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Wikipedia:RVAN listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:RVAN. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:RVAN redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:42, 3 November 2016 (UTC) ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]Hello, The Transhumanist. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) I invite you to an ongoing RfD discussion about those redirect to WP:AADD#Just a vote. --George Ho (talk) 19:55, 2 December 2016 (UTC) This Month in Education: December 2016[edit]
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Just a quick and small point[edit]If you edit someone's talk page repeatedly in quick succession, they get inundated with pings and, if email is enabled, emails. Each time you leave me a message, I tend to get lots of such interactions. The emails in particular are a nuisance, as my phone buzzes every time, which is very distracting. I know I'm probably being hypocritical here, but please could you try to make more use of the preview button and/or leave windows open with messages half written before clicking save, so you can think of everything in one go? Apologies for sounding petty. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:48, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Donald Trump, please resign[edit]The Transhumanist 07:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC) Love the outlines[edit]Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I think your planet outlines are really cool. I have long thought it was a shame that only Wikipedians seem to know about Books or Portals, because they are really great tools for structuring knowledge (while everyone loves diving down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, we could really do with some better content organization). The outlines strike me as a great way to bring that sort content organization to mainspace, where it will actually reach a large number of readers. I notice that I am the first one to edit them besides yourself, and I hope you know that I do so with love.
Some geography articles needing attention[edit]Since on your user page or somewhere, you call yourself an expert in geography, you would perhaps want to look at these articles, which are in desperately in need of some attention. 103.6.159.65 (talk) 18:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC) Wikipedia:Opera basic topics listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Opera basic topics. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Opera basic topics redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 03:26, 21 February 2017 (UTC) This Month in Education: [February 2017][edit]
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[edit]We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC) Automatic Taxonomy Classification[edit]Hi, you've probably seen already but just wanted to give you a heads up that I did some work on the article. I know it still needs a lot more work but I think its an improvement and at least it has inline references and (I hope) makes some sense. I wasn't familiar with the terminology of hyponyms and hypernyms (its amazing how different groups find ways to give different names to concepts that are essentially the same). I thought that the idea of is-a hierarchies was more familiar so at first I went with that but the more I looked at all the papers the more I realized they all use (which I should have realized) the linguistics terms of hypernyms and hyponyms so I felt it was important to describe those terms. For people who start digging into the actual papers I hope at least they will start with a basic understanding of the terminology. I almost then deleted what I wrote about is-a but as I said I think that concept is more widely understood, especially these days with object-oriented programming so popular so I felt it was worth leaving both terms. I think the original article used both concepts as well although it wasn't clear to me what hypernyms were from what was in the original article. Let me know if you have feedback or of course feel free to just edit. I've asked some colleagues for more references on the topic but so far no one has come through. If they do I may update some more, or if you have some feedback and want me to address it I'll give it a shot but otherwise moving on. Thanks for asking though it was actually fun to do some non-trivial editing, haven't done it in a while. It helped that I had some actual work that I didn't want to do so this was a nice distraction ;-) --MadScientistX11 (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Outlines[edit]Why are you moving outline pages from "Outline of..." to "Outline about..."? The former is more natural and, perhaps more important, is the long standing naming convention as described at Wikipedia:Outlines. "Outline about xxx" is not even normal English usage - I would always use "outline of" something and expect to see it, and an Ngram confirms it is about 1000 times more common.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 12:22, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Re: Tip of the day monitoring[edit]Thanks for your message about proofing Tip of the Day posts in advance. I'll be glad to try to do that, although I may forget sometimes. If I spot an error or something that raises a question, should I notify you directly or post my concerns on the Tip of the Day talk page? Eddie Blick (talk) 02:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Outline of human communication[edit]User:SuggestBot pointed me towards Human communication as a page I might want to edit, which is tagged for cleanup. While a full article might be worth writing, it occurred to me that it might be a good case for an outline. It already gives a list of blue-linked topics to read for communication broken up by group type (with oneself, with multiple people, within a group, within an organization, etc), and it could be broken up in other ways similarly (mode: written, verbal, gestural, ...; intent: informative, expressive, persuasive, ...; register: formal, informal, slang, vulgarity, ...; relationship to truth: nonsense, lies, evasiveness, honesty, ...; transmission: physical writing, live speech, recorded speech, video, digital equivalents, ...; target-type: human-human, human-machine, human-animal, ...; ...) plus related topics such as translation, linguistics, the history of these various things, ... . Even in outline this might be too broad to be manageable, but perhaps with judicious links to sub-outlines it could work. Since it's such a large topic, I don't know that a prose article can reasonably work. Of course, having said that, even more expansive topics such as philosophy, art and science do have solid prose articles, so perhaps I'm just being timid. What do you think? Would your normal prescription be to aim to have both, one for encyclopedic description and the other for navigability? I don't really believe I'm qualified to do justice to either but I'm interested in learning more about the outline approach and how it slots in to other types of article writing, and this seemed like an interesting example. Mortee (talk) 00:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Reply to computer programming questions[edit]Hi, I've now taken time to read your questions about computer programming. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to help you with your scripting, at least not the ones you are developing, as I'm really not up to scratch with Wikipedia's more complicated script syntax. I would, however, be interested in starting a WikiProject with you. Wikipedia:WikiProject JavaScript, perhaps? Linguisttalk|contribs 16:10, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
