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Past editions may be viewed here. If this message is not on your home wiki's talk page, update your subscription. WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II For our freedom and yours Welcome to the second issue of WikiProject Poland newsletter, the Monitor (named after the first Polish newspaper). Our Project has been operational since 1 June, 2005, and also serves as the Poland-related Wikipedia notice board. I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions. We hope you will join us in them, if you haven't done so already! Unlike many other WikiProjects, we are quite active; we get close to a hundred discussion threads each year and we do a pretty good job at answering all issues raised. Last year we were featured in the Signpost, and our interviewer was amazed at our activity. In the end, however, even as active as we are, we are just a tiny group - you can easily become one of our core members! In addition to a lively encyclopedic, Poland-related, English-language discussion forum, we have numerous useful tools that can be of use to you - and that you could help us maintain and develop: we have an active assessment department. As of now, our project has tagged almost 83,000 pages as Poland-related - that's an improvement of over 3,000 new pages since the last newsletter. Out of which 30 still need a quality assessment, and 2,000, importance assessment. We have done a lot to clear the backlog here (3 years ago those numbers were 1,500 and 20,000, respectively). Can you help assess a few pages? assessing articles is as easy as filling in the class= and importance= parameters on the talk page in the {{WPPOLAND|class=|importance=}} template. See here for a how-to guide. once an article has an assessment template, it will appear in our article alerts and news feed, which provides information on which Poland-related articles are considered for deletion, move, or are undergoing a Good or Featured review. Watchlisting that feed, in addition to watchlisting our project's main page, is a good way to make sure you stay up to date on most Poland-related discussions. you can also see detailed deletion discussions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland (which is a good place to watchlist if you just want to stay up to date on possible deletions of Poland-related content) we have also begun B-class quality reviews on our talk page, and if our activity increases, hopefully we will be able to institute our own A-class quality reviews. As of now, we have about 500 C-class articles in need of a B-class review. If you'd like to help with them, instructions for doing B-class reviews are to be found in point 10 of our assessment FAQ. In addition to this automated list, you are also encouraged to help review articles from our B-class reviews requested list found here. also, those articles will be included in our cleanup listing, which allows us to see which top-importance articles are in need for attention, and so on. We have tens of thousands articles in need of cleanup there, so if you ever need something to do, just look at this gigantic list. (I am currently reviewing the articles tagged with notability, either proving them notable or nominating for deletion; there are still several dozens left if you want to help!). did you know that newly created Poland-related articles are listed here. They need to be reviewed, often cleaned-up, occasionally nominated for deletion, and their creators may need to be welcomed and invited to our project if they show promise as new authors of Poland-related content. we are maintaining a Portal:Poland automated Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Popular pages lists the most popular Poland-related pages from the previous month(s) Breaking news: we are looking for a Wikipedian in Residence for the New York City area. See Wikipedia:GLAM/Józef Piłsudski Institute of America for details. This is not all; on our page you can find a list of useful templates (including userboxes), awards and other tools! With all that said, how about you join our discussions at WT:POLAND? Surely, there must be something you could help others with, or perhaps you are in need of assistance yourself? It took me three years to finish this issue. Feel free to help out getting the next one before 2017 by being more active in WikiProject management :) You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a member at WikiProject Poland. Please remove yourself from the mailing list to prevent receiving future mailings. Newsletter prepared by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here and sent by Technical 13 (talk) using the Mass message system. Please accept Hello, Piotrus. You have new messages at NintendoFan's talk page again. You can remove this notice at any time. 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Featured content: Odin salutes you WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy Traffic report: Snow big deal Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism Read this Signpost in full Single-page Unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC) SMT Software OK, restored and AfDed Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:59, 28 February 2014 (UTC) Should we add a "former power plants" section to the list? Hi, you asked me if we should add a "former power plants" section to the List of power stations in Poland...maybe it would be helpful if we considered power station lists more generally. I have been thinking about guidelines or thresholds for inclusion. To help me with my thinking I started adding some hydro and gas turbine plants. As it stands with what we have (and I know that's not the complete list) we have a total capacity of 38 GW and a maximum facility size of 5 GW. Applying two (very arbitrary) criteria of 0.05% of the total, or 5% of the largest facility, leaves us with a threshold of around 200 MW. I am sorry but I just can't see myself getting interested in a power station of 200 MW when you have 38,000 MW across the nation, and something two hours down the road is nearly 30 times the size! If you do want to include these older plants, I would prefer the term "Decommissioned"...but don't write your friendly local Halemba off just yet. I see from Google Maps that there is still coal on the stockpile. --Graham Proud (talk) 14:56, 28 February 2014 (UTC) LOL! I did some more reading (of your references so updated the "decommissioning". One of the photos from Google Maps shows one of the cooling towers being dismantled. I have only ever seen concrete cooling towers, so to see this structure was amazing!