User talk:Shizhao

Hi. I'm the author of this map. What license do you need for Wikipedia? I didn't have a problem with it being used when I uploaded it years ago, and I still don't. Sheesh. Citynoise (talk) 18:39, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Can you put into the summary field either "zh-tw:", "zh:" or "zh-cn" whenever you insert an interlanguage link? Thanks, Jiang/talk 02:16, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Yes. --Shizhao 02:46, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Shizhao, I believe that the interwiki links to the Chinese article on the airplane should stay. I don't understand why you would not want them... WhisperToMe 00:27, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

In Chinese, 飞机 no Aircraft,Aircraft is 航空器. aeroplanes = 飞机--Shizhao 02:02, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Shizhao - in general, interwiki links belong at the bottom of an article, not the top. →Raul654 00:38, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

thanks!--Shizhao 00:52, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I moved your copyright violation listing from WP:IfD to Wikipedia:copyright problems. Just so you know. grendel|khan 12:47, 2004 May 26 (UTC)

Thanks Shizhao, I took the information and copied it, then erased it, so as not to invade your privacy. I will give you a call tomorrow. Danny 03:08, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm. I will find a solution. Danny 03:28, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Hello. Thanks for uploading Image:Sd-yantai.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, so I don't know its copyright status. Did you make this image yourself? If not, do you know where the image originally came from? Any information you could give me would be very much appreciated. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 00:56, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

Hi! Could you translate (may be briefly only) this article in Chinese. Note, taht native spelling of this city is Qazan. Thanks! --Untifler 19:41, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

i believe the DS image i uploaded is a lot cleaner and visually appealing than the real picture of the PSP and DS. I do not understand its attempt at deletion. Lockeownzj00 02:11, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Shizhao. If you could take a look at, say, Category:1991 births where your robot has just added a number of interwiki links. Now the problem is that those interwiki links are there twice, which looks rather weird. I suspect it is because of the template at Template:birthyr, which already includes interwiki links to Czech, German, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Slovenian and Chinese. Is there any way you could stop your bot from adding those specific languages to the birth years categories, and if there is, would you be kind enough to do so? Thanks, Sam Vimes 13:50, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Shizao. Please do not add interwikis (de, fr, ja, no, zh) to the "births" and "deaths" Categories. These interwikis are already a part of "birthyr" and "deathyr" template. Look for example on Category:1973 births. Interwikis are doubled. Can you remove redundant interwikis from these categories, please? -- Darwinek 16:43, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Sorry--

Shizhao 17:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mu_%28letter%29&diff=22209429&oldid=19701491

You removed de even though it was immediately obvious without any need to be able to read german what the correct way of disambiguating it was. You also moved ja out of order at the same time. Please take at least some care when updating interwikis. Plugwash 23:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/China page as living in or being associated with Beijing. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Beijing for instructions. Rmky87 16:22, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

您好Shizhao，由於找不到閣下的電子郵件，只得在英文版跟您通話，我的用戶號碼又被封了，這次又不知是什麼原因，請閣下儘快解封我的IP，謝謝。--Iflwlou 18:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello Shizhao, because I am unfind your Email address,only converses you in English version , my user name has been seal again, I do not know what reason, please solution to seal my IP as soon as possible, thanks. --Iflwlou 18:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't get it, why are you removing images from a whole bunch of articles? Dragons flight 20:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Can you tell me why you are removing images from articles? You left no reasoning on the dicussion page why you removed the images, nor did you give any advance warning of your action.

All of the images that you removed from Dodge Dart were posted under the "Promotional" tag and used in a fair manner under those tags. I have replaced the images that you removed.