Thoughts about UPDC tips page[edit]I took the liberty of correcting a typographical error in the Multi-page system section. I didn't see any other errors. I do, however, have some thoughts about the following sections for your consideration. Express yourself[edit]How about providing links to some examples of pages that show various types of creativity? Seeing several examples of well-done pages might inspire a person as he or she is creating his or her own page. Done Mix and match your colors and fonts[edit]How does a person implement the use of various colors and fonts on a page? I wouldn't know how to apply them on my user page. Perhaps you could add some links to useful pages in this section. Done Use images to get your point across[edit]As with the section about colors and fonts, you might add links to pages with information about how to place images on user pages, especially with regard to position and size. You might also add something about use of Wikimedia Commons and the permissions that are needed for images that are used on Wikipedia (in case someone might have thoughts of using a copyrighted image on his or her page). One other thought: How about including something about user boxes? From time to time I see questions in the Tea House about user boxes, such as where to place them and how to align them. Done I hope that these suggestions are helpful. Obviously, you are free to use them or not as you see fit. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for March 26[edit]Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Outline of machine learning, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Boosting. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:30, 26 March 2017 (UTC) Wiki Brain[edit]Hi, I noticed that your WP:VPI thread, which I moved there from WP:VPR, has received no response after four days. Since I think VPI gets less attention, I feel somewhat responsible. Since the VPR/VPI distinction isn't widely understood and only rarely enforced, you could move back to VPR with my blessing. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:39, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using Saileshpat (talk) 19:07, 1 April 2017 (UTC) Three new blocks to Community Portal[edit]RekishiEJ, what ever happened to this: I look forward to your reply, The Transhumanist 04:53, 6 April 2017 (UTC) Hatnotes[edit]Has there been a change in our policy about hatnotes ....just wondering why your moving hatnote below nav headers over the norm of them being first?--Moxy (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey guys, check this out...[edit]@Anomie, Nettrom, Rich Farmbrough, JoeHebda, and PrimeHunter: @RYPJack, TeriEmbrey, Emijrp, Kpjas, and Sj: @Caeciliusinhorto, Jonesey95, RekishiEJ, Edgars2007, and Mandruss: I thought you might be interested in the thread below... Using WikiBrain to visualize Wikipedia's neighborhoods[edit]Hey Transhumanist, I figured you'd be interested in this. I've organized the WikiBrain researchers to present at the monthly mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase. See mw:Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#April_2017 for the details of the talk that Shilad will be giving. He'll be demoing some of the cool spacial visualizations I was hinting at in another thread. The talk will be broadcast/recorded on Wednesday 4/19 at 1830 UTC. I'll be taking question and delivering them to the speaker (Shilad) from the #wikimedia-research connect chatroom. If you can join us, you'll find me in there as "halfak". --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 20:55, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:18, 1 May 2017 (UTC) Thanks![edit]Thank you for the invitation to join the Tip of the Day Project. I have added my name to the list. Eddie Blick (talk) 16:01, 2 May 2017 (UTC) New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)[edit]Hello Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
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Semi-automated outline edits[edit]Your edits to this outline ended up leaving non-linked text just hanging in the middle of the outline. Why did you do this? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:34, 8 May 2017 (U
Wikicode fix needed at Wikipedia:Community bulletin board[edit]Greetings, At Wikipedia:Community bulletin board#General notices section, there is a huge gap after your signature on the Javascript announcement. I have tried many edits for about 1/2 hour now without any luck & unable to fix except by removing your signature. If you could please look into this & update, that would be great! Thanks, — JoeHebda • (talk) 14:32, 13 May 2017 (UTC)b
Interesting reading![edit]But, apparently broken link for Convert software near the top of the 'Intro' tab. It appears that the author or someone associated with this product is perhaps redoing the site. SewerCat (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Re: What level are you?[edit]Hi Transhumanist, I am actually quite fluent in JavaScript, but time restricts me from becoming a major code contributor to MediaWiki, extensions, widgets, or for that matter non-WM-related open-source projects. However, I might be interested in helping with small tasks or writing about JavaScript. Thanks also for linking to some interesting resources. Cheers, Ynhockey (Talk) 17:11, 13 May 2017 (UTC) "History" redirects[edit]I see you are making many "history" redirects, including things like "History of Neil MacGonigill" This seems like massive overkill to me. Please stop for now while this can be discussed. Fram (talk) 09:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) (can we keep the discussion here? I don't like two-page discussions). You seem to create a redirect for every page that has a "history" section, no matter if that redirect is in any way a likely search term or not (in many, perhaps most, cases it's not). You do so in a seemingly automated method (hence the capitalisation problems presumably) creating hundreds (thousands?) of such redirects. We have had a cases already recently of people cretaqing way too many redirectswithout much thought or care, and this is usually frowned upon by many editors. We may already need a serious cleanup effort of what you have created so far, so at least getting you to stop for now instead of creating more problematic redirects in this vein is a good start. Fram (talk) 09:24, 24 May 2017 (UTC) Your creations fall under WP:MASSCREATION. You have created 1000s of redirects in a very short time which wouldn't be allowed without prio consensus even if they all were unproblematic. Coupled with the errors (capitalization, in many cases you would add a "the" somewhere to get "history of the [article title]" instead of what you did here, and perhaps most importantly many of these are highly unlikely search terms anyway) you should not have started this without prior approval, and you should certainly not restart it without such approval. Fram (talk) 09:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
You can see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SSTbot 3 for a discussion about a similar though much, much smaller (only 600 or so!) batch creation of redirects, and the agreement that this needs prior approval. In this case, where you had some 7,000 creations to get from "N" to "Nev" (or realistically way more than 100,000 redirects at the end of the task), prior approval is definitely needed, and doing this with a bot (using the bot flag) to filter them out from "recent changes" would be necessary as well probably. Fram (talk) 10:36, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
