User talk:Sharkface217/Archive7

Lady Aleena's RfA

Sharkface217...Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. Through it I have become aware of a great many people who can help me in my future editing endeavors. Even though I was not promoted, your support shows that I still have something to contribute to Wikipedia, even if it is minor edits to fix spelling and grammar to working in WikiProjects to help others make great articles. If you wish to further discuss the nomination, please use its talk page. Stop by my talk page anytime, even if it is just to say hello. Have a wonderful day! - LA @ 04:04, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

The meaning of OP in the Hellsing Edit

Hi I was wondering what is the meaning of the [OP] link on this article Logos_naki_World? I'm pressuming that it is something along the lines of Opening Theme? To which of the articles that the OP link points to did you meant to redirect it? PuercoPop (talk) 21:34, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

AWC "challenge"

Just noticed this and thought..why not..I'll leave a message. If I interpreted it correctly, I successfully completely your Burn article challenge in addition to the project space, AFD, RC patrol (anti vandalism), welcoming 1000 users and 100 cookies deliveries. You can check my talk page for the barn stars. : ) Cheers dude. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 06:42, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you from Horologium

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed unanimously with the support of 100 editors. Your kindness is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Wizardman, Black Falcon and jc37 for nominating me. — Horologium

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Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

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AWC:Recent changes take 2/3rd challenge

I checked my contribs earlier and I think I completed it this time.--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 20:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, I have warning another 100 users.--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 20:49, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. And what about the warn 100 vandals challenge? I have confidence that I reverted another 100 vandals and warned them.--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 20:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

That's actually a good idea. I'll start doing that.--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 21:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. That took you a while. How much did you count?--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 00:31, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For taking the time to count 400 of my vandal warnings in my contributions, I, RyRy5, award you The Tireless Contributor Barnstar! But in this case, you should be tired. :) RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 00:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Your welcome. BTW, how long did it take you to count my 400 warning?--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 00:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I see... well I'll start doing that. Cheers.--RyRy5 (talk ♠ wikify) 00:45, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Award Center Discussion

There's a discussion about the AWC at my talkpage. Cheers.--RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 23:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok, sure. I'll be bluntish. I think these should go, and I'll say why.

Adopt Five users Welcome 1000 users RC Patrol Take 2 Edit Count section, excluding the project space one. AFD

The adoption one, well, users who aren't ready to adopt others might adopt users. Which could lead to poor "training" of new users, a serious issue I feel. Welcome 1000 users, that's just excessive. I'd suggest cutting it down to 100. Recent changes patrol, its OK, but as I see it, it's not about the quantity of reports, warnings etc, but the quality of them. New editors may not understand our vandalism policy, and be over eager to give out warnings when they're not due. Editcountitis section, terrible. Editcountitis is bad, bad, bad, and I don't think encouragement should be given to it. AFD, as I said, it's not about the quantity, but the quality, and I'd advise checking such participant's edits to AFD, and ensure they're not just "per nom" votes, or similar. Cheers. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 00:20, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 01:52, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Apocalypse Cow

Just a heads up, be careful about using rollback to revert good faith edits, those edits weren't vandalism. The Dominator^Talk_Edits 03:50, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Yup, there's been a big fuss over use of rollback, personally, if you're reverting blatantly unhelpful edits, it's fine, but others might give you trouble. The Dominator^Talk_Edits 05:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Two challenges completed at AWC

I have completed two more of your challenges at the Award Center. I sponsored 15 challenges, and I have now completed more than 5 challenges from the page (thoughtfully nominating 50 articles for speedy deletion, participating in 50 AfDs, correcting 200 spelling errors, warning 100 vandals, reporting over 20 vandals who received blocks or bans, sponsoring 15 challenges, adding infoboxes to 25 articles, making 1000+ edits in April). Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 18:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of User:Sharkface217/Award Center

User:Sharkface217/Award Center, a page you created, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Sharkface217/Award Center_2 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Sharkface217/Award Center during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 20:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem, a curtosey message. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 21:29, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Erm, ok then. I'm sure that's what Steve wanted done, but if you want them kept on the page, be my guest :) weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I've just read my comment above and it sounds so rude; I'm sorry. I'm sure you're right. And thank you! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Wow, philosophic... I think that's the best Wikipedia metaphor I've ever read. =D weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:58, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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Reference section at AWC

We got a little zany on your ass, and changed your challenge. :)

See User:Sharkface217/Award Center#The Reference Challenge.

Feel free to change it, nuke it, or even sign it! I'll be happy to sign it after you do.

The Transhumanist 04:07, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

To avoid a new section; why not archive all of the "get as many edits as you can" and other similar challenges from AWC? weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 14:55, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

• Yep, saw the comment there. Thanks. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 21:15, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

WBOSITG's RfA

Ok, I'll get to that. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

RE: Vandalism AWC

Yeah, I did complete that actually... click the "109" here... KC109 21:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC).

My RfA

Hi Sharkface317; I wanted to say thank you for supporting my request for adminship, which passed with 100 supports, 0 opposes and 1 neutral. I wanted to get round everybody individually, even though it's considered by some to be spam (which... I suppose it is! but anyway. :)). It means a lot to me that the community has placed its trust in my ability to use the extra buttons, and I only hope I can live up to its expectations. If you need anything, or notice something that bothers you, don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again, PeterSymonds | talk 22:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Here, for your work. Now stop beating me :D CWii(Talk|Contribs) 01:11, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Revert questions

What's the issue here that required the rollback? The user looks to have added a legit update about this award. Also, what's the issue with this one? The user points out another difference between the book and the TV series. Metros (talk) 01:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Because you've previously been talked to about rolling back good-faith edits here, I have taken away your rollback rights for now. Rollback is only to be used for obvious vandalism. You used it for at least 2 non-vandalism edits today and there were a few others that were questionable. Metros (talk) 03:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

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Heads up

When will you be out of school for the Summer and ready for some major action on Wikipedia again? June 26th? Or do you need time after that to recover from your finals?  :)

I'm working on something big (very big) for the AWC, but it'll have better success if you are on hand to oversee your page, to intervene if conflicts erupt, etc.  :) It will be the biggest collaboration I've attempted to date (bigger than the TOTD project, bigger than the Contents project collaboration, bigger than the Help page redesign, and even bigger than the Main Page redesign). It can't start until the graphic design work on the awards is completed anyways, so it may be awhile. But I figured I should give you time to get psychologically prepared for this.  :) I'm shooting for at least 20 contestants at a time, with constant turnover likely over the life of the competition. I'm going to need at least two others to help coordinate this thing (dole out assignments, check completion claims, etc.). Who would you recommend? (You can do this too, but I have a hunch you'll have your hands full keeping the peace).

