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FBI articleSorry for the revert... you beat me to the edit! Wray won't start until he is sworn in, though. I've made the change. Thanks, Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 21:42, 1 August 2017 (UTC) Ways to improve Brown v. Socialist Workers '74 Campaign CommitteeHi, I'm Boleyn. Javert2113, thanks for creating Brown v. Socialist Workers '74 Campaign Committee! I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. It is unclear if the external link is actually a source - please cite your source clearly, preferably WP:INLINECITED. The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Boleyn (talk) 16:16, 17 August 2017 (UTC) Radical Democracy PartyHi there, just curious about your recent changes in spelling to American English on the Radical Democracy Party page? What was the issue there? EricthePinko (talk) 17:29, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
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A personal attackWhy am i not surprised a fucking socialist is the one putting soviet backed lies about the polish resistance movements in their articles. How about listening to Eastern Europeans who lived through socialism/communism or had families who lived through its horrors instead of believing everything your college priest professor tells you. And while youre at it you ought to look up the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward. Courtesy of 2602:306:8389:4120:3C38:D701:3A6E:B5A0, talk.
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@ToBeFree: Oh, no, no, no, I most certainly do not, I say again, do not deserve this honor. But thank you all the same, my friend. — Javert2113 (talk) 22:23, 9 April 2018 (UTC) Welcome to Milhist! Hello and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history. A few features that you might find helpful:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask any of the project coordinators or any other experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome, and we are looking forward to seeing you around! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:34, 10 April 2018 (UTC) Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter II (chief mouser) has been accepted The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! -- RoySmith (talk) 17:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)LapinShe’s actually only the author of one NYT Best selling book. The second book was not a best seller as far as I could tell. Blackbelt whitetails (talk) 19:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Trying to update Friends of Animals pageI am trying to update the Friends of Animals page to reflect on the news lawsuits its Wildlife Law Program is pursuing since that section of the page is outdated but this update keeps getting deleted. What exact proof do you require. 18:48, 19 April 2018 (UTC)F (talk)
Invitation to WikiProject PortalsThe Portals WikiProject has been rebooted. You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it. There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals. Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore. It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them. The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond. A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete. We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years. Let's do this. See ya at the WikiProject! Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 10:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update, April 22, 2018Thank you for joining the Portals WikiProject. Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it... RebootThe WikiProject reboot has been a success: the new re-envisioned project is up and running, with new members, ongoing discussions about automation, design, and upkeep; maintained task queques; and updates to members, like this, the very first one! As you know, there's a proposal to delete all portals. It started out looking pretty dismal for portals, with primarily posts supporting their demise. It turned out that the proposer didn't post a deletion notice on the very pages being nominated for deletion (a requirement for all deletion discussions). Once that was done, a flood of opposition came in and has apparently turned the tide. RfCs generally run for 30 days. It started April 8th, and so it has about 14 more days to run its course. The more work we can do during that time on the portals, the stronger the reasons for keeping them will be. And the more prepared we will be for any MfDs that follow the closing of the RfC. AWB?You may be wondering why we asked for AWB experience in the member-sign-up list. We are gearing up to do maintenance runs on the entire set of portals, and the more people we have who can use AWB, the better. But we're not quite ready to start this yet. To be able to use AWB on the portals, we first need to know what the end result needs to be. Like on the news sections, do we comment out the out-of-date ones, or do we place the code to activate the newsbot on those pages? That would require an assessment of WikiNews and its news generating performance (areas covered, volume in each area), etc. You can help us figure this out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about news sections. Another area we're gearing up for, to do passes with AWB, are upgrades to the intro sections of portals. Many of these have static (copied/pasted) excerpts that go stale over time. We're trying to figure out how to make self-updating excerpts to replace the existing static excerpts that are on many portals, and once this is done, AWB will be used to place the new code. See the discussion on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about selective transclusion in intros. "What can I do?"There are 3 major areas of activity right now: Update the main portal list at Portal:Contents/PortalsThere are a few hundred existing portals that are missing from this list. The list of missing entries, and instructions on what to do, can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. We need everybody's help on this. It's a big chore for one persons. But, many hands make light work. Please help chip away at this chore as much as you can. A little each day, form all of us, will get this done pretty quick. Familiarize