More volunteers needed for Wikipedia:Community bulletin board?[edit]Hello again. I see that you have contributed to the bulletin board. I thank you for that. However, seems that we're losing its regulars. Mind if I post a notification at WP:Village pump (miscellaneous) and then WT:Community portal for recruitments? --George Ho (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Announcements[edit]Template:Announcements has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Topical guide (historical)[edit]Template:Topical guide (historical) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:07, 9 June 2017 (UTC) Russian ceramics[edit]And that leads to my question -- does the mere fact that the Hermitage accepted a donation of a person's work of art render that person "notable" under WP:NARTIST? By rough analogy, I wouldn't consider an American author to be notable simply because some of their books were held by the Library of Congress. Nor would I consider a British author to be notable merely on the basis of seeing some of their books in the British Library. And so, I'm left to wonder whether the same conclusion applies here. I recognize that your interest in ceramics might not extend to Russian ceramics. But if it does, I would greatly appreciate any insights that you can provide. NewYorkActuary (talk) 19:56, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Userscript manager[edit]
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Userscript manager requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Codename Lisa (talk) 04:45, 18 June 2017 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Outline City+[edit]Template:Outline City+ has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:44, 23 June 2017 (UTC) MfD nomination of Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article[edit]Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Also nominated in the same nomination are Portal:Health and fitness/Selected nutrition article and Portal:Health and fitness/Selected biochemistry article. By the way, I did not realize that you were still an active editor when I nominated these pages, since the pages were created from a different account. Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:20, 30 June 2017 (UTC) Movement Strategy reminder[edit]Hi. You contributed in a previous part of the discussion, so this is just a reminder to you (and any interested talkpagewatchers), that it's the second week of our Movement Strategy Cycle 3 discussion. There's a new topic each week in July, and this week's is: How could we capture the sum of all knowledge when much of it cannot be verified in traditional ways? You can see more details, and suggest solutions or respond to other people's thoughts (from this week and last week) at Wikipedia:Wikimedia Strategy 2017. You can also read a summary of discussions that took place in the past week. Cheers. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 03:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC) Lists Bosnians and Herzegovinians listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Lists Bosnians and Herzegovinians. Since you had some involvement with the Lists Bosnians and Herzegovinians redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:52, 5 August 2017 (UTC) Your submission at Articles for creation: Outline of Java Script has been accepted[edit] Outline of JavaScript, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Sushn345wiki talk 22:50, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Deletion discussion about Outline of JavaScript[edit]Hello, The Transhumanist, I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Outline of JavaScript should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of JavaScript . If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top. Thanks, Onel5969 TT me 20:12, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Outline of fungi[edit]Hello, The Transhumanist. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Outline of fungi". In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 00:17, 26 August 2017 (UT
Your submission at Articles for creation: Outline of galaxies (September 16)[edit] Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:
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Help with a grant proposal for MetaWiki[edit]Greetings The Transhumanist - Today User:Barbara (WVS) asked me here to help her as an advisor for a grant proposal to MetaWiki. This is way beyond my Wikipedia experience so I was wondering if you might be able to lend a hand. Or if you know of another editor who could contribute that would be great. Cheers, — JoeHebda • (talk) 18:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC) This Month in Education: September 2017[edit]
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tip of the day until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Wumbolo (talk) 19:20, 22 October 2017 (UTC) Outlines/Drafts[edit]Would it be possible for you to email me, please? Thank you, Cote d'Azur (talk) 09:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for your signup![edit]Hi Transhumanist, Thank you for your interest in our system and signing up for our study! Just to let you know, we are in the process of submitting a Signpost report for our system to involve more WikiProjects. So we might have to wait for two or three weeks when our report publishes, and send recommendations to all the participating projects at the same time. Hope you don't mind. I will let you know we are ready to send you recommendations! Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 02:24, 9 November 2017 (UTC) This Month in Education: November 2017[edit]
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your tlk page is like a jungle[edit]Ok back to your query at my talk - I would say that the effectiveness of the separating the watch list into sections is not effective over 15k on the list - my watchlist being much larger it has no positive aspect at all - but it does do the task - and doesnt take long... JarrahTree 10:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC) Indenting[edit]It's rarely a good idea to mess around with someone else's WP:indenting. You may disagree with their choice, but their may be a reason they addressed their response at a specific level. Worst case, you can substantially change a post's mentioning, e.g. if someone replied to post A and you make it so it's indented as a reply to post B, people may think the points there apply to post B when they are directed at post B. If you really feel a mistake was made that needs to be corrected, it's generally better to ask first. This is a particularly good example of the mess you can create as you made a post posted before appear as if were a reply to one that was made after [10]. Nil Einne (talk) 08:17, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
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Recommendations for your WikiProject Health and fitness will be delivered soon[edit]Hi The Transhumanist, Thank you for your interest in using our tool. Sorry about the wait. We've been working on improving our tool in the past several weeks, and we will send recommendations to you very soon. Stay tuned. Thank you! Also, I noticed that you signed up for other projects including JavaScript, Outlines, and Indexes. For now, we can only make recommendations to topical projects, so Outlines and Indexes are not yet included, sorry.. I am having problem retrieving data for WikiProject JavaScript. I will try to make it happen! Bobo.03 (talk) 23:16, 7 February 2018 (UTC) Recommending new editors to your WP Health and fitness[edit]Hi The Transhumanist, Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message. We'd appreciate it if you could fill the survey to let us know what you think about our recommendations so we can improve our system.