--Graham Proud (talk) 15:24, 28 February 2014 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Roman Dmowski The article Roman Dmowski you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Roman Dmowski for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of North8000 -- North8000 (talk) 22:51, 28 February 2014 (UTC) WikiCup 2014 February newsletter And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were: Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91). Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work. WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song). Other competitors of note include: Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition. Prism (submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points. After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC) Re:Roman Dmowski Hi Piotrus; I'm afraid the article isn't really eligible, both because it was nominated last year and because the changes you've made this year are on the smaller side. A quick look through suggests that it's a great article, but I don't think it's really eligible for WikiCup points. Thanks, J Milburn (talk) 10:45, 2 March 2014 (UTC) You have mail! Hello, Piotrus. Please check your email; you've got mail! Message added 17:34, 2 March 2014 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Different from email above. — Revicomplaint? 17:34, 2 March 2014 (UTC) Talkback Hello, Piotrus. You have new messages at Iryna Harpy's talk page. Message added 09:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Iryna Harpy (talk) 09:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC) --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:50, 4 March 2014 (UTC) Blue Army peer input request I'd like to ask for third party assistance on several issues regarding the Blue Army article. In particular the greatly over-expanded Controversies section, which was significantly enlarged to include big chunks of text dedicated to subject matter not directly associated with the Blue Army. Also, I would like to point out that most Wiki article admins control the size of content as not to have one user come-in and dump larger amounts of text in one section, and in the process completely shift the balance of the article, by creating un-due weight issues by simply over expanding one section. Redundant statements re-emphasize similar points: (the two phrases are only one sentence apart). many ethnic Ukrainians and Jews generally see its conduct during the war in a negative light. As a result, Jews perceived Haller's Army as particularly harmful to their interests. Overstating wrongful claims; as those made by historian William W. Hagen. If his claims were soundly disproven, why include them? More importantly why does the paragraph go into such detail about the events of the pogrom when the Blue Army was not even there in the first place? Also, as noted by historian Edward Goldstein, the Blue Army was accuse of several pogroms; that they had nothing to do with, so Hagen's wrongful accusation is nothing unusual. Finally, other editors proposed to remove the text in the past. Also, you agreed above that it'd be a good idea to remove Hagen. Can we do that? Volunteer Marek 19:31, 22 November 2011 (UTC) The Blue Army was wrongly accused of committing the Lviv Pogrom of 1918. Historian William W. Hagen claimed that after helping to capture Lviv, some army units together with Polish civilians, engaged in three days of violence against the Jewish and Ukrainian inhabitants of the city, resulting in hundreds of civilian deaths.[29] But the army's participation in the pogrom is highly disputed, and according to the Cambridge History of Poland, when the Lviv Pogrom actually took place the Blue Army was still in France fighting on the Western Front. Also, it has been documented that the first units did not reach Poland until the spring of 1919, nearly five months after the actual pogrom had happened.[30] The Kronika Polski lists 14 April 1919 as the start of the first transports form France to Poland,[31] and historian Kay Lundgreen-Nielsen stated that the first units of the army did not leave France until 15 April 1919; its departure having been delayed by opposition from Britain and the United States.[32] Thus, requiring a special protocol before the Blue Army was allowed to return home to Poland.[33] Over emphasizing individuals not directly linked to the Blue Army. The entire paragraph about Hugh S. Gibson, and his opinions about the Jews are completely irrelevant to our topic. Also, the American envoy did not come to Poland to look after Haller's troops. Finally, his reporting on the "food riots" is also not directly related to this article, as the events primarily occurred during civilian unrest, and not done by the army. The United States sent an envoy to Poland, Hugh S. Gibson, a man who stood out for his antisemitism.[25] Hugh Gibson along with Dr. Boris Bogen, who was the general director of European relief operations of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), were tasked by the United States Government to investigate the situation.[26] Throughout their stay in Poland, Gibson and his colleagues ridiculed Jewish traits, customs, and appearance.[25] The official report sent back to Washington stated that many of the newspaper reports in the American press had been inflated, and Gibson himself wrote in his correspondence that he was concerned about separating fact from rumor. In his investigation, Hugh S. Gibson also addressed the issue of "food riots", and after investigating the circumstances reported that an even larger number of Christian shops had also been ransacked, thus disputing the claim that all the violence was strictly a product of anti-Jewish sentiment. Gibson also claimed that Zionists were conspiring with Berlin; according to historian Carole Fink, Gibson emphasized Jews' "social, economic, and ideological transgressions" and described the victims of the pogroms as "exploiters." [27] Gibson also expressed the opinion that Jews in Poland ought to "reform themselves" and assimilate into general Polish society.[28] Since, we have had problems like this in the past regarding the Blue Army page; I ask that we all come together to finally create a fair and balanced article. Again, your input on this issue would be greatly appreciated. --COD T 3 (talk) 02:44, 4 March 2014 (UTC) Second WIKISOO class starts soon! Hi! Just a quick reminder that the second WIKISOO class starts in about 3 hours. Even if you missed Week 1, please join us at this link for the live webinar - ideally about 15 minutes early to test your mic/speakers. If you haven’t finished up your Week 1 homework, there’s still time; post any questions on the class talk page! You can also watch a video of last week’s class on YouTube (earlier audio problems have been corrected). Feel free to contact me on my talk page with questions anytime! - WIKISOO co-instructor Sara FB (talk) 22:08, 4 March 2014 (UTC)