yourself with the portal systemIn addition to browsing the portals in the 2 lists mentioned in the section above, you should take a look at the portal name space itself and what is in it. That can be done at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Watchlist. Join in on the discussionsThere are discussions on many aspects of the WikiProject's operations, with more to come. Such as about the purposes and functions of portals, design discussions, and so on. There's even a automated design discussion over at Village Pump Technical, on selective transclusion. I hope to see you on the talk page. What's coming?In addition to the automation efforts mentioned above, we will be looking into how to automate the selection and display of alternating excerpts, and alternating pictures, for the various portal sections. Watch for these discussions on the Wikiproject's talk page. Summing up...Get ready, get set, go! — The Transhumanist 22:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC) P.S.: The main example given at the RfC of the problems of portals was Portal:Cricket. Therefore, it's the top priority portal to update. Please lend a hand. - TT Portals WikiProject heads up, April 27, 2018We now have 52 members, and more are joining daily. New and easier way to handle excerptsAttention portal maintainers! There's a new template to improve existing and new portals, called {{Transclude lead excerpt}}. It is a lot easier to use than copying and pasting text from articles, as it displays the paragraphs you specify automatically for you. It makes excerpts so that they are always current and never go stale or fork. It is more powerful than it looks, because it has the Lua Module:Excerpt supporting it. Be careful, as it is alpha software. Please notify the WikiProject talkpage of any problems you come across. To give you a sense of the reaction this template is generating, here is an excerpt of a discussion thread from the WikiProject's talk page:
I wrote a comment in the the April 26 section of the RfC explaining what we are up to. I liked the excerpt above so much, that I went back to my RfC posting, and inserted it. Please add Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals to your watchlistWish listWhat's this? An old oil lamp. It's so dirty, I think I'll polish it... *poof* Whoa! Are you a WikiGenie? In that case, I get 3 wishes! I wish...
Please make my wishes come true. See you around the portals! — The Transhumanist 08:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC) Charles-LemaireHey! PLZ could you give your opinion as you said on the discussion page on : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Benjamin_Charles-Lemaire TY. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djumbo75 (talk • contribs) 00:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC) Yang-Mills theoryThank you for your intervention but this is a vandal not a good-faith man. He does not know Wikipedia's rule. He wants just "to kill" Frasca.--Pra1998 (talk) 14:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
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WikiProject Portals Overview, May 04, 2018Thank you for being a member of the Portals WikiProject, and thank you for all the work you have all been doing on the portal namespace. To see the activity, check out the watchlist. This is our 3rd issue, see previous issues at the Newsletter archive. Top priority: Main list of portals needs updatingThe top, and one of the most visible parts, of the portal system is Portal:Contents/Portals, which is intended to list all (completed) portals on Wikipedia. About half of the missing existing portals have been added since this WikiProject's reboot (April 17th). Thank you to RockMagnetist, TriNitrobrick, Polyamorph, PratyushSinha101, Ganesha811, Bermicourt, Javert2113, Noyster, Ɱ, Lepricavark, XOR'easter, and Emir of Wikipedia, for working on this. We are half-way to completion with this. We need everyone to chip in until it is done. Instructions, and the list of missing entries are at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. I hope you'll join me there. ("Many hands make light work"). Thank you. MembershipWe're at 66 members, with more joining daily. We even have 6 WikiGnomes! Special thanksI have awarded Certes with a portals barnstar on his talk page for his work on the new excerpt templates that are revolutionizing the portal system (Template:Transclude lead excerpt & Template:Transclude random excerpt). If you'd like to show your appreciation, please feel free to stop by his talk page and add your signature to the barnstar itself. Thank you Certes. You are enabling this WikiProject to get the right things done, fast. By the way, the templates have already gone international. After being told about the templates, Mossab wrote:
RFCAs you know, the (April 8th) proposal to delete all portals and the portal namespace inspired the reboot of this WikiProject. RfCs typically run for 30 days, which means there are 5 days left including today, before the RfC will be closed. The !votes are predominantly "oppose", but many editors have shared their disappointment with the portal system. We have our work cut out for us in correcting the problems of the portals to address their concerns. Complaints ranged from being out of date and lacking maintenance, to taking up the time of editors that they felt (due to low traffic) would be better spent improving articles. Anti-WikiProject dramaThis past week has been somewhat stressful for me, with more than a little conflict... It culminated with my being reported at the Administrator's Noticeboard "for spamming and canvassing". This is the second time I've been reported there during the RfC; the first one was for posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages. The accusations were 1) Posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages, 2) Adding an Article alerts section to the Portals WikiProject page, and 3) posting notices (invitations) about this WikiProject on user talk and portal talk pages. None of which fall under the Wikipedia definitions of spamming or canvassing. Thank you, Lionelt and Lepricavark, for coming to my rescue. I don't know how the discussion would have turned out if you had not spoken up. The discussion was closed as "no action necessary". After that, the person responsible posted their thoughts to my talk page. Here they are, with my response:
