User talk:Diannaa

Archives Archive 1 (November 2009 to May 2010) Final newsletter Hi, could you do me a favor? I've got a lot going on IRL in the next couple days. Could you and SMasters work out a final newsletter to send to everyone? He's pretty good with graphic layout, and you're the communications deputy for the drive, so you two should make a great team on this. You're going to want to provide some statistics, like total number of words copyedited, total articles edited, etc. If you don't have time to do any of this, that's okay. I'll just do it when I get back. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 01:33, 1 June 2010 (UTC) I can do it. I will post it to SMaster's Talk when it's ready and hopefully they will have time to help with the technical bits. Thanks for your work on the drive!!! Diannaa TALK 01:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC) Hi Diannaa, you can post it at the bottom of User:SMasters/Workshop and I will add the graphs, etc. Cheers. - S Masters (talk) 04:29, 1 June 2010 (UTC) OK, done. Please feel free to edit the draft as appropriate. Thanks for your help. :D Diannaa TALK 04:38, 1 June 2010 (UTC) 10k+ Copy Edit The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar For the following amazing copy editing: 10,826 words in USS Constitution during the May 2010 backlog elimination drive. Torchiest talk/contribs 04:34, 1 June 2010 (UTC) Thank you so much. This was a reaallly good article. Diannaa TALK 06:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC) You're welcome, and thanks for the perfectly balanced barnstar as well. I didn't think I'd be able to find the right combination of articles to hit those even totals, but it worked out pretty nicely. :) Torchiest talk/contribs 12:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC) Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up Thanks very much to all who helped with the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive. We were very close to meeting our target of 7,500 articles remaining in the backlog. Our most shining success is the incredible reduction in the backlog of Special Requests. That part of the project saw a drop from 62 articles in the queue, some dating back to February of 2009, down to a stunning THREE, all of which were being edited at the close of the drive. The Special Requests page will now be a great resource for people looking to tidy up their article in advance of a GA or FA nomination, instead of a place where articles go to die. Moving forward GOCE backlog elimination drive chart up to 31 May The drive has not only forced a great leap forward in reducing the backlog. It has helped promote the Guild, and led to a greater awareness of the level of vigilance required to keep the backlog manageable. Ideas such as charts, graphs, and barnstars helped motivate editors, and meeting other users helped quell any feelings gnomish editors may have had in the past that they were toiling all alone. Keep up the good work people!! Stats Almost everyone who participated will receive a barnstar. We will be handing these out over the next week or so. Five people will receive the highest award for word count (80,000 or more), the Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star: Bullock, Diannaa, NielsenGW, S Masters, and Torchiest. The Order of the Superior Scribe (40,000+) goes to Auntieruth55, Bobnorwal, Kojozone, Lfstevens, and Mlpearc. fds wins the Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (30,000+). The Old School League of Copyeditors Barnstar for 20,000+ is awarded to A. Parrot, mono, Truthkeeper88, and The Utahraptor. the Tireless Conributor Barnstar (12,000+) goes to dtgriffith, Laurinavicius, and Quinxorin. Buggie111, Brickie, cymru lass, liquidluck, noraft, and Yellow Monkey get the Cleanup Barnstar for 8,000+ words. The Working Man's Barnstar for 4,000+ words goes to Annalise and fetchcomms. The Modest Barnstar is awarded to Theo10011 and The Tito. Gold Star Award The Gold Star Award goes to the top editor in three challenges: Number of special requests fulfilled, number of articles edited, and number of words. Here are the final results. Final results: Gold Star Award: Requests Articles Words 1. SMasters (17) Torchiest (250) NielsenGW (150,360) 2. Bobnorwal (13) Diannaa (212) Diannaa (136,200) 3. Bullock (9) kojozone (76) Torchiest (125,000) Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa TALK and S Masters (talk) Drive Thanks for helping coordinate the drive, Diannaa. I had a lot of fun. fdsTalk 15:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC) You're welcome. Glad to do it. Diannaa TALK 03:57, 2 June 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 31 May 2010 Photography: Making money with free photos News and notes: Wikimedians at Maker Faire, brief news WikiProject report: WikiProject Zoo Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 21:45, 1 June 2010 (UTC) The Signpost... ...wants to interview us. Please answer any or all questions at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk/Interviews2 if you'd like to participate (I'd like you to participate!). I've reserved the last question for you and SMasters only. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 10:25, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Thanks. Just got back from Wikibreak, will do instantly. Diannaa TALK 02:47, 8 June 2010 (UTC) The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LI (May 2010) The May 2010 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 21:54, 5 June 2010 (UTC) German Type IXA submarine Hey there Diannaa! Can you please copy edit this article for me so it can pass a GAN? Sturmvogel 66 wishes for the prose to be reworded and fixed up a bit. Thanks.--White Shadows stood on the edge 01:17, 7 June 2010 (UTC) Just got back from Wikibreak, and will get started soonest. Regards, Diannaa TALK 02:46, 8 June 2010 (UTC) Rollback Diannaa, as I was cleaning out CAT:TEMP, I kept noticing your name. Accordingly, I have turned on the WP:ROLLBACK feature for your account. Please let me know if you don't want it, and please read that page to see when and when not to use the new button. Happy editing! Courcelles (talk) 15:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC) Thank you! I will review the instructions and start using this feature. Diannaa TALK 02:45, 8 June 2010 (UTC) Now that you're a rollbacker (welcome to the club), you should get a hold of Huggle. It makes vandalism fighting really fun, and super fast. You can rollback and warn 10 vandals in a minute when you're really cooking. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 07:32, 9 June 2010 (UTC) You know what you're doing. WP:Reviewer... with flagged revisions coming in 2 days, the permission needs to be given out, so you've got it. You won't see anything different for a few days, but I think your head's screwed on straight. You'll have a couple more buttons, but this right is as active as you want it to be-it also serves to let you "patrol" your own edits on flagged protected pages. Courcelles (talk) 13:48, 13 June 2010 (UTC) Help! I started giving out the barnstars, then got bogged down with other things right after the Working Man's Barnstar. Can you give out the Cleanup and higher awards? I'll do the leaderboard awards. If it is too much for you, shanghai S Masters too. You can grab the language for the award off the page of one of the Working Man Barnstar Awardees. Pretty basic. Just notes the number of articles and total words, really. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 07:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC) ok. Diannaa TALK 02:16, 10 June 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 7 June 2010 From the team: Changes to the Signpost News and notes: "Pending changes" trial, Chief hires, British Museum prizes, Interwiki debate, and more In the news: Cancer coverage, cognitive surplus, Wikipedia monarchy, and more Free Travel-Shirts: "Free Travel-Shirts" signed by Jimmy Wales and others purchasable WikiProject report: WikiProject Comedy Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 11:26, 9 June 2010 (UTC) Talkback User:IBen/TB mono 03:34, 10 June 2010 (UTC) Surprise Gold Star Award! The Guild of Copy Editors' Award Diannaa, for your hard work and dedication to the encyclopedia during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, copyediting the second most articles (212) and the second largest amount of text (136,200 words); for your service to the GOCE in co-coordinating the drive; and for being there for me when I needed your help; I hereby award you this special GOCE Gold Star Award, for an absolutely stellar performance. You have my warmest thanks. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:36, 10 June 2010 (UTC) BTW, in case you're considering it, don't give me one back. I really didn't do enough to earn one. I gave the April 2010 Good Article Backlog Elimination Drive coordinators Motivation Awards, which seemed appropriate, and aren't often awarded. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:36, 10 June 2010 (UTC) Thank you for the special award. Maybe I'll send you some cookies or something, one day when you need them. Your work is appreciated. Diannaa TALK 04:45, 10 June 2010 (UTC) This is a job for...the Communications Deputy! Hi Diannaa, I've been thinking a lot about marketing the drive, and I think one thing that would help is if we monitored the signups closely, and sent a welcome message to each new sign-up, with an exhortation to ask friends to join the drive. My target for participation this drive is 60 active participants, about double the last one. I'm also about to send out a notice to all GOCE members announcing the drive. Do you have any other ideas? ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 14:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC) I like the "welcome" idea and will look after sending out the welcome messages to peple who sign up. I think you should send out another sign-up reminder to all Guild members about a week from the start of the drive, say on June 24, if that does not strike you as being too spammy. What's your opinion? And hopefully our Signpost write-up will help as well. Diannaa TALK 01:46, 11 June 2010 (UTC) Hi, saw your message on my talk page. Hopefully you get this before you send the message out to those who have signed up. I've reworked your draft to sort of...get them into the spirit of the drive...make them want what we want. You'll see what I mean: Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ Talk! or Diannaa TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support! — Diannaa TALK ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 02:12, 11 June 2010 (UTC) OK. A few went out, but I will modify them. Diannaa TALK 02:21, 11 June 2010 (UTC) Grab some glory, and a barnstar Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the {{copyedit}} tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 14:41, 10 June 2010 (UTC) This is the message that went out to 250 members of the GOCE. It resulted in 8 signups over the next 10 hours after it went up. I'm sure there will be some more over the next 36 hours, so that's good. The Signpost article will come out in a dew days, and that should help as well. Basically I need two signups a day every day until the drive starts to hit the participation goal of 60. If we want a reasonable chance at making the backlog goals (below 6000 and clearing all of 2008), we'll need at least 60 editors, with some high-performers again. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 23:37, 10 June 2010 (UTC) I got Jimbo! I invited Jimmy Wales to sign up, and he did! I told him that if he symbolically copyedited a single article for the drive, that we give us a lot of good exposure, which would help participation. I also offered to find him a short article to work on. I have a little assignment for you. I'd like you to post on his user page, introducing yourself as the drive communications coordinator, welcoming him to the drive as a participant (in reality what you're doing is both welcoming him and advertising to everyone who watches his page that he's signed up), and saying something along the lines of "we know you're busy, so would you like us to find you a short article to edit, or would you like to proceed on your own?" ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 10:57, 11 June 2010 (UTC) Good work, Noraft! I will think about this and post a draft here later today XD. --Diannaa TALK 14:15, 11 June 2010 (UTC) We are already up to 27 people! Diannaa TALK 14:16, 11 June 2010 (UTC) I am not sure it is appropriate or wise to assume he is only going to copy edit one article. Perhaps his intentions are wider than that! I would not like to presume otherwise. Nor do I feel we should choose an article for him; if he browses the backlog the way other users do he will get a better picture of the enormity of the task. That's just my opinion though. Here is the first draft: Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number, so the exposure this project receives from your participation will be incredibly helpful. If you would like to take Noraft's suggestion and symbolically copyedit a single article, one of us would be happy to choose one for you if you want. Or if you have time to do more than one, that would be great too. As the drive communications coordinator, I thank you on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors for your support! Diannaa TALK 16:05, 11 June 2010 (UTC) I just saw this tweet so I hope he is going to be an active contributor to the drive! Let me know when you make up your mind. Diannaa TALK 21:49, 11 June 2010 (UTC) I think you should go to his talk page and read my invitation to him. That will explain why I think he may only copyedit one article. Since I made an offer we need to see if he wants to take us up on it. I don't want him to feel snookered into joining, like we offered something just to get him in, then didn't follow through. He may want to do more than one article, and he may want to find articles himself, this is true, but he hasn't indicated one way or the other, so we need to find this out. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 00:17, 12 June 2010 (UTC) Here is a revised draft which I will move to his talk page once I get the OK from you. Diannaa TALK 02:54, 12 June 2010 (UTC) That looks great. I'd add in "Just let us know" to encourage a response one way or the other regarding the option we're presenting him. Go ahead and send it, and thanks! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:39, 12 June 2010 (UTC) The message has been delivered!!! This is gonna be huge. We already have 37 participants including high profile users such as Nerdy Science Dude and Fences & Windows. I have placed an announcement on the Military History wikiproject page as per your suggestion. It grows Diannaa TALK 04:52, 12 June 2010 (UTC) Talkback User:IBen/TB mono 00:45, 12 June 2010 (UTC) Talkback Hello, Diannaa. You have new messages at NerdyScienceDude's talk page. Message added 03:16, 12 June 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. CopyEdit Refferal Hello, regarding your request for referrals to the CopyEdit Drive, User:SuperHamster might like to join. |:-) ~ QwerpQwertus ·_Talk_·_Talkback Me_· 05:38, 12 June 2010 (UTC) Super! I will place an invite on their talk page. Thanks. Diannaa TALK 05:44, 12 June 2010 (UTC) User:Pdcook says he would also like to help. Derild4921 14:52, 12 June 2010 (UTC) Talkback Hello, Diannaa. You have new messages at Jubileeclipman's talk page. Message added 20:56, 12 June 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Talkback User:IBen/TB —monopending changes begin june 15 03:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC) British Commandos Thank you for the copy edit very much appreciated. --Jim Sweeney (talk) 10:37, 13 June 2010 (UTC) You're welcome, Jim. An interesting read; it was fun. Diannaa TALK 13:41, 13 June 2010 (UTC) Back log drive Hello Diannaa, nice to say hi, you've been to my talk posting things and I've never come by to say Hey. Have a small (Dumb) question, I recently opened my Public alternate account, my dumb question is can I edit in both accounts for the drive and log my complete articles under my main, or both, or none, or I can Only edit for the drive under the account I've signed up with (this one is my guess), but the only dumb question is "the one NOT asked" t Thanks Mlpearc pull my chain 'Tribs 16:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC) Hi, Mlpearc, nice to meet you! My feeling is that your public account was only set up to use at libraries, school, or what have you. I see no reason to restrict you to the home account only. When you have a minute, edit! You could check with Noraft to be sure. --Diannaa TALK 16:10, 13 June 2010 (UTC) Thanks, I'll ask him. Mlpearc pull my chain 'Tribs 16:46, 13 June 2010 (UTC) Can you help on another one I see you are active on the pop history articles again. Can you go through the Dusty Springfield article for grammar? I have written it but I'm not a native speaker. Thanks! --Jaan Pärn (talk) 10:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to get this one done! Diannaa TALK 20:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Stuart period Hi Diannaa, I've just re-edited Stuart period, from the original Stuart period (England). I've fixed the dabs, and put a {copyedit tag} on it. I would like to take this to (my 1st) - {WP:GA+} article. As this article covers over 100 years of history, (social, royal, political and military &c), I would be most pleased if you, or anyone you suggest, could help me with any suggestions, or improvements, &/or Copy-edits? Thank you kindly for your time, and concideration, regards Steve. Stephen2nd (talk) 15:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC) I would Love to work on this. Will get started today or tomorrow. Diannaa TALK 20:33, 15 June 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 June 2010 News and notes: Pending changes goes live, first state-funded Wikipedia project concludes, brief news In the news: Hoaxes in France and at university, Wikipedia used in Indian court, Is Wikipedia a cult?, and more WikiProject report: WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 20:17, 15 June 2010 (UTC) You are now a Reviewer Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC). Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here. If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 20:56, 15 June 2010 (UTC) I flagged you a couple days ago, but there was no template then to tell you about it... now there is, so here it is. Courcelles (talk) 20:57, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Okey-dokey. Its a great honour. Thanks. --Diannaa TALK 21:07, 15 June 2010 (UTC) "Honour"... I don't know. I've flagged a couple hundred editors today in preparation for this trial... don't let it go to your head ;) Courcelles (talk) 21:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC) History of the Yosemite area Thank you for your copyedit! Commas before quotes seemed odd to me too, but I added them after reading this. But this gives exceptions. So now I know. :) --mav (reviews needed) 01:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Thanks for the links, Mav. These are great resources. --Diannaa TALK 02:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Russian-Americans Hello Diannaa, I certifiably don't wish to be involved in an edit war, however the other user, simply ignored the discussion posted by me and another user and kept reverting changes with any discussion at all. What is the best course of action in that case? Also I see that you have reverted the changes that I have made, this article is about an ethnic minority in the US, Russians, Ukrainians are not the same ethnic group, there is already a separate page for Ukrainian-Americans, etc. Please take a look the discussion and re post my changes. Sotnik (talk) 04:32, 16 June 2010 (UTC)