Please let me know below if you have any general feedback about our recommendations. Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 05:24, 11 February 2018 (UTC) Recommending new editors to your WP JavaScript[edit]Hi The Transhumanist, Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message. We'd appreciate it if you could fill the survey to let us know what you think about our recommendations so we can improve our system.
Please let me know below if you have any general feedback about our recommendations. Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 05:42, 11 February 2018 (UTC) Transfer to main space.[edit]At what point should a draft outline be moved to mainspace? It seems that there are people opposed to incomplete outlines so I would prefer to avoid an attack of knee-jerk deletionism by getting Draft:Outline of underwater diving to an easily defensible condition before making the move. On the other hand, I do not want to delay unnecessarily, as the outline will be useful to WP:SCUBA and anyone interested in underwater diving. I am making use of the recently created experimental short descriptions as annotations on WP:SCUBA articles, so will have annotations for most if not all of the links already in the list, however there are hundreds more article which will go into other sections, many of which do not yet have a short description. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Translation team[edit]Could you help me create a team of translators and editors so as to translate more and more pages from the English Wikipedia to the Others ? Let's form a team to add more and more features to other wikis and this wiki as well. My concerns are most on the Bengali Wiki and the Dutch Wiki. I see the later very poor ... And lacks active editors . Bengali wiki is lacking various scientific informations. I am a resident of the Bengals and I felt the problems of the local students who lacks the knowledge of the English Language . Editing in Bengali in a great time taking task for its large number of characters. Inspite of being my mother tongue I would require a team. And for the Dutch language , I am still novice and I am forced to use the "Google translate " frequently. Another concern is that , many pages are protected and I am restricted from editing those. Access to the source code could help me to create a new article or section more easily and faster. So could you grant me the required permissions? Arka (talk) 11:50, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Recommending new editors to WikiProject Health and fitness[edit]Hi The Transhumanist, Here is a new list of recommendations for project Health and fitness. Sorry that I introduced some bugs in the previous version as I mentioned, but everything has been fixed. I might be sending one or two more new lists to you in the coming Mondays, and hope you'll find great new members!
Please let me know below if you have any general feedback about our recommendations. Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC) Recommending new editors to WikiProject JavaScript[edit]Here is the list for WikiProject JavaScript
Bobo.03 (talk) 16:47, 19 February 2018 (UTC) Recommending new editors to WikiProject Outlines[edit]
Bobo.03 (talk) 16:48, 19 February 2018 (UTC) Recommending new editors to Indexes[edit]I also create recommendations for project Outlines and Indexes. Please let me know how do they look to you. Thank you!
Bobo.03 (talk) 16:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC) Beta testers for Wikipedia search results enhancements[edit]You asked on the Community bulletin board for volunteers to test some search engine enhacements. OK, I'll try this: I'm a very ordinary editor with no particular expertise in this field, but it may be useful to have some such editors among your testers: Noyster (talk), 19:33, 24 February 2018 (UTC) Your recent edits of many outline articles[edit]In your recent edits of many outline articles, you removed navigation templates and categories, examples below.