By the way, do you know any good graphics designers?

The Transhumanist 02:55, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

The AWC is in no danger. It works. It's a way for people to hook up on tasks. It needs to be refined, true, but it works. The community won't kill it for that very reason.

By keeping the peace, I mean, since it is your userpage, you pretty much have the final word on edit wars, cheaters, etc. - and if I'm not mistaken, in your own userspace you aren't limited to the usual 3 reverts (though we should look this up to be sure). FYI, my new project is a challenge to be posted on the AWC. It will replace my entire current section.  :) Today I posted a message to the editor-in-chief of the Signpost to inquire about how to obtain (ongoing) coverage for an event, the announcing of monthly winners, the current champion, etc. Haven't heard back from him yet, though. You wouldn't happen to know anybody who participates regularly in the Signpost's operations, would you? By the way, thank you for the referrals. The Transhumanist 05:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU

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RFA Thanks

Thanks for your participation at my recent Request for adminship. I’ll keep your concerns in mind as I continue to work within the project. I hope you find I live up to your expectations of administrators. Best, Risker (talk) 16:51, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

User page

I commented on User talk:Sharkface217/Award Center. Take a look when you get a chance...thanks! --Eustress (talk) 18:21, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

RfA thank-spam

Sharkface217/Archive7, just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks! Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks sharkface :) Gatoclass (talk) 08:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

...for defending my user page. →Christian.И 18:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Image policy

Please learn it before reverting my edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.175.64.163 (talk) 18:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

May I suggest you start deleting every military cap badge and crest on the site then because that's what you've just done on my workpage - despite the fact I'd asked for assistance on the image page to get the syntax correct.GDD1000 (talk) 19:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks!

		RfA: Many thanks
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Re:Adoption

No to adoption but I am requesting a admin coach. Trees Rock^MyGoal 20:09, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Vandalwhacking

Thanks for the barnstar! And thanks for the revert on my talkpage, bit of a poor show that I couldn't get there first... ;). Huggle's gorgeous, isn't it? Alex.Muller 21:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

You've got to check out the GIMP

I can't believe how powerful this free graphics program is.

Not knowing anything about the program, I downloaded it and started tinkering with it.

Starting with this:

File:Interlingual Barnstar.png

I stripped out the globe and barnstar, to get this:

File:Globe stand.png

I needed a transparent background, and all you have to do for that is to add a transparent layer, then select and erase the original background so the transparent background is all that's left:

File:Globe stand with transparent background.png

I then found a picture of Earth in this screen capture from NASA's Worldwind program:

I carefully drew a thick red ring around the Earth, blacked out (painted black over) everything outside the red ring, then made the black transparent, followed by making the red transparent, leaving just the globe. The GIMP supports layering, scaling, and positioning, which makes it easy to add components...

File:Blue Marble in stand.png

Then I took this:

And added an alpha layer (1st transparent layer) to it and then removed the white surrounding the globe (leaving just the transparent background), removed the black, changed the white to black, and touched it up by erasing bits here and there, and adding a couple lines. Then I pasted the whole thing into the above image as a new layer, positioned it over the Blue Marble and underneath the rim of the globe stand and reduced the layer's opacity by a little over half, and wahlah!

File:Blue Puzzle Marble in stand.png

Now all that's needed is the passport.

I just created this passport front cover, from scratch using the GIMP and Image:Wikipedia logo gold.png.

What I'd like to do now is lay it down at an angle on the surface below the globe stand. But then it would need pages, because its edge would be showing, so I'll integrate it with the below picture, which will require changing the size, perspective, and rotation of the new cover so it can be placed on top of this one.

That shouldn't be too hard.

The reason I'm telling you all this is to emphasize the amazing ease by which the GIMP handles all this. You may find it very useful yourself in the creation of awards, or may wish to delegate award creation tasks to others to support contests or challenges you may host in the future, or you may want to suggest the use of the GIMP in challenges to improve images, etc.

Very useful.

Spread the word.

The Transhumanist 01:38, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Operation Killer

Requests are out, some knowledgable users will provide you with sources. Wandalstouring (talk) 08:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: New project idea

Any chance you can fill me in sometime on the new project you're planning? I don't need to know anytime soon, but I must admit, you have piqued my curiosity. To quote Yinsen from the new Iron Man movie... "What are you building, Stark?" --Sharkface^T/_C 18:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

The World is its scope and its theme. It involves all the countries of the world, and it will be run as a collaboration and a competition - so far there are 3 award types being developed for the contest - a ranked award, a monthly award, and a world champion trophy (that will be passed around to whoever has "run the gauntlet" the most times - the current champion). This endeavor falls under the scope of at least 215 WikiProjects, and maybe as many as 300 or more, and so will be far larger than any collaboration I've ever attempted to coordinate before.

Also, I was wondering if you could find the time in your busy schedule to write an essay as to why AWC should be kept on a userpage. I'd do it myself, but I feel that you're better qualified for the job, as the project was your brainchild. If you can't find the time, it's totally cool. Thanks. --Sharkface^T/_C 19:13, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Presenting an argument invites argumentation. Therefor, a debate should occur only if someone proposes to move the page. If someone unilaterally moves it, then you should simply move it back, because the current consensus is to keep it in user space. For it to be moved out of there, a new consensus would have to be reached. In case you ever do need to debate the topic, there are four main reasons (that I can think of) for keeping this type of page in user space: 1) There's no guideline or policy that prevents a user from making a list in his user space of the barnstars he'd be willing to give out, and for what. There is no reason to bar someone from asking others for help in completing a list of tasks. And any user with such a list is within his rights to allow others to share his page. 2) The scope of the page is specific awards for presentation on user pages - not the designs of the awards, but the instances of awarding them. Awarding and receiving barnstars take place on user talk pages (i.e., in user space). Offering to award barnstars is an extension of that activity and falls within the same scope, and it follows that it should also take place in user space. 3) this type of page runs more smoothly with a dedicated host due to the editing conventions for user pages. 4) Rewarding, complimenting, thanking, offering, and challenging are community-wide activities. It is not practical to have them take place on one page - therefor decentralization should be encouraged. More than one user may wish to host a page like this, and there's no good reason to stop them. For example, there are several signature shops in user space. Why not wish lists too? After all, "wish list" is just another name for "task list", and many users have one or more of those.

