User talk:WeijiBaikeBianji/Archive 7
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RE: Victor Klemperer
Heya, thanks for coming to my talk page. I appreciate the references, but I'm perfectly aware of what tyranny means as well as that it's commonly used in books by historians like Kershaw, Evans etc. However, as the wiki article about the word says in the lede, it generally carries extreme negativity when used which is why I removed as a violation of WP:NPOV policy. Best, Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your price!) 16:24, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- I didn't have any role in writing the neutral point of view policy here, but I would be most surprised to hear anyone say that by policy we cannot describe the Nazi regime as tyrannical. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 16:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- You misunderstand me; Nazi Germany was tyrannical, but this specific word carries extreme negative connotation. Therefore, using it on Wikipedia, which strives to maintain absolute neutrality, would be counterproductive. Why not use a common synonym that doesn't carry extreme negative connotation? Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your price!) 20:09, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- It seems that the other editors all understand the matter differently, and I know at least one of those editors does very careful editorial work here. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 20:13, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- Consensus is consensus. I'm just saying. Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your price!) 20:20, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- It seems that the other editors all understand the matter differently, and I know at least one of those editors does very careful editorial work here. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 20:13, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank so much!
Dear WeijiBaikeBianji
Thank so much for your kind words! Much appreciated! 谢谢! You’re really made my day. It is so nice to hear some kind words around here. I’ll just about finished with writing Houston Stewart Chamberlain article. Everybody says I too much detail into articles I work on, so I really going to stop now. That article was a bit hard to write given that what HSC had to say was so repulsive and ludicrous (who knew that Chinese civilization was founded by Jews?)-it is hard to be neutral about somebody like that. I’ll saw the 2008 film The Red Baron, which I really liked, and I was moved by the death of one of the characters, the Jewish airman Frederich Sternburg. The character of Sternburg is actually a composite character, so none of that was based on fact, but it got me thinking about just where exactly do people like HSC and company get off saying that German Jews didn’t fight and die for the Fatherland? Beyond that, I am doing quite bit of work on the Yellow Peril article, where a number of people are disputing the fairly well established fact that the Kaiser was a racist. Anybody who can embrace the ideas of HSC like Wilhelm II did is a definitely an extreme racist. Beyond that, I am aware of my limitations, and I don’t mean to disparage the work of others because I know that most of the people around here mean well and do their best, but I thought that the HSC article need to show him as the best known völkisch thinker in early 20th century and a prototype National Socialist. It is true that finished product looked somewhat different from the prototype, but one clearly see in Chamberlain’s ideas the main strands of National Socialism emerging. I am bit worried about that article in the sense I tried to give a summary of Chamberlain’s ideas, and there is so much that he got wrong or he’ll distorted that I could write an entire book rebutting what he had to say. But according to the rules around here, that does not really belong in an article. What worries me is that somebody might see this article about this writer who was so acclaimed in the first years of the 20th century, and think there is something to his theories. Perhaps I am just being paranoid, but the last thing I want is to be (unwilling) promoting hate against Jews and other groups. Leaving aside my fears, thank so much again for all your kindness. It is great to know that there are wonderful people like you there.--A.S. Brown (talk) 22:21, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Outline feedback desired
I noticed you joined the WikiProject Outlines. Welcome!
By the way, I have some questions for you...
What do you think about outlines?
- What do you like about them?
- What do you not like about them?
What's missing?
How else can they be improved?
I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:43, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
Arbitration Enforcement request notice
I've filed a report to AE concerning the dispute over at Race and Genetics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wajajad (talk • contribs) 00:16, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- You really should learn how to sign user talk page comments with your user signature before escalating content disputes to ArbCom enforcement. Why not rather engage on the article talk pages with discussion of sources that shows that you have actually read the sources? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 03:28, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- All's well that ends well.12 August 2015 diff -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 23:04, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
@WeijiBaikeBianji: so let's discuss VDARE.com as per your suggestion. Quis separabit? 19:32, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- The editor who first made the edit makes a reasonable case for including it. I'll check some other sources over the next several days. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 22:39, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Richard Feynman
How is this going? Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:55, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for checking. I've been mostly reading for a while. I should corral some weekend time and show you some typed output on this, as I'm sure you'll know what to do with a draft I prepare. I watchlist your user talk page, so I see you've been busy meanwhile. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 00:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Five minutes to help make WikiProjects better
Hello!
