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Help Project newsletter : Issue 4
 Issue IV - September 2012 | |
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Interesting woman in technology
Looked over a book about a woman in technology today: Ping Fu. I bet she could give quite a talk about psychological resilience ... Djembayz (talk) 01:38, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
On the Commons, commons:User:Bdcousineau states that the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library are interested in participating in GLAM and porting there collections to the Commons. Could you reach out to them? (I've also left this message at User talk:LoriLee, but she hasn't edited for several weeks.Smallman12q (talk) 11:38, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hey there. I think User:Dominic is the right person to ask, as he is Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives and they maintain and control the presidential libraries (for example, he did an event at Reagan's library a few months ago). I think he'd be the best person to ask! SarahStierch (talk) 03:05, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Joseph J. Katz
TO SarahStierch: In Aug 2012 I aubmitted an article "Joseph J Katz." He was a famous scientist at Argonne National Laboratory (USA). I knew him well. I interviewed colleages and his wife, but used only citable sources in my article. On Aug 15 the article was rejected by Aaron Booth with comments by you. I modified it on Aug 16 with an intro paragraph and more references. Having not received notice of acceptance, I wrote to Aaron Booth this month. No action. Please reconsider my Aug 16 submission. Lester Morss — Preceding unsigned comment added by HANNOVER1 (talk • contribs) 18:25, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
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Adopt-a-user just got shinier!
Hi Sarah. User:Worm That Turned and I have recently been giving the old Adopt-a-user program something of an overhaul; largely inspired, I might add, by the Teahouse project! In the interests of making the adoption scheme more prominent, we were hoping to perhaps enter into some sort of mutual arrangement with the Teahouse; many of the editors asking questions there are those who would benefit most from adoption. Worm has suggested that teahouse guests be directed to adoption if they seem to have multiple or very complex questions (something like, "Your third question today? Here's the answer, and by the way, have you considered adoption?"); this would reduce the load on Teahouse hosts and ensure that new users who wanted to get an in-depth experience of Wikipedia were able to dive in under the auspices of an experienced mentor.
I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts, both on the AaU redesign and on the prospect of the two projects working more closely together. Drop me a line and let me know what you think. Cheers, Yunshui 雲水 08:49, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Yuhshui. The Teahouse was originally created as a many to many support system, and I am sure there are some guests who might benefit from the adopt-a-user program. The new page looks great! Thanks for linking to the Teahouse. Since you signed up as a host, you are welcome to stop by the Teahouse host lounge and encourage your fellow hosts to invite editors to the adopt-a-user page as needed. And do note: we surely need more questions and visitors to the Teahouse - hosts are not overloaded :) So don't fear having the Teahouse be bombarded - the more questions the better. Thanks for your efforts and for revitalizing the project! SarahStierch (talk) 18:32, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Page Curation newsletter
Hey Missvain. I'm dropping you a note because you've been using the Page Curation suite recently - this is just to let you know that we've deployed the final version :). There's some help documentation Wikipedia:Page Curation/Introductionhere that shows off all the features, just in case there are things you're not familiar with. If you find any bugs or have requests for new features, let us know here. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I believe most of the sources are already secondary, so I'm a bit confused. One comes from University of Warwick, one from UCL and one from an independent consultancy firm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.244.76 (talk) 16:51, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Overseas Research Scholarship
Hi Sarah,
I'm somewhat confused regarding primary/secondary sources in my recent article Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Overseas Research Scholarship which you've reviewed. You suggested that my sources were primarily primary rather than secondary sources, but 3 out of the 4 sources were from University of Warwick, University College London and an independent consultancy firm. Since they not related to the agency that runs the scholarship, are these sources not secondary? Anyway, I've added some new sources, including one from the British Council.
Thanks
DaYZman (talk) 01:35, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
List of language translators in fiction
Hello Sarah,
Thanks for the good news re: the creation of my page, I'm happy-happy!
I have a question: on the original page in French (of which I'm also the proud mother), there also is a non-fiction section, mainly memoirs and biographies. Should I also add it to the en.wiki page even if it's non-fiction? It might be useful for people who research to topic and are looking for books in general about interpreters and the profession.
Waddya think?
Otherwise, I'll rather stick to fr.wiki (my mother tongue). I might come and visit en.wiki from time to time though...
Thanks again!
--BiiJii (talk) 08:16, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi BiiJii!! I think it's a great idea to add the non-fiction - whatever can make the article more usable and beneficial to scholars and researchers is great to me. Thanks so much for your contributions - the more translations the better :) SarahStierch (talk) 14:06, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Peter d'Entremont
hello sarah,
the user "sryder" tried to create an article on peter d'entremont - which was rejected. if i understand the objection correctly, a lack of "significant (detailed) coverage of him in independent, reliable sources" was mentioned as the reason. i am taking over the creation of said page - which is really just a stub at this point - and hope that i can provide some information that might help:
by following this link - https://www.canadianwhoswho.ca/Biography.aspx?param=X1XxpaYy80c%3d - you will find his biography in the CWW (canadian who's who). i hope that this qualifies as an independent and reliable source. (upon review, i would appreciate if this link could be erased as the page contains personal information not meant for public viewing.)
thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mittgenstein (talk • contribs) 19:41, 26 September 2012 (UTC)