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Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter – April 2016[edit]
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The Signpost: 1 April 2016[edit]
- News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016
- WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music
- Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil
- Featured content: A slow, slow week
- Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!
- Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down
Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter[edit]
Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter
  March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 28 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 17–23. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in March, April, and May 2015, and all request articles, begins May 1. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis, and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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The Signpost: 14 April 2016[edit]
- News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
- In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death
- Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology
- Gallery: A history lesson
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8[edit]
This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
- The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
- The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Loch Ness Monster[edit]
Did I miss a discussion on the page move somewhere? Per Cryptozoology and many other sources, "Loch Ness Monster" is a proper noun, just as Bigfoot and Abominable Snowman. Monster is capitalized along with it. If perchance (yeah right) it is ever discovered as a species like lions and tiger and bears, it would be different. But again maybe I missed the discussion, otherwise it must be moved back and discussed. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:05, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- Since (unlike the purported Bigfoot and Abominable Snowman) if it exists—a big if—there's probably more than one, I don't think it's a proper noun. If you feel strongly enough about it, take it to RM; I'm just copyediting and maintaining (or establishing) NPOV. Miniapolis 00:16, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, you did the non-discussed move, so it seems that you should be the one that moves it back. But no prob, I can do it. Just double checking that I didn't miss a discussion somewhere. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 06:41, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- WP:BOLD; not all page moves require discussion, and I checked the move log beforehand. See WP:NOUN; Loch Ness is a proper noun, modifying "monster" (a common or generic noun) in this context. Capitalizing "monster" gives a veneer of legitimacy to a pseudoscientific topic which violates WP:NPOV. Miniapolis 13:57, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, you did the non-discussed move, so it seems that you should be the one that moves it back. But no prob, I can do it. Just double checking that I didn't miss a discussion somewhere. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 06:41, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Re: San Giacomo Scossacavalli[edit]
Hallo Miniapolis, thanks for your copyediting! I had to restore some info which got lost during the haircut, ;-) but you did a very good job indeed! Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 17:15, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- No problem; I was working toward native-speaker-quality prose and encyclopedic content, but you already have the GA. FWIW, I don't give "haircuts"; I work hard on every sentence of every copyedit, and have one standard of quality: FA :-). All the best, Miniapolis 18:53, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- I know it, mine was just a joke. ;-) BTW, right now I have another article on the pipeline for CE (and GA status), Corsican Guard. If you have time and lust, when it will be its turn you are welcome to wash it too in Thames (or Potomac) water. ;-) Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 06:55, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- I do the oldest articles on WP:GOCE/REQ first, and have just begun Loch Ness monster (a four-day job); someone will get to it soon. All the best, Miniapolis 14:02, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
- I know it, mine was just a joke. ;-) BTW, right now I have another article on the pipeline for CE (and GA status), Corsican Guard. If you have time and lust, when it will be its turn you are welcome to wash it too in Thames (or Potomac) water. ;-) Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 06:55, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 April 2016[edit]
- Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
- Traffic report: Two for the price of one
- Featured content: The double-sized edition
- Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
Rupert Gould[edit]
Hello Madam
The picture Of Gould has been available on Wikipedia for six years and I have little recollection of uploading it. The source is verifiable though as it came from a now defunct magazine called 'Book Collector'. It's from 1996. Gould died sixty eight years ago . In truth it's not a very good photograph and the background colour clearly bothers some people. There are quite a few other photographs of Gould on links so if you feel happier I have no opinion about deletion.Dorkinglad (talk) 14:18, 25 April 2016 (UTC) Dorkinglad (talk) 14:13, 25 April 2016 (UTC)dorkinglad (talk)Dorkinglad (talk) 14:13, 25 April 2016 (UTC)Dorkinglad (talk) 14:18, 25 April 2016 (UTC)