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You are cordially invited to the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon on 02.02.2020[edit]
- I am delighted to invite you to the SPIE Photonics West 2020 edit-a-thon, at Park Central Hotel (Franciscan I, 3rd Level / 50 Third Street / San Francisco, California), on Sunday, February 2, 2020, at 5:00-7:00pm.
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See you soon! All the best, --Rosiestep (talk) 06:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Books & Bytes – Issue 37[edit]
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Issue 37, November – December 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:10, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you![edit]
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The Real Life Barnstar |
| Thank you for your support at the Earth Day Edit-a-thon! Xplorecre84give (talk) 12:08, 24 April 2020 (UTC) |
Issue 38, January – April 2020[edit]
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Issue 38, January – April 2020
- New partnership
- Global roundup
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --15:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Edit[edit]
Hi - did you mean to delete as much as you did here? I assume not? ɱ (talk) 04:29, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- Also, please, please, see Help:Archiving a talk page. ɱ (talk) 04:31, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- Ɱ no of course not! eek. Not sure how that happened, a bad save I think. Thanks for the catch. And I always do get around to archiving my talk page...eventually :) -- phoebe / (talk to me) 04:37, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you![edit]
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Thanks for helping out with the George Floyd protests article. LoreMaster22 (talk) 05:41, 31 May 2020 (UTC) |
- yay! thank you too LoreMaster22! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 14:01, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- +1, thanks for your work here, Phoebe. Curious if you're interested in responding here. Take care! ---Another Believer (Talk) 13:43, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Another Believer: done, thanks! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 02:08, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- Wonderful, thank you! ---Another Believer (Talk) 02:10, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Another Believer: done, thanks! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 02:08, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- +1, thanks for your work here, Phoebe. Curious if you're interested in responding here. Take care! ---Another Believer (Talk) 13:43, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
George Floyd protest map underlying data[edit]
Hello,
I've also sent a direct e-mail to Phoebe but am not sure which forum is best for contacting you. In brief, I am am looking for the underlying data for the George Floyd protest map. Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_Floyd_protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:George_Floyd_protests_map
Thanks!
Sam — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbrazys (talk • contribs) 11:15, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hi @Sbrazys: -- thanks for your message. It's not rocket science - we are making by hand off the list in the text of List of George Floyd protests. There's no dataset - what you see is what you get, when you look at the source code for Template:George Floyd protests map. If it's out of sync or out of date, it's for one of a couple reasons:
- 1) no one's added a city yet by editing the map -- it's been difficult to keep up with changes in real time, and time zones affect how much people can work on it (for instance, I just got up)
- 2) we don't have a source that states that the protest was >100 people in that city
- 2a) there is a source, but no one's added it to the text yet so we can't easily verify it.
- 2b) the first iteration of the map with the list of cities that this one was based on was made ~24 hours ago, and as you know a lot has happened -- news reports lag the actual events by a bit so we are still catching up. (This map has a lot more cities than the first map did, but there's still a lag).
- Also note that the map isn't showing protests outside the US, because we need to build a different worldwide baselayer map for those (so it doesn't get super out of scale). And, you'll probably see some changes today as we indicate larger (>1000) and multiday protests. Stay tuned! If you want to help, the most useful thing is adding sources that state size of protest (eg hundreds, 500, etc) to the text list of protests in the article and then making a comment on the template talk page. cheers, phoebe / (talk to me) 12:48, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
A kitten for you![edit]
Thank you for the kind welcome and for sharing the very helpful resources, Phoebe. I have been planning to join Wikipedia for a while and finally did now, so I hope to stay around!