Examples:
As it happens, I came to explore your edits after I went to Outline of Mexico and saw that you had removed
This Month in Education: February 2018[edit]
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Over the past 6 months or so, I have spent a bit of time here and there, updating the Outline of marketing by adding relevant links, providing brief explanations of core concepts and organising the plethora of links into logical groupings with relevant headings and sub-headings. This has been an ongoing project and is far from complete. However, I only work on it, when I have some spare time. I notice that you recently added a tag which stated, amongst other things, that "further improvements are on the way." I was wondering whether you have some specific plans in relation to updating or improving the Outline? If so, I will desist with my present plans and leave it to you. My feeling is that any page, such as this outline, will have the best possible outcome, if there is just one single vision for its overall structure and organisation. One of the biggest challenges that I have encountered in the construction of this outline is the level of duplication of articles in the marketing area - i.e. articles with the identical/ similar content, but with different article titles. I have posted elsewhere including the marketing project page (with a long list of duplications), and on individual talk pages in relation to this level of duplication. However, as I search for relevant links to add to the Outline of marketing, more and more duplication becomes apparent. Just last week, for example, I found an article for Six Segment Analysis which is an inferior version of PEST analysis. Such is the culture at Wikipedia that there is a great deal of resistance to article mergers or article deletions, that any substantial reduction in the level of duplication is unlikely in the forseeable future. Therefore a key challenge is how to include duplicated articles, within a coherent and meaningful structure. BronHiggs (talk) 01:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Geography headings[edit]What's the point of adding a "geography" header and demoting the "climate" header to subheader. You are lengthening the TOC on countless pages for no obvious good reason. has this been discussed and some consensus for this reached? Fram (talk) 08:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
We have Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure. Putting "climate" under "geography" is allowed under that page, however if that is the only section under geography, it is an unnecessary extra line in the TOC and on the page with no actual benefit. Other changes you make go against that page though, e.g. "notable people" do not belong under "culture", and the main sights (attractions, museums, ...) should either have their own section or be included under culture, but not under geography. Sport is considered a separate section (nota part of culture), media is a separate section (not part of economy). Please stop making your changes and discuss this first at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure or (perhaps better) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities. Fram (talk) 10:11, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Recommending new editors[edit]Hi The Transhumanist, Here are new lists that I generate for the projects you signed up. Please take a look when you have a chance. Thank you! Recommending new editors to WikiProject JavaScript[edit]
Recommending new editors to WikiProject Indexes[edit]
Recommending new editors to WikiProject Outlines[edit]
Recommending new editors to WikiProject Health and fitness[edit]
Bobo.03 (talk) 04:46, 10 March 2018 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for March 14[edit]Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Outline of self, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Body (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.) It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:16, 14 March 2018 (UTC) Outline mentioned[edit]Thought this m ight be pleasing. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:15, 16 March 2018 (UTC).
MfD nomination of Portal:Contents/Indices[edit]Portal:Contents/Indices, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Contents/Indices and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Contents/Indices during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 20:55, 21 March 2018 (UTC) ToC level and MOS:OUTLINE[edit]Hi Transhumanist, Was doing a bit of tidying at Outline of birds. I was thinking of increasing the ToC limit to 3, and wanted some style guidance for that; a brief Preview of it looked fine to me. But before committing, I searched around at the Portal for anything like a Manual of Style like some projects have (e.g., MOS:BIO, MOS:JAPAN, MOS:MATH, MOS:ORGANISMS) to see what the recommendation was for ToC limit, but I couldn't find one. If there already is something like a style guide for outlines, basically a "everything you always wanted to know about properly formatting an Outline page but were afraid to ask", then please just create and redirect MOS:OUTLINE to it, and stick a {{shortcut}} up on the Portal page somewhere. And if there isn't a MOS for Outline, can you create one? I can see two useful entries for it already:
Regarding the second: I see for example, that at Outline of birds#Bird behavior we have
alpabetized in the M's' and N's respectively, which I think is correct. But we also had
mixed in with I's, which seems half-right, and Bird vocalization was in there twice, once piped to Vocalization and in the V's, and once unpiped, and in the B's. (I've fixed these.) If it were up to me, I'd say pipe everything that has the upper level term (or equivalent adjective) in it to remove it (just like bottom-matter Nav templates generally do), so, recommend: [[Bird nest|Nest]] and [[Avian intelligence|Intelligence]] when those are entries one level under Bird (or Birds). I think for toc limit, I'd do it case-by-case: if it looks horrible and too long to go past 2, then 2. But I Previewed But whether you agree/disagree with my choices isn't so much the issue; I'm sure by this point, you have a vast storehouse of wisdom and convention about how to do these pages correctly, and probably do it as a matter of habit without even thinking about it. But for those of less involved or new to the project, it's less obvious. It would be a good idea to get it written down. There's so much precedent out there already, it's just dispersed and not collected and summarized clearly in one place, and if it were, 99% of the time people would just follow it, and probably save you a ton of minor tweaks. (Tip: if you like the idea, first thing to do is create Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Outlines and stick one sentence in there, maybe topped with {{Under construction}}; then create MOS:OUTLINE and #REDIRECT it to the first; then you're good to go and can develop your MOS in peace.) HTH, Mathglot (talk) 23:30, 27 March 2018 (UTC) This Month in Education: March 2018[edit]
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Nomination of Tip of the day for deletion[edit]A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tip of the day is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tip of the day (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. wumbolo ^^^ 11:56, 8 April 2018 (UTC) I just thought I would ask, why is your userpage a redirect to a .js page instead of to your actual user talk page (the one I am commenting on right now)? Master of Time (talk) 06:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Closing 2017 Intelligence explosion/Technological singularity merge proposal soon[edit]Did you want to make any further comments or discussion on the old 2017 Talk:Technological_singularity#Merger_proposal before I put in a request to close? Rolf H Nelson (talk) 06:27, 17 April 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update, April 22, 2018[edit]Thank you for joining the Portals WikiProject. Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it... Reboot[edit]The 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!