Automatically refreshed excerptsThe main advancement we've made so far is applying selective transclusion Transclusion is template technology, showing a page on another page. Selective transclusion shows only part of that page. We use it to show excerpts that always match the source. The two templates we have so far, are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt. Obsoleting subpagesExcerpts are migrating toward the base page of each portal, and where this is done, a subpage is no longer needed. Template:Transclude lead excerpt will be able to be used to put the intro excerpt directly on the portal page, rather than on an intro subpage, once we adapt a portal design to accommodate this. Template:Transclude random excerpt is currently being used on 1st-level subpages, and eliminates the need for 2nd-level subpages. (Many portals have 2 levels of subpages). There are about 1500 portals, but there are around 148,000 subpages in portal space. Further discussions are needed to develop designs and components that do not require them. It is my hope that the portal of the future will be a single page, or close to it, pulling in excerpts from specified dynamic sources (like category pages), filtered by ratings. This would obviate the need for subpages at all (except for maybe the header and footer subpages, which store a portal's settings). A more likely near-term solution would be subpages with a list maintained by a bot, or editors using semi-automatic tools. New portalsSince the reboot, a new portal has been created: Please watchlist these pagesSome central pages in the portal system. The more eyes on them, the better.
Wrapping up...There's more in the works, like a rating system, further redesigns, etc. Keep an eye on the discussions on the project's talk page. They should start showing up there soon. Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC) Urgent request regarding an editor who ignores WP:RSI recently thanked you for reverting an edit at Draft evasion. I urgently need your help there. Over the last ten days, Clupo1 has been attempting to add information to that article based on unreliable sources. Twice now, I have explained to him why his chosen source was unreliable, the second time in great detail, as you can see from the bottom of that article's Talk page. However, yesterday he added more material from another and – as you can see – laughably unreliable source, https://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-draft/ Obviously, I am not capable of reaching him – perhaps because he is in college and I'm in my 70s. Or perhaps he is just not willing to listen. Either way, the Draft evasion article depends for its crediblity on using only highly reliable sources as defined at WP:RS. It cannot afford to be degraded. Would you please therefore intervene here, perhaps by definitively communicating to Clupo1 that he cannot enter information into the Draft evasion article (or elsewhere!) using unreliable sources? Thank you for being here, I will watch this space in case you care to speak to me directly. Best, - Babel41 (talk) 02:47, 3 May 2018 (UTC) P.S. I am not happy to say this, but it is possible that Clupo1 uses several identities, and that he may be the very same person whose edit you reverted and – much more seriously – the one who three times attempted to damage the Mark Satin article (an article I brought to Featured Article status and discuss on my User page) a couple of days after I first reverted Clupo1's material. Fortunately, three different senior WP editors reverted those three ill-meant edits almost immediately. Nothing like this had happened there for years. - Babel41 (talk) 02:47, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Another RfC on Net NeutralityA month ago you participated in an RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 147#Net neutrality. The same proposal has been posted again at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal: A US-only CentralNotice in support of Net Neutrality. (This notice has been sent to all who participated in the prior RfC, regardless of which side they supported). --Guy Macon (talk) 20:51, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
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Mz7 (talk) 04:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC) WikiProject Portals update, 11 May 2018We've grown to 73 members, and morale is high. Thank you for joining. Here is some news, and some tasks... The RfC will be closed soon...2018-05-11: preparations are being made to close the RfC. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals. When there, be sure to notice the consultation link. We're trying to get a prototypical single-page portal developed in time to show the RfC closers before they make their final decision. You can help. It's Portal:Humanism. So far, we've applied selective transclusion (automation) to excerpts, and have made the following sections without subpages: intro, selected article, selected biography, categories, related portals, wikiprojects, things to do, and wikimedia. Eight down, 4 to go, plus 2 formatting subpages (not sure we can migrate those). Automating every section, would also be nice. Main objectivesOur main objectives currently, are:
Maintenance pass #1: Upgrading the intro sectionThe intro section of many portals transcludes an "Intro" subpage that has an excerpt in it. We're replacing that with a selective transclusion directly in the intro section, bypassing the subpage. Though, there's a little more to it... For instructions, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Transclude intro excerpt directly on the portal base page. Please skip Portal:American Civil War, as that is specifically being maintained by hand. Maintenance pass #2: Obsoleting the Wikimedia subpagesOne of the sections on many portals links to sister projects on the subject. This needlessly takes a subpage. The subpage can be made obsolete by using the template {{Wikimedia for portals}} directly on the portal base page. This has been done for several hundred portals so far. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Obsolete a Wikimedia subpage for instructions. Maintenance pass #3: calling the category tree from the portal base pageCertes figured out how...
