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Archive 1

Writing about fiction

Please see WP:WAF. The article is ~75% plot summary. Rather than the plot summary being a nominal portion of the topic, it is nearly the entire thing. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello, Ciridae, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some links to pages that you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! – Wdchk (talk) 19:13, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Medical Colleges in Sri Lanka

Thanks for trying to fix the redirect that was pointing to the wrong page: [1]. It turns out that there are relatively few criteria for speedily deleting a redirect. Where there seems to be a good case, you can list the redirect according to WP:Redirects for discussion. If you read the notes there, though, you'll also see that we generally try to avoid deleting old redirects, unless they are really harmful. In this case, I looked at the page history and saw that the last edit was by a bot trying to keep up with a page move, and for some reason ending up with a strange result. No matter – if the redirect is useful, we can just fix it by editing to point to the intended target, which I have done. Hope this helps. – Wdchk (talk) 19:13, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

@Wdchk: Thanks for the pointers and for correcting the redirect. Much appreciated. Ciridae (talk) 06:42, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Novels Assessment

Hey Ciridae! Saw that you were doing a lot of assessment for WP:Novels. I would recommend using the assessment tool at User:Kephir/gadgets/rater, which should help a lot with making assessment quicker. Let me know if you ever have any questions/thoughts, Sadads (talk) 16:33, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

@Sadads, thanks a lot for this! It definitely makes it much easier. Ciridae (talk) 08:56, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Working on Navboxes and Orphaned articles

Great work on the navboxes like Template:Robin Hobb. Those are really important tools for connecting the more well known works by authors with less well known works :) Its an awesome project to be doing with Fantasy novels. I would highly recommend continuing to think about the Orphaned article backlog in the Novels project more generally, which can also be solved with navigational boxes. For a list of articles that need this work and fall in the novels scope, see this listing. The tool also lays out the various other WP:Backlog items that would be great to work on. Let me know if you ever need more help working on articles: I would be happy to mentor you if, you need help: we need more curators of WP:Novels content :) Sadads (talk) 15:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@Sadads, I would love your help. I've just created a new article on the Unfettered anthology. Can you have a look at it and see if there are improvements? (Rate it too!!) I had trouble finding enough secondary sources. Ciridae (talk) 18:19, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

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your revert at Malazan Book of the Fallen

Hi Ciridae, just wondering why you reverted my addition of the category:Pigs in literature? I added it as (some of) the books have a character, Fener, a god of war who appears in the form of a boar, and is also known as the Boar of Summer, and Tusked Sower of War. .

Coolabahapple (talk) 07:55, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

i placed the cat in the series article and not the specific book(s) article(s) as i can't recall which books he appears in. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:07, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

@Coolabahapple - The category would be appropriate in case the article in question was about the character itself. We'd have a veritable menagerie of categories otherwise. Also, as characters go, Fener is a minor character in the series who is unlikely to have an article in Wikipedia. Ciridae (talk) 08:12, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

okay, thanks. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:17, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:

Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
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New branches and coordinators

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7

Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

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)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

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

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8

Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

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!

Help us build our list!

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.

An open database means new tools

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!

On the horizon

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)

Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

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

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9

Newsletter • May / June 2016

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)

Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

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

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
New Library Card Platform and Conference news
Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Esslemont Image

~~Hi.~~
I got your warning regarding Ian Cameron Esslemont's image and was wondering how the usage of the image was a copyright violation, since it's an image used by nearly every other website mentioning the author (which does imply fair use)?
Fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law allow use of copyrighted materials on a limited basis for specific purposes without the permission of the copyright holder. ^[1]

~~(Also: WP:NFC)~~

~~The usage on Wikipedia is only for the subject's article, which also coincides with CC License 4.0.~~
~~Look at this comment as nothing more than genuine curiosity from someone who has little experience with wikimedia and would like to know more in order to prevent such missteps in the future.~~
~~Thanks in advance.~~

Never mind. After reading up a bit, I see where I went wrong.

N. GASIETAtalk 14:10, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Göran Fredrik Göransson

On 26 November 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Göran Fredrik Göransson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Göran Fredrik Göransson (pictured) was the first to successfully implement the Bessemer process for steel production on an industrial scale? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Göran Fredrik Göransson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Göran Fredrik Göransson), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Precious

books and industry

Thank you for quality articles such as Mistborn: Secret History and Göran Fredrik Göransson, for the book Book:Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, for uploading book covers, for templates and precise redirects, for "infobox and other updates" and supporting free speech, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:06, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Gerda Arendt! I really appreciate this! Ciridae (talk) 14:12, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Three year ago, you were recipient no. 1520 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:02, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 20

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Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

Partner resource expansions
New search tool for finding TWL resources
#1lib1ref 2017
Wikidata Visiting Scholar

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10

Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

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

23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK for The Light that Failed

On 7 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Light that Failed, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light that Failed, was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Light that Failed. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Light that Failed), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 21

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Books & Bytes
Issue 21, January-March 2017
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

#1lib1ref 2017
Wikipedia Library User Group
Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
Spotlight: Library Card Platform

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Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Issue 22, April-May 2017

New and expanded research accounts
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