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DYK process

Hi, John. Right now you just sit tight and wait for a prep builder to promote your hook to the prep area. Keep Template:Did you know nominations/Prusa i3 on your watchlist so you'll know when it's been promoted. After that, watchlist T:DYKQ so you can see the prep set being promoted to the queue. At the top of T:DYKQ is the calendar of when each queue appears; based on your time zone, that's how you'll know when it's scheduled. The DYK bot will post a notification on your talk page and on the article talk page when the hook appears on the main page. There's not much you can do about having the hook appear in the lead image slot; that's up to the promoter. But it's a strong image, so there's a good chance it will appear as the lead image. Best, Yoninah (talk) 16:12, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks @Yoninah:, really helpful, is there any way to express a preference to when it is displayed? I understand they change every 8 hours? I live in France so it would be nice if I could ask for it to appear while I'm awake :)
Thanks again
--John Cummings (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
The sets run for 12 hours at a time. Usually people ask for specific dates or times as per the article subject itself. After your hook is promoted to a queue, you can look at Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Tomorrow and Next DYK) to see a mock-up of the main page with your hook in it. Yoninah (talk) 17:38, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi again. Your hook has just been moved to the lead image slot in Prep 1, which is scheduled to be promoted to Queue 1, which is scheduled to appear in France on July 8 from 5 AM to 5 PM. Things could change, so keep an eye on T:DYKQ. Best, Yoninah (talk) 12:27, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi @Yoninah:, thanks very much for the information :) --John Cummings (talk) 04:03, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Prusa i3

On 8 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Prusa i3, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the most used 3D printer in the world (pictured) can partially self-replicate? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Prusa i3. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Prusa i3), 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) 02:19, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

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If you want to say "Thanks very much Carl Fredrik", and ping them at the same time, just use the {{user}} template - shortcut is {{u}} - like this: Thanks very much {{u|CFCF|Carl Fredrik}}.

The {{ping}} template adds @ and : and you have to show a different text like this: {{ping|CFCF|label1=Carl Fredrik}}. Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 16:42, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Wonderful, thanks RexxS. --John Cummings (talk) 20:46, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Yer, that worked. --RexxS (talk) 21:21, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Hi John!

Loved to see the 3DBenchy page you made! :) Thanks for your work and taking the time to write about the little 3D printing benchmark boat.

Greetings from Sweden. Paulo Kiefe (talk) 20:36, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Paulo Kiefe, glad you like it, please do let me know if I missed anything out or got anything wrong, I want to add some photos of failed prints if you have any? --John Cummings (talk) 09:04, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

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Unesco Art Collection

Hi John, I stumbled upon Unesco's art collection website and would be interested in adding all the (notable) works to Wikidata. The website doesn't mention unique inventory numbers for the artworks though, and that's more or less a requisite on Wikidata (or at least we prefer to include those). Would it in any way be possible for you to ask around at Unesco who takes care of registration of these works, and whether it would be possible to obtain a data export that does contain inventory numbers? Also, this might be interesting for a small image donation at some point (of the public domain works) - but that has less priority IMO. Thanks! Spinster (talk) 12:59, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Spinster, thanks for your message, I've looked into this a couple of times and there doesn't seem to be a unique ID numbering system, this is the case for many UNESCO lists. When we have imported other UNESCO lists into Wikidata we have simply created a temporary fictional ID system which is later removed, NavinoEvans knows a lot more about this than me. I'm going to try to set up a kind of data import workflow for all the different datasets UNESCO has, maybe we could use the art collection data as a trial?
Thanks again
--John Cummings (talk) 23:23, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to "target countries" discussion

Hello, John Cummings! Since you attended the Global South meeting at Wikimania 2016, we're inviting you to a discussion on "target countries". You can help the product team at the Wikimedia Foundation create a new list of countries and metrics to replace the "global south" concept in our process with something more relevant. Interested? Learn more about this discussion and share your perspective. (This message is available in more languages.) Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 00:14, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

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WP:VPT

Hi John, any idea what's going on between your comment at WP:VPT and my comment? Something happened and both are kinda munged together. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:17, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Oh wait, I think it was just a missing </nowiki> tag. I fixed it here. Take care, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:20, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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UNESCO report on Abkhazia

Hello, John Cummings. I hope this isn't a duplicate request; I didn't see any sign that someone had already contacted you. An editor's looking for the Report on the Cultural heritage assessment mission to Abkhazia, Georgia, 10-17 June 1997 to work on articles about Abkhazia and hasn't been able to gain access to it. The discussion is at WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request. Please help. Thanks. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 07:16, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi BlackcurrantTea, can you mail me J.Cummings@unesco.org
Thanks
--John Cummings (talk) 19:16, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

An update from the Sustainability Initiative

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!