The RfC[edit]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?[edit]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?"[edit]There are 3 major areas of activity right now: Update the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals[edit]There 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 system[edit]In 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 discussions[edit]There 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?[edit]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...[edit]Get ready, get set, go! — The Transhumanist 22:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC) STOP[edit]Your AWB runs are making a mess, sending you this in hopes it stops flags you in AWB. — xaosflux Talk 23:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Third time's a charm[edit]You'll have to go back and re-re-edit all of those pages, because with no user prefix it didn't subst. Primefac (talk) 23:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the initiative[edit]Good night man, great you actually take up the glove to revive the Portals. Basically I have these 3 points:
If there can be a "blueprint" for that, it doesn't seem so hard to implement it Portal-wide... Content-wise I can add my cents (and hopefully sense), but it's the automation part that is important, imho. Tisquesusa (talk) 01:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Canvassing[edit]Your activity here [13] is canvassing and your attempt to close my MfDs are inapproproate. Please Reverse your actions or I will take you to ANi for a discussion. Legacypac (talk) 13:18, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Alps (subject portal) listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Alps (subject portal). Since you had some involvement with the Alps (subject portal) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Legacypac (talk) 17:31, 23 April 2018 (UTC) Your signature messes up talk pages[edit]Whenever you post something on a talk page, the colors in your signature keep going all the way to the bottom of the page, could you please fix your signature?
Re: The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.[edit]Thank you for accepting some assistance in this section, greatly appreciate the offer to join in the effort to reboot the section and make it better. Again, I appreciate the invite. Birdymckee (talk)Birdymckee, 1356 hrs., 25 April 2018
Your canvassing[edit]It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you.
Hello, from the Portals WikiProject...[edit]You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system... The Portals WikiProject was rebooted 9 days ago, and is going strong. Fifty-two editors have joined so far, with more joining daily. We're having a blast, and excitement is high... Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals. In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished one so far, with more to come. Discussions are underway about how to upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be. There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too) on the WikiProject page. With more to come. 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. See ya at the WikiProject! Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 03:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC) Wish list is a very good Idea + Proposal for Collection[edit]Hello The Transhumanist , your wish list is a very good Idea. Do you collect response?
Hi Transhumanist, sorry I wasn't suggesting Portal:Crawley might be deleted just because it wasn't supported by WikiProject Sussex. The portal is a deletion candidate par excellence. It is dreadful, not even half-finished, with an incomplete introduction, red links and a host non-existent sub-pages. It was started in July last year but no work has been done since and the editor concerned hasn't done anything on Wikipedia since either. And I'm concerned that the subject is insufficiently notable for its own portal. Crawley is a boring, industrial, otherwise nondescript town next to Gatwick Airport. It's not a tourist destination and has little of historical or cultural note. So what I was implying is that unless the relevant WikiProject takes an interest, it's just going to sit there as a great example for the deletionists. Bermicourt (talk) 06:23, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, this is the first Portal which was made dynamic with the {{Transclude random excerpt}} template by Certes. This is very great news for the wikiproject because we now do not need subpages to make a Portal dynamic. I improved this static Portal with the template and made it into a dynamic one within minutes. I want to thank you and Certes for making the next generation of Portals.--Broter (talk) 17:33, 29 April 2018 (UTC) Automated spamming[edit]I've raise your automated spamming of portal pages as AN [17] Legacypac (talk) 03:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC) It may be an idea for you to participate in the discussion. I have proposed removing your awb access for misuse. Spartaz Humbug! 06:33, 30 April 2018 (UTC) For those interested in the topic of discussion above, here is the latest version of the on-topic notice in question, including links to pertinent discussions and resources that affect the portals: Status report from the Portals WikiProject[edit]Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals is back! The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, and design the portals of the future. As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing. There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for each component of portals. Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways. And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list. From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. — The Transhumanist 03:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC) Hello, The Transhumanist, I need your help[edit]Can you please delete all the notices on all the portals that there is an active discussion? I closed the discussion as either no consensus or SNOW oppose, but either way the portals will not all be deleted. Thank you for your great contributions to Wikipedia! Brian Everlasting (talk) 05:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC) I reverted your closing...[edit]According to Wikipedia:Closing discussions#Closure procedure, "Any uninvolved editor may close most discussions, not just admins." It takes a disinterested 3rd-party to close it, and such individuals have already been requested at WP:AN: A request/arrangement was made for admins to close it. That happened over ten days ago at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals. When 30 days has gone by, they will adjudicate the discussion. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 06:21, 30 April 2018 (UTC) A Barnstar for you![edit]