I hope the above explanation helps. The Transhumanist 21:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

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My recent RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace and talk space, so that is what I will do. I have made a list and I hope I will be able to get through it. I will go for another RfA in about three month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been about three months. I will not be checking back to this page so if you would like to comment or reply please use my talk page. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 06:44, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Brownies!

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Thanks!

Thanks so much for your support in myRfA, which closed successfully this morning. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 19:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter

How often do you put out the AWC newsletter?

How many people receive it?

Also, could you explain to me how it works, so if you aren't available, you'll have a backup person?

The Transhumanist 20:41, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Award Center Newsletter

WP:AWC Issue 3 • May 23, 2008

Special request If you are familiar with or like using photoshop or the GIMP, your help is needed to create some special awards for an important upcoming AWC project. Please contact The Transhumanist New sponsored challenges New challenges include: The Transhumanist's Wishlist: Portals Expand the List of transactions involving the Dallas Mavericks The Reference Challenge AFD,etc. Copy Editing Expand/Cleanup/Sourcing on Waco Jesus News Late again! I'm switching the newsletter to be a monthly format, as I seem to remember this once a month. Thanks again Enigmaman for participating in the previous Award Center Collaboration of the Fortnight. Please note that if you wish to be given credit for work completed, you must sign up for the collaboration first. This week's collaboration is Brian Stewart. The following collaboration will be Human Genetic Engineering.

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How?

How do you "submit the newsletter to the newsletter bot"?

The Transhumanist 00:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter

Question 1: I wish you would have waited on the NL, I had something I wanted to add to it. Oh well. You don't mind if I add something to it via AWB, do you? (Just a little blurb about the upcoming collaboration/competition). I'd also like to remove the bit about going to once a month delivery (see below).

Question 2: By the way, can we go back to fortnightly on its delivery?

That would give 2 more NL's for leading up to the contest, and the 3rd for announcing the actual event.

I'll be recruiting more help soon for running/preparing for the competition, so if you aren't available to send the extra issues of the NL, either I or another coordinator would send it, no problemo. We don't have any of the awards ready yet, and so all the current help is being focused on those.

Question 3: Forty-four recipients. Not bad. But we need more. Building up its subscribership will help to make the collaboration a success. I'll see what I can do. Where on Wikipedia have you announced the newsletter?

Question 4: How do people find out about it to sign up?

By the way, the notice to not move the AWC is unnecessary. There are several people watching for that now, so you don't have to worry about it. The notice detracts from the page. And it's best never to site WP:IAR as a reason. The notice simply advertises the issue of moving the page. Why make an issue of it at all? That scenario is over and done with. Let sleeping dogs lie.  ;) The Transhumanist 01:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I just moved the page.  :) The Transhumanist 07:07, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

AWC Mind set

Excitement.

Entertainment.

Showmanship.

Advertising.

Activity.

Change.

Fun.

The Transhumanist 08:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Update

I've posted a notice at the WP:CBB about AWC's newsletter. I'll post more notices around Wikipedia as I find time.

In an effort to keep things vivid, I've replaced the notice at the top of the AWC.

The Transhumanist 08:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey Sharkface217. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:20, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter

Cool. I'll take on the newsletter, including delegating it. But how do you "submit" it to the newsletter bot? What's the procedure? The Transhumanist 22:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

my RfA - Ta!

Gwen gleans, wending keen by the wikirindle.

Thanks for supporting my RfA, which went through 93/12/5. I'll be steadfast in this trust the en.Wikipedia community has given me. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Awards

Hi, looks like you are the resident expert on wikiawards? I have created one, and would like to double-check there is no problems with it... Its the WikiHaggis:

		The WikiHaggis
		I hereby award you the WikiHaggis! This means you are slightly nutty, sorta spicy, and maybe resemble stuffed pig intestines. Pass this WikiHaggis on by putting {{subst:WikiHaggis}} on someone's talk page!

Are there any problems with me creating this, or with the image? As i realise there are certain restrictions on images on userpages. Any help appreciated. Thanks ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 10:49, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, would I be able to put it here? ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 10:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Will do. ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 07:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

HEY! Just saw the edit summary. Cheeky bastard ;-) - Hows this then? ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 08:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey Sharkface - you're famous!  :) The Transhumanist 08:06, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

The Reference Challege

I have completed The Reference Challenge. Here's a list of the articles that I added references to. I also added to a bunch of others, but only like one or two, but oh well.

104.1 Territory FM
Journal of High Technology Law
Hell City Glamours
Bette Lasky
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Who would you recommend as co-coordinators for this...

By the way, it would help if you would add a "by the way" remark to your messages to everyone you communicate with, mentioning the above event and about subscribing to the newsletter. We need to spread the word as much as possible. Let's try to make this the biggest collaboration in Wikipedia history!

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Thanks

Thanks for that. I guess I needed that. If at least one user cares if I retire, I am helpful. I won't retire.--LAAFan 00:32, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

AWC MfD

On the newsletter, don't mention the MfD. See: WP:CANVAS

The newsletter is overdue, so sending it out is needed anyways.

You can mention that the AWC is in desperate need of clean up, and request that each person drop by its talk page to discuss solutions, and to pitch in on the actual clean up efforts.

You should remove all FA and GA sections. Because those are the ones causing the most problems. And then report at the MfD that you did so, and that you are committed to refining the AWC so that it works to everyone's satisfaction (I assume you are).

I'm disappointed that opposers are seeking deletion rather than a solution in general. They've locked onto a particular course of action. They should have addressed their concerns on the AWC talk page to reach a consensus about what to do there.

I'm on my way to the MfD now.

The Transhumanist 01:47, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter

Do you want me to hold off untill the MFD reaches a decision or TT posts his so called "contest?" Tell me what you think. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 01:47, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Hopefully soon, because I have to get ready for a late night party in like 30 minutes. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 01:51, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

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MfD

Come to think of it, the MfD nomination pertains to the AWC and all of its subpages, including the newsletter, and should be displayed on all of them.

The Transhumanist 04:51, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

AWC

Responding to the newsletter, I think team tasks would be good. How about a relay race? Example:

User 1 gets a DYN User 2 gets a GA User 3 gets an FA

This is only a rough concept, but I think that would be great. A tournament could begin for the fastest times. It would provide users to get into teams and learn from teammates.