For more information, see the thread Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Rendering PAGENAME inside categorytree tag doesn't work (it does now). More to come...In the meantime, see ya around the portals! — The Transhumanist 15:34, 11 May 2018 (UTC) The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. Moving aggrieved editor's comments down from former location, after Welcome to the WPA!The sourcing of this antifact is incorrect. Where is Emerson's name on the document? Who can prove he "offered his services as a sharpshooter"?? You are not from Hawai'i, so you do not know the passions inflamed by false misinformation like this. Dr. Emerson made countless contributions to Hawaiian culture and you cut him down with your last fake paragraph. Do not change it back. It is incorrect, just like the majority of Wikipedia. Are you proud to spread misinformation??? Huaka'i Emerson (talk) 16:59, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
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Portals WikiProject update, 15 May 2018We are at 74 members. If you know anyone who might find this WikiProject interesting, please invite them. The RfC has endedThe RfC was closed May 11th, and a closing statement was posted May 12th which says "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." Ongoing tasksSome major activities that we are in the middle of include:
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Portal-building resourcesDuring his work on portals, Broter found a quote randomizer. It is {{Random quotation}}. Trailblazer: approaching the one-page portalBroter has transformed the Portal:Community of Christ so it is comprised of only 3 pages in portal space: the base page, its box-header subpage, and its box-footer subpage. Its other other subpages are now obsolete and are waiting for deletion. Nice job, Broter! Well, that's all for now. See ya around the portals. — The Transhumanist 06:38, 16 May 2018 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotSuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun! Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping. If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 02:34, 17 May 2018 (UTC) Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018We have grown to 79 members. Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo. A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there. Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening... New news template ready for testingEvad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals... {{Transclude selected current events}} is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns. Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!" See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Alternative to Wikinews. Thank you, Evad. Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem... Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there. Please check Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this. Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page. Thank you. Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually. New portal, still needs work
Drafting a new portals guidelineYour input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals. See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11. See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#RfC on new portal guidelines RfC on new TOC layout for main portal listThere is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals. See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals#RFC on layout update. Deletion discussion survivorsThank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...
Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page. Portal space clean upWhile portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per {{Db-p1}} or {{Db-p2}}). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist. There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal. For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:
Then an admin will come along and delete them. Please help list the unlisted portals!There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet... Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work. The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. I hope to see you there! Wrapping upThese developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon. — The Transhumanist 00:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC) Whoa, I missed one...There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report Enjoy. P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined! — The Transhumanist 01:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC) Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018We have grown to 89 members. This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive. WelcomeA warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members... Our new members include:
Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team. The portal set has shrunkThere were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV. Maintenance runs on the portals set have begunThis is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB. More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :) The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin. Thank you, youI'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you. Why reread that mess, you ask? To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below... Thank yous all aroundI've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page). Sockpuppet, and reverting his workIt so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed. This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run. The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:
Automation so far, section by section...
Automatic article alerts is up and runningAutomatic article alerts are now featured on the project page. Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Choosing workflows, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts. Other things that could use some automationNoyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board. Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that? Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you. Deletion discussion survivorsKeep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).