If you continue to do this I will involve an Admin in this manner. Stude62 13:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

A notation on your edits state that you removed the images from Commons. Can I ask that in the future that you use the comment line at the time you act. It helps us to understand why the images are being deleted. Stude62 13:43, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

You've reverted an EU sourced image of Chris Patten to a US government sourced, poorer image with no reason given whilst presumably migrating it to the commons. Going backwards doesn't help wikipedia.--Sully 18:30, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you ! It is very nice of you to take the time to remove the broken links here at en:. Much appreciated! Jkelly 19:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

你是有名的！！ ：）Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-20/China revisited --pfctdayelise (translate?) 09:06, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

When you are nominating images for deletion, please follow guidelines and notify the uploader appropriately. If the procedure is not followed, the images that were nominated cannot be deleted, even if there is a valid reason for it. Can I have your buy-in on this, as this would help all of us build and maintain Wikipedia? Thank you. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 03:37, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

You have listed the domain 167bt.com to the spam blacklist. An editor has requested that it be removed. Please leave a comment either on this page or on Meta regarding what I should do about this request. Thanks Naconkantari 21:18, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Header.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Selket ^Talk 22:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_April_9#Image:Drizztsojourn.JPG I would like to inform whoever this guy is, that the reference you have given :http://www.o-love.net/realms/head_elf.html is the set of OLD book covers, where as http://www.o-love.net/realms/head_dri.html#Homeland is the set of the new book covers, and the image is the third book. Also, this reference you gave is NOT offical, thus could even be wrong. Think twice before doing something similar again, o brother of China. --Cynehelm 11:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

你懂不懂我在說三小朋友啊, 中國人--Cynehelm 17:09, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

You were mess-up. The interwiki link you add (es, id and zh) are article for a specify mech, not list. While the link you remove (th) is the list like this article, just pure list without description. L-Zwei (talk) 14:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

我是中文維基上的1j1z2，要是您在2008-08-05 23：00（UTC+8）之前看到這個留言，請到meta的USERCHECK上看我的最新留言--1j1z2 (talk) 06:13, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Just a quick notice that your bot has been blocked for running without approval. Please get it approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval before starting it again. (Note: I'm not 100% sure that this is your bot, if it isn't sorry for disturbing you) --Chris 13:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Just a note: he has an open request on meta for a global bot flag, but not granted yet. Shizhao, I'd suggest waiting for that to be completed before you do anything more with this bot. You could also request a flag here, if Meta doesn't grant you one. I'm not too familiar with the Chinese Wikipedia, but please be aware that English Wikipedia tends to insist on a strict bot policy, so you need approval even for testing. Meanwhile, thank you for contributing to the interwiki work. It's sorely needed. — Gavia immer (talk) 14:54, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Do you know where can I find an up-to-date list of township-level divisions (xiang) of Yunnan Province? Thank you!--40fifw0 (talk) 02:35, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

An article that you have been involved in editing, List of places by name, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places by name. Thank you. GDibyendu (talk) 09:42, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

我的帐号，User:Jediarc，被基督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong封杀。请大家看看User:Jediarc的贡献，破坏维基了吗？应该被封吗？基督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong封杀Jediarc的理由是“"确认为傀儡: 使用傀儡User:石皮土不破坏。如果阁下对此有异议，请向本人发email申诉"”。如果我发email给督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong，会有用吗？User:石皮土不根本不是我，可以查一下。？User:石皮土不的贡献中所写的你们说你们不是汉奸洋奴，那你们为什么要建立Wikipedia:维基小天使？天使是西方宗教里面的，你们分明是崇拜西方宗教，你们还敢说自己不是汉奸洋奴？—石皮土不 (留言) 2008年11月4日 (二) 05:45 (UTC) ” ，这根本不是我的观念。天使怎么会是西方宗教里面？中国文化中本就有天使的概念。请问基督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong，你凭什么确认User:石皮土不是User:Jediarc的傀儡？管理员能够随便确认一个用户是傀儡吗？这不是随便栽赃一个人吗？User:Jediarc本身破坏维基了，还是对维基有贡献？为什么要封杀？应该怎么处理，希望维基参与者共同来讨论一下。 -流星天使 (留言) 2008年11月4日 (二) 16:52 (UTC) -（我是流星天使，但是好像一登陆流星天使就不能发言，所以重新注册了一个账户）Gdiarc (留言) 2008年11月4日 (二) 17:43 (UTC)