I don't see why the current AWC has to be deleted, but that's the way of some users. So, there's my thoughts. I've also sent this to The Transchumanist.--LAAFan 02:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

AWC

Long story short, I am making a new page called the challenge center. (I didn't link because typing my username gets repetive after a while. Link at the top of my userpage) It is still under construction. One of the AWC concerns is the lack of regulating, so I am trying to get three regular overseers of the page. I would be one (Frankly, I've been really active at AWC lately), but I need two more users, so nothing will go astray. I asked the Transhumanist, and he unfortunately said no. If you do or don't want to oversee, do you have any suggestions of users I should ask?--LAAFan 22:17, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

AWC MfD

If you redesign the page and it is deleted anyways, then all of your refinements and new features will be included in the deletion.

It would be a better to save your efforts and ideas for a new project that is distinctly different, with a new name and a new approach.

Also, I think you should wait 3 or 4 months, to allow your mind to clear, and let new ideas germinate.

If you decide to try to save the AWC anyways, keep in mind that many editors don't return to an MfD after their initial posting, and you will need to contact all of them to let them know you've redesigned the page and have addressed all of the concerns raised in the MfD. You must allow them enough time to get the message - not everyone logs on everyday.

The main thing that needs to be redesigned are the INSTRUCTIONS (for the overseers, the challengers, and challenge accepters).

Once you have addressed the concerns in the MfD, you can also request from any admin to extend the discussion to allow time for the changes to be considered. You should do this at least a day before the deadline, because someone may come along and delete it the moment the deadline passes. Sometimes, XfDs get deleted early (and a few minutes to an hour or two, isn't really enough for those at DRV to fret over).

The Transhumanist 11:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Sharkface217/Awards Center

Hi Sharkface217 I have closed the above MFD as a delete and have deleted all of the AWC content from your userspace. I was conscious that I might have accidentally deleted unrelated stuff. Would you remind reviewing my deletion log [1] and letting me know if there is anything incorrectly deleted? You can view what is left in your user pages at the following links [2] & [3]. Thank you. Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:50, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for checking that. Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:42, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Around the World

Yes. Thank you for volunteering!

I absolutely need your help.

The images for the awards need to be completed. One down, two to go.

We need a globe stand. It either needs to be created or found. If you can find a public domain image with an excellent globe stand in it, we can extract it from the image and insert the elements completed so far into it.

To get up to speed on our image development, see the discussions at User talk:Penubag.

We need our momentum back. Please join in on the discussion there.

So that you understand what is going on there, and to acquire skills you will find invaluable for developing Wikipedia on this and future projects, roll up your sleeves, crack open The GIMP, and familiarize yourself with it. I did - it's very easy once you get past the idiosyncrasies of the user interface. The most important part to learn is about layers. That's one of the things that makes that program so useful - it has its own file format that supports layers, and is perfect for collaborative creation of images. You can stack different images on top of each other, and by doing so create composite images with great manipulability. Each layer can then be treated and worked on as a separate image, even though it is still part of the whole. You can do things like make one layer less opaque while leaving the other layers solid, change the order of the stack. Etc. It also supports alpha transparency, the default transparent layer found in png files.

Once you got layers down, then learn the selection tools. Select by color is the most powerful, and helps extract elements out of existing photographs. It's awesome. Next comes move, scale, and color.

Once you are familiar with those few areas, you will have the rudiments down, and will have some valuable graphics redesign and photo-retouching skills applicable to a wide-range of image-related tasks on Wikipedia - one of the areas in most need of help, and one of the skill areas most editors lack.

Trust me, it's fun. And each one of us on the project is a neophyte. Alone we are each crap, but together, we've been able to pool are skills for some very cool results. Each of us knew or has discovered techniques that the others didn't know, bringing something valuable to the collaboration. We'll all benefit the most if we share our "how to" discoveries, and I've started doing so on Penubag's talk page.

Taking that first step (and delving into a graphics program) seems to be the hardest for a person to take, because of uncertainty or false expectations - but it is easier than it looks! I put off getting started in that area for years, because I thought it would be a pain, but it turned out to be the opposite. It was pretty easy, and the tools are fantastic. And there's lots of room to grow in there - plenty of tools to add to your repertoire as you improve.

Go for it.

Be a Renaissance man.  :)

The Transhumanist 18:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Just a heads up

I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter.  :(

So, where do we go from here?

To new and even more interesting projects, of course!

As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.

Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.

It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!

This is going to be interesting.

And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!

If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 21:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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I have been (and still am) on vacation the last week and just saw that the Awards Center was deleted. Not sure why people have to stop a good thing—yes, some changes to the center might have been helpful, but the overarching principle was noble and an incredible aid to Wikipedia. Anyway, my belated apologies to you and the others who helped run the Awards Center. Thank you for your altruistic efforts to better Wikipedia, and please keep me in mind if any new awards/challenge effort emerges and survives the beurocrats. Best wishes! --Eustress (talk) 00:13, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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GIMP-phobia? Inkscape-phobia?

What's up with you and GIMP and Inkscape?

They're free!

The graphics team needs new blood.

I chose you because of your energy, enthusiasm, and drive. Someone with curiosity and imagination.

Someone to stir things up and make things happen! To get our graphics guys going again, and jumping in with your own two hands to increase your awareness and ability to communicate with them concerning the tasks as necessary.

If I can figure out how to do this, then you could blow me away.

We could use help on any of the following:

1. Commenting on the pics and tasks on Penubag's talk page - requires no graphics tasks, just questions, ideas, etc.
2. Important: Find public domain pictures of globes in globe stands - requires no graphics tasks, just searching around the internet. The more for us to choose from, the better.
   1. A globe stand by itself would be even better, but I doubt there are any - all the pics appear to be of finished product
3. Image extraction:
   1. Extract the globe stand from the above picture, or...
   2. Extract the globe if the picture would work with our globe inserted into it
4. A pedestal for Atlas to kneel on. Inkscape can create geometric shapes, complete with coloring, shading (the gradient tool), perspective adjustment (viewing angle), etc.
5. A sphere with shading from one side, and lighting from the other (Inkscape, using gradient with dark color, and then with white) - haven't been able to figure this one out yet - there's a tutorial with hints, but no actual instructions. I haven't looked on the Web yet - there's lots of instructions there by users, etc.
6. Find a front facial shot of Jimbo - grinning would be best
7. Add horns to front facial shot of Jimbo

You'll be surprised how fast the programs will start to make sense if you just start messing around with images in them. But there are some tasks in the list above that require no graphics skills.

