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He smells Chrome.

Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 00:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy Deletion

Hello Pikif12p!

I saw recently that you were the Administrator who was dealing with my page being speedily deleted. What can I do to change the webpage to meet the requirements? I am very determined to re-write the page so it will stay, please help.

Thank You, TimothyjMcAlpin (talk) 20:59, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I have my doubts as to be being the administrator who deleted your page, because I'm not an administrator ;). Pilif 12p 21:07, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your input is needed on the SOPA initiative

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Lawrence School, Sanawar

Hi, re: your copyvio tag at Lawrence School, Sanawar ... it would not surprise me if you are correct but could you please indicate what it is that you feel the article content is violating? Just drop an explanation on the article talk page. From my experience, all you usually need to do is provide a link to the source that you think is being violated. - Sitush (talk) 01:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, that was supposed to go above the section, not below it. Fixed, thanks for pointing it out. Pilif 12p 02:25, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for repsonding, and I understand. I sort of had that feeling, but it still doesn't explain what is being violated. Is this stuff all coming from the school's official site? I have trouble sometimes connecting through to India-hosted websites, especially (but not limited to) those whose domain name ends ".nic.in". The "nic" is the Indian "national informatics centre", and they seem to have fingers in a lot of pies but seem often not to be able to sort out their own routing etc. I guess that is a consequence of being some sort of official body, with a wide remit that potentially covers the public sector sphere of 20% of the world's population ... and then they take on private/commercial work also.

There is a phenomenal amount of copyvio'd stuff on India/Pakistan related articles and I sometimes despair of trying to fix them, but a hint is always handy :) Best wishes and, yes, even without checking it out I am pretty sure that you were correct to tag. That's experience for you! - Sitush (talk) 02:43, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Biology

Fast response, you got there before I finished! Changed the template on WikiProject Biology/Members to DB-G6. Yep, forgot to add "Wikipedia:" to the beginning of the title. The correct page is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology/Members. Northamerica1000^(talk) 00:14, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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D'oh!

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) 23:30, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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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) 00:17, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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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) 21:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deletion (2nd nomination)

Hello. You have a new message at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose's talk page.

A pie for you!

frood lol Puffin ^{Let's talk!} 16:28, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Whale

Smash!

You've been squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.

per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 21:39, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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) 17:02, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry

I'm very sorry =(Bigshowandkane64 (talk) 20:11, 21 April 2012 (UTC) rude[reply]

I didn't mean to be rude to a user, I took it all back. I didn't mean to call someone and idiot. I'm still a nice person. Bigshowandkane64 (talk) 02:14, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages update

Hey Frood :). 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) 23:21, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Frood! 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) 03:28, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page by 71.207.201.117. I appreciate it. -- Bananas talktome 01:16, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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) 13:12, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Edit warring"?

American Third Position Party has been a slow edit-war-in-progress for months now. We get IPs, registered users, and their socks attacking the page every other week or so trying to change "White supremacy" to "White nationalism". Being that these edits are inherently non-constructive and blatantly against policy, I am not held to 3RR. User:Malv is the one you should be warning. Anyway, it's at ANI now. Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:33, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Er, sorry. I guess I should've looked at the citations before warning you. Disregard. Frood! ^Ohai _{What did I break now?} 22:39, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! Thanks for removing the template message. : ) Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:51, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Bani Mustafa Article

I am the author of the article "Bani Mustafa", and I would like to make some points regarding the unfair deletion process of the article.

1. The deletion proposal was made by the user JohnRak as part of the dispute reagrding the contents of the article Jerash here. The relation between the two users is quiet obvious, as the user JohnRak admitted that he works with the user Historyfeelings in the real life as shown here. This made him if not socketpuppet a hired crowd.

2. The PROD deletion proposal overpassed the Articles for Deletion (AfD) process which is against Wikipedia policy as stated here

3. The PROD deletion proposal was made by the user JohnRak whose creation was dedicated solely for the deletion of the article Bani Mustafa as shown in the history of his contributions as the first contribution for the user was the deletion proposal. Please check here

4. The PROD deletion proposal was made while I was in the process of responding to the AfD. In my response to I depended on the information which I had on hand during that time, which I admit it was not complete.

5. The article was subject to a continuous vandalism since the beginning of the dispute between me and HistoryFeelings over the article Jerash, where the vandalism was made by anonymous IP addresses.

6. I can assure that all the information, which I have included in the article were genuine and authentic. However, most of the sources provided in the article are written in Arabic and are not available on the internet. These resources are available in Jordan and can be obtained from many public libraries, however as I am away now, I have no access to these sources as they are not available online.

7. An article which was written on the website of the Jordanian news agency "Almadenahnews" confirms that, please see the English translation of this article here.

Banimustafa (talk) 09:59, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for participating in my RFA! I appreciate your support. Zagalejo^^^ 06:03, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The S Voice image is perfect, but...

Hi, Frood. I just recently came across the S Voice article, and I was really impressed at the superb quality and detail it had. It looked very informative towards the article, but... it doesn't really give the readers a visual representation of what S Voice can actually do. It only says "What would you like to do?" and that's it. I was thinking you could upload a new image, along the lines:

S Voice: What would you like to do? You: Set alarm S Voice: What time? You: 9:00am S Voice: Here's your alarm:

Thanks. 77 7 — 11:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC) (I'm planning to do a new screenshot of Siri soon, I'm very interested in mobile personal assistants!)[reply]

Sure, I'll try to do that sometime today. Frood! ^Ohai _{What did I break now?} 15:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mozilla Editathon Saturday 18 August

You are invited to attend the Mozilla Editathon, where, among the like minded people, we will look at improving the Mozilla related articles on Wikipedia. For more information visit http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Editathon

Thanks! Daria Cybulska (talk) 10:46, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd love to attend, but going to London isn't possible for me. I have forwarded this on to the Mozilla Reps mailing list, though. Frood! ^Ohai _{What did I break now?} 14:42, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Frood! Feel free to circulate the weblink to the event page too (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Editathon). Thanks, Daria Cybulska (talk) 09:16, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]