以上是User:1j1z2删除掉我的投诉。

另外，我佩服两个独裁的白种亚当子孙基督徒1j1z2、Gzdavidwongd的配合，甚至让人不得不怀疑这是不是一个人的两个傀儡账号，尽管可能不是（白种亚当子孙可能是个侮辱，实在忍无可忍。基督徒、独裁都是事实）。连接

• (当前) (先前) 2008年11月4日 (二) 16:58 1j1z2 (对话 | 贡献) (47,430字节) (undo vandalism)
• (当前) (先前) 2008年11月4日 (二) 16:57 Gzdavidwong (对话 | 贡献) 小 (保护 Wikipedia:互助客栈/其他: 被IP用户或新用户破坏: 十字军大屠杀傀儡破坏 ([edit=autoconfirmed] (终止于 2008年11月5日 (三) 16:57 (UTC)) [move=autoconfirmed] (终止于 2008年11月5日 (三) 16:57 (UTC))))

有关争议，参见

• Wikipedia:互助客栈/其他/制止基督徒管理员的独裁行为，维护公正、自由的维基百科
• Wikipedia:互助客栈/方针里也有关于傀儡账户的讨论问题

希望你能关注维基上最大的独裁迫害行为，基督徒管理员制造的这个问题，并讨论建一个防止独裁的不扼杀人的制度。谢谢。 -Gdiarc (留言) 2008年11月4日 (二) 17:43 (UTC)

以上内容，Gdiarc刚才在几个行政员、管理员的讨论页上留言，Gdiarc的贡献，刚才又被白种亚当子孙基督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong全部给删除了。他有权利去删除别人讨论页上的内容吗？ -（Gdiarc被基督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong封了以后重新注册的账号）Gediarc (留言) 2008年11月4日 (二) 18:29 (UTC)

“User:石皮土不”并不是我的傀儡，也就是说不是User:Jediarc的傀儡。但基督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong却栽赃“User:石皮土不”是User:Jediarc。请求你帮我提出做一个Check User。谢谢。希望大家都来讨论，制止基督徒管理员的独裁行为。 -Gediarc (留言) 2008年11月4日 (二) 18:29 (UTC)

以上中文版被基督徒管理员User:Gzdavidwong删除，只好到这里给你留言（连接如果要能正确显示，请找中文版，或者把这段复制到中文版去看）。如果你不希望本条留言留在这里，请看完后删除。打扰。 -Gediarc (talk) 18:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

忘了说，我在英语版的账号是：User:Dicting。有事情请留言。 -Gediarc (talk) 19:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi there I don't really do much on Wiki any more but if you look at all the images that have added the villa player ones all come from my friend called Justin who said we could use them?

Would you mind photographing the Air China headquarters in Shunyi District whenever it is convenient and whenever the weather permits it? Thanks. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:12, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi there Shizhao, and thanks for running this useful bot. However, I noticed that it's currently adding interwikis to template pages. Since pywikipedia does not work properly for adding interwikis to template on the English Wikipedia, please disable this. For an example of an error by the bot see this edit (the interwikis should have been added to the documentation page), for our policy regarding this please see Wikipedia:BOTPOL#Restrictions_on_specific_tasks. I'd also appreciate it if you could clear up any errors the bot may have madeon template pages. Best, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 10:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary for your edits. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Acather96 (talk) 19:34, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 18:10, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Hello, your edit to Template:Infobox album apparently broke the "Singles" functionality. I have gone ahead and reverted. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:13, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it did actually, that was due to my mistake on Template:Singles. However I don't think the edit you made would have had any effect. "Class" without a number is not a recognised parameter of {{infobox}}. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:25, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Actually I am more interested in how you edited this fully protected template as you don't appear to be an administrator? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:28, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

