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Wikipedia Ambassadors update

Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

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After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

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In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:

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  3. If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.
Ambassador training and resources

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)

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Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

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The Signpost: 28 January 2013

Stale Userspace drafts cat

Last night I added a TOCtemplate to your category for Stale Userspace drafts to make it easier for users and editors to find out what's stale and what's not. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 17:58, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013

Invitation to a discussion: Wikipedia and legislative data

Hi Avicennasis/MainArchive, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!

Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, March 9!

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For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 14:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

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AvicBot @ is.wikipedia

Since today is.wikipedia is getting language links from Wikidata. You should either update your bot, once an update that makes pywikipedia compatible with Wikidata becomes available, or stop its present job of maintaining interlanguage links. Thanks.--Snaevar (talk) 00:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

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AvicBot and Template:nobots

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DC meetups on April 19 and 20

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

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Double redirects via your bot

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my bad, I meant this to be to "la" not "a" but my keyboard stuck on the 'l' key didn't notice until just now. Redirect now in way of fixing this myself. Please fix thanks.Skookum1 (talk) 09:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

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Saraiki language

Dear, Saraiki is a language, it is not a dialect. Riasti dialect, Shah puri dialect,Multani dialect, Multani language, Thalochi dialect, Thalochi ,Derawali dialect articles. I suggest merging these articles , as the all these are same. And also be Redirected to Saraiki language. Also Jhangvi dialect is dialect of Saraiki. Kindly See these External Links #1 and #2.

The Center Line: Spring 2013

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(Bosanski) Želim da vas obavijestim da je se na bs.wiki donijela odluka da se uklone bot zastavice kod neaktivnih i/ili interwiki botova. Vaš bot spada u najmanje jednu od ove dvije kategorije. Ova odluka je donešena zbog zbivanja oko Wikidata koje je dovelo do toga da su interwiki botovi postali nepotrebni. Ako želite da zadržite vašu bot zastavicu onda možete podnijeti taj zahtjev ovdje sa dodatnim informacijama o poslovima koje bi bot obavljao i na koji nacin. Imajte na umu da ovo treba da bude konkretan i koristan posao za zajednicu da bi se zastavica zadržala. Ako imate bilo kakvih pitanja kontaktirajte me na mojoj stranici za razgovor. Ukoliko ne reagujete na ovu poruku će se uklanjanje zastavice izvršiti nakon nekoliko sedmica. Međutim, uvijek ste dobrodošli da podnesete novi zahtjev za bot zastavicu.

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AvicBot and redirects from userspace

This is a feature request, not a bug report; I've not spotted any misbehavior. The "How to use sandbox" section of Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions has a question regarding a userspace sandbox: a page was created in userspace, moved to AFC space, moved to mainspace, and AvicBot correctly fixed the double redirect. Is there any way to tell the bot not to fix double redirects from userspace to mainspace, since confusion can arise for new users? Nyttend (talk) 04:28, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

{{Bots|deny=AvicBot}}should do it. There are other bots that fix redirects, though, so {{nobots}} might be better. Avicennasis @ 04:54, 28 Iyar 5773 / 04:54, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Webinar / edit-a-thon at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

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On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

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DC WikiSalon on June 6

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Thursday, June 6 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Have time on Saturday?

I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, June 15!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

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Merging categories to multiple targets

Hello; I'm not sure if AvicBot2 can still do category merges to multiple targets, but here there are bunch that could be done by a bot. (There are also some listed that have to be done manually, not by bot.) Thanks. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:14, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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AvicBot & CFDs

Hi, is AvicBot still processing CFD outcomes? The regular bot has been down all day but it doesn't seem to have noticed the control is set to enable. Timrollpickering (talk) 21:57, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Apparently not... Something has changed and the code is now broke. I'll see if I can get a patch on it soon. Thanks for the heads up. Avicennasis @ 08:11, 7 Tamuz 5773 / 08:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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WikiProject AFC needs your help... again

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from July 1st, 2013 – July 31st, 2013.

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Left of Center (song)

Greetings. Please change the redirect on Left of Center (song) from Left of Center (Sirius) to Left of center, because:

  1. The Sirius page is about a radio station, not a song;
  2. The Sirius page is mentioned on the disambiguation that is Left of center;
  3. There are at least two actual songs called "Left of Center" with references already (Suzanne Vega, Serj Tankian)
  4. It could probably be argued successfully that the Sirius station was named because of the Suzanne Vega song.

