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Subject: Office hour: Wikipedia Education Program
The Wikimedia Foundation staff for the Wikipedia Education Program (Frank
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This discussion has flowed onto Wikipedia's Administrator's Noticeboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AN#False_articles_created_for_the_good_of_education
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-Original Message-
From: Charles Matthews
Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2012 1:34 PM
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re
I've been skimming the arguments on this matter and I'm trying to get
a handle on it. One thing I don't understand is why Mr. Hawkins feels
so aggrieved. Everyone is talking in abstract principles but I
haven't seen where someone details what specific wrongs have been done
to Mr. Hawkins. Not
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-instructor, ep-campus-ambassador, and ep-online-ambassador, and
will be able to administer those user access levels. Other than that, it's a
typical autoconfirmed user.
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-Original Message-
From: Anirudh Bhati
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 2:45 AM
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
1. Talk pages are where references/links/citations go to die; less
than 10% ever make it back
This makes a lot of sense. Many times I've removed these from the
article for valid reasons - text/link dumps, mal- or unformed
If you're into mythology/cryptozoology, I did some translation from Old
Norse and Old Icelandic this summer to put together what is probably the
most complete syntheses (in any language) of [[Hafgufa]] and [[Lyngbakr]],
two legendary sea monsters.
Bob
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Fred
#If_you_can_make_IE_crash_pretty_reliably_we_need_your_help.
Thanks!
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on Foundation then I suspect a
fair
amount will be repetition and explanation of what has been said on
Foundation.
WereSpielChequers
On 5 October 2011 18:48, Rob Schnautz bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
Woah. I just checked it.wikipedia.org because it sounded like a
hoax...it's
real
If ArbCom would be damaged by people opening [[WP:DICK]] labeling cases, it
certainly wouldn't be helped by people opening facepalming cases.
Be it namecalling or implication of rude gestures, these are both civil
issues and both need attention.
At the same time, I feel the {{facepalm}} template
Usually when I facepalm it's because I have a moment, not someone
else...
I believe [[WP:DICK]] is a bigger issue than {{facepalm}} at the moment
Bob
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Scott MacDonald
Looks to me like they are referring to 94.193.122.119, registered to
London Clerkenwell Residential Dynamic.
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On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Rob wrote:
Part of it is that we're talking about different types of things. The
Kerry
controversy is ultimately about factual claims, and therefore whether our
article harms John Kerry depends
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Santorum is not just being victimized by Dan Savage or the news media or the
world--he's being victimized by *us*. That makes it our job. Just because
it's an already existing campaign doesn't mean we have no
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Part of it is a matter of degree. The article on the John Kerry controversy
isn't the #2 search for Kerry on the Internet.
And whenever people mention this, they conveniently forget to mention
that the #1 result is Dan
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Avoid victimization
When writing about a person notable only for one or two events, *or
writing about a person who is independently notable but where the
biographical material is so prominent that it can
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
(Proposed general rule: if you launch your complaint on Wikipedia
Review, you're already wrong.)
This is going on my user page.
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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Brian J Mingus
brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
I believe you will have a hard time justifying your claim that my comment is
false (not to mention that it is a slur). It should be easy to show that the
article is curated by at least one, and probably several,
WikiPedia!
Great work!
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Please provide your input in Bugzilla if you're comfortable with that;
otherwise, please remark on the feedback page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback
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for the
November 2010 Pending Changes release
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25301
Please provide your input in Bugzilla if you're comfortable with that;
otherwise, please remark on the feedback page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback
Thanks!
Rob
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
For a variety of operational reasons, we plan to leave the feature
running
while the community decides whether to keep the feature
for this feature is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback
If you have comments/suggestions/questions, that's a good place to post
them.
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at that page, but we will get back to you
if you post there. We'll also get back to you if you prefer to post to
Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensionscomponent=FlaggedRevs
That's all for now. Thanks for reading!
Rob
p.s. I didn't want to turn this email
showing as
0.0s. That can't be right, surely? Is that a bug?
Yeah, something there doesn't look right. We'll look into it further.
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:34 AM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
3. This set of pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions
...still has the old vocabulary, and still
page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RobLa/PC_Page_Inventory
To everyone here: please add to the list. Also, feel free to move that out
of my user space to wherever you feel is appropriate.
Thanks
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-developers working on English Wikipedia.
Thanks everyone for weighing in! We'll be updating the message strings on
flaggedrevs.labs to reflect the new name:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Message_updates
Rob
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org
haven't spoken up yet, now is the time,
since we're only a couple of days from making a final decision on this.
Please weigh in here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Terminology
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Hi Phoebe,
Replies inline...
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:12 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote:
We're planning to change label of the Pending changes tab to Pending
revision, since what people will see when
is the
pending revision, not the diff against the old version. The nice thing
about then naming the feature itself Pending Revisions is that it aligns
with what people will see as the most prominent feature of the UI.
Rob
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, you can use the undo
function with a polite note in the edit comment to discuss the change on the
talk page. Presumably, you're doing this as an autoconfirmed user, which
means that your edits will be automatically accepted.
Rob
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a banner at the top of the page that tells them
exactly this.
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as on the talk page above.
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[1] - See the proposed configuration for trial phase:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Trial
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Here's the permissions as we're currently planning to deploy them for the
trial:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Trial
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ready that we need to lock
these things down, because there are very few things that require code
changes that we'll be willing to consider at this point.
If you have any comments/suggestions/complaints/etc about the policy, please
reply here, or put them on the talk page for the trial.
Thanks!
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that we won't
get to it, but getting more experience with the feature would be best before
tinkering with this aspect of it.
Make sense?
Rob
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weeding out articles to get the total count down,
what order should we go in?
Please leave your thoughts on the talk page, and/or flesh out the portions
of the main article that still need love (that page in particular needs some
help).
Thanks!
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be updating those pages based on my understanding, so it'll be
helpful to start from a base of current understanding rather than what
the understanding was a year ago.
Thanks for your help!
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There's also the lack of interesting controversies to spur editors'
interest in the Chilean earthquake. With Haiti, you had Pat
Robertson's stupid comments, the alleged attempted kidnapping of
orphans, the invasion of Scientology, etc. Haiti's geographic
proximity also increased relative
Not sure what's going on in the edit history of [[Sam Walton]]. There
are a number of grey crossed out links. At first I thought it might
be a new way of displaying deleted edits but they still appear after I
log out, and deleted edits on other articles still appear in the
normal fashion.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kanon kanon...@gmail.com wrote:
Those edits have been oversighted.
More information on oversight can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight
How odd. As far as I recall, there wasn't anything in those edits
except simple vandalism and
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
As an oversighter, I can review these edits, and I can tell you that, while
some may consider it simple vandalism, the edits contained potentially
libelous information about a person or persons that is unsuitable for public
Incidentally, if the oversighted edits concerned a certain gentleman
and his alleged predilection for oral copulation, then that vandal has
returned to the article.
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Searching far and wide to find a secondary source that quoted the primary
source gains you *nothing* except compliance with Wikipedia rules. The
secondary source isn't going to do any better fact-checking than you did
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