First, on behalf of WikiProject X, thank you for trying out the WikiProject X pilot projects. I would like to get some anonymous feedback from you on your experience using the new WikiProject layout and tools. This way, we will know what we did right, and if we did something horribly wrong, we can try to fix it. This feedback won't be associated with your username, so please be completely honest. We are determined to improve the experience of Wikipedians, and your feedback helps us with that. (You are also welcome to leave non-anonymous feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X.)
Please complete the survey here. The survey has two parts: the first part asks for your username, while the second part contains the survey questions. These two parts are stored separately, so your username will not be associated with your feedback. There are only nine questions and it should not take very long to complete. Once you complete the survey I will leave a handwritten note on your talk page as a token of my appreciation.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Harej (talk) 17:49, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hello! Just sending a reminder to complete the survey linked above. (This is the only reminder I'll send, I promise.) Let me know on my talk page if you have any questions. Thank you!!! Harej (talk) 22:07, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 13
Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
- Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
- Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
- Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:30, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
The Million Award for IQ classification !
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For your contributions to bring IQ classification (estimated annual readership: 1,000,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! — Cirt (talk) 18:32, 2 October 2015 (UTC) |
- Great job, thanks for your quality improvement efforts! — Cirt (talk) 18:32, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
The current events context for some edit wars I observe on Wikipedia
The Washington Post reports on 4 September 2015, "A 22-year-old anti-Nazi song tops German charts again — to welcome refugees", showing that fascist ideology is still a topic of discussion in Europe (and, indeed, around the world) today. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 15:44, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
- A German-language report on the same issue (linked to from the Washington Post report): "Schrei nach Liebe" wieder in den Charts.
- "Fascist Ideology" being the opposition to the genocide of your people through mass-immigration. The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you. 112.172.232.217 (talk) 14:40, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
Invite to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Article upgrade assistance request (Pre-translation stage)
Seasons Greetings,
This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.
Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.
While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.
Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.
This particular request is being made to you since your user name is listed in Wikipedia:Translators available list.
Thanking you with warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 05:19, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5
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Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.
Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.
Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.
The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.
Until next time,
JSTOR cleanup drive
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Hello TWL users! We hope JSTOR has been a useful resource for your work. We're organizing a cleanup drive to correct dead links to JSTOR articles – these require JSTOR access and cannot easily be corrected by bot. We'd love for you to jump in and help out!
Sent of behalf of Nikkimaria for The Wikipedia Library's JSTOR using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:18, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
I saw you heavily edited the William Shockley page.
You eliminated an extensive quantity of material to which I added many sources.
You left out completely the videos of Skockley speaking directly about his eugenics theory.
I am not sure why you fee these are biased or "interpretation" as they are in Shockley's own words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mparrishxx (talk • contribs) 19:20, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
You must be mistaken. Anyway, please learn to sign your comments to other editors' talk pages, and check the Wikipedia practices about editing biographical articles. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 11:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Why did you undo my edit?
In the English section about question, why did you undo it? Wizymon (talk) 02:31, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
- The previous article text was more grammatical, as noted in the edit summary. (Reading edit summaries helps you find answers for questions like the question you just asked here.) While we are on the subject, why did you make the edit? (Yes, I read the edit summaries, but the rationale is less than convincing.) -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 13:16, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
You have written an incredibly biased page on troublesome inheritance
Your wikipedia page, instead of talking about the contents of the book, is clearly a slanted attempt to attack it. You have made it clear in your postings you do not agree with the book, and you are obviously not a neutral authority on the subject. There is no reason the reception section should be so massive in proportion to a summary of the book. There is no reason that "The book has been widely denounced by scientists" should appear at the top of the page, when something to the effect of "this book has been the subject of intense controversy among scientists" would be far more accurate, as the vast majority of scientists have not opined on the matter, so saying "widely denounced" is absurd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:184:4600:A665:E9A5:A7BD:51B3:AF39 (talk) 06:48, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
- You should learn to sign your posts to users' talk pages, which is one of the rules here. You should also read the published reviews of the book, which are rather more harsh than the current state of the Wikipedia article. I have read the book (as you evidently have not), and I have read other books on the topic, and the current Wikipedia article is, if anything, kind to a fault about the book. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 13:45, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
- Extraordinarily kind given the level of pseudoscience it contains and the reviews it received. — ArtifexMayhem (talk) 15:46, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 14
Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
- Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians
The Interior, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
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Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
- Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
- One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
- Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
Thank you for supporting my RfA
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Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award |
Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC) |
- It was my pleasure. I still feel I owe you a lot of work on the Richard Feynman article. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 03:33, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Invite to Wiki Loves Pride MN!