Hi, John Cummings! Thank you again for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 200 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

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If you have any questions, you can contact us on on Meta. Again, thank you very much for your support! --Aubrey and Gnom (talk) 22:14, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Obasanjo at UNESCO

Hi John, might you be able to help me secure permissions for a UNESCO image? I'm looking for a photo of Nigerian president Obasanjo presenting a replica of a mask to UNESCO director Matsuura in 2005, for what I imagine was "Africa Day" (May 25, 2005). See the example here: [1]. I could only find a photo of the mask in the Mediabank. Any ideas on whether there is a photo like this in the archives and whether they'll share it? czar 04:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC) (reposted from Commons)

I'm unwatching this page now, but if you do have a response or recommendation on how to proceed, please {{ping}} me czar 08:55, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Czar, sorry to miss your message before, I'll look for you. I'm working on a way to mass import content to Commons which should start producing results soon. --John Cummings (talk) 19:46, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Guidelines in your role

Our discussion on Consequences of Brexit for science got shut down prematurely and I'm not eager to make it formal by taking it to an official request. I am, however, interested in what guidelines you are given / you created in your role as a Wikimedian in Residence with regards to declaring potential conflicts of interest. The current guidelines don't really cover such a scenario. I see two facets: what the WinR advises people to do, and what editing he/she personally does. The example of Susan S comes up, of course, as it's the only one that I have. I'm not asking you to answer the following questions, but they are potential problems... Is she being paid by her employer to edit Wikipedia or is she doing it in her free time? Is she asking for changes to be made that should come about by editor consensus? Are you making changes for her that should come about by editor consensus? Is she adding things that are largely about her employer or its publications? (On the last, an article was created about a publication that she was heavily involved in.) If the current CoI guidelines don't cover these things well, perhaps you need to request or create some new ones, or do you have separate guidelines already? My best guess is that you're in a grey area that needs to be clarified; doing so would help reduce the quantity and intensity of clashes that are occurring, as well as helping with editor retention, a factor you highlighted. EddieHugh (talk) 12:24, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughts EddieHugh, I'm going to the Wikimedia Conference at the end of the month and will talk to people who work on expert outreach about this, I'll make it part of my presentation. --John Cummings (talk) 12:37, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi John - I saw the post here by Eddie and reviewed what has been happening, and I have some concerns as well.
First, I agree with Little OliveOil (something I rarely do) that extensive discussion of COI issues at the article talk page was not appropriate. I don't agree that COI issues are irrelevant -- they are, but are perhaps not the key thing. Eddie's post above gets at the issues a bit better.
But the discussion should start with content issues (everything starts with content) and should move from their to behavior and what might be driving behavior.
In my view there are significant policy issues with the content that Susan has been adding (namely, I found WP:SOAPBOX (advocacy to protect and promote science funding, in WP's voice); WP:RECENTISM and WP:RELTIME issues are very strongly present (content added to WP written, well, like a report that has a dateline and looks forward and back from that date); WP:CRYSTALBALL (the Brexit article is almost all speculation that will look very different say three years from now but is not written as such, and will have to be completely revised or just removed); and WP:UNDUE weight on one perspective and even one source. It is going to take a lot of work to fix all this.
We love experts but per WP:EXPERT one temptation of experts is to use WP as a platform for their perspectives and their publications (see also [[WP::Conflicts of interest (medicine)]], which discusses this). We love experts because they bring a broad perspective on all the views in the field, and usually have the best sources at their fingertips. WP:COISELF is relevant here too.
There is also unfortunately a bit of WP:TEAM going on with you and Susan, where your RW efforts to teach and recruit her are transferring into taking her side in content disputes, in some kind of strange protectiveness here in WP. I think this is what is rankling EddieHugh the most. You also seem to be unaware of the policy issues with the content Susan is creating, which may stem from your own, well, COI -- your RW effort to recruit and encourage her to contribute.
Finally, in my view your response to Eddie is not altogether appropriate. It is great that you intend to take up the larger issues at WMCON 2017 at the end of the month, but a) Susan is avidly editing even today, and b) Eddie asked specific questions that you didn't address... and c) perhaps most importantly, you and Susan are part of the en-WP community, and you both need to be responsive in and to this community.
What is going on should be discussed somewhere central - not here or the article Talk page. Am trying to think through the most appropriate forum for productive discussion.
Don't know if you can hear this, or what your thoughts are, especially about where we should discuss this. I look forward to hearing from you. Jytdog (talk) 21:41, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
I've tagged the article (and talk) with COI, which I believe is the driving force with the article (scope/title/etc). John, can you help Susan WP:DISCLOSE on her userpage (the one that's been deleted). COI and residences are a borderline area, so I hope you agree with me that the more transparent we can be, the better. Regards Widefox; talk 12:59, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
User:Jytdog I'm not sure what discussions have gone on, but it's only out of deference to the residency, EXPERT, and not biting newbies that I haven't listed this article and COI editor at WP:COIN. Now, the AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Effects of Brexit on science and technology is getting AGF / civility issues seemingly in defence of editors and/or the article from especially one article contributor. COIN is the obvious place to seek wider participation and COI disclosures, which I have until now resisted. Thoughts either of you? Widefox; talk 23:36, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Widefox, I think it would be useful to have a discussion on the COIN to draw up guidance for people adding prewritten open license text and how that relates to COI if they or the organisation they work for created the text.
Thanks
--John Cummings (talk) 17:50, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
If the author of a source is involved in using that source, let alone building an article on their own source, to me that needs declaring. It's just about transparency, COIs should can edit, especially in a guided environment like with a WM in residency. I'm no expert though, there must be some guidance. Widefox; talk 18:12, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017

Hello!

My name is David Alves (User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at RIDC NeuroMat (User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the Wikimedian in residence page in Outreach. As you may know, Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents. In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alves(at)outlook.com.

Thank you very much! ‎Horadrim~usurped (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)