sorry, error edit -Shizhao (talk) 12:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Shizhao, do you speak Russian? Mr. Lyon Kiborg 20:33, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello Shizhao, I'm facing some restrictions you've implaced on global. Specifically speaking, I cannot contribute/edit/reply messages on more than one occasions when certain messages pops up telling me that I cannot do so due to my end being a Tor Exit or Open Proxy (I get mostly the former but sometimes the latter too). Is there anyway to help me solve this problem? Best. (注：如有不懂之处，我也能以中文与你沟通，谢谢！) --Dave ^{♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫®} 17:44, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

请告诉我被认为是Tor exit的IP，如果顾虑隐私问题，可以写信到steward-l，或者也可以申请IP block exemption权限--Shizhao (talk) 01:17, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

• 因为我是新加波的网络用户，我发觉我这里有一些朋友们也是申请了IP block exemption权限，所以我也想要，不知可以帮个忙吗？　谢谢。　--Dave ^{♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫®} 04:03, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Shizhao, you have global blocked becuase I use open proxy but it is very difficult for me to contribute on En WP and En WN. Please unblock my ip. Thanks. --Saqib Qayyum (talk) 07:13, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Good evening, Shizhao. I've got a blocked user requesting unblock. Apparently, their IP was blocked globally by you, and is set to expire in October 2011. Could you have a look? The account here on en.wiki is User talk:Akbeer. Even if it's a "Sorry, no chance", some insight would be welcome. Thanks again! UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 13:18, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello,

Can you please explain why you think that WP:CRYSTAL applies to articles about future eclipses? That policy is intended to prevent articles based on speculation. There is nothing speculative about eclipses in the next 100 years - their dates and characteristics are perfectly predictable and encyclopedic articles can be (and have been) written about them. Cullen328 (talk) 04:59, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I see that you have still not responded to the request for a comment on the unblock request at User talk:Akbeer. The user has now been waiting for nearly three weeks. Can you comment? Even a simple dismissal would be better than leaving the issue unresolved. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Shizhao, in deleting File:Ohms law vectors.svg did you have a reason for ignoring the {{KeepLocal}} template or did you just not notice it? SpinningSpark 23:55, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Since you're the one who locked my account, kindly see meta:Steward requests/Global#Global unlock for CaliforniaAliBaba. 61.18.170.45 (talk) 16:13, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._Jayalalithaa&action=historysubmit&diff=447700445&oldid=447699513 Help needed in incorporating the facts present in my version and to stop monopoly of certain users (names can be seen in history page).Typekept (talk) 18:56, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

What is wrong with using a fair use image in Chonma-ho ? - ☣Tourbillon ^A ? 06:58, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

I see you've made a comment at WP:OPP regarding a possible open proxy on 70.125.85.158. Could you please also check this one as you had blocked it globally. I have also left you a message regarding this block on your meta user page. Thank you!--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 04:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

