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November 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- November 2019—Issue 008
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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Class is in Session in the Tree of Life |
In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? ![]() Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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Nahuatl
I can't fınd any ıpa letters, ıf you can give me the whole set of ıpa letters, I will put the correct pronouncıatıon of "Nahuatl" that you reversed absent-mındedly. GlottalStop777 (talk) 23:31, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
- @GlottalStop777: What are you talking about? I haven't edited Nahuatl since last May. - Donald Albury 03:08, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
YOU reverted MY correct edit
GlottalStop777 (talk) 14:32, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
Me last month; I see an error in this article. Let me fix it! You; *removes correction* GlottalStop777 (talk) 14:34, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- @GlottalStop777: Again, what are you talking about? I do not see any article that we have both edited, ever, until you started posting on my talk page. Were you editing as an IP (not logged in) or under another user name? Please provide a link to the page these edits occurred on. - Donald Albury 15:13, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
No, I edited it on THIS account
GlottalStop777 (talk) 15:48, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
If you can't even be nice, you shouldn't be a mod.
GlottalStop777 (talk) 15:50, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- Hiya, hope you don't mind but I was wondering what the edit was that you were mistaken for/over... I'm feeling a bit icky & needed to focus on something that didn't need too much brainpower :) Anyway, whilst I still have no idea why your name came up as a possible "culprit", the furore seems to have arisen over this edit, which was changed well over a week later: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duolingo&oldid=932842332. Doesn't make much sense though since it was someone completely different, over a week later, on a totally different article... I'll admit I'm a little out of it on painkillers, but even then it still doesn't make sense!
- Anyway, not sure if this is useful or interesting at all for you, but thought I may as well pop a note here, so my feeble effort isn't wasted! Happy Belated New Year 😁 Blue-Sonnet (talk) 19:03, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Blue-Sonnet: I think the complaint may have been about this edit, where I removed what looked like nonsense. Other than that possibility, I have no clue what started it. - Donald Albury 20:17, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
I reckon aliens did it. Or the Illuminati. Or maybe fairies - they can be mean little suckers when they put their minds to it. Either way, at least you have an entertaining new story to tell 😁 Blue-Sonnet (talk) 15:26, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
December 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- December 2019—Issue 009
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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Editor Spotlight: Plantdrew |
We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
What projects are keeping you busy around the 'pedia at present?
What's your favorite plant?
What's your background like? How did you come to have a special interest in biology?
What's something that would surprised TOL editors about your life off-wiki?
Anything else you'd like us to know?
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December DYKs |
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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- A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
- A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
- Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted
rather thanreasonably construed
. - Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
- This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!
Thanks for fixing the citation dates
I'm afraid I automatically use the date format of the article, so I used US dates there. Doug Weller talk 14:44, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
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Edit summary Bahamian-Americans
Added summary. Thanks for the reminder — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alan T. Baumler (talk • contribs) 16:30, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Fixed the Reimers cite and added some more information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alan T. Baumler (talk • contribs) 11:48, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for you help. I think I (and you) finally have it right.