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Watchlist deletion
Hi. Any idea why you deleted this page? Viriditas (talk) 12:09, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Viriditas, it was tagged for G6 with the rationale This project page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion because The bot that generated and updated this page has been blocked along with its operator. No need to keep. The page hadn’t been edited in over a year. The bot in question was Femto Bot, which is blocked, the user however is no longer blocked. I can userfy it for you if you want the list for reference. —kelapstick(bainuu) 12:39, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, kelapstick. I forgot about that. Yes, please userfy it for me. Not in my sandbox, though, as I’m using it. Can you just restore it in the previous location? Viriditas (talk) 12:46, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- Woot, thanks for taking care of it kelapstick. Legoktm (talk) 01:42, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Legoktm. I’m generally a bit ambivalent in regard to choosing to restore edits by banned editors, and I’m not inherently opposed to doing so, but in this case do you feel it is the best move? It looks like this is an attempt to game the system, by adding “good” material to prove that the ban was unjustified. If it was a short comment or removing a bit of vandalism I’d be happy, but a full page written by a banned editor is a lot to let through. – Bilby (talk) 09:22, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- I do. We now have a well written article about an Australian diplomat who is soon going to represent her country in the UN. On top of that, Wikidata has a decent item about her now. We’re now one step closer to our purpose, so I think it’s a good thing. Legoktm (talk) 11:31, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- On the other hand, we’ve made a statement that if Russavia flaunts his community ban, we may just let him get away with it, and let him ignore the community’s decision. The article could have been created another way. Well, this is going to keep going, so I guess we just have to continue to play whack-a-mole for the foreseeable future. – Bilby (talk) 12:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- If you’re up for re-writing all of the articles Russavia plans on writing before he does, that would be amazing. But if not, it just harms the project as a whole. 5 or 10 years from now, no one will care whether he was banned or blocked or whatever. But his contributions to that article will have spread knowledge to someone (I already learned something new), and therefore will be a net benefit. Legoktm (talk) 01:41, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- Calculating net benefits is tricky – having more articles is good, having the inability to effectively ban or enforce bans on editors who go against policies and disrupt the project is bad. Clearly we differ on this, but my view is, and will continue to be, than bans need to be actively enforced to be meaningful, and loosing the ability to meaningfully ban editors (as imperfect as the system is) would be a major negative for the project. – Bilby (talk) 01:57, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- If you’re up for re-writing all of the articles Russavia plans on writing before he does, that would be amazing. But if not, it just harms the project as a whole. 5 or 10 years from now, no one will care whether he was banned or blocked or whatever. But his contributions to that article will have spread knowledge to someone (I already learned something new), and therefore will be a net benefit. Legoktm (talk) 01:41, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- On the other hand, we’ve made a statement that if Russavia flaunts his community ban, we may just let him get away with it, and let him ignore the community’s decision. The article could have been created another way. Well, this is going to keep going, so I guess we just have to continue to play whack-a-mole for the foreseeable future. – Bilby (talk) 12:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 02 July 2014
- In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article “Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula”. We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.
- Traffic report: The Cup runneth over… and over.
With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn’t likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.
- News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.
- Featured content: Ship-shape
Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to “featured” status on the English Wikipedia this week.
- WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America
This week, the Signpost visited the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject.
- Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland’s Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement’s longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts (“tools”) made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.
Tech News: 2014-28
07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 09 July 2014
- Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement’s annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year’s monetary costs come to be?
- Wikicup: Wikicup’s third round sees money, space, battleships and more
After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.
- Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.
- Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to ‘featured’ status last week on the English Wikipedia.
- News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative
As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation’s (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.
- Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia’s viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil’s Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.