This is still open, awaiting your input regarding the global block. Could you please review the WP:OPP report on IP 222.166.181.218 as soon as you are able? Thank you, --Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 22:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Hey Shizhao. I'm dropping you a note because you've been using the Page Curation suite recently - this is just to let you know that we've deployed the final version :). There's some help documentation Wikipedia:Page Curation/Introductionhere that shows off all the features, just in case there are things you're not familiar with. If you find any bugs or have requests for new features, let us know here. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Shizhao. I am a fan of the Chrome apps you created for various WMF wikis, and use them regularly. You may be aware of the WMF's newest project, Wikivoyage, of which I am an avid editor. It would be great if you could create an app for Wikivoyage in Chrome (if there is no cost, of course). It would bring the new wiki even more exposure and give us a 1-up on the competition. Thanks in advance, JamesA ^>talk 02:45, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Dear steward! Circassian Cossacks from Russian Wikipedia headed by Pessimist2006 from the military prosecutor's office in Minsk and Alex Smotrov from the Greater Circassia in the USA claim that Rodzayevsky is the father of Russian liberalism and democracy. In their opinion, almost all Chinese assassinated diring the WWII, were Jews and Rodzayevsky had invited the Japanese to China to liberate Russia and China from Jews. The lands of China, Russia, Ukraine and the USA are to be owned by the Greater Circassia, in their opinion. The victims of the siege of Leningrad are responsible on the death of Circassian Cossacks from Waffen SS and Jewish police during the WWII. The WWII was the military crime of China and the USA and their allies, in their opinion. This is original research and vandalism. Circassian Cossacks privatised Russian Wikipedia to bring up new Tsarnayevs'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.66.221.172 (talk) 05:47, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hey there. I got your notice from Wikimedia Commons, and hope it's OK I post it here. Those images of the Perfect Storm flooding were taken by my mom, and she agreed to release them into the public domain. I took them out of a photo album. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:19, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

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A film poster does not need an online source. If the source info is "Scanned from an original," then that's all the info required. Please don't put files up for deletion without good reason, as it just creates unnecessary hassle for other users. Cheers. 121.216.56.226 (talk) 08:33, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

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For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...

• Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
• WikiProject X has an outpost on Wikidata! Check it out. It's not widely publicized, but we are interested in using Wikidata as a potential repository for metadata about WikiProjects, especially for WikiProjects that exist on multiple Wikimedia projects and language editions.

That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing! If you have any questions or comments, please share them with us.

Harej (talk) 01:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Greetings! For this month's issue...

We have demos!

After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:

• A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
• An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.

We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.

Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.

While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.

Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.

We need volunteers!

WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!

As an aside...

Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.

Harej (talk) 01:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:31, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

You're redirecting pages to their Chinese equivalents. Are you taking the piss or what? Jimp 17:08, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Delivered on behalf of The Wikipedia Library by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

You have transfered a lot of good pictures of Flensburg to Commons, would it possible that you transfer also the following pictures. My words before the Link could be a good name for each single picture (file).

