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:I understand you may not have been clear that the health topic covers animals as well as humans, but I see no evidence of you having asked first, so I assume the creation of the [[:Mycoplasma iguanae]] article was a test to see if it does include animals. It does because animal health and anatomy does merge with human health and anatomy in places, such as in [[Clitoris]] where both human and animal anatomy is discussed. If in doubt of the extent of your topic ban, it is better to ask first, and to link to such discussion when editing articles than to test the water by editing first. [[User:SilkTork|SilkTork]] ([[User talk:SilkTork|talk]]) 23:50, 31 July 2018 (UTC) |
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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello Barbara (WVS), thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.
Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!
- As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
- Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar:
. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: 
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. - Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.
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Signpost
The newest issue of the Signpost will be published by June 29, 2018. Barbara ✐ ✉ 23:43, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 28
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018
- #1Bib1Ref
- New partners
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
- Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
- Bytes in brief
Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Offline Editing for Wikipedia pages
Barbara:
I thought about the sandbox but I think I can only test one page at a time
I have the code for each major page of the structure saved as .doc files and can create html pages for them so that may be a way to test them
I have been working on some other projects and need to get back to Otis's project soon
thanks for posting and your kind words
Lew — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lewis buttery (talk • contribs) 04:58, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
- I just hate to see someone like you who has drafted up about 40 new article pages off-wiki discouraged from adding content! I assume you have much to contribute and hope you aren't chased away by editors who want to watch your draft space. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 12:22, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Migration
Barbara, thanks for inputs. I'll get back to this in some days, out of office just now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:29, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions. Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter. This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog. 
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).
Administrator changes
Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor
Gogo Dodo
Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
- A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.
Technical news
- Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
- Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon (
) in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates. - IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
Miscellaneous
- Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Barbara ✐ ✉ 01:24, 8 July 2018 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).
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Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Barbara ✐ ✉ 01:26, 8 July 2018 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).
Thursday July 12: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ Jefferson Market Library
| Thursday July 12, 5-8pm: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ Jefferson Market Library | |
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  Wikimedia NYC invites you to attend a Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon on Thursday, July 12th at Jefferson Market Library! Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. We are holding this year's event in July in order to support folx who want to contribute a photograph they took at one of NYC's many Pride events or edit an article about something they learned this June. Not sure what to contribute? No problem! We will have a list of articles that need your help.
--Megs (talk) 14:56, 10 July 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to the "picnic anyone can edit", the Great American Wiknic NYC @ Prospect Park, Sunday, July 29! | |
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Moved humour section
I moved the Signpost humor piece you started over to User:Barbara (WVS)/Television plot lines, making way for the new one as you said. By the way your fictional project sounds reminiscent of WP: Requests for medication. ☆ Bri (talk) 00:50, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.  Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume. If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online". 
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Sunday July 29: Annual Wiki-Picnic @ Prospect Park
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Midget professional wrestler
Was looking over your latest opus for The Signpost and of course Dwarf tossing took me right to Midget professional wrestler. Serendipity? Kismet? Fate? Or just everyday clairvoyance? ☆ Bri (talk) 03:21, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
- It is slightly disturbing that we are starting to see the world in very similar ways. Irony just knocks me over sometimes. This next version of the humour article is taking on a life of its own but all I can do is shake my head. I don't think I'm very funny this time...but the topic just goes on and on and on and ....... Barbara ✐ ✉ 03:27, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
- I too read the draft and it is hilarious. Expecially the chart. I laughed out loud at that. I am Pollyanna and you are Jeremiah. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:02, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
- It was definitely clairvoyance. Pro mud wrestler Dee Booher just popped up on the main page. Not a midget, though. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:45, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
- I too read the draft and it is hilarious. Expecially the chart. I laughed out loud at that. I am Pollyanna and you are Jeremiah. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:02, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Barbara (WVS)/tv template
Template:Barbara (WVS)/tv template has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Le Deluge (talk) 09:18, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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Hello Barbara (WVS), thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- June backlog drive
Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
- New technology, new rules
- New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
- Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
- Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
- Editathons
- Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
- The Signpost
- The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.
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July 2018
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. SilkTork (talk) 23:26, 31 July 2018 (UTC)- I understand you may not have been clear that the health topic covers animals as well as humans, but I see no evidence of you having asked first, so I assume the creation of the Mycoplasma iguanae article was a test to see if it does include animals. It does because animal health and anatomy does merge with human health and anatomy in places, such as in Clitoris where both human and animal anatomy is discussed. If in doubt of the extent of your topic ban, it is better to ask first, and to link to such discussion when editing articles than to test the water by editing first. SilkTork (talk) 23:50, 31 July 2018 (UTC)