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Help Project newsletter : Issue 4

The Help Project Newsletter
Issue IV - September 2012
Project news summary
From the editor

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.

-- the wub "?!" 20:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

edit-a-thon

Hi SarahStierch -- I'm Laura Quilter, and at UMass Amherst we're organizing an edit-a-thon to remedy systemic bias / exclusion of underrepresented minorities & women ... so I was curious how your event went, and if you have any advice? and if you have any materials we could re-use? --Lquilter (talk) 17:33, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Laura! This is great. I went ahead and posted about it on the WikiWomen's Collaborative Facebook, which I hope you'll get involved in. A few links about events that I have done:

I've done some other events, but not focused specifically around women or systemic bias. It looks like you are already getting things situated on the page! A few words of wisdom:

  • Consider adding some online resources, if any, next to the articles you want to expand. It's helpful for getting started.
  • Also provide some articles that are stubs or starts, if any, related to the subjects you want to focus on, some folks don't like writing articles and just want to clean them up and add citations. It provides something for everyone.
  • If the library or archives has images, consider having them scan or provide some for the articles.
  • I made a template that I paste on the talk page of articles edited at the event, warning experienced editors that the article was edited on behalf of an event and might have been edited by a new editor (so be nice!). You can see an example here:
  • Talk:Peter_Birkett

Also, would you like me to send a talk page message around to everyone who lives in the vicinity of Amherst and is on Wikipedia? This will promote the event! Let me know :) Also, when the event takes place, would you like to write a blog about it for the Wikimedia Foundation blog? And finally, do let me know if you'd like to get involved with the WikiWomen's Collaborative, I'd love it, you can find more information here.

I hope I didn't overwhelm you too much :) SarahStierch (talk) 20:23, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all overwhelmed. I've busily copied the template -- great idea. We've got a couple of people working on resources (handouts etc.). I "liked" the facebook thingie. Feel free to link the meetup/edit-a-thon wherever it seems appropriate. As for committing to write about it for the WMF blog, maybe; or maybe we should get the new editor who proposed the meetup to do it -- I'll propose it to her. Lastly, I might get involved w/ the WW Collaborative, but to be honest, I tend to edit / admin in fits and starts as my time, interest/enthusiasm, and work / parenting schedule permit. So I can add to the group but wouldn't at this point be able to commit to any particular task / role w/in the group. --Lquilter (talk) 00:47, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Sarah, we just received three images from the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.

I'm not active with GLAM, but know you are. I don't know whether this is something that was expected, or is coming in over the transom. In any case, I would think that someone ought to be reaching out to them with a little more than my canned thank-you in OTRS.

I uploaded the images to:

I don't know whether they belong in National Gallery of Zimbabwe, or elsewhere. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 01:10, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks SPhilbrick! I've pinged folks in the GLAM crew. SarahStierch (talk) 01:13, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen's Collaborative

Hey Sarah - Thanks for the notes! And you can borrow Fredrika from the top of my talkpage anytime! :) --Rosiestep (talk) 02:53, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi am confused

What was it you wanted me to look at when you sent me the talkback earlier? Gtwfan52 (talk) 03:01, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Women's sport

Yeah. I can do that. I need some time to think about what I would write as it relates to my postdoc topic, presenting at a conference on an unrelated topic and I have a fair amount of documentation regarding that. --LauraHale (talk) 03:03, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Missvain. You have new messages at Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Host_lounge.
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What content did i delete? It was an accident

Hi, I got your message in my own "My Talk" and I did an edit to it, but I'm not sure if you will see it. You suggested i come to your page and comment and this is the only way I know how. I apologize if I'm doing it incorrectly. I'm extremely new to this. With regard to the Teahouse where I asked the question on how to post my opinion about content deletion, someone provided me help. I then wanted to reply to that person to say "thank you". I didn't know I deleted content. Can you tell me what I deleted? I do, now see the "Edit Summary" field. I missed that completely and will be sure to use that going forward. (Did you get my reply, from my own My Talk, page)? Or just this one? Thanks again and sorry for any inconveniences. Thanks again, Terster Terster (talk) 05:25, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Terster! It's okay, the bot left that stupid template, sorry if it was alarming - most of the time when people delete things it's out of spite, not accident. If you click here you can see the difference - some how you mysteriously deleted the whole page :) So perhaps your thumb just slipped ;) No problem at all. I am glad you're here, and I'm sorry if the message left you alarmed!! SarahStierch (talk) 16:22, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ISHM?

I just found your User:SarahStierch/ISHM series through my photo of the T.C. Steele Home in Brown County. Were you aware of List of Indiana state historical markers and its county-level sublists? Nyttend (talk) 01:57, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, quite aware, thanks! This was for a Wiki Loves Monuments project....I haven't quite finished. SarahStierch (talk) 06:14, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Burning Ears?