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- We have also recently formed a user group for Minnesota editors. If you would like to join, please add your name to our page on meta. Thank you, RachelWex Talk c 21:23, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Invite to an edit-a-thon at the Loft Literary Center
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- Thank you for adding yourself to the Wikimedia Minnesota User Group. gobonobo + c 00:00, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 15
Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
- #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
- New branches and coordinators
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:19, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
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This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia library Newspapers.com renewal
Your free one-year account with Newspapers.com will end on March 5 2016. Newspapers.com has offered to extend existing accounts by another year. If you wish to keep your account until March 5 2017, please add your name to the Account Renewal list here. I'll let Newspapers.com customer support know, and they will extend your subscription. If you don't want to keep your account for another year, you don't have to do anything. Your account will expire unless I hear from you that you want to keep it. HazelAB (talk) 18:17, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Join us on Saturday at the Minneapolis Central Library
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- Thanks for the invitation. Alas, I have other plans already set. See you next time. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 04:53, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
re How do you decide when to use one-click archiver?
Hi, Cirt,
I notice from time to time that you'll visit a talk page that I watch and use the one-click archiver to archive, one at a time, a large number of old discussions, especially on project talk pages. I've been setting for the first time (or resetting) archive bot instructions on talk pages when I see a lot of old discussions, and I wonder what you think the pros and cons are of using different tools for that job. One advantage I see in just resetting an archive bot instruction is that it is a long-term fix for cleaning up the talk page, and ensures everything gets archived in chronological order. Relying on the bots also makes the clean-up of a talk page a single editing action visible in users' watchlists, which I think is a courtesy to however many other users watch those same talk pages. But you may have a rationale I don't understand for doing as you do (I'm aware you've been here much longer than I have), so feel free to let me know any reason you have for preferring the one-click archiver to an edit of a talk page's archive bot settings. All the best; yours for a well discussed, collaborative, well referenced Wikipedia. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 00:23, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
- Generally I manually check to see if the discussion refers to a closed old process, eg, an AFD that was since about an article subsequently deleted, a Request for Move discussion about a page later moved that is old, etc. — Cirt (talk) 00:26, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll watch out for cases like that. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 02:00, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Nations and Intelligence
I notice you removed my edit. Can you explain why? Please do so on the article talk page. Thanks. Tiny Dancer 48 (talk) 16:44, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 16
Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)
- New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
- Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
- A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
- Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
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This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=
, category=
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, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}
. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p
. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex
. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
- The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
- The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Discretionary sanctions notice
As you posted on my Talk page W124l29 (talk) 11:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC):
Please carefully read this information:
The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.
Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.I saw your participation in discussion on the talk page of Caucasian race and thought you should know about this. I do not see the corresponding talk page notice on the article itself, which is a bit surprising to me. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 16:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you for bringing this to my notice, as I had before assumed so much. I also assume that Wikipedia is not censored, and that neutral point of view truely means just that--even where the majority of hits on Google means fact to many it sadly appears. You did share this due to the "Editors reminded and discretionary sanctions" section, no? Regardless, I don't believe that I have commented on any intersection of race slash ethnicity and human abilities & behavior. If you would please help me understand so much, then I would much appreciate it.W124l29 (talk) 02:14, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
- I am waiting for your reply.W124l29 (talk) 11:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- What reply do you think you need? It's an informational notice. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 13:50, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- I am waiting for your reply.W124l29 (talk) 11:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
I would simply like to know as to why you posted it on my Talk page where I don't believe that I have commented on any intersection of race slash ethnicity and human abilities & behavior. W124l29 (talk) 10:44, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
BrainTurk
Greetings WeijiBaikeBainji, I noticed that you removed an edit by Palguay [1]. The edit was where he left an external link to BrainTurk.com. I investigated further and found that he might have a COI as he also wrote the BrainTurk page. I've nominated the page for deletion. If you could, please vote in the AfD [2]. CerealKillerYum (talk) 04:59, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 17
Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria
- New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
- Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
- New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
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Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!