StarryPenguin (talk) 19:02, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020[edit]
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Issue 39, May – June 2020
- Library Card Platform
- New partnerships
- ProQuest
- Springer Nature
- BioOne
- CEEOL
- IWA Publishing
- ICE Publishing
- Bytes in brief
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Signpost Interview[edit]
Hello! I'm one of the writers putting together this month's WikiProject Report for the The Signpost, and you were one of the editors who answered the questions. Thanks! Going over the answers before publication, I noticed that in your answer to the last question you advertised an event that happened June 19, which is unfortunately no longer relevant. Would you like to refactor the text, or can we remove the text entirely? as it's no longer something readers can do? The link is here if you want to change the answer. If you don't have the time to respond within publication time (tomorrow or the day after) I'll just go ahead and remove it for clarity, hoping that you're fine with it. If you weren't, we can add it back after publication if you want. Thank you, and we apologize for the inconvenience! For the Signpost, -- puddleglum2.0 22:43, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Puddleglum2.0: thanks for the heads up! I'd forgotten I put that in there. I refactored! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 05:32, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks! Cheers -- puddleglum2.0 13:19, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Phoebe! I just saw your post here — I don't know of any article/discussion on that currently, and it seems like a fine thing to create. Your notes look good to me. Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Tips might be a useful checklist, although you're probably fine without it. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 17:00, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: thanks! I added a bit to the CARES Act article, and I was thinking of doing a section for the economic impact in the US article next, and then splitting it if it got large enough. I'll try to get back to it this week. cheers, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 19:17, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Bail fund[edit]
On 17 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bail fund, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a bail fund was started by the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 to release people arrested for sedition? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bail fund. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Bail fund), 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.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Black vulture[edit]
Sorry about deleting your video - clumsy mistake on my part. Actually I do wish there are more vids of wildlife. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterwchen (talk • contribs) 16:16, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
- Dear @Peterwchen: no problem! You might be interested in going through this category on Commons -- drill down by country too -- there are lots of good videos of animals that aren't in the relevant articles yet! That's how I found this vulture one. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:58, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Videos[edit]
Thanks for the tip on videos in the Commons. I had uploaded my few vids in webm, but I don't think they play on iPhone. I notice many vids in the Commons are ogv - is that more widely playable? I tried converting a MOV original to ogv with ffmpeg but the output is very jumpy on playback on my Linux desktop, as if it has a low framerate. Any suggestions would be appreciated.Peterwchen (talk) 16:30, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 40[edit]
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Issue 40, July – August 2020
- New partnerships
- Al Manhal
- Ancestry
- RILM
- #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
- AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Adminship[edit]
Hey, any particular reason you're not an admin? Asking for a friend.... Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:39, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Ritchie333: no special reason. A long, long, long time (like centuries in Wikipedia years) I refused a nomination for adminship on the grounds that I was doing a lot of speaking about Wikipedia, and I did not want to give the impression that admins were more important than ordinary editors (because they are not). Secondarily, I don't do that much editing that requires the tools, and I'm unlikely to start. Nowadays, I feel like the politics of adminship have changed considerably in en.wp. I'm still unlikely to use the tools much though :) -- phoebe / (talk to me) 15:45, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
- Okay, that's all fair enough. I agree that admins should not have more importance than ordinary editors; indeed, in a content dispute with yelling, if one of them is an admin they are more at fault because they are supposed to set an example. While some of our best editors don't need to go anywhere near the tools, equally some of our best admins don't use the tools unless necessary. In the previous example of an admin and non-admin having a content dispute, the best resolution by far is to use a bit of diplomacy, sympathetically state both party's views, and suggest ways to reach a consensus. If you have to reach for any of the tools, you've kind of failed in your management role. Anyway, when I took a look at your track record, with many years of having a kind and welcome attitude towards new editors, and a model level of civility and encouragement, I couldn't believe you weren't an admin (by contrast, Andrew Lih / Fuzheado has been one for longer than all of my kids have been alive!) and I assumed you must have been offered adminship in the past and refused. I think I know about ten editors in exactly the same position, or have been in the past - Cullen328 needed a lot of persuasion to put his name forward, and when he did the level of support was incredible, as I predicted. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:08, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- That is very kind of you! Well, I am not opposed to it at this point, but I'll also probably not go out of my way to seek it. It's funny; insofar as it's a matter of 'trusted users', I have previously held just about every *other* position of trust in our movement (I've stewarded the WMF budget, had OTRS access, been under multiple NDAs for WMF & user data, etc. etc.) but I have never been an admin :) ps user:Cullen328 and user:Fuzheado are both good friends, and we have spent time on projects IRL for many years! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:25, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- Okay, that's all fair enough. I agree that admins should not have more importance than ordinary editors; indeed, in a content dispute with yelling, if one of them is an admin they are more at fault because they are supposed to set an example. While some of our best editors don't need to go anywhere near the tools, equally some of our best admins don't use the tools unless necessary. In the previous example of an admin and non-admin having a content dispute, the best resolution by far is to use a bit of diplomacy, sympathetically state both party's views, and suggest ways to reach a consensus. If you have to reach for any of the tools, you've kind of failed in your management role. Anyway, when I took a look at your track record, with many years of having a kind and welcome attitude towards new editors, and a model level of civility and encouragement, I couldn't believe you weren't an admin (by contrast, Andrew Lih / Fuzheado has been one for longer than all of my kids have been alive!) and I assumed you must have been offered adminship in the past and refused. I think I know about ten editors in exactly the same position, or have been in the past - Cullen328 needed a lot of persuasion to put his name forward, and when he did the level of support was incredible, as I predicted. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:08, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
2014 locusts to illustrate 2019 ??[edit]
Hello, surprising : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2019%E2%80%9320_locust_infestation#2014_locusts_to_illustrate_2019_?? --Wisdood (talk) 11:22, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 41[edit]
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Issue 41, September – October 2020
- New partnership: Taxmann
- WikiCite
- 1Lib1Ref 2021
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Your draft article, Draft:Map of George Floyd protests[edit]
Hello, Phoebe. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Map of George Floyd protests".
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:42, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 42[edit]
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Issue 42, November – December 2020
- New EBSCO collections now available
- 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
- Library Card input requested
- Libraries love Wikimedia, too!
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