Jump to content

User talk:RoySmith

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from User talk:RoySmith/About)


Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST

[edit]
You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd!

Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:

This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

-- Environment of New York City Task Force

How adverse is DYK...

[edit]
Moved to Template:Did you know nominations/David Yong

October music

[edit]
story · music · places

You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is the birthday of Tabea Zimmermann, and you can listen to the exact concert I mentioned last year ;) - I'm fascinated by Rohan de Saram. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today brought a timely promotion of Helmut Bauer to the Main page on the day when pieces from Mozart's Requiem were performed for him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:31, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WCNA 2024

[edit]

Received. Thanks. -- Rosiestep (talk) 16:20, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-41

[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [1]

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3]
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4]
  • Advanced item Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
  • Advanced item Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oct 26: Wikidata Day NYC

[edit]
October 26: Wikidata Day in New York City
2024 Wikidata Day NYC flyer

You are invited to Wikidata Day in New York City at Pratt Institute School of Information in Manhattan, in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday. This event, held by our chapter in collaboration with Pratt and Girls Who Code, will be our third annual celebration of Wikidata Day. It will feature spotlight sessions, lightning talks, and the customary Wiki-cake, while those unable to attend in person will be able to watch a livestream.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:08, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Template:Did you know nominations/Nan Nan Resources

[edit]

Hi, thank you for reviewing the DYK.

Earwig report says Violation unlikely, 25% similarity. Is there a specific threshhold I should be trying to get under? Also wouldn't a US published document be public domain and therefore copyright-unviolatable?

I'm not trying to be difficult or argumentative here, I just want to better understand how this works.

DarthCloakedGuy (talk) 19:20, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, and thanks for the query. I think of the percentage number Earwig gives you as just a vague hint. In some ways I wish it didn't give that number because it makes it too easy to focus on. What I typically do is look for the red-highlighted parts and if I see a couple in a row, I look at the original to see how the unhighlighted parts in between match. Often, it all just sort of runs together. In general, if you can look at a passage and say, "Yeah, that came from this paragraph in the source, and they just changed a few words around", that's close paraphrasing.
The passage that stuck out to me was

In January and March 2008, Ascent Goal Investments Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Sonangol International Limited, purchased a total 74% ownership stake in Artfield. Ascent named three new executive directors to Artfield: Lo Fong Hung and her husband Wang Xiangfei, and Kwan Man Fai

vs

In January 2008, Ascent Goal Investments Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Sonangol International Limited, agreed to buy 56.7 percent of Artfield.105 By March 2008, Ascent had acquired 74.42 percent of Artfield’s shares and had named three new executive directors to the company-- Lo Fong Hung, Wang Xiangfei, and Kwan Man Fai

As these things go, this isn't terrible (and for sure, some of it is the names of companies and people which are always going to be unchanged), but it could be better. Let me suggest:

Artfield was taken over in early 2008 by Ascent Goal Investments Limited. By March, Ascent (a subsidiary of China Sonagol International) had purchased 74% of Artfield and installed three new executive directors. Lo Fong Hung was named chairperson and managing director. Lo's husband, Wang Xaigfei and Kwan Man Fai were also named to the board.

As I write that, I realize it's really not terribly different from what you had, so maybe I was just being overly picky, but I think it's a little better. RoySmith (talk) 20:35, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Either way it flows way better. I have a tendency to try to cram too much information into too few sentences, and this resolves that. Do you mind if I just copy this straight in?
DarthCloakedGuy (talk) 10:56, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please do. RoySmith-Mobile (talk) 13:33, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. Pretty much the only things the copyvio detector thingie are picking up now are names, which I think means everything is aboveboard now. Care to reassess? Please and thank you.
DarthCloakedGuy (talk) 17:00, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-42

[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [10][11]
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [12]
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [13]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [14]
  • Advanced item Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [15]

In depth

  • The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 21:18, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 October 2024

[edit]
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:15, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The third-rail tip pic revisited

[edit]

Roy,

Regarding this discussion, I have been able to get to my DSLR raw files of that image and uploaded one of them (rare for me, I actually overwrote the original because a) it was undeniably subpar and b) I really didn't feel like copying over the entire info text).

What do you think now? I have pretty much done all the work I felt necessary on the article and will be nominating it at FAC soon. Daniel Case (talk) 18:27, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That one really shows what it's like. Excellent! RoySmith (talk) 20:15, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Daniel Case (talk) 01:40, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I trust the acquisition of this image was fully compliant with all OSHA and FRA safety regulations :-) RoySmith (talk) 02:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Japansonglove again

[edit]

Would you like to merge Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japansonglove into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Smagzine, per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Smagzine/Archive#21 August 2024, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:57, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Elias Karmon

[edit]

On 21 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elias Karmon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mr. Bronx was not from the Bronx? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elias Karmon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Elias Karmon), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chinasrise SPI question

[edit]

Hello, thank you for your help and pointers at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chinasrise—as it seems I'm continuing to encounter instances, should I be adding them to the investigations page? Or given the remarks in the archive, should I desist in treating this as a sockpuppetry situation until something changes? It really does seem like something odd is going on, and it's fairly disruptive. Remsense ‥ 论 01:12, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At this point, I don't have a good feel for what's going on, so yes, it would be useful to add additional accounts as you find them. Perhaps with enough examples, something will start to make sense. RoySmith (talk) 01:14, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! And yes, per your point I now get why diffs here are as necessary as they are—I'll be properly rigorous with them from now on. Remsense ‥ 论 01:16, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:RoySmith&oldid=1252368644"