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Books & Bytes - Issue 18
Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads
- New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
- Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
- TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
- OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution
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Books and Bytes - Issue 19
Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti
- New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
- New Library Card Platform and Conference news
- Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links
19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge
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Translation help
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Since you were kind/foolish enough to have your name on this list, here's a note that I could use some help with the mess of Mazu temples in Shanghai. There were three; the first two were destroyed; the third got moved to Songjiang and rebuilt; and then as of 2014 Zhabei was considering rebuilding their old one. So:
- The Shanghai Archives has an article on the history of the Zhabei/Songjiang temple whose citation I've already formatted for you but whose facts need to be translated and added to the Songjiang Tianfei Palace article and tagged with
{{sfnp|Feng|2008}}
. - The article is wrong on the date of the move to Songjiang but might be right that it was built in 1883 rather than originally demolished then as claimed here. It'd be nice if you had time to see if there was another official source. The temple's own official site doesn't mention it.
- The archive article and this article and (obliquely) this "About Us" page suggest that Zhabei District is rebuilding or has already rebuilt a fourth Mazu temple near the site of their former one. It would be nice if you had time to poke around and see if you can find anything official on the subject that I could use to create an article on it.
- Ditto any information about the other two original Mazu temples in Shanghai.
If you have time and interest for any, some, or all of that, great and please leave a note here saying so. I'm asking all the listed Chinese translators for help, so we wouldn't want anyone needlessly duplicating work. — LlywelynII 02:42, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Meetup
Hello. Here's an event happening soon. Might you be able to make it? Jonathunder (talk) 14:39, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
In the area? You're invited to a | |
Minnesota Wikipedia Meetup | |
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Saturday, December 17, 2016 | |
Meet in the MIA Main Lobby at 1 p.m. | |
2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis | |
- Had other plans that day. Thanks for the invitation. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 14:54, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 20
Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)
- Partner resource expansions
- New search tool for finding TWL resources
- #1lib1ref 2017
- Wikidata Visiting Scholar
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Mia edit-a-thon
Minnesota Wikipedians are invited to an upcoming event. Even if this isn't your usual topic, experienced editors are needed to help new contributors. Might you be able to make it? McGhiever (talk) 04:23, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
In the area? You're invited to an | |
African American Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon | |
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Saturday, January 28, 2017 | |
Meet in the Minneapolis Institute of Art's Friends Community Room & Library at noon | |
2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis | |
- Thanks for the invitation. Alas, I am already double-booked on that occasion. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 16:56, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
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This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:
23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
St. Cloud, April 15, 2017: Wikipedia as Social Activism
Please come and join if you can!
