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Just a reminder that this will be happening in a few minutes.
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From: Rob Schnautz
Subject: Office hour: Wikipedia Education Program
The Wikimedia Foundation staff for the Wikipedia Education Program (Frank
Schulenburg, Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Jami Mathewson, and I) will be hosting a
happy to answer general questions you have about the
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are unable to attend, a link to the chat log will be posted at
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-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2012 1:34 PM
To: English Wikipedia
S
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 an
s.org/wiki/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers!
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The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Gwern Branwen 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
sections, etc
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 Bauder
stalled) and performed all testing using IETester, opening a "New IE8"
tab for each test.
Hope this helps!
Bob the Wikipedian
Upon reopening the tab, there is no crash, however, even after navigating
back to the Wikipedia home page.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
pump_%28technical%29#If_you_can_make_IE_crash_pretty_reliably_we_need_your_help.
Thanks!
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y the Italians, by Sue and many others 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 wrote:
>
> > Woah. I just checked it.
Woah. I just checked it.wikipedia.org because it sounded like a hoax...it's
real. Does the law apply to website providers or to those who contribute to
the website? If it's the former, you're right; Wikipedia is in Florida. But
if it's the latter, then Wikipedia is most certainly affected by the la
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 wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Scott MacDonald
> wrote:
>
> > Granted, removing u
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 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
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ken Arromdee 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 Savage's website.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Ken Arromdee 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 responsibility
> when a sea
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Ken Arromdee 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 significantly affe
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Brian J Mingus
wrote:
> This strikes me as indirection. If someone claims that an article is biased
> then they are also claiming that the process governing its creation is
> biased. Such a claim is not a slur, it is a purported statement of fact.
> However, you wo
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Brian J Mingus
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, biased
> anti-Santorum co
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Brian J Mingus
wrote:
>
> Your arguments fail to account for the fact that the article is curated by
> biased anti-Santorum contributors,
Well, you lost me right there. This is a terrible slur on both the
editors of the article as well as all the uninvolved edito
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM, David Gerard 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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I think most of the responses here have people attempting to chain
their own personal hobby horses to the issue of the gender gap. Sure,
we have preexisting issues that could possibly alleviate that gap if
addressed, but does anyone think that increasing RFA standards or
ArbCom policies regarding
e.
> ---
> > This is the new WikiPedia!
Great work!
Rob
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se remark on the feedback page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback
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primary topic for Sue Gardner's office hour last week.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_Sue_2010-09-30
Please provide your input in Bugzilla if you're comfortable with that;
otherwise, please remark on the feedback page:
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k on the feedback page:
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Rob Lanphier
> wrote:
> >> For a variety of operational reasons, we plan to leave the feature
> running
> >> while the community decides whether to keep the feature on, assumin
so after August 15.
The main discussion area 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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e work, but this particular fix was
pretty critical for the experience.
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/Wikimedia:Pending_Changes_issues
We're a little behind in looking 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%20extensions&component=Flagg
e all 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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To everyone here: please add to the list. Also, feel free to move that out
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:34 AM, FT2 wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>
> > 3. This set of pages:
> >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions
> >
> > ...still has the old voc
ons"
as part of the trial (which is a separate feature that probably won't be
completed by the time the trial is over with). Since these pages will get a
lot of traffic during the trial from people wanting to know what was just
implemented, it would be great not to confuse them with obso
, help documentation, and other places that we'll talk about
this feature for non-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
Hi Phoebe,
Replies inline...
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:12 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> > We're planning to change label of the "Pending changes" tab to "Pending
> > revision", since what people
" seems to be heading a bit too far into
jargon land for our comfort. "Pending Revisions" is the compromise that
seems to stand up to scrutiny. A variation such as "Pending Edits" or
"Pending Changes" also seems acceptable to us.
That's whe
ision", since what people will see when they visit that tab 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.
R
at debate
before I can explain further how this is going to work. If you have
opinions, please post them there.
Thanks
Rob
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that with an edit summary. But I don't think that
> will work here, though maybe it will.
>
Yup, that will still work just fine.
> I suspect that any action by an autoconfirmed user will automatically
> accept something of any actions not yet reviewed. Will those
> autoconf
otected page. If it's not obviously vandalism, 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
_
we see it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Terminology
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
Rob
interface in anticipation of the launch. If you're interested in that detail
work, I'll post more information about that on wikitech-l (hopefully by
end-of-day Monday), as well as on the talk page above.
Rob
[1] - See the proposed configuration for trial phase:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
ial *will* start
tomorrow, but we're getting close enough to being 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 abo
the big areas of performance hit.
2. If we need to start 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
al trial. That's not to say 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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me, but not required.
I'll 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!
Rob
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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 coverage
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 Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Risker 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
> consumption. Th
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kanon 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 reverts of said
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.
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Rob wrote:
>
> If they're available. But what if they're not? Is it okay to mention that
> the contradictory information exists?
>
> I doubt you're going to come up with a hard
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Rob wrote:
> In this context, the secondary source is "I found a reference to a newspaper
> article which quotes the date". It's not going to discuss the conflict the
> way you describe--it
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ken Arromdee 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 when
> you just lo
The reason I balk at using the SSDI or the census is I don't think we
should be using primary sources in this manner. There are numerous
pitfalls, including many errors of spelling and fact, to using these
sources. Historians and journalists should be evaluating these
sources, not us. In this par
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