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This Sunday! Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference (updated speakers + schedule)

Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC 2018
 
 

Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott (Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community.

See Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 speakers + schedule

And there will be cake.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 02:23, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #295

The Signpost: 16 January 2018

23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #296

Winter Olympics categories

Hi, I've noticed you're going through the Olympics articles. Just recently, when we started introducing the women's (and men's and mixed) sport events categories, the idea was to have them structured. For example Category:Women's Alpine skiing events at the 2018 Winter Olympics. What do you think? --Tone 20:45, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

46.211.157.39

You beat me to unblocking 46.211.157.39 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Thanks! — Kralizec! (talk) 16:51, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

No problem, I think you saw an AIV report at the same time I saw an RFPP one! Courcelles (talk) 16:56, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #297

Books and Bytes - Issue 26

  The Wikipedia Library

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

Arabic and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:36, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #298

The Signpost: 5 February 2018

20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

The reason I have cited reference nos 20 and 24 is because there are no available online sources citing these award ceremonies. This is mostly because the URL links might be dead (I've tried searching for them but to no avail). Other FLCs like List of accolades received by Lagaan (ref no 29), List of accolades received by Dookudu, (ref no 16), List of accolades received by Fashion (2008 film) (ref nos 16 and 24), and List of accolades received by Kahaani (ref no 32) also use such citations to cite such award ceremonies. There are a few videos (like 1 and 2 for the screen awards, but these are only in bits and parts and are from unverified youtube channels, ie they seem to be from user accounts. As for Zee Cine Awards, this google search shows only some of the awards covered by the official youtube channel, not the entire bunch as even the youtube channel seems more focused on showing the dance performances than who the awards and nominees are). Hope you understand that this is not a Hollywood film accolades list, but one for Indian films, references for which are rather difficult to track, even for the latest award ceremonies. That is kind of a sad plight though.

As for reference no 22, it shows the date on which the ceremony was held. I'll remove it if you wish it to be so. BTW, belated Happy New Year to you, and hope your future endeavours prove fruitful.    — Ssven2 Looking at you, kid 12:57, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

  • I know it was in good faith, my good fellow. There just lacks any reason not to have a references discussion on the FLC where other reviewers might see it and join in. Courcelles (talk) 14:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

I have hopefully resolved your comments by managing to find alternative sources. Do let me know if there's anything pending. Thanks.    — Ssven2 Looking at you, kid 12:04, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

FLC

Hi, can you please revisit the flc? Yashthepunisher (talk) 18:11, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

  • I've capped my comments, which means that I have no objection to promotion, but need another read-through (or another reviewer's comments to be addressed) to be comfortable supporting for promotion. I capped my comments yesterday, I'll look again later on. Courcelles (talk) 18:17, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2018

 




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Sent you an email

Not super urgent. ~ Amory (utc) 21:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Chzz

It's cropped up on my watchlist that you've randomly blocked Chzz, but there doesn't seem to be any context surrounding it - am I missing something? Jeni (talk) 20:17, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

So that's it, no transparency, just a "nothing of your concern" type remark? Jeni (talk) 20:46, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Are yous seriously asking me to talk about oversighted edits in a public forum? Or CU results? I can't do that, per policy the Foundation has laid down; which limits sharing to such circumstances as a court order or when "reasonably necessary" to protect the project or its users. Bottom line? He did something very improper, and when confronted about it, "reserved the right" to do it again. What "it" is, of course, is not suitable for discourse besides to him (and he fully well knows, per our conversation last night) or another CU/OS, who I ran the situation by at least two of. Courcelles (talk) 20:51, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
You'd expect there to be something in public, some kind of sockpuppet investigation (I'm presuming - that's usually when CU's get involved). You seem confused that a block seemingly out of the blue with no impression to the untrained eye that anything has even happened has caused someone to question it? How do we on the 'outside' know that there isn't some abuse of process going on? (I'm not saying that there is, just to be clear). As far as I'm concerned Chzz was an unproblematic editor, so to me it seems very strange and out of the blue.
Do you not think people should ask questions when they see things that they're unsure about? Jeni (talk) 21:01, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
I think most people would realize that a block listed as a checkuserblock means there's not going to be a lot that can be said in public -- people aren't blocked and then never told what they did wrong. People don't use oversight and CU without well, sanity checking themselves with the various lists. I think most editors realize that questions can;t be answered around these tools without breaking other people's privacy -- even blocked editors, even banned ones -- still have the general expectation that CU's will give a lot of vague "hand wave" answers to those without the tool. Pinging KrakatoaKatie who knows the circumstances so hopefully she can confirm I really am saying as much as I can get away with. As to users who appear to be good editors and unblemished, well as a general rule, WP:HAND is policy for a reason. Courcelles (talk) 21:13, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping. I'm sorry that Courcelles has to give you such a vague answer, but he is saying as much as he can say. I have seen the relevant material, and he was absolutely correct to do what he did. Private information has to stay private for everyone's protection, including yours. Katietalk 21:19, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #299

Revdel request

Hi Courcelles, if you're online, would you mind looking at this revdel request? Mortee (talk) 16:48, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

My sincere thanks

Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Laureus World Sports Awards/archive1 has just been promoted to featured topic. Thanks for your help in getting it there! The Rambling Man (talk) 21:42, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

February 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday February 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
 
 

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street
(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

P.S. You are also invited to Africa and the Diaspora Edit-a-thon @ Schomburg Center for Black Culture on Saturday February 24!