In the area? You're invited to | |
Wikipedia as Social Activism | |
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Saturday, April 15, 2017 | |
St. Cloud State University Library at noon | |
720 4th Avenue South, St. Cloud | |
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Books and Bytes - Issue 21
Books & Bytes
Issue 21, January-March 2017
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)
- #1lib1ref 2017
- Wikipedia Library User Group
- Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
- Spotlight: Library Card Platform
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Books and Bytes - Issue 22
Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017
- New and expanded research accounts
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
- Bytes in brief
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Books and Bytes - Issue 23
Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017
- Library card
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
- Bytes in brief
Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Sir or Ma'am, I like your style and your attitudes. It's an honor to (e-)meet you. --Thnidu (talk) 00:59, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 24
Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
- Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
- Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
- Bytes in brief
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Wiccan rede
Hi could you help me trabslate the Wiccan rede article into Chinese? I would really appreciate it. so far we have this: 翻譯: 您應該相信威卡的教規﹐用誠實和真誠的愛來信 但凡事都得饒處且饒人﹐你附出多少便應得多少 由北開始畫三個圓的圈﹐把所有妖魔鬼怪全除去 如果你想咒語變成現實﹐用順序或特殊音節念出 以柔制剛切勿意氣用事﹐靜心聆聽切勿大發謀論 美麗的月亮漸漸地變圓﹐大家開開心心跳舞歌唱 每逢新月之夜都是初一﹐大家歡歡氣氣一同慶祝 每逢月圓之夜都是十五﹐大家誠心誠意來許個願 每當北風呼呼地吹來時﹐門窗要鎖好帆布要落下 每逢南風呼呼地吹來時﹐心愛的人熱情地親親你 每當西風呼呼地吹來時﹐靈魂們趁機會起來活動 每逢東風呼呼地吹來時﹐豐富的大餐迎接新開始 九種不同的樹木放入鼎﹐猛猛地燃燒慢慢地燃燒 接骨樹是代表神聖女神﹐如燒接骨樹會被追咒的 當節日輪盤開始轉動時﹐沃爾帕吉斯夜燒篝火炬 當節日輪盤轉到冬至時﹐燃點起火炬迎潘皇再生 照顧好大自然花草樹木﹐神聖女神送幸福給人們 石頭水中拋前程就可知﹐用漣漪多少遠近看前程 如果要實現願望或理想﹐絕不可貪心或不責手段 不應該浪費寶貴的時間﹐結識一些不成實的朋友 見面和離別也同樣快樂﹐面頰紅紅的心情要愉快 記緊因果關係輪回三次﹐三次幸運或是三次災難 如不幸遇到災難降臨時﹐把藍色的星星戴在頭上 人人都要做到坦誠相見﹐除非他人全心欺編真成 威卡的教規八字真言是﹐「為所欲為傷人不為」 翻譯
更重要的是巫师或巫师的13个目标
认识你自己 了解我们的艺术 学习和成长 用智慧应用知识 达到平衡 保持你的话顺序 保持你的想法 庆祝生活 调整到地球的周期 保持身体健康 锻炼你的身体 沉思 尊重女神和上帝
is it translated right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.75.79.57 (talk) 21:19, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 25
Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017
- OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
- Bytes in brief
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Question about how to fit in CPT's into other test classifications.
Please, could you read the Introduction, Experimental paradigm and Tasks outside the theory of the paper:
Smit, J.C. & van der Ven, A.H.G.S. (1995). Inhibition in Speed and Concentration Tests: the Poisson Inhibition Model. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 39, 265-273.
and tell me how so-called CPT's (Continuous Performance Tests/Tasks) fit in the Tests/Tasks mentioned tn this paper.
You would do me a great favor.
My e-mail address: a.vanderven@pwo.ru.nl
Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.87.53.219 (talk) 09:35, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
How to fit in CPT's into other test classifications?
Please, could you read the Introduction, Experimental paradigm and Tasks outside the theory of the paper:
Smit, J.C. & van der Ven, A.H.G.S. (1995). Inhibition in Speed and Concentration Tests: the Poisson Inhibition Model. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 39, 265-273.
and tell me how so-called CPT's (Continuous Performance Tests/Tasks) fit in the Tests/Tasks mentioned tn this paper.
You would do me a great favor.
My e-mail address: a.vanderven@pwo.ru.nl
Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ad van der Ven (talk • contribs) 09:42, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 26
Books & Bytes
Issue 26, December – January 2018
- #1Lib1Ref
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?
- Bytes in brief
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11
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Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!
-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 27
Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018
- #1Lib1Ref
- New collections
- Alexander Street (expansion)
- Cambridge University Press (expansion)
- User Group
- Global branches update
- Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
- Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
- Bytes in brief
Arabic, Chinese and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 28
Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018
- #1Bib1Ref
- New partners
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
- Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
- Bytes in brief
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Books & Bytes – Issue 29
Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018
- New partners
- Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
- Wikimania
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
IQ and Human Intelligence
Do you still have the draft article of this book? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:06, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
- I think so. Why do you ask? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 03:29, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes, Issue 30
Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018
- Library Card translation
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
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Wikipedia Day 2019
There's discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Minnesota of a celebration in the Twin Cities on January 19. It would be great if that fits your schedule. Jonathunder (talk) 01:31, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
- Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
- I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
- If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
- Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes, Issue 31
Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018
- OAWiki
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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Books & Bytes, Issue 32
Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- New and expanded partners
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
- A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
- We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
- Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
- WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Until next time,