Do your eyes glaze over when you look at the programs? Does your brain melt? Do you get nauseous? Do you get a fever, heart palpitations, hair standing on end? What's up?  :)

The Transhumanist 00:58, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: #2 above is where we are stuck. One of our pics needs a globe stand. If we had that, we could finish up fast. We can extract a globe stand if someone could find a decent picture with one in it. So far, we haven't been able to find one good enough. We need help here more than anywhere else. If we can't find one, the whole event will need to be postponed. Finding globe stands is priority one. Help!

I need your feedback...

Which of the following medals looks better. This one:

Or this one:

Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:44, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you for !voting on my RfA. If you supported, I'll make sure your confidence is not misplaced; if you opposed, I'll take your criticism into account and try to adjust my behavior accordingly.

See you around the wiki!--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 00:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Your kind of task

Please see my discussion with User talk:Malinaccier for a list of tasks for preparing for the Around the World collaboration.

One of the tasks that's right up your alley is adding lead paragraphs to all the pages in the set. I'm working on it, and have added some, but I could sure use a hand. Each of the country lists at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics need a lead paragraph. I've been copying them from the corresponding country articles. This is pretty similar to the work you did on the Glossary of philosophical isms.

Malinaccier is working on adjusting the vertical heights of the flag and coat of arms on each page to match each other. He's up to the G's I think. Feel free to help him too.

To put our best foot forward for participants, I'd like to have the lead section, the regions section, and the government branches sections completed on each page in the set before we open this up to a torrent of volunteers. The lead section is the most visible, while the other sections I mentioned are the trickiest/most confusing (they have temporary text that's there as a starting point to save work, but it isn't accurate for many of the countries - for example, I used "parliament" because it fits many countries and produces a blue link, but there are a lot of countries that don't have parliaments and so it needs to be corrected for those. Some countries don't have presidents, some don't have prime ministers, etc.). If we leave the temporary text on the pages where it isn't correct, we'll get a lot of people pointing out "errors" that we already know about.

I look forward to your replies, comments, suggestions, ideas, and encouragements.  :)

The Transhumanist 02:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: Linky comes in very handy for cycling through pages for copying/pasting. The Transhumanist 02:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up

Here's the corrected page:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic Democratic Republic of the Congo topics.

The Transhumanist 02:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Yay, you did the lead! Thanks a ton. I'm at Denmark now but the going is slow because I often find myself read the entire articles of certain countries (which you recommended the coordinators to do in your explanation of the Around the World contest, I might add). --Sharkface^T/_C 02:08, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Once you are done with the leads...

...if you really want to get immersed, try developing a whole page. Here are the ones I've built so far:

List of basic Albania topics • List of basic Argentina topics • List of basic Australia topics • List of basic Canada topics • List of basic Ecuador topics • List of basic Egypt topics • List of basic France topics • List of basic Germany topics • List of basic Iceland topics • List of basic India topics • List of basic Indonesia topics • List of basic Iraq topics • List of basic Republic of Ireland topics • List of basic Italy topics • List of basic Isle of Man topics • List of basic Israel topics • List of basic Japan topics • List of basic Macau topics • List of basic Mexico topics • List of basic Russia topics • List of basic Taiwan topics • List of basic United Kingdom topics • List of basic United States topics

They're not complete, but they were fleshed out enough to be useful, so I moved them to article space. But I sure know a lot more about these countries now.  ;) The Transhumanist 02:24, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

What is Around the World?

It's a collaboration using advanced wiki-tools. It is sponsored jointly by WikiProject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography.

Using these advanced tools, we are building a profile for every country of the world. These drafts are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

These profiles summarize essential information on each country. They are "topic outlines", but at the same time they are so much more, because Wikipedia is a hypertextual environment. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a sort of site map to material about each country on Wikipedia.

The profiles share a standard format. So rather than tediously working on a single country to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages. For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" (the set of country profiles) feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees.  :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling all around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 23:27, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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I am a strong believer in the concept that this project is all about the content, and I'm looking forward to contributing wherever I can. Please let me know if I can be of any help. In the meantime, I'm off to school...

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Hey

What's up?

Things slowed down across the board over the 4th, which is understandable. (I'd never seen activity on Wikipedia so slow).

By the way, July 15th is coming up fast.  ;)

The Transhumanist 20:07, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

On the rest of the leads you place, before saving each paste, please linkify the name of the country at the beginning of the lead, and remove the pronunciation (it just clutters up these simplified pages).

Also, if an alternate name is used for the country at the beginning of the lead, use this form instead:

Botswana, officially known as the Republic of Botswana,

Check out the A's and B's for examples.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 21:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I've made the above changes to the leads you've inserted so far. The Transhumanist 23:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Leads stuff

I should have some free time at work tomorrow. I don't think I'll be able to do all the leads by myself but I should get pretty far. I suggest you have somebody else start at the bottom and work their way up. --Sharkface^T/_C 03:02, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Way ahead of you on that.  :) Gimme danger started on the Z's two or three days ago, and is already done through the N's. If you don't hurry, there won't be any left!  :) The Transhumanist 22:29, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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Need AWB assistance

Penubag has asked for my help on a task that requires AWB. Unfortunately I don't currently have access to a computer than can run AWB (I'm on a library computer).

Since you are an AWB'er, I was hoping you could do this quicky chore. Here's the request he posted to me:

Hey Transhumanist, do you think you could do me a favor? If you still have access to AWB, could you please fullfill this concern. Thanks very much if you are able to do so. -- penubag  (talk) 20:13, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

The link I provided might be too much to read, could you just fix everything that links to Special:WhatLinksHere/Ray_tracing to be Ray tracing (graphics) ? Thank you. -- penubag  (talk) 20:16, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I'd really appreciate it if you would take care of this for me. Penubag doesn't have AWB, and he's got his hands full working on the awards for the Around the World thingy.  :)

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Status report

Have a nice trip?

In answer to your question, here's an update...

The awards images are almost done (Penubag and Greyknight are working on them), and the pages themselves still have a couple sections that need to be completed before we can move them to article space. That pesky bot hit a couple more of the lists and removed their coats of arms images. (Which is why we need to move the pages to article space, but we can't until the temporary data is replaced, as some of it is incorrect - and we might as well complete those sections rather than simply replace the temporary data.).

I've been working on the location item, because the specs for that are kind of difficult to explain, and I keep running into new situations (in a body of water vs. on land, equatorial, transprimemeridial, transcontinental, etc.) - so I don't even have complete specs for that yet.

But the pages are shaping up, and are getting closer to usability.

Do you see where this is heading?

Eventually, the "Lists of basic topics" will be the most useful site map of Wikipedia, and of knowledge in general!