(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page). Portals needing repairWrapping upThere's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue. Until then, see ya around the project. — The Transhumanist 12:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotSuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun! Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have. SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping. If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 03:36, 4 June 2018 (UTC) Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins. WelcomeA warm welcome to the newest members of the team: Be sure to say hi. CongratsPbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him. The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone." New feature: Picture slideshowPicture slideshow
Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right. Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Refining the Picture slideshow. The one-page portal has been achievedWe now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own. I commend you for your teamworkThis is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you. In conclusion...There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page. — The Transhumanist 02:09, 7 June 2018 (UTC) Barefoot BayI have lived in Barefoot Bay for many years. The "mobile home" claim originates from a logo that was created early on in the history of the development. It was and is an unfortunate error. Please do a Google Map street view walk through yourself. It is as I claim. There is not a single mobile home in the entire district. Respectfully, please do not revert the correction again. 65.34.30.154 (talk) 01:42, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Deletion of ExportsIndiaHey Javert2113 I think you deleted the page exports india that I created today. While I agree on the language part of it, I Wanted to highlight that they are notable since the portal in India is amongst the likes of Ali Baba (China) as indicated by the article on Entrepreneur.com. Also, the unique aspect about them is not taking funding or loans and scaling without external support which is inspirational for many entrepreneurs in India. Wanted to request you to reconsider the deletion. Thanks. Waqaralamwiki (talk) 17:07, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
your undo on FelidaeAnything mentioning the "cat economist" Roland Baines or Roland Atwood Baines is a hoax by yet another sock of a blocked editor. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/RJCola. Meters (talk) 19:10, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC) fake accusation of vandalismIDid nothing wrong.all I did was get some facts of the internet and inject my information into this free amazing Encyclopedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yellowbanana69 (talk • contribs) 20:42, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion contested: Patty PaineHello Javert2113. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Patty Paine, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Being an associate professor at VCU School of the Arts is a fair CCS, further she is indexed on GScholar. Article, while trying to be complete, is not obviously promotional. Take this to AFD if attempts at WP:ATD fails. Thank you. Sam Sailor 15:54, 13 June 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #009, 15 June 2018(Article slideshow prototype) Selected animals
Don't mind that box to the right. We'll be talking about that later, below. Almost done...With the portals upgrades? No. :) What is almost done is the updating of the main list of portals! There are 23 portals left to be listed. Kudos to the WikiGnome Squadron, for spearheading this. Once it is fully updated, we need to keep it up to date. When you complete a portal, remember to add it to Portal:Contents/Portals. Concerning portal upgrades, we are working on those section-by-section... Associated Wikimedia section conversion task completeThe Associated Wikimedia sections of the entire set of portals have been upgraded. These are now handled on each portal base page (bypassing the previously used corresponding subpages), using the {{Wikimedia for portals}} template rather than reiterated copied/pasted code. So, to be more accurate on reporting upgrade progress, that's one section down (for the whole set of portals), with (about) nine sections to go. (Skipping curated portals, regarding custom content sections, of course). Further section conversions (using AWB)Work is underway on converting Portals' introduction sections, and the categories sections. If you would like to help, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Upgrade introduction sections and Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#AWB task: Convert category sections Further section conversions (by hand)Work has also started with converting selected picture sections to picture slideshow sections. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Install picture slideshows. Quality rating system for portals under developmentCurrently, there is no quality rating for portals: in the Portals WikiProject box on each portals' talk page, it just says "Portal". But times are a changin'. Quality assessment is on the way, and you can help. See the discussion. What's coming: excerpt slideshowsEvad37 has figured out a way to apply the picture slideshow feature to displaying article excerpts (now you can check out the provided box above). :) This allows us to bypass page purging to see the next selection, and you can even click through them rather quickly. Currently, the wikicode for doing this for article excerpts is a bit eye-boggling, and so we are looking into simplifying it. A streamlined version may be just around the corner. Note that this is a prototype, not ready for widespread use. Click on the box in between the lesser than and greater than signs, to see what I mean. It was meant for pictures, and so the thumbnail feature doesn't apply to article prose very well. I've presented it even though it isn't ready, to show the direction portal development is heading. See the discussion. WowI'm amazed at how rapidly portals are evolving. And we're still within a single generation of portal technological evolution. Imagine what they might be in 2 or 3 more generations of developments. Pretty soon, portals will be able to shake your hand. :) — The Transhumanist 11:04, 16 June 2018 (UTC) HTML cleanupCould you please change the
RequestHello, I hope I am using this correctly. If possible can you please undo the mistake that I made by deleting David Williams (professor)'s whole page. I would like to edit the page after conducting an interview with him but I did not mean to delete the whole page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorelle.audrea (talk • contribs) 00:24, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
SignatureHi Javert! We learn something new every day here. On Template:Did you know nominations/Giulia Bongiorno my edit would not show in preview. The culprit is the pipe in the middle of your signature. Change Thanks, Sam Sailor 07:28, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
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