Portals[edit]Congratulations, it appears your relentless targeted advertising of the RFC, your beating the RFC Supporters with a stick by posting countless times there, your dishonest insistence that Current Events was on the chopping block, and your obstruction of clean up efforts at MfD are paying dividends. Have fun playing with Portal space where no one will read your work. I'm sure someone will eventually clean up the mess when your interest wanes. Cheers. Legacypac (talk) 02:02, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Invitation Portals WikiProject[edit]I noticed on Portal talk:Zoos and aquariums your info about that Portals will be rebooted and completely overhauled and invitation to join the Portals WikiProject. I agree that Portals are positive, if maintained, and want to express my gratitude for your work in this regard. I joined the project, will try to improve the Zoo Portal. Dan Koehl (talk) 11:19, 2 May 2018 (UTC) Portals[edit]Hi Transhumanist. Just seen your latest note on the portal talk pages. Well done for leading the charge! I'm busying myself bringing the 30 or so portals I 'manage' up to scratch, but also chucking in ideas about better portal visibility and management, some from German Wikipedia which I am tracking in this area too. Anyway keep up the good work. Bermicourt (talk) 14:27, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
I think you are wasting your time, and that of many others. Trying to revive a patient that has been on life-support for years is futile. Please try to move on and stop wasting your efforts. As they say, put the stick down and walk away from the horse. Morphenniel (talk) 22:51, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
This Month in Education: April 2018[edit]
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Portal newsletter[edit]Thank you for taking the time to compile this summary (and for the glowing references to the new templates!) I found it very interesting but I'm aware that some editors seem sensitive about spam. I'm wondering whether it might be better next time just to send everyone a summary paragraph with a link to the full newsletter. Or even just ask them to add that page to their watchlists, so they'll get alerted whenever a new edition appears. Thanks again, Certes (talk) 10:16, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi[edit]thank you for your efforts in portals. i replaced some sub-pages in portals. can we add an alignment option to pictures for example Portal:Medicine after replacing intro subpage the image appears on the right rather than left. regards--مصعب (talk) 18:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Pennsylvania}} and more[edit]Yes, I have added WikiProject tags all over the world, at least 10,000 and more. Did over 400 for Jersey, a small island I am visiting in June. Cheers!--Dthomsen8 (talk) 23:10, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
I have removed all subpages from this Portal. Please look at the Portal and delete the subpages. You can see the subpages still in the page history.--Broter (talk) 11:06, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
I discovered this: {{Random quotation}} – this template was used in the Portal:LDS Church to eleminate the need for subpages for quotes.--Broter (talk) 12:43, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
Portals RfC[edit]I'm not sure the RfC is actually uncontentiously closed yet. The closer acted unilaterally and wasn't part of the multi-editor team that was highly expected to close it. Cesdeva (talk) 19:55, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
Signpost interview on WikiProject Portals[edit]Hello! I would like to ask you a few questions about WikiProject Portals for the WikiProject Report in the upcoming issue of the Signpost. The questions can be found here. Feel free to leave feedback or further information! Zarasophos (talk) 16:11, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Can you give me some help with Portal:Peter Paul Rubens?[edit]Please can you help me with the portal Portal:Peter Paul Rubens? I have started with some basic work, but it needs a bit more. --Mozart834428196 (talk) 18:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
@Mozart834428196: The Mozart portal is still not completed. Are you going to work on it? — The Transhumanist 21:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC) I humbly request that you revert your changes. We are mid-way through an RfC on proposed changes. Significantly changing the guidelines during the middle of a discussion process on that exact matter is a breach of etiquette to say the least. Cesdeva (talk) 22:44, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018[edit]We 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 testing[edit]Evad37 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)[edit]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[edit]
Drafting a new portals guideline[edit]Your 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 list[edit]There 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 survivors[edit]Thank 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 up[edit]While 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![edit]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 up[edit]These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon. — The Transhumanist 00:36, 25 May 2018 (UTC) Whoa, I missed one...[edit]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 01:39, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Portal Buttons.[edit]Hi. I had to undo your edit to Template:Portal button 2 because it broke the layout at Portal:Contents/Portals (new) (the only place it's supposed to have been used). This template is only being used on a temporary basis (hopefully), and will be superseded by Template:PortalButton which allows for more customisation, but has problems floating correctly. Thanks for the heads up on the wider consensus on the set, I will see what I can do there. JLJ001 (talk) 08:51, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
New message at Ntmamgtw's talk page[edit]Hello, The Transhumanist. You have new messages at Ntmamgtw's talk page. Ntmamgtw (talk) 13:14, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. A Barnstar for you![edit]
@RightCowLeftCoast: Thank you. I feel honored. Please keep in mind that I have not been working alone. Credit goes to the nearly 400 editors who came forward to speak up for the keeping of portals. And although the RfC to delete all portals is over, the job of defending portals from deletion is not. For the portal namespace to be retained in the long term, the portals in it will need to be improved to a worthy quality level, otherwise we may see more deletion attempts. This task is far more than a single editor can handle. Fortunately, many editors have come forward to meet the challenge. Working to develop portals and the entire portal system, is a team of 80 editors who are diligently redesigning, upgrading, updating, and maintaining portals. They are the members of the Portals WikiProject, and without them there might be no portals. They are doing a wonderful job, and I am very proud of them. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 17:22, 26 May 2018 (UTC) To the rescue...[edit]
Portal RfC[edit]You posted a nice thank-you message on my talk page for my support of the Portal system, but I was actually partially supporting depreciation :). I supported depreciation because I wasn't convinced portals could be maintained, but on seeing the amazing response from editors (you in particular), I would've changed my vote.