• Altes Bauhaus-Geschäft Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365984402/
• Heinrichstraße Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365986850/
• Märchenfroschkönig Flensburg Variante 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180776081/
• Märchenfroschkönig Flensburg Variante 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7366005800/
• Märchenfroschkönig Flensburg Variante 3: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223342867/
• Märchenfroschkönig Flensburg Variante 4: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223342927/
• Natürliche Skyline Flensburg-Mürwik: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/9359087078/
• Flensburger Ostseebad im Sommer: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/9359086252/
• Flensburger Straßenschild Beate-Rotermund-Straße https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/9333689789/
• Flensburg-Fahnen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7366019604/
• Froschbrunnen Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7366007848/
• Grillstelle Klueser Wald Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/9356331469/
• Güterbahnhof Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/9686849714/
• Flensburger Bahndamm: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/9683779957/
• Holmpassage beim eim ZOB Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180770831/
• Unrenovierte Rote Laterne, Schiffbrücke, Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/234882543/
• KBA Flensburg, Bild 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180793459/
• KBA Flensburg, Bild 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180753973/
• KBA Flensburg, Bild 3: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180753305/
• Schusterkate bei Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180746545/
• Flensburg-Sonwik: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180754885/
• Flensburg Grenzbahnhof: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180749479/
• Flensburger Werf und Sonnenuntergang: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180747775/
• Flensburgs Hafermarkt im Schnee: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180683333/
• Winziger-Hunk bei Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180677531/
• Solitüde bei Nacht: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365904680/
• Solitüde im Sommer: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180674677/
• Flensburger Förde 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365923702/
• Stellwerk Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180694401/
• Flensburger Straße im Schnee: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365911492/
• Gebäude vor Abbruch in Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365944136/
• Flensburger Abbruch Kandidat: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365943472/
• Industriegebiet-Süd Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365949640/
• Wolfsmoor Flensburg 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365956590/
• Wolfsmoor Flensburg 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365964082/
• Altes Gymnasium Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365963098/
• Blick Flensburger Ostseebad rüber zum Roten Schloss: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365971142/
• Informationswagen des Deutschen Bundestages an der Hafenspitze: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365966836/
• Tierheim Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180740191/
• Ballon von Schäferhaus über Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365893306/
• Unrenovierter Marine-Wasserturm Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365886886/
• Blick vom Vorburgbereich auf die Marineschule Mürwik: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365886138/
• Haupttor der Marineschule: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180658739/
• Flensburger Brauerei: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180654649/
• Straßenschild nach Mürwik: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365840964/
• Die neuen Sonwik-Häuser: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180609719/
• Handwerker bei der Rast - Liefereingang C&A Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180606459/
• Das alte Flensburger Ortsschild in Mürwik: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365829212/
• Strandfrieden Flensburg im Winter 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180618577/
• Kutsche beim Museumshafen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180641667/
• Die Küste Flensburgs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365868812/
• ICE in Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180631543/
• Holmpassage zur Weihnachtszeit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365854102/
• Wasserflugzeug in Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365848884/
• Strandfrieden Flensburg im Winter 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365844152/
• Fast unbeschädigter Neptunbrunnen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365869366/
• Tafel Knud Lavard: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365877012/
• Holm-Nixe: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365875066/
• Mineralbrunnen in Wassersleben: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180644969/
• unbeschädigter Neptun vom Nordermarkt: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223344036/
• Haltestelle St. Pauli in Flensburg (Schleswiger Strasse 58): https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180586231/
• Weihnachtsbaum beim ZOB Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180575779/
• Dreimaster auf der Flensburger Förde: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365799824/
• Industriehafen Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180572101/
• Alter Citti-Park: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7365514690/
• Das alte Bahnhofsuhr-Gemälde: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223344922/
• Portal vom Johannsen Rum Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180595739/
• Holm Weihnachtszeit 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223344193/
• Holm Weihnachtszeit 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/7180577047/
• Holm Weihnachtszeit 3: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223344089/
• Blick zum Kinopolis in der Weihnachtszeit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223344060/
• Skulpturen-Park Ostseebad: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223343958/
• Ostseebad in Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223343969/
• Bei der Holmpassage in der Adventszeit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223344211/
• Große Straße Weihnachtszeit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223344143/
• Shamrock Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223338397/
• Skulptur bei der Hafenspitze Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223342470/
• Die Kutsche beim Museumshafen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223342267/
• Ein Bild vom Froschbrunnen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223342536/
• Märchenschlossmotiv Glücksburg 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223343024/
• Märchenschlossmotiv Glücksburg 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223342996/
• Raddampfer in Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223341858/
• Feuerwehr Rettungsdienststelle Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223274676/
• Heissluftballon über dem Flensburger Hafen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223274597/
• Heissluftballon über Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223274585/
• Blick über Sonwik rüber zur Burg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223336425/
• Brillen-Kate beim Twedter Plack: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223336287/
• Rathausstraße zur Weihnachtszeit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223335688/
• Adelbyer Meierei: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223274975/
• Marine Hospital Flensburg: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223274892/
• Grüner Leuchtturm bei Flensburg Fahrensodde: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223276213/
• Flensburg Delphin-Apotheke: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223276584/
• Wasserturm im Volkspark zur Nacht: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223276812/
• Baustelle beim Flensburger Rathaus: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223274725/
• Schild Militärischer Sicherheitsbereich Flensburg-Mürwik: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223336668/
• Wagen Jacob Cement: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223337220/
• Das Kinopolis am ZOB zum Abend: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno/223335550/
• Blick zum Kinopolis zur Weihnachtszeit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fleno//223335664/

Greetins from Flensburg. :-) --Soenke Rahn (talk) 15:50, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Most pictures are also there to find: http://www.panoramio.com/user/4315719?comment_page=1&photo_page=2&show=best --Soenke Rahn (talk) 16:18, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

