yours Welcome to the second issue of WikiProject Poland newsletter, the Monitor (named after the first Polish newspaper). Our Project has been operational since 1 June, 2005, and also serves as the Poland-related Wikipedia notice board. I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions. We hope you will join us in them, if you haven't done so already! Unlike many other WikiProjects, we are quite active; we get close to a hundred discussion threads each year and we do a pretty good job at answering all issues raised. Last year we were featured in the Signpost, and our interviewer was amazed at our activity. In the end, however, even as active as we are, we are just a tiny group - you can easily become one of our core members! In addition to a lively encyclopedic, Poland-related, English-language discussion forum, we have numerous useful tools that can be of use to you - and that you could help us maintain and develop:
This is not all; on our page you can find a list of useful templates (including userboxes), awards and other tools!
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Sydney Meetup on Monday evening
There's a Meetup in Sydney on Monday (tomorrow) evening from 5:30pm at the Paragon Hotel Circular Quay. We even have an international guest. See the meetup page for more details and to sign up. Sorry for the late notice - I hope you can make it. --99of9 (talk) 05:55, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
An important message about renaming users
Dear Anonymous Dissident,
I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.
As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.
Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.
The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.
Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.
In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.
Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.
Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 18:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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Heads up
Hello, just letting you know that you've been mentioned at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. Graham87 08:42, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. –xenotalk 04:50, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!
The Military history Wikiproject has opened nominations for the Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year. Nominations will be accepted until 13 December at 23:59 GMT, with voting to begin at 0:00 GMT 14 December. The voting will conclude on 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
The editathon I mentioned
Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/University of Sydney Wikibomb --99of9 (talk) 05:44, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
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- In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
Quotes from Jimbo on Wikipedia in education; net neutrality; preserving musical heritage; Wikipedia in audio; a cheerful vandal credits high school with papal visitations.
- Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
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- Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
ArbCom's three open cases are GamerGate, Wifione, and Christianity and sexuality.
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The Bugle: Issue CVI, January 2015
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The Signpost: 28 January 2015
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- In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case
The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee has closed the colossal GamerGate arbitration case, whose size—involving 27 named parties—recalls large and complex cases of the past.
- In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia
A murder suspect edits Wikipedia, Russia is kidding when it says it wants to censor Wikipedia.
- Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate
Does the committee facilitate stability... or is it a circus. Two users, two perspectives.
- Traffic report: A sea of faces
It is pretty clear what the theme is this week: people.
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A paper presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition last year presents an automated method to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theatre plays.
- Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola
As with last year, music stars were the majority of celebrities on the list, as their frequent concerts and media appearances keep their flames alight longer than others of their stripe.
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The Bugle: Issue CVII, February 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CVIII, March 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CIX, April 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CX, May 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CXI, June 2015
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Five years on
Five years on and I think I may have come around to your viewpoint (Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats#Activity requirement). Though is mine a novel argument for the proposal? –xenotalk 18:16, 29 June 2015 (UTC) (edit: Looks like I'd forgotten you'd gone inactive. Hope all is well.)
The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015
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