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

22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #300

Doc9871

I understand you recently did a checkuser on this account. Did you happen to see any evidence of them having another account? (Looking at Davey2116 who was just blocked as a sock) ~Awilley (talk) 04:45, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Huh. I didn't see a connection then, but the checks can be ran entirely differently with a known target to compare against. Let me look. Courcelles (talk) 05:18, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
@Awilley: They're in the same (very large) metro area, but other than that, they appear unrelated from a CU standpoint. Courcelles (talk) 05:22, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
I concur, and have pinged the blocking admin on Davey2116's talk page. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:26, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Unmani Liza Hyde deleted

Hello, I see you deleted Unmani Lize Hyde, because of copy rights violation. I was not aware of violating copyrights, and was going to change that. Is that possible? Thanks Movanrhijn (talk) 13:35, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

  • I can't see any content in that page that wasn't copied or at least closely paraphrased from the linked sources, so, it is better to start again with more attention paid to not cut and pasting sources into WIkipedia. Also, work on the promotional language, it was written like a hagiography. Courcelles (talk) 17:15, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Request for deletion of revisions with vandalism

Thank you for protecting the https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Michael_J_Lindell page and stopping the explosive vandalism yesterday (Feb 4).

Can the revisions that contain the vandalism also be deleted? None of the edits are true, most of the edits are slurs, and many are downright libelous.

Thanks again!!!!!

THANKS!!!!!!!

Why in a rush? You are running-over my questions to U:Coffee

@Courcelles: At Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HughD you have twice[36][37] archived while I was waiting for a response to questions[38][39] of @Coffee: Why? The last time you archived there was 3 December 2017‎, but now, while I am waiting for a response, you archive twice within three days? X1\ (talk) 01:29, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Shadowland GAN

Hi Courcelles. Sorry to bother you, but I just wanted to send you a friendly reminder that I'm still waiting for you to complete your evaluation on my Shadowland GAN after I've addressed and corrected all of your points. Thanks!--Changedforbetter (talk) 16:52, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Will look at it this afternoon :) Courcelles (talk) 16:49, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Didn't forget about this... Courcelles (talk) 16:21, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

  Just a quick thank you for reviewing and ultimately passing my Shadowland (The Lion King) article! All the best :-) Changedforbetter (talk) 16:15, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Possible help with "Endless Night" GAN

Hello again! I hope that you are doing well and having a great week so far. Since you are currently doing the GAN for "Shadowland", I was wondering if you could possible help me by doing the GAN for the "Endless Night" (song) article. Either way, have a great rest of your day! Aoba47 (talk) 02:36, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #301

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

  •   Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
  •   FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
  •   Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
  •   Ceranthor,   Numerounovedant,   Carbrera,   Farang Rak Tham and   Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  Lourdes
  AngelOfSadnessBhadaniChris 73CorenFridayMidomMike V
† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

  Guideline and policy news

  • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
  • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
  • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
  • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

  Technical news

  • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
  • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

  Miscellaneous

  Obituaries

  • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

Wikidata weekly summary #302

Protection request: Shether

Hi there. There is an anonymous IP user (who has been blocked before for similar activity) that has been continously undoing constructive edits and re-adding falsified information to the page Shether, including albums sales, certifications, etc, that do not exist, and references/sources that are empty. Can you please take a look and if you deem it appropriate, protect the page to avoid further vandalism? Kim Leung (talk) 01:38, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Took yesterday off WP. Looks handled now. Courcelles (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Michael J Lindell

You previously oversighted some material on this article from, for lack of a better term, the "pillow" vandal. He's back, and your attention would be welcome [50][51][52][53][54]. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2018

 




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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #303

List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters

Hey, I saw you semi-protected this article; 90.206.87.62 is doing what 90.215.151.129 (just blocked), 90.209.1.126, and 176.251.59.240 were doing, on that list as well as on Little Mix discography. Geolocation points the same way too. I don't know who this might be, and I can't pursue this any further at this moment, but I thought maybe you or one of your talk page watchers can do something with it. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:26, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Q46 (New York City bus)/GA1

Hi Courcelles. The issues you brought up at Talk:Q46 (New York City bus)/GA1 have now been responded-to by the nominator. Just letting you know, in case you did not get the ping from that page. epicgenius (talk) 18:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

OG medal table

Hi. I see that the page All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table is protected. I just want to remark that for the Winter Games USA should have 110 silver with a total of 305. Germany should have 88 silver with a total of 240. The silver total 1058 is correct. The bronze total should be 1050, total 3168. Regards Stavol2 (talk) 22:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello again. I was able to edit. Sorry for bothering you. Stavol2 (talk) 22:41, 25 February 2018 (UTC)