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The Underground: Issue 1 (August/September 2012)
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The Tea Leaf - Issue Six
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Help Project newsletter : Issue 4
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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. |
Criticism of Wikipedia
[edit]You commented in the RfD discussion about Criticism of Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 August 5#Criticism of Wikipedia. That discussion was closed as "moot" due it having been unilaterally converted to an article during the discussion. I chose to boldly implement the apparent consensus of that discussion and the previous discussions linked from it, and reverted it to a disambiguation page. That action has been reverted due to a perceived lack of discussion. I would welcome your comments at Talk:Criticism of Wikipedia to see if consensus can be reached again for an dab page, article or redirect. Thryduulf (talk) 00:40, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
The article 1-2-3 (game) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- May not meet general notability guidelines
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 18:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Page Curation update
[edit]Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Copyright Problem
[edit]Hi. The Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? article's plot section has been suspected to be a copyright violation here.
Text is copied verbatim from the show's official Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/arnavkushibestjodi/info and from a number of other sources on the web. Googling for snippets of text from this plot summary returns a variety of pages which predate the insertion of text into the Wikipedia article, though some other cases are less clear-cut. For example, there's a lot of duplication of text with a plot summary in a blog post at http://watchonlineweeklyserial.blogspot.de/2012/08/iss-pyaar-ko-kya-naam-doon-14th.html but it was posted on the same day as the material on Wikipedia.
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There seems to be a shortage in the amount of administrators who clear these situations. I made a rewrite of the Copyrighted section (plot)- Talk:Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?/Temp. Think you could help clear the problem? Therealdeepi (talk) 20:09, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi! Your rewrite seems ok but i'm not an administrator so i cannot complete the process here. Instead i've left a note at the article talkpage. I'll be watching it for further updates. Regards, :-) benzband (talk) 08:21, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- Re: it's been done. benzband (talk) 15:54, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The Voice Project
[edit]Hi! apologies but questions from a real noob, I had something about the listing for the org i work with, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_Project. it redirects from here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Voice_Project&redirect=no and appears we're the only one with that name now. Can we lose the (charity) parenthetical and just be The Voice Project without breaking links around wikipedia? Houseop (talk) 20:18, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi! I cannot perform this move personally, because of technical restrictions (only administrators can delete a page to make way for a move), but i have listed it at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Technical requests where it should be acted upon shortly. :) benzband (talk) 15:59, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
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Page Curation newsletter
[edit]Hey Benzband/Archives. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.
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