Tech News: 2014-29
07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
RE Igloo
Hey,
Out of curiosity, which part of the privacy policy did I violate? And yes, I can move the script over to the Wikipedia namespace, something I was planning to do eventually, but never got around to doing. —Kangaroopowah 20:15, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- bump. I can’t find anything in the privacy policy that says this. —Kangaroopowah 21:28, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
- @Kangaroopower: Hi, sorry I missed your original message somehow. By loading external resources from github, it enables github to track users who are visiting Wikipedia, and get information like referer headers and their IP addresses. This is mainly important because there is no warning to a user that “By using this script, your information will be sent to a third-party site that may track you.”. Overall, it’s just easier to just serve the scripts from a wikipage or tool labs if absolutely necessary. Legoktm (talk) 22:30, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, makes sense. Personally, I’d rather host it on labs, because I’m planning to add a backend to Igloo anyways. How would I go about doing this? —Kangaroopowah 03:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
- wikitech:Nova Resource:Tools/Help is a good guide. Legoktm (talk) 23:18, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, makes sense. Personally, I’d rather host it on labs, because I’m planning to add a backend to Igloo anyways. How would I go about doing this? —Kangaroopowah 03:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
- @Kangaroopower: Hi, sorry I missed your original message somehow. By loading external resources from github, it enables github to track users who are visiting Wikipedia, and get information like referer headers and their IP addresses. This is mainly important because there is no warning to a user that “By using this script, your information will be sent to a third-party site that may track you.”. Overall, it’s just easier to just serve the scripts from a wikipage or tool labs if absolutely necessary. Legoktm (talk) 22:30, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 July 2014
- Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry’s legal team—but this action is being described as “strategic” so that they can refile the lawsuit with a “new, more comprehensive complaint.”
- Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
This week it’s still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).
- Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) …
- Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to “featured” status on the English Wikipedia last week.
- News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
The Swedish Wikipedia’s prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site’s 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that “on a good day”, it creates 10,000 articles.
Tech News: 2014-30
07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Vandalism (again) at CS Universitatea Craiova (football)
Hello!
You semi-protected yesterday CS Universitatea Craiova (football), but the editor is now back, using a registered account this time (Roby Iliescu). He deleted information from the History section, the Kit manufacturer info, the Ownership and finances section etc. Referenced material was eliminated.
It seems that he used to edit the encyclopedia as WP:LOGGEDOUT for the extremely “dirty work” like removing clearly legitimate stuff (the infobox, uncontroversial categories, the squad of the team) or adding “funny text” (“People coming to the game and pretend to keep this team receives social assistance free.” / “nickname = The Clone” / “Mircea Sandu fucks the mayor of Craiova Lia Olguța Vasilescu and give to her 2 millions of euros.”): [68] [69]
While logged out he also disruptively removed CS Universitatea Craiova (football) from the list participating at 2014–15 Liga I: [70]
Can you please restore the stable version and sanction the editor?
Also, maybe you can take a look at Talk:CS_Universitatea_Craiova_(football)#Edit_requested_-_year_of_foundation 79.117.201.70 (talk) 14:01, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- The page semiprotection has expired meanwhile, so I’ve done the necessary edits myself. I’ll notify you if the vandalism resumes. 79.117.198.36 (talk) 08:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the editor is back and is making again disruptive edits: [71] [72]. He is altering an information that is taken from the official site of Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal, that is a Romanian governing body that runs the Liga I, the top professional division of the Romanian football league system.
- Taking into account the fact that the editor is also an autoconfirmed user (he controls the account User:Roby Iliescu), can you please full protect the article for an amount of time? 79.117.156.114 (talk) 21:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Uhh, no. I really don’t have time to look into this, try WP:ANI or another administrator? Legoktm (talk) 22:34, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 July 2014
- Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
“Great success” in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.
- Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
- News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
- Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
The English Wikipedia’s did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site’s main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia’s newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
- Featured content: Why, they’re plum identical!
Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Tech News: 2014-31
08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon
Hi Legoktm, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ #huggle connect!
Major changes:
- Multisite support – you can now log in to unlimited number of wikis in 1 huggle session and get a huge queue of all edits made to these wikis. This is good for smaller projects which gets overlooked often.
- Ranged diffs – you can select multiple revisions and get a huge diff that display all changes done to them.
- Fixes of most of bug reports we had so far
In case you found a bug, please report it to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Huggle&list_id=147663 thank you! Petrb (talk) 10:11, 30 July 2014 (UTC)