Keep an eye on Portal:Right-wing populism[edit]You might want to check Portal:Right-wing populism periodically as someone seems to want to whitewash it into a propaganda portal. 86.134.164.162 (talk) 13:15, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Precious[edit]thinking-related topics Thank you for organising a list of thinking-related topics, for Shift work sleep disorder and the index of oral health and dental articles, for your thoughts and efforts regarding portals, and beginnings such as Portal:Thinking/Selected picture, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! Portals and RfAs[edit]Hey, I know you're kind of the Portal Czar these days, so I figured I'd post here, but it was largely spurred on by Pbsouthwood's RFA. There was mention that there are a large number of uncontroversial subpages in the portal space that might need deleting, but not enough admins to go around(?). Don't know how much you both know about the admin toolset on Twinkle, but there's a d-batch option that lets an admin delete a list of bluelinks with one click, so if yall are finding yourselves not wanting to individually G6 a few thousand pages, just make a list and drop me a note. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 11:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
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Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018[edit]We have grown to 89 members. This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive. Welcome[edit]A 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 shrunk[edit]There 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 begun[edit]This 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, you[edit]I'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 around[edit]I'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 work[edit]It 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...[edit]
Automatic article alerts is up and running[edit]Automatic 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 automation[edit]Noyster 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 survivors[edit]Keep 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 repair[edit]Wrapping up[edit]There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue. Until then, see ya around the project. — The Transhumanist 12:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC) What's your opinion?[edit]They keep reverting, never providing any rationales. They think they own the page and just positive, no negative. 86.134.164.162 (talk) 14:13, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Portal project newsletter[edit]Can you change the posting to talk pages so it just includes a link to the newsletter? Something like "We have a new newsletter! Come read it here." More than half of my talk page is filled with this newsletter. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 19:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Precious[edit]portals Thank you for your thoughts and efforts regarding portals, for the concept of outlines, for sectional redirects, for articles such as Life Extension Foundation, for service from 2006, including portal philosophy and user page design center, - repeating (1 & 4 June 2009): you are an awesome Wikipedian! Thank you. I looked, but couldn't figure out what 1 & 4 June 2009 were referring to. Just curious. — The Transhumanist 19:26, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Portals[edit]Portals are very important . So I have joined THE PORTALS WikiProject. Kpgjhpjm (talk) 07:49, 1 June 2018 (UTC) Portal category AWB[edit]{{portal category}} or
Update[edit]Hi, just to let you know i might not be online much in the next week or so, i'm moving to a different country for work. I'll try and get going with AWB as fast i can though. I actually just bought a laptop, so i'm excited to start using it. Believe it or not, i've been editing and writing markup all this time using a mobile phone. I'd say PortalButton is about a month off being ready for beta. It's the cornerstone of the new UI i've been working on, so that should ready then too. Best regards, Cesdeva (talk) 14:53, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
This Month in Education: May 2018[edit]
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Hello, Hello :)[edit]Transhumanist, is there a quick way for a reassessment? Or could you quickly (the article was substantially improve in the last 1-2 months - [Talk:Jasmine_Directory]). |class=start=start|importance=low|computing-importance= nothing was here Do you it's worthy for a reassessment? {{WikiProject Websites |class=start |importance=low |attention= |needs-image= |needs-infobox= |computing-importance= |small= }} Robertgombos (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Indexes[edit]Why do we have indexes on Wikipedia? By purpose, indexes are identical to categories, in that both alphabetically list articles related to some topic. I looked at past discussions at talk pages related to indexes, and only found a small discussion and a request for comment (both here) about their existence. I see few arguments and they don't convince me. I will discuss some of them in the next paragraph. Generally, categories aren't ported to offline versions of Wikipedia. I would propose some kind of "printworthiness" for categories like we have for redirects. Some editors were giving arguments for having list articles, but indexes are not list articles (in the sense that they have no room for expansion, by definition). Readers don't care much about categories, but if that is so, they don't care about indexes either. It is true that categories can't contain red links, while indexes can; I must say that I fundamentally disagree with that (just like infoboxes shouldn't contain "unknown" parameters, indexes of articles on Wikipedia shouldn't contain red-links). Some said at the RfC that indexes are more editor-oriented, and I believe that makes them unsuitable for mainspace. Another argument was that indexes can have related changes tracked; however, categories can do that as well. wumbolo ^^^ 12:26, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
FYI[edit]Not sure if they reverted (without explanation) other edits of yours. --JustBerry (talk) 18:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for June 6[edit]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Jasmine Directory, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Fitness (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:31, 6 June 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018[edit]The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins. Welcome[edit]A warm welcome to the newest members of the team: Be sure to say hi. Congrats[edit]Pbsouthwood 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 slideshow[edit]Picture 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 achieved[edit]We 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 teamwork[edit]This 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...[edit]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 02:13, 7 June 2018 (UTC) |
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