User talk:Kevin Gorman

This Month in Education: February 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2013
Headlines
Welcome (back), Rod Dunican! ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México donates 100 photos to Commons School of Open to launch with a Wikipedia course for open education enthusiasts Cairo class creates Spanish literature portal Brazil program organizes Campus Party activities U.S., Canada Thematic Organization proposed Articles of Interest in other publications
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A brownie for you!

Thanks for your help in the Teahouse! Jackson Peebles (talk) 06:05, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :) feel free to drop me a note if you need help figuring something out in the future. Kevin Gorman (talk) 06:30, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedian in Residence

I've put the notice up - sorry for the delay. I ended up using the range [37.6, -122], [38, -122.5], which should cover the city, but you might want to double-check the university is covered - it sometimes happens that institutional networks do strange things on geo-IP lookups. I've set it to run until the end of 10 February (UTC); let me know if you'd like longer. Andrew Gray (talk) 17:43, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a bunch, Andrew. It looks like the University is covered. A longer running notice shouldn't be needed; I assume that any interested pre-existing Wikipedians will notice it in that time period. Kevin Gorman (talk) 01:08, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)

It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.

Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.

1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Metric	Control group	Teahouse group	Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit)	5.02 weeks	8.57 weeks	1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited	58.7 articles	116.9 edits	2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits	36.5 edits	85.6 edits	2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits	129.6 edits	360.4 edits	2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces)	182.1 edits	532.4 edits	2.9x total edits

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)

-- Ocaasi and the rest of the Teahouse Team 20:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Not sure how to approach resolving issues with Carptrash

Hi, I'm hoping that, as an experienced Wikipedian, you may be able to help with Carptrash on the Men's rights movement talk page. 4 years ago when I initially created this account, I stopped contributing after a short time because of similar behavior levied in my direction. I decided to not let that happen this time and was just going to ignore them, but after seeing them immediately act the same way against another user, I can't believe that it will be isolated to just this situation unless something is done to express how toxic these types of actions are to well intentioned and well behaving new editors. I've looked through Wikipedia policies, but they seem to be acting with impunity and I could not find where or how to report this type of behavior. In particular, I am talking about what started with this, then led to this and what finally made me seek out a more experienced Wikipedian of this. Honestly, I'm not sure how much of this sort of thing I can ignore before just giving up again. Ismarc (talk) 01:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Chris troutman (talk) 19:01, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hostile editing environment on the men's rights movement page

Hello Kevin. you have expressed an interest in r/mensrights about have more people come in to improve this page. I have two users WLU and sonicyouth who are creating a very hostile environment on this page, including singling me out with ad hominem rather than discussing my edits. In addition, they are disputing one of my recently added sources, which I believe to be reliable, and repeatedly deleting my contributions without discussion. I believe they are current working in conjunction to get me banned for edit warring by taking turns removing my material. You intervention would be appreciated.Yhwhsks (talk) 20:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]