User talk:Frankie/Archive 2

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Please comment on Talk:Ariel A. Roth

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huwp

Requesting usurpation on hu.wiki — Frankie (talk) 11:04, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. Regards. - RepliCarter (talk) 18:52, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Vacuum

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Please comment on Talk:Creation and evolution in public education

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Please comment on Talk:List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming

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nl:wp

Requesting usurpation on nl.wiki — Frankie (talk) 16:12, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

 Done - Best regards, Freaky Fries (talk) 08:18, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Black body

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:How to improve image quality

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Request for usurpation

I have no objection changing my username, please replace my username with the person who has requested for the change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faireh (talk • contribs) 23:59, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

cs.wiki

Requesting usurpation on cs.wiki — Frankie (talk) 14:25, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Verifiability

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Please comment on Talk:Gina Rinehart

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Please comment on Talk:IQ and the Wealth of Nations

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

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New Page Triage engagement strategy released

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 01:56, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Circumcision

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Page Triage newsletter

Hey guys!

Thanks to all of you who have commented on the New Page Triage talkpage. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :).

In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an office hours session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on my talkpage and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Quantum mind

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New Page Triage newsletter

Hey all!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first office hours session; the logs can be found here, if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).

In the meantime, I have greatly expanded the details available at Wikipedia:New Page Triage: there's a lot more info about precisely what we're planning. If you have ideas, and they aren't listed there, bring them up and I'll pass them on to the developers for consideration in the second sprint. And if you know anyone who might be interested in contributing, send them there too!

Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Richard Lynn

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help triage some feedback

Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:31, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Heat

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Please comment on Talk:Tau (2π)

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Please comment on Talk:Extrinsic extensor muscles of the hand

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A big NPT update

Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

coding

• Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
• Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:03, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps

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Please comment on Talk:Signal (electronics)

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Please comment on Talk:Wind power

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Please comment on Talk:Bloop

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Please comment on Talk:Common rail

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holiday World & Splashin' Safari

Closed
The result was KEEP. Nomination Withdrawn. Mlpearc (powwow) 20:26, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update

Hey Frankie/Archive 2 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I'd like your help investigating some cross-wiki vandalism

I was recently informed of an apparent cross-wiki vandal. I was hoping you could help me by letting me know if the edits by 190.118.210.133 (talk · contribs · info · WHOIS) are supported by the Spanish-language sources. Supposedly this is the same user as an indefinitely blocked user at the Spanish Wikipedia, Eagle_c5. The story checks out from what I can tell (The spanish user has indeed been blocked at the Spanish Wiki; from what I can tell via Google Translate, it is due to consistently adding false information to the same articles that this IP has been editing here), and the IP is blocked at Spanish wiki as well, so everything about the story checks out so far. Unfortunately I can't comb through references and Spanish Wiki logs very easily not knowing Spanish, so I need help from someone who does. Thanks in advance! -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 22:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Nevermind, I should have done due diligence; the IP is blocked at Spanish Wiki as well for the same reasons. That's enough evidence for me; sorry to waste your time! -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 22:46, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem at all, specially since I wasn't around to answer :P. I'm glad you took care of it. Regards — Frankie (talk) 12:21, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I took a quick look to the latest edits both here and on es:WP, and it isn't clear cut vandalism, rather there's disagreement upon the population figures and other details. I can't say for sure which side is "right" without further review, but it does seem that Eagle_c5 was going against consensus. User:Milesmyth made some edits earlier today that suggest they might be the same as the IP, but the reference they reintroduced is to the INEI, so it strikes me as odd that it had been removed as being "false". I can't go through the details right now, but I'll review them tonight — Frankie (talk) 13:03, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Quick Note, War on Women has been renominated for Deletion--209.6.69.227 (talk) 19:22, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Vaccinium Cyanococcus

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War on Women, an article whose AfD you participated on is again nominated for AfD

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/War_on_Women_(2nd_nomination)--209.6.69.227 (talk) 12:29, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Frankie! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:30, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:13, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

da.wiki

Requesting usurpation on da.wiki — Frankie (talk) 02:44, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Citing sources

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Usernames

I don't know if you're monitoring replies on my talk page anymore, but in answer to your original question you posted to me at User talk:Amatulic#Usernames, the example I was thinking of may be User:Mark at Alcoa. He is not blocked, and shouldn't be, because his username clearly belongs only to him, and it isn't a problem if he discloses his COI in his username as long as it's clear the account belongs to him individually, not his employer.

If you look at his talk page, you'll see he was originally blocked for having a corporate username, and then changed it to "Mark at Alcoa" which was acceptable to some admins and one bureaucrat involved in the discussion. I was following it at the time, but didn't participate there, and I agreed with the outcome. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the followup (I have indeed been stalking your talk page, but mostly because I got interested on the section directly below my question ). Yes, I found that particular case and thought that it was the most relevant. There were a couple of additional discussions on the subject of usernames that only partially included a company's name (with some consensus for focusing on contributions and not on the username at that point, given that WP:GROUPNAME was met), but most of what I found were old discussions on whether to allow exact company's names, which culminated in the current policy. By the way, the rename has been completed already with the username they requested — Frankie (talk) 21:29, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Requested moves/Closure review

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Tombrown16 - tomshutterbug name change

Hi, I've responded to your query about the name change. Is it possible for you to take a look? Tombrown16 (talk) 21:41, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

he.wikisource

Requesting usurpation on he.wikisource — Frankie (talk) 18:05, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Usurpation request for Mphilipose

Can I please ask you to clarify what you meant by "Usurpation requests are usually granted to reasonably established users only."? I am simply trying to get the username Mphilipose cleared up so that my friend can re-create that account and get started here on Wikipedia. For consistency purposes, it is usually preferable to edit under only one name through one's wiki-career. Thanks! Rotorcowboy ^talk
_contribs 19:55, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

The thing is that accounts cannot be deleted, so the name couldn't be "cleared up". What can be done is that the contributions of one existing editor are moved to the usurped name and the contributions of the user whose name was usurped are moved to a generic name. So, in this scenario, if your friend creates an account with the name "Example" and uses it to edit, then later if they usurp "Mphilipose" all of their contributions will be attributed to that username, and all of Mphilipose's edits (if there were any) would be attributted to something like "Mphilipose (usurped)". To show you an actual example, I got this username by usurpation as well. I made this edit while my username was "Patitomr" (see the signature), but after usurpation it was re-attributed, so it now shows up as "Frankie" in the history. Hope that clears up your doubts; please don't hesitate to ask if it doesn't — Frankie (talk) 20:12, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Summary style

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