The Transhumanist 04:51, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Task overview - What we desperately need your help on!

Here are the details of the work on one of the two sections that need to be completed before we can move the country basic topics drafts to the article namespace...

Track down the administrative divisions types for each country

The first task is on the "Administrative divisions of" sections.

In each of these sections, there's an initial hierarchical list of the division types in that country, followed by subheadings for each of the types. Unfortunately, the types listed are those from the template I used to create these pages, and they aren't accurate for many countries.

The defaults that I used were:

• Provinces of x
  • Districts of x
    • Municipalities of x

For each country, change the links to the names of the administrative divisions for that country, adding more links if there are more than 3 division types. Those that are subdivisions of another type are indented under the parent type. In most cases, you would leave municipalities in place, because that's a generic name for "city". We'll blue-link those later. (Blue-linking is creating a redirect so that a link turns blue - that way, the link remains standardized on all the pages in the set).

Also change the subheadings in the same section to match the initial list, including the "main article" links presented just below each subheading.

To find out what the administrative divisions are for a country so you can add them, try looking on the government of x or politics of x pages for that country, and on the country's main article as well.

Add the administrative divisions to their respective subsections

For each country, find the list of administrative division for each type, and add them under that type's subheading.

For example, copy and paste the provinces listed at Provinces of Angola under the "Provinces of Angola" subheading on that country's list page.

See the countries listed at Lists of basic topics for examples of how this has been done for those. If there's a map showing the administrative divisions, grab it too.

Generally do not add towns and cities to the municipalities section, as there are usually way too many of them (and will unnecessarily bloat the page). Instead, provide links to the various pages (Cities of x, Towns of x, Villages of x, etc.)

Have fun!

The Transhumanist 04:51, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back

I hope your trip was fun.

It's been slow around here, but I finally dove back in (found a library with Firefox loaded, and Linky too!) I find Linky as fast or faster than AWB for many tasks - so I've been sticking to those types of tasks.

I've been adding the locations for countries to their basic topics lists, and so far have completed North America (incl all its island countries), Africa, and Europe. It's pretty fun learning where everything is.

But overlapping regions have been driving me nuts (requiring several passes over the countries, to make sure all the regions they are in are included).

The Transhumanist 04:58, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

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Glad to be back and some minor concerns

Hey Transhumanist,

It is good to be back after a long while of summer traveling. I look forward to jumping back into the fray here on Wikipedia, although I must confess that there is a deep reluctance to commit to any major undertakings here, as I have been a bit flaky regarding my on-wiki work this summer, as evidenced by my contribs. Between my full time job, community service, hobbies, vacations, family, and other commitments, I find that I have been spending almost no time here this summer. I am, of course, willing to help in any area that you may need assistance in. As it stands, however, any assistance I am asked to render may be deferred or at least delayed substantially. Hope your summer also is going along swimmingly --Sharkface^T/_C 19:38, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Any help you provide will be most appreciated. Every little bit helps. The Transhumanist 19:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Some AWB tasks for you

1. The Village Pump notice from the top of the country list pages needs to be removed.
2. "Extreme points of x" needs to be moved to the end of the "Location:" item (use two asterisks for the indent) - "extreme points" refers to the country's location after all. I've already done this for the country lists in article space, but it still needs to be done on all the drafts.

Those tasks should go pretty quick. Let me know when you are done, and I'll assign you a couple more.  :) The Transhumanist 00:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Quick and simple question

I just wanted to ask, how does one get a status indicator (online/offline) such as the one on your userpage? Thanks much if you find the time to reply! A Prodigy ^(t•c•m) 12:05, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Status report on Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics#Basic topics lists for countries

There is only one section left (including its subsections) that needs to be completed before the pages are ready for Around the World:

• Branches of the government of x
  • Executive branch of the government of x
  • Legislative branch of the government of x
  • Judicial branch of the government of x

There are a few more things that need to be completed before the lists can be moved into the main namespace:

• Fill in the blanks, and blank [[]]'s
  • Population:
  • Size:
  • "(specific elections)" needs to be replaced by links to specific elections (by year, usually)
  • International organization membership
  • Commander-in-chief: [[]]
  • Economic rank:
  • Currency of x:
• Blue-linking (creating redirects for) standardized items for which the articles' names are not standardized:
  • Army of x
  • Navy of x
  • Air Force ox x
• Fix other temporary links
  • World Heritage sites in x (they all point to the same place, and need to be fixed)
  • "Capital of x" needs to be replaced with the actual capital name
• Material in the lead paragraph(s) that is covered in the body of the list needs to be removed from (or moved from) the lead.
• Fill in the External Links section

Moving these lists into the main namespace could have a huge impact on their development, because then each list will fall under the scope of the WikiProjects of the respective countries. That's a lot of WikiProjects that may become involved with refining and maintaining these lists.

The move will be accompanied with the placing of new sections on each of the WikiProject pages, their talk pages, placing banners on the talk pages of each list, and including links to these lists in hatnotes on the relevant articles and portals, and placing section links in the see also sections of relevant articles (Geography of x, Military of x, etc.). Lots of AWB work.

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Replied on talk page. I'm here, just not here here. --Sharkface^T/_C 23:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

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WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year's Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as well.

LAST YEAR'S EVENT

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan/Spring 2008 (a description of the results, and the uploading party)
• Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan/Gallery (our cool gallery)

WINNINGS? Prizes include a dinner for three with Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales at Pure Food & Wine, gift certificates to Bicycle Habitiat and the LimeWire Store, and more!

WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, September 27th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration.

WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)!

REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand.

WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's West Village office. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project:

• Wikis Take Manhattan page at The Open Planning Project

349 W. 12th St. #3

Between Greenwich & Washington Streets

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Status report on the Country outlines (Around the World) project

Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - it's visually stunning.

I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines. They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before the lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.

The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:

1. Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set.
2. Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.). The main type of work participants in "the contest" will be doing. The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
3. Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.

Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe in stand anymore. Two awards should suffice.

Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.

What do you think of all of this?

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

The Transhumanist 23:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

You are sorely missed

How goes school?

The Transhumanist 01:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Feedback needed

What was your initial impression when you saw the above image?

Please look at it carefully. What is wrong with it?

In what other ways can it be improved?

I look forward to your reply (on my talk page, please).