I have attempted to fix this myself, only to be undone. So I try this route.... -- Hooperswim (talk) 21:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done Redirects can be repointed easily - but you shouldn't point a redirect at a redirect, which is why AvicBot fixed it again. this edit should solve the problem and show the difference. Avicennasis @ 05:17, 14 Tamuz 5773 / 05:17, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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The bot has twice reversed my redirect (for the talk page but not the article). There is no double redirect, something seems to have gone wrong with the bot. In the mean time I have blanked the page - the Talk page is empty anyway. Thanks.--Mhockey (talk) 14:51, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) This edit by you points the page to Talk:St Jude's Church which itself is a redirect to Talk:St Jude's Church, Kensington. There is no problem with the bot. Avicennasis @ 21:27, 15 Tamuz 5773 / 21:27, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I see the problem now - actually two problems. 1. My redirect should have been to Talk:St. Jude's Church, not Talk:St Jude's Church. 2. After an old move of St Jude's Church the original page was correctly redirected to the dab page here, but the original Talk page was not redirected, so it was left as a redirect to the wrong page. Now if someone could do a bot to check that talk pages follow article pages...--Mhockey (talk) 23:12, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

AvicBot and BLP

Please see this contribution page: [1].  This was used to attack a politician at 2013-06-15T17:56:13.  The edit was reverted at 2013-06-15T18:53:57.  But by 2013-06-15T18:44:19, AvicBot was spreading the BLP violation. 

It is my technical understanding, perhaps flawed, that double redirects are entirely ok.  So would it be possible to not "fix" a double redirect until at least 24 hours has elapsed?  Thank you, Unscintillating (talk) 21:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Scouting images

AvicAWB tagged a number of Scouting images with {{Non-free logo}} that already used {{non-free Scout logo}}. Since | was not set on {{Non-free logo}}, all these images are now in the categories Non-free images with NFUR stated Non-free images for NFUR review. --  Gadget850 talk 10:53, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Sorry, I did not know about that template to scrub against. I'll get that fixed for future page edits. Avicennasis @ 11:45, 16 Tamuz 5773 / 11:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

AvicBot bug report

This edit of AvicBot has replaced a perfectly correct redirect to an article by a buggy redirect to a dab page, asserting that the old redirect was a double redirect, which was wrong. D.Lazard (talk) 17:10, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

No bug - the page Axiom (computer algebra system) was a redirect, briefly, per this edit. At the time AvicBot made his edit, the page was a double-redirect. AvicUser Talk:Avicennasis 00:29, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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Sawai Madhopur Junction railway station

As both Indian Railways & the platform board both list the station as Sawai Madhopur Junction, the article should be named Sawai Madhopur Junction railway station. I am not sure if moving it between Sawai Madhopur Junction railway station & Sawai Madhopur railway station is really doing any good. I have made a similar comment of the article's talk page & also with a couple of editors who have made changes on the page. Do put in your comments if you see fit. Superfast1111 (talk) 04:53, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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AvicBot thinks gfdl is a bank in Hawaii

Dear Avicennasis,

When I typed gfdl into the search bar, I was surprised to end up at an article about First Hawaiian Bank, an article that never mentions "gfdl".

I see that article about a bank also currently has redirects from GNU Free Documentation License/Secondary sections, GNU Free Documentation License/Secondary Sections, GNU Free Documentation License/Front-Cover Texts, GNU Free Documentation License 1.2, GNU Free Documentation license, GNU free documentation license, GNU Free Documentation Lisence, Gnu free documentation license, Gnu Free Documentation License, GNUFreeDocumentationLicense, Free Documentation License, GNU Free Document License, Gnu Free Document Licence, Text of the GFDL, Back-Cover Texts, GFDL license, GNU/FDL, GNU FDL, GDFL, etc.

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It appears that someone deleted all the text of the GNU Free Documentation License article, replacing it with a redirect to some other unrelated article. Then User:AvicBot "fixed" all the redirects to that original article to point directly to that unrelated article. (AvicBot sees redirect A points to redirect B which points to article C. So AvicBot changes A to point directly to article C.) Then a couple of hours later someone reverted that "test edit" (vandalism?).

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Would it maybe be possible to tweak User:AvicBot so AvicBot attempts to comply with WP:R#PLA and only changes A to point directly to C when the text of C actually contains the title of A?

--DavidCary (talk) 17:17, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

I went ahead and reverted 3 of the worst (see Special:WhatLinksHere/First_Hawaiian_Bank). I hope this doesn't mess up whatever action you eventually take, Avicennasis.--Auric talk 00:38, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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