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Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Jane Austen character
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A page you started (Linda Goodnight) has been reviewed!
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Hello! Just came across this. You seem to have created the template already, so I thought you might like to know that this is still rattling around. Thanks! Happy Squirrel (talk) 15:23, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Re: Welcome to WP:ROMANCE!!
Thanks! I learned about it from my watchlist, when you added the project tag to Persuasion (novel). I've been editing since around 2008, and have written dozens of articles that would probably fall within the romance category (like Lecia Cornwall and Through a Glass Darkly). I think the project is a great idea -- our collection of articles in the genre is sorely lacking (and, to me, one of the more visible examples of the site's systemic bias). If I think if anyone else to notify, I'll be sure to do so. Thanks for creating it! Ruby 2010/2013 13:57, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- For sure! I will weigh in there when I have time. Ruby 2010/2013 15:00, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
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DYK nomination of Sherry Thomas
Hello! Your submission of Sherry Thomas at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:25, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Sherry Thomas
Do you truly consider all her novels notables? I'm about to redirect Delicious. It would be enough to add references to the reviews to the mention of the book in the main article, since the article is composed entirely of quotations from book reviews. DGG ( talk ) 14:49, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- @DGG: Made it it's own because in the peer review for Sherry Thomas it was suggested to remove and summarize reception into separate articles if the book meets WP:NBOOK and it does meet #1. It's also a Stub so will have more relevant content soon. plange (talk) 15:41, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
- I have moved it to my Sandbox to continue working on filling it out to at least a Start class article.plange (talk) 17:24, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4
Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:
For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.
A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.
What have we been working on?
- A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
- A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
- New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
- SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
- Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.
Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.
The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Daniel Trigg
Hello Plange. I came across your profile while reading your recent articles on American women writers. I was interested to see you are working on a biography of Daniel Trigg, no doubt based on your dissertation A romantic adventurer comes of age : the life of Daniel Trigg of Abingdon, Virginia. I'm not sure when you hope to have your extended biography published (I see you've been working on it since at least 2005) but in the meantime, would it not be a good idea to put together a short article on Daniel Trigg for Wikipedia? I have also read Trigg's colourful account of his early seafaring life here which you submitted to CSSVirginia. He certainly seems to have been a notable individual, well worthwhile having on Wikipedia. And you could no doubt fill us in on the latter part of his life when he was a judge. (BTW, judgship is a recognized variant of judgeship, cf judgment.) I've red-linked Daniel Trigg on John W. Johnston.--Ipigott (talk) 08:21, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- @Ipigott:Thank you for reaching out! I think at the time I was last active on Wikipedia in 2006 (when I worked on Johnston's and others) I wasn't sure if Dan met WP:GNG and was worried about bias. So I might have overcompensated that bias by not doing it at all, LOL. I will see if I can do a decent bio on here. Life waylaid me on finishing his bio, but lately I've been getting the itch to finish. Now that it's so easy to self-pub, I figure I should just do it that way. Thanks! plange (talk) 12:20, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- That's good news, both for Wikipedia and for your own book. Good to see you're back and creating lots of new articles.--Ipigott (talk) 13:20, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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DYK for Sherry Thomas
 | On 27 June 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sherry Thomas, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that critically acclaimed historical romance author Sherry Thomas was born in China, lives in Texas, and writes about Victorian England? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sherry Thomas. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.
Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.
Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.
The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.
Until next time,
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Your GA nomination of Sherry Thomas
The article Sherry Thomas you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold 
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need help
Hi, I'm translating the featured article John W. Johnson you wrote to Chinese here, just finished few days ago, I had a question, footnotes NO. 51, "Longacre, Fitz Lee, 200; Blake, William Mahone, 189, 216 fn 95", what's the "189, 216 fn 95" mean?--Jarodalien (talk) 07:43, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry for delay--I think I meant footnote # 95
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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Template:WikiProject Romance
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
- Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
- One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
- Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,