The Transhumanist 00:13, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

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We'll make preparations for our exciting museum photography Wikipedia Loves Art! February bonanza (on Flickr, on Facebook) with Shelley from the Brooklyn Museum and Alex from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Progress report: Country outlines

Development has been slow but continuous:

Penubag has done a fantastic job on the images for the awards we'll be using for our project's collaborations and contests. We now have 3 awards: a medal, a trophy, and a race ribbon. They all look tight. The trophy needs a small adjustment, but other than that, all 3 award images are complete and ready to use to create awards with.

Spartaz has warned us of (threatened to take) G4 (speedy delete) action if we run a competition that resembles the previously deleted Awards Center page. So whatever we do, any contests we run must differ substantially from the methods used there.

One type of competition I've been exploring is edit racing. I'm in the process of working the bugs out of this concept - the first race didn't work as expected - you see, because we only had an award for first place, the opponent didn't think it worthwhile to continue once it was clear who the winner would be. And since editors are in different time zones and usually need to start the race at different times, we need to base winning on personal start times - he who completes his assigned edits in the least time (rather than first), wins. And last but not least is quality control. What good is winning if your edits are ripe with errors? So I'll be exploring possibilities such as using a referee (whoever is overseeing a particular race), having participants watching each other for errors to knock them back, etc. I'm not sure yet.

Rich Farmbrough has been applying his bot expertise to filling in blanks in the country outlines (the population and area entries). I'm amazed at the number of edits he pumps out each day on a myriad of projects - ours makes up but a small time slice of his activity, and yet he has saved us many hours of manual work. Perhaps we should look into how he gets so much done.  :)

Zlerman has chosen to work on one outline at a time, and is taking on Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. He also has been keen on noticing and reporting design issues pertaining to the whole set of country outlines. Keep up the good work!

Highfields has been filling in the names of capitals, and is our first race winner. Check out the award on his user pages.

As you probably know, this project has expanded to include working on any and all sets of pages that are linked to from the country outlines. Once the set of country outlines go live (in article space), traffic will likely increase for all the links included on them. The quality and usefulness of those pages will reflect heavily on the country outlines (the outlines, which are essentially lists of links, are only as good as the links they present), and therefore we've branched out to solve the biggest problems with those as well. So far, we've taken on:

• The creation of disambiguation pages for country adjectivals ("German", "French", "Taiwanese", etc. About half done.)
• The clean-up of the CIA World Factbook statistics on the "demographics of" country pages. We've been renaming those sections to provide a key string that AWB can use for targetting (for skipping and filtering). Once that's done, we'll be able to break the clean-up down into simple AWB search/replace tasks, because we'll be able to target just those pages that include the CIA stuff.
• Renaming the "Cuisine of" articles to their adjectival forms ("Chinese cuisine", "Italian cuisine", etc.)

Blackadam2 and Thehelpfulone have been helping out with the "demographics of" pages mentioned above.

And we have a couple speed addicts (addicted to wiki-velocity, not drugs)...

Both Robert Skyhawk and Thehelpfulone prefer (and excel at) simple AWB search/replaces. Robert hasn't actually joined our team yet, but he has been helping out quite a bit from the sidelines (via the WP:AWB/Tasks page. Unfortunately, there has recently been a non-AWB chore that has been holding things up on the AWB front - an edit to all the the headings which had to be reverted before too many new edits were made, because any new edits would make the reversion more difficult. The headings have been restored, so now the way is clear for AWB operations, and there are many search/replace tasks in the queue. AWB assignments have started again!

There's a similar bottleneck on the "Demographics of" pages (the "keying" mentioned above), but that's almost cleared too.  :)

With my internet access somewhat crippled, I've been finding it difficult to keep up with you guys. However, I expect to be accessing a Linky-capable workstation on a faster server (I'm on it right now, as you can probably tell from my contributions list for today), and so I should really pick up speed. Feels goooooood.  :)

Recruiting has been a bit slow (but steady), due in part to my crippled access, and because we've been waiting for the images for the awards to be completed. I expect the team to grow more rapidly as the bottlenecks are removed.

Well that's what's been happenin', and here's what's in the pipeline...

I'm about to begin work on a set of lists that corresponds to all the standard links on the country outlines, and these will be presented on the Topic outline of countries which will be organized exactly like the country outlines. Aside from being an extremely useful navigation aid, it will allow editors to easily see the state of country coverage on Wikipedia. I'll provide you with a link once I get up to speed on this.

In the meantime, keep up the good work!

Cheers,

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Country outlines project update - 2009/03/08

Things have been slowing down again, so it's time for a big push...

We've gone live

This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.

WHAT???

Well, the drafts had been sitting in Wikipedia space for a year.

WHAT???

Development has been moving at a snail's pace and we could use the help of the Wikipedia community at large (who are more likely to find these if they are in article space).

WHAT???

Yes, we've gone live.  :)

This puts pressure on us to get the blatantly incomplete elements of these outlines done. The only glaring problem is the government branches sections. These need to be corrected ASAP.

I've mentioned THE GOVERNMENT BRANCHES SECTIONS many times to many people over the past year, but the problem just doesn't seem to have been taken seriously. So let me put it another way:

HELP!!! I need your help on this now. Almost all the countries have a government with an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. The links for these branches need to be completed for each country outline:

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Traffic control

The next big task after the government branches sections are cleaned up is link support for the outlines.

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Thank you.

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You commented on the awards effort when it was just getting started a long while back - I thought you might like to see the end results...

The award images are complete!

After months of toil and attention to detail, Penubag has completed the set of images for this WikiProject's awards!

There are five race ribbons:

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Merge Red Hacker Alliance into Honker Union

I believe the articles should be merged into Honker Union because I believe both article covers the same group:

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b) Lion is the leader of both group according to [4] and [5].

c) According to Xinhua, Red Hacker Allience is formed in 2000. That is around the same time frame as Honker Union creation. Also both group carries out nationalist attack against US.

Thus, In my conclusion Red Hacker Alliance is Honker Union. Jim101 (talk) 02:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim101 (talk • contribs)

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What subclass is the Bible in the Library of Congress Classification?

Do you think they'd like this one at WP:DYK?

(Nope. They didn't.)     :)

Libraries

For months, I've been sitting at a terminal in one of the largest libraries in the country, and I haven't even looked around at the available resources.

Until a few days ago.

I'm overwhelmed.

When compared to libraries, Wikipedia is small. (See Digest of Education Statistics 2008, Chapter 7:Libraries and Educational Technology Libraries, and turn to page 617).

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Yes.

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Because we have growth potential.  :)

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When I come across non-OOK outlines, generally I rename them, and reformat them to our standard outline format. But there is the occasional exception.