Lonibug and I are in the Alverno College Media Hub talking about you and your awesomeness!! --Jgmikulay (talk) 17:45, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

HAHA! That's sweet :) SarahStierch (talk) 17:49, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Organizations (important)

Hey Sarah! I have been DYING to ask you if I can make a little thing for Culture Day or any day that is good for celebrating cultures. I want to have people post about their heritage and traditions. I just wanted you to approve of this first. If you don't approve, I'll be upset, but your the boss, so it's your decision. I think this will be a very good idea. I can make a little list if you want, too. I think it will be very cute to do so. Also, you know how you left that Woman Appreciate thing on my page. I want it to be like that, except NO Facebook or Twitter should be involved because it is a one week thing. I'm very excited to hear your answer. I HOPE you accept. I'll make a little list for you, if you approve, telling you what would be best for this. PS- I hope to be as popular and helpful as you in Wikipedia. Thank you so much Sarah. You may answer on your talk page or mine. Whatever you like best. Thank you! Have a good day! DEIDRA C. (talk) 18:27, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Deidra! Great to hear from you. I'd be happy if you did whatever you wanted regarding the appreciation of about improvement about content related to any culture. I'd say go ahead and do it! Create a draft or template, or idea on wiki and feel free to hare it with me if you'd like someone to take a look. One of our mottos at Wikipedia is be bold so I'd say, go for it :) Can't wait to see what you do! SarahStierch (talk) 00:00, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OH! Thank you so much, Sarah! I really appreciate it. I was going to do something like a list of cultures and some things about them. Thank you! It might take awhile to get everything together, but I will try to achieve it. Thank you very much! DEIDRA C. (talk) 17:34, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the berries!!

Hi Sarah, Thanks for the delicious berries,feedback and support! Lonibug (talk) 03:07, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Contribution.

Hey, SarahStierch. Please help contribute to my WikiProject. This WikiProject is about different cultures. If you can take some time and help contribute to it, that would be very nice of you. I am starting this project this week and would like to finish by next week. Please help me with this project. Thank you very much. Please answer on my talk page because I might not be able to keep track of who is contributing and who is not. I would like you to also share your culture. If you can give me a little summary about your culture such as, foods, lifestlye, holidays, traditions, e.t.c, that would be extremely helpful. Thank you. So if you would wish to contribute, please reply on MY talk page. Happy edits! Have a great day! DEIDRA C. (talk) 19:05, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

EdwardsBot input pages

Hi. Sorry, couldn't help but notice your tests. EdwardsBot reads input lists by looking at the links as the database sees them. Whenever [[links]] are saved to a page, MediaWiki updates its database records so that it knows to purge these pages when a link changes state (for example, if the page "Bob" is deleted, every page that links to "Bob" has to be re-rendered so that it's now a red link instead of a blue link). A side benefit to this tracking is that users (and bots) can query the database directly for the links on the page, sorted by namespace.

EdwardsBot looks at every User and User talk page link on a specified input page. It de-dupes (so if you have "User (talk)", it'll only deliver once) and then it follows any redirects that may exist (usually due to user renames, but any type of redirect is followed). The links themselves can be stylized, bolded, put in a numbered list, put in a bulleted list, collapsed, whatever, as long as they're still links. The database doesn't know the difference.

Global lists use m:Template:Target and global lists (used in conjunction with the global bot) are all run from Meta-Wiki. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:35, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and two suggestions

Thanks for your invitation. I'm very busy in real life, so I have little free time, but I'll remember about your initiative. Now I would only like to suggest two corrections of your message, as the subject of the sentence must be taken into account:

  1. "As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved!" (subject: "we") could be replaced by "As WikiWomen, we'd love to have you involved!" or "We'd love to have you involved as a WikiWoman!"
  2. "We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by..." (subject "we") could be replaced by "We can't wait to have you involved. Feel free to drop by...". Best wishes on this project :-)Sylwia Ufnalska (talk) 06:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Blog thoughts

I was thinking about doing a blog for the wikiwomen's initiative about transgender people on wikipedia. I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.-Rainbowofpeace (talk) 07:19, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rainbowofpeace! I'm so glad you thought of this idea! The focus of this project is to engage and inspire women and transwomen to edit Wikipedia and participate in the movement. So, if your blog will - in the end - make that the main focus (perhaps the important and unique contribution transwomen can make, or..), then I'd love to see it drafted for the WikiWomen's Collaborative. If it's going to be a more general blog not focusing on women, then it'll be up to the folks at the Wikimedia Foundation to consider it - since I only curate content about women and transwomen. What do you think? If you're ready to get started you can visit this page to learn more, and you'll find a link to the drafts area on meta where all blogs need to be placed. Once you get it started and ready for review, let me know and I'll take a look! Can't wait to see what you cook up! SarahStierch (talk) 16:44, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Sarah

Are you trying to set a record for number of edits in a certain time period? ;) --Pine✉ 08:29, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]


WikiWomen's Collaborative

Glad to have the invite, I don't see a role for myself as yet. I did a great deal of focused editing of women's articles a few years ago, but i got tired of the wikipedia bullies and walked away. Now I only edited sparingly. All my ambitious WP projects still lay unfinished. I'd be afraid to do intensive article production again, the struggles are draining. I will join all the social networking and keep an ear out. EraserGirl (talk) 16:10, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EraserGirl! You don't have to write about women's articles to be a WikiWoman :) I do hope perhaps this social community can help support your project development and more. Feel free to ping me if you need anything - or stop by Facebook and drop a line for a motivator! :) SarahStierch (talk) 16:14, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I realize I don't have to write Women's articles. My concern is that women's contributions already overlooked in history will become even more obfuscated if they aren't addressed in Wikipedia either. I had a plan to work in women behind the camera in early Hollywood, starting with Screenwriters. I may go back to that project one day when I have more time. EraserGirl (talk) 17:13, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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