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Cranege brothers

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New Page Triage engagement strategy released

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:38, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Page Triage newsletter

Hey guys!

Thanks to all of you who have commented on the New Page Triage talkpage. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :).

In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an office hours session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on my talkpage and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:53, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage newsletter

Hey all!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first office hours session; the logs can be found here, if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).

In the meantime, I have greatly expanded the details available at Wikipedia:New Page Triage: there's a lot more info about precisely what we're planning. If you have ideas, and they aren't listed there, bring them up and I'll pass them on to the developers for consideration in the second sprint. And if you know anyone who might be interested in contributing, send them there too!

Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Plumpot, Peter Pinkle

Hi, I'm lv123jv456 and I'm just writing an apology message for what I did to a page about the crew members aboard RMS Titanic. I did it because I was annoyed at some people who tried to delete my edits which were right. Please don't block me from editing and tell your wikipedia mates not to delete all my edits. Sorry again, lv123jv456. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lv123jv456 (talk • contribs) 20:02, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

help triage some feedback

Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

The Estmondson family

Hello Peter, nice catch with that heretofore unknown family of Quality. I wanted to let you know that I nominated them for speedy deletion since they were all written by an author whose talk page seems to indicate that he/she is only interested in writing hoaxes. This seemed to clear the threshold for "obvious" vandalism. Hope you don't mind! Cmprince (talk) 20:27, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

A big NPT update

Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

coding

• Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
• Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:09, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update

Hey Peter James :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:27, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Celeste (soft drink)

Hey, I noticed you declined a PROD for this, but you neither gave a reason, nor mentioned that you declined it in the edit summary. Please note declining of the PROD, and the reason why in the future pbp 03:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Peter E. James! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:35, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:20, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thanks for correcting the page as I wasn't sure how to manage that as I came across the name without the middle initial and didn't know how to reconcile it. Incidentally is there any way to remove the middle initial? Truealpha (talk) 20:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks - although now I've looked again I noticed a typo in the redirect I created. If you think that the move is unlikely to be opposed, you can use the "move" tab - probably at the top of the page, if not then search for "move" in the page. Otherwise there is a template that can be used on the article's talk page - see Template:Requested move for instructions. Peter E. James (talk) 20:43, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you again for clarifying, I shall research that prior to doing anything on it. Just to clarify when you said there is a typo in the redirect -- is there anything I need to rectify now or it is ok? Truealpha (talk) 21:14, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

You don't need to do anything with the redirect, although a redirect will be needed if the article is not moved. Is the redirect I created, with "Basir" instead of "Bashir", likely to be useful or should I tag it for deletion? Peter E. James (talk) 21:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

The only variation that I see via research is Bashir Tahir so "Basir" wouldn't be the same person. To be honest I actually don't even know where you have created that redirect (it should now be obvious I am relatively new to this!) -- is it on the same page? -- I guess one solution would be to correct it for the right spelling? Truealpha (talk) 21:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

No, the redirect is a separate page - see Basir Tahir (link without redirect) and Bashir Tahir (link without redirect) - an explanation is at Wikipedia:Redirect. I've created it with the correct spelling and tagged the incorrect one for deletion. Peter E. James (talk) 21:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Great thank you and appreciate the help. That's a more elegant solution to simply redirect "Bashir Tahir" than the method I used. Enjoy the baklava! :) Truealpha (talk) 21:44, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Uranium

Please reconsider your deletion, Rosie and I have moved it to Uranium mining in Namibia and removed most of the essay. Best solution would now be to delete the capital letter original title and close AFD.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Reinstating edits by a banned user

You appear to be reinstating edits made by a banned user at Louis Finson, Catherine Trianon and Romani (adventurer), without giving any explanation in the edit summary or at the relevant article talk pages. It is always preferable to give an explanation of your edits, and in this case it would be particularly desirable to acknowledge explicitly that you are reinstating a banned user's edits and that, in accordance with Wikipedia:Banning policy you take complete responsibility for their contents. Water marble nail (talk) 11:26, 9 June 2012 (UTC)