Here are some outlines I just added:

1. List of energy topics --> Outline of energy (it converted great)
2. List of Dewey Decimal classes --> Outline of Dewey Decimal classes (no conversion)
3. Library of Congress Classification --> ??? (no rename, no conversion)

The last 2 are outlines by their very nature, and so our standard outline subheadings didn't seem to fit. So I left them as is.

I renamed the first 2, but the last one is the name of the outline, that is, the topic itself is an outline, and that outline is presented as the article's content, so I left the name as is. For now. This needs more thought.

Of course, that's not all. Concerning those last 2 outlines above...

Alternate outlines of knowledge

...not only are they outlines, but they are outlines of knowledge! Well, the top few levels, at least.

Uh, so?

What happens if we linkify them?  :)

That is, what happens if we linkify their classifications to Wikipedia's outlines?  :)   :)   :)

They become alternate top ends to the OOK

Yep.

What can you find?

I challenge you to find some "hidden" outlines.

I dare you to take a look around Wikipedia for hidden outlines (that is, outlines not yet hooked into the OOK), and add your kills to WP:WPOOK#The hunt for hidden outlines.

My trophies are already there.

May the hunt begin!

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WPOOK Update - 05/17/2009 - Blockbusting!

This project needs another shot in the arm.

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Countries WikiProject Collaboration - Contests!

I've contacted all 59 members of the Countries WikiProject to help in designing and conducting contests for the further development of the country outlines.

You are invited too.

Houston, we have a problem

The guidelines and outline article still aren't complete.

Which means you will be needed to help explain to the newcomers mentioned above what outlines are and how to develop them.

Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#Hosting country coverage contests.

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Has the shit hit the fan? - WPOOK update, 05/25/2009

Maybe...

We've started the next phase

I was experiencing mental block on the article draft for "outline" and on the outline guideline draft. And this was holding the whole project back. Without these (which are intended to explain the type of lists known as outlines in detail), the danger is higher that a controversy could go the wrong way.

I requested help on them, but there was none forthcoming.

So I went ahead and started us on the next phase of operations without those 2 pages...

Our AWB'ers and I have placed about 1600 notices all over Wikipedia. And the plan is to place several thousand more.

This generated only one complaint, but it was a very vocal one, and attracted a few other detractors who seemed unfamiliar with the concept of hierarchical outlines and their benefits. However, just as many or more editors came to the defense of the OOK, and there was no consensus formed. But, dab is still trying to rally opposition to outlines at the Village Pump. See below...

Administrator noticeboard incident and Village Pump policy discussion

It appears that the banner placed on the talk page of the Outline of Switzerland caught the attention of an editor named Dbachmann who posted a rather forceful message on my talk page, another on WT:WPOOK, another at WP:VPP, and still another at WP:AN!

He went well out of his way to use negative hype to cause a stir.

It appears that Mr. Bachmann doesn't understand the nature of hierarchical outlines and their applications. And though he implied that he has never seen an OOK outline before, he was involved with a discussion on these when they were called "lists of basic topics".

His primary argument is that outlines are content forks of articles, and violate WP:CFORK.

But "topic lists", of which outlines are a type, have been around for almost as long as Wikipedia, and fall under the WP:LISTS and WP:STAND guidelines. They aren't intended as forks, as they are lists, bringing the benefits of lists to the corresponding subjects, such as grouping and navigation.

Someone suggested an MfD, but lists are articles, and are within the jurisdiction of AfD. Only the portal page, which merely lists the outline articles, falls within the scope of the MfD department.

The administrator's noticeboard was considered the wrong venue for the discussion, and the discussion was closed.

But Dab's discussion at the Village Pump is still active. Hopefully level heads will prevail there too.

Now what?

Am I disheartened or deterred? Hell no. I say "full steam ahead!"

But we really need to finish the article draft and the guideline. Otherwise there will continue to be confusion.

Over the next week or two, we'll be posting another 1600 or so notices. It's a good thing we didn't send out 10,000 of them all at once.  :)

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P.S.: Another related thread has popped up at WP:VPR#OoK's expediency. --TT   04:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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New York City Meetup Next: Sunday September 13th, Columbia University area Last: 07/25/2009

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Nominations open for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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Wikis Take Manhattan

WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City.

LAST YEAR'S EVENT

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan/Fall 2008 (a description of the results, and the uploading party)
• Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan (our cool team galleries)
• Streetfilms: Wikis Take Manhattan (our awesome video)

WINNINGS? The first prize winning team members will get Eye-Fi Share cards, which automatically upload photos from your camera to your computer and to sites like Flickr. And there will also be cool prizes for other top scorers.

WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, October 10th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration.

WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)!

REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand.

WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's fantastic new event space nestled between Chinatown and SoHo. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project:

• Wikis Take Manhattan page at The Open Planning Project

148 Lafayette Street

between Grand & Howard Streets

FOR UPDATES

Please watchlist Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan. This will have a posting if the event is delayed due to weather or other exigency.

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Pharos

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 October 2009

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Hello

There is a dispute happening at Battle of Cieneguilla about the use of the lead image. Do you mind going there, taking a look and offering an opinion. Start at teh article, you can't miss the image, then head for the discussion page. Thanks, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

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Test your World War I knowledge with the Henry Allingham International Contest!

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 23 November 2009

• Uploading tool: New tool for photo scavenger hunts

• Election report: Arbitration Committee Election: Nominations closing November 24

• Fundraiser: "Wikipedia Forever" fundraiser continues

• News and notes: Government stubs, Suriname exhibit, milestones and more

• In the news: The Decline of Wikipedia, and more

• Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations

• Features and admins: Approved this week

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 30 November 2009

• Election report: ArbCom election begins December 1, using SecurePoll

• News and notes: 35k donated, WikiProject for Wikipedia-Books, 2M rated articles, and more

• In the news: Reports of Wikipedia's demise, prescriptions for its ills, and more

• Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations

• Features and admins: Approved this week

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 7 December 2009

• From the editors: 250th issue of the Signpost

• Editorial: A digital restoration

• Election report: ArbCom election in full swing

• Interview: Interview with David G. Post

• News and notes: Wikipedia's death report premature, fundraiser, usability, new CSD, noms, and more

• In the news: Ron Livingston sues vandal, disclosure of IP address ordered, brief headlines

• Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations

• Features and admins: Approved this week

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 December 2009

• Election report: Voting closes in the Arbitration Committee Elections

• News and notes: Mapping geotagged articles language, import sources enabled, and more

• Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations

• Features and admins: Approved this week

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XIV (November 2009)

The November 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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