The Interior 15:23, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

I almost gave you a vandalism warning for recent edits like this one. But when I reviewed your previous good work, I think someone may have guessed your password, and is pretending to be you. Or maybe your kids found your computer logged on. In either case, maybe you should change your password. Art LaPella (talk) 20:21, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

I have now reported this to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Art LaPella (talk) 21:12, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:30, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

The Interior, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Please publish your opinion on Wikipedia talk:Flow. Thank you.--Shwangtianyuan STRONGLY CONDEMNS 2016 North Korean nuclear test 07:55, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

This month:

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

This month:

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

• The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
• The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Dayao is a subdivion of Liuyang city, Hunan. i think the name Dayao, Liuyang is better than Dayao, Hunan. help me moving Dayao, Hunan to Dayao, Liuyang, thanks. Cncs (talk) 06:06 November 11, 2016

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:

23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Shizhao! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

• The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
• The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
• The Teahouse new editor help space
• Wikipedia Help pages

-- 08:05, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• New collections
  • Alexander Street (expansion)
  • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
• User Group
• Global branches update
  • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
• Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
• Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello :-) The Anti-Harassment Tools team at the Wikimedia Foundation will start building these granular blocking tools in a few weeks and we've asked WMF designer Alex Hollender to help us make some wireframes so the tools are intuitive to MediaWiki users.

We have a first draft of how we think this tool should work. You can read the full proposed implementation here but here are the significant parts:

• Granular blocks (page, category, namespace, and file uploading) will be built on top of Special:Block. These blocks will function as if they were regular blocks and allow for the same options, but only take effect on specific pages.
• We will add a new checkbox for "Block this user from the whole site" which will be checked by default. When it is unchecked the admin will be able to specify which pages, categories, and/or namespaces the user should be blocked from editing.
• Granular blocks can be combined and/or overlap. (For example, a user could be simultaneously blocked from editing the articles Rain, Thunder, Lightning, and all pages inside the Category:Weather.)
• Only one block is set at a time, to adjust what the user is blocked from the administrator would have to modify the existing block.
• Block logs should display information about the granular block
• When a blocked user attempts to edit an applicable page, they should see a block warning message which include information on their block (reason, expiration, what they are blocked from, etc.)
• If a category is provided, the blocked user cannot edit either the category page itself and all pages within the category.
• If the File: namespace is blocked, the user should not be allowed to upload files.

We like this direction because it builds on top of the existing block system, both a technical and usability wise. Before we get too far along with designs and development we'd like to hear from you about our prosposal:

1. What do you think of the proposed implementation?
2. We believe this should be an expansion of Special:Block, but it has been suggested that this be a new special page. What are your thoughts?
3. Should uploading files be combined with a File namespace block, or as a separate option? (For example, if combined, when a user is blocked from the File namespace, they would neither be able to edit any existing pages in the File namespace nor upload new files.)
4. Should there be a maximum number of things to be blocked from? Or should we leave it up to admin discretion?

We appreciate your feedback on this project's talk page or by email. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF) (talk) , Trust and Safety Specialist, Community health initiative (talk) 20:54, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

My poem is bad but my apology for the bad links is sincere!

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018

• #1Bib1Ref
• New partners
  • Rock's Backpages
  • Invaluable
  • Termsoup
• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
• Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
• Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:33, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018

• New partners
  • Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
• Wikimania
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello Shizhao. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Phoenix Qigong, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: (sub-)belief systems are not an eligible subject for A7 speedy deletion. Thank you. SoWhy 07:54, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

• Library Card translation
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:43, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

• Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
• I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
  • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
• Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

• OAWiki
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:34, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• New and expanded partners
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:30, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:41, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.

There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:

• A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
• We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!

Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:

• Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
• WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

• Partnerships
• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:21, 12 July 2019 (UTC)