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The Signpost: 10 December 2012
- News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
- Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
- Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual
The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.
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- EdwardsBot (talk) 23:21, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Test
Testing editing at work, I'll revert this later - Do Not Revert... - Rich - 212.8.163.213 (talk) 17:49, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Alan Fletcher
Hello Rich
I'm just wondering if this addition to Alan Fletcher should have been picked up by ClueBot? It's obvious vandalism to me--5 albert square (talk) 01:51, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 December 2012
- News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
- WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
- Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
- Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
- Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
- Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors
MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.
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- EdwardsBot (talk) 01:41, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
ClueBot NG must go!!!
Listen up git, I heard you run ClueBot NG eh? Well I have bone to pick with this so called 'bot'. This automated piece of rubbish is ruining Wikipedia by blocking legitimate edits. I am currently leading the petitions to get rid of ClueBot NG for which, by the way, support is mounting fast. I love helping Wikipedia out by sharing my wealth of knowledge on the lower leagues of British football (or 'soccer' to you yanks), however I am now absolutely fuming at the way in which I have treated by this ridiculously strict 'bot', which will block any (and I mean any) perfectly legitimate information I so kindly donate to Wikipedia. I have a wealth of knowledge on the field of lower league footballers and lesser known teams, information which, if allowed to share, would significantly improve the current appalling state of Wikipedia's pages on lower league English football. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boomage (talk • contribs) 22:36, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
- Well it seems you are unable to sign your own post, want to hide your identity? I would love to see said petitions which you seem to have not linked which makes me think they don't exist... and calling me a git? You are sad... - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 22:39, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Hypocrite
You seem to have a policy by which you always remain civil to others on Wikipedia, Well, in the way you just replied to me that's clearly not the case - calling me 'sad', not very civil is it. You are the one who sent me a message saying remain civil to people on Wikipedia, it seems you have already broken that trust. You're obviously rubbish with computers because you're one of the makers of ClueBot NG which is (as i said) an automated piece of rubbish which wrongly blocks legitimate edits on Wikipedia. You are letting down Wikipedia with your rude reply to users. I can tell you're one of these cocky arrogant gits because of your username. Unbelievable you are, the downfall of Wikipedia.
- "Cocky arrogant gits"... really... - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 23:24, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Are you a 10 year old?
Are you a 10 year old? I know it sounds ridiculous but the way you're speaking and the language you are using in your replies is very slang and unprofessional. When I talk to other Wikipedia moderators they speak in a more civilized manner and are more polite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boomage (talk • contribs) 23:49, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
- 1. I'm not a Wikipedia admin or mod or whatever, please don't presume I am.
2. I do not see any slang, show me an example of where I have used slang.
3. You are asking me to be polite? I don't think calling me an arrogant git is really going to help...
4. This is the final time I will respond, if any one else like to chip in to this they are more then welcome too - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 00:13, 25 December 2012 (UTC)- It would be interesting to see the ClueBot reversions which are being complained about.TheLongTone (talk) 12:23, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 December 2012
- News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
- WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.
- Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.
- Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.
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- EdwardsBot (talk) 08:51, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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User talk:ClueBot NG#Feeding ClueBot false-positives into ClueBot NG, someone is wondering if it's possible to combine User:ClueBot and CBNG's false positive databases? I'm not sure that is possible, firstly because they are two separate bots, secondly because ClueBot has been out of action for so long and I'm fairly certain ClueNet has updated a lot since then and a merge wouldn't work for technical reasons. Thirdly I'd imagine combining the databases would make them massive as ClueBot had close to 1.6 million edits when he retired!
The same editor also edited User:ClueBot/FalsePositives and put ClueBot's wikibreak template on there. They said that they did that because they were reporting a false positive that the original ClueBot made, they found an old false positive reporting page for ClueBot and they said that it took them ages to work out that ClueBot was no longer in action. I've removed the wikibreak template and tidied things up a bit by putting a small notice on the old reporting page explaining old ClueBot is on a Wikibreak and giving the link for ClueBot NG's false positive reporting page at ClueNet. I hope that's ok.--5 albert square (talk) 22:24, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
- That's fine, thanks :) - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail 23:29, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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