User talk:Peppy Paneer
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Hi, if somebody can look at the Parag Desai 3rd paragraph - "His work in the field of public relations resulted in winning the Best Communications and PR of the Year Award at the Indian Telly Awards in 2003.[citation needed]" I checked the same with this source. It contain neither the company nor the person. Should the statement be removed ? Thanks Peppy Paneer (talk) 14:45, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
- If the statement is not supported by a reliable source then it can/should be removed under our policy regarding biographies of living people. Mkdwtalk 15:10, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Done Yes, I agree, and I've removed it. --Nick—Contact/Contribs 15:13, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you Mkdw & Nick Peppy Paneer (talk) 05:45, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Done Yes, I agree, and I've removed it. --Nick—Contact/Contribs 15:13, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
A belated welcome!
[edit]Hi again Peppy Paneer, I noticed now that nobody have been given you a proper welcome (our bad!) so here it is. It is good to have you onboard, w.carter-Talk 11:52, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]- Hi w.carter, few years earlier I used to edit sometimes on Wikipedia without being a registered user. I am glad to be back here with a user account. Thank you for the welcome! Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:18, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
- Ah! That explains why you seem more experienced than other newcomers. :) Small tip though: When you "mention/ping" another user, don't use their individual signature. That signature is only supposed to come alive when the user is signing something. Otherwise it might be regarded as if you are trying to impersonate another editor. So for example, for notifying me you write W.carter or @W.carter: (look at the code). If there is anything you need to ask about, please don't hesitate to call on me at my talk page. I'm one of the editors who help "newbies" around here. Cheers, w.carter-Talk 13:09, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
- @W.carter:, Hi coming after a long time (around 3 years). Yes I will take care of the same from now onwards.
And for now see if you can help with this, I am searching two things : 1st - template for a tea house talk back notifications on the talk page (it will save time) 2nd - the userbox templates of This user always uses edit summary
And Thank you again for such a warm welcome. Peppy Paneer (talk) 13:28, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
- Well the first one is easy. The code is
{{Wikipedia:Teahouse/Teahouse talkback|WP:Teahouse/Questions|WP:Teahouse/Questions|ts=~~~~}}
- The second one is one of those irritating things that you have seen an hundred times and still can't remember where. :-/ The closest I can find is this
{{User:SteveStrummer/Template:EditSummary}}
- Resulting in
This user believes that edits need
useful summaries.
- There are a whole bunch at Wikipedia:Userboxes. Or you can ask at the Teahouse where someone may have a better memory than me. Best, w.carter-Talk 14:01, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
- @W.carter: Hi, yes the second one is a bit tedious to find :P ... anyways Thank you for the time. Peppy Paneer (talk) 08:04, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Query
[edit]@W.carter: Hi, long time...hope you are doing good:)...I found that a speedy deletion tag(put by user:Qwertyus) was removed from this recently created articlePEARL Institute of Management and Information Technology by a user:Khilji74(its being user's first edit) without any discussion. I have already placed a message on this user for not to remove the tag in future. What is the procedure to be followed in this case ? Thanks! Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:01, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hello again! You did the right thing in warning the user about removing the speedy deletion tag. If it had been the last edit, you could simply have reverted their edit, but now there has been several new edits made, that have not improved the article as far as I can see, so the tag should probably be replaced. I'm not a reviewer so I'm pinging the editor, Qwertyus who placed tag in the first place to tag it again. Another new editor has also appeared on the article, and it seems like they have a similar promotional interest in the company. They have also been warned. Further, I think that the pic is a copyright violation and that it will soon be removed from the Commons and the article. w.carter-Talk 12:30, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ok! Thank you @W.carter:. Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:38, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- Anyone is free to remove CSD tags on articles that they did not create; the new editor might be a sockpuppet but since Velella removed the worst advertising, I didn't feel like pursuing this much further. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 13:30, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- OK, noted. I always thought such removals should be discussed first. Cheers, w.carter-Talk 13:37, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- Anyone is free to remove CSD tags on articles that they did not create; the new editor might be a sockpuppet but since Velella removed the worst advertising, I didn't feel like pursuing this much further. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 13:30, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ok! Thank you @W.carter:. Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:38, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you @Qwertyus: for clarifying. Got it! Peppy Paneer (talk) 13:48, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
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Some baklava for you!
[edit]i am still working on Barharia be patient Monu4u1987 (talk) 06:53, 8 August 2015 (UTC) |
- @Monu4u1987: Yes, sure! Thank you for Baklava...Well in that case, it is more useful to use either Draft or Sandbox for initial work on the article. Also, please check the messages by User:Mike Rosoft. They are useful. Feel free to ask for any help. Thanks! Peppy Paneer (talk) 09:05, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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Thank You..I think i need to develop my page more. SantoshiWiki (talk) 11:23, 10 August 2015 (UTC) |
@SantoshiWiki: Thank you Peppy Paneer (talk) 11:53, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
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thanks but the correct name is George Amparis
[edit]Hi actually i try again to correct it! I put some other information too but who are you and where did you know that person?
Zoe diam (talk) 12:20, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Zoe diam:, Hi I don't know Georgios Abaris. I am an editor on Wikipedia and I found the changes in "Recent change log". And saw a major typo, so went for correction. Anyways, the source 1 says its "Georgios Abaris". Why do you believe that its incorrect ? Thanks! Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:35, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Zoe diam: Hi, I did some more research and found that Georgios Ambaris too links to Georgios Abaris. And I found the source 1 and also a wikipedia article in other language Georgios Ambaris. But I can not find any sources that suggests it to be "George Amparis" as claimed by you. If you could find some source...go ahead and change by citing the sources too. Cheers! (PS- @Materialscientist: fyi and for inputs if any ? ...since you redirected the article 2 Thanks! ) Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:58, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
sorry
[edit]Dear Peppy sorry but i have no idea how to correct the article! I am her wife and i was trying to make a wiki for him! I just found that article and i thought it will be easy to correct it!!! I am curious about who has wrote it! I will appreciate if you help me! His name is George Amparis (english) Γιώργος Αμπάρης (greek) Zoe diam (talk) 14:51, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Zoe diam:, Hi :) first of all its Ok..go through Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors...its useful. And Is Georgios Abaris your husband or you are confused with the same name. Please read the article Georgios Abaris first to find out. If he is your husband then the article is right here on Wikipedia. While if your husband is George Amparis and Georgios Abaris & George Amparis are two different people. Then, "Please don't edit the existing article", first go through WP:Notability and WP:BLP to see if "George Amparis" qualifies the criteria for an article on Wikipedia. If yes, please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest as you clearly have a conflict of interest with the subject of the article, so it is suggested that you use Wikipedia:Requested articles. Some other editor will create it. Cheers!
- You may want to go through Wikipedia to know more. And about your curiosity for the creator of any page, you can always check by clicking at the "View history" of any article and then clicking last. Well I have made it easier for you...Georgios Abaris was created by User:Jogurney on 23 Dec'08. Thanks! Peppy Paneer (talk) 20:28, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
Thank you
[edit]Thank you Peppy ! Georgios Abaris (as has written) is my husband and the right spelling for English is George Amparis as i already told you! It's not someone else! I have no idea why i can not change it or to put photos or add some more articles like interviews or videos! I have read before the wiki "instructions" but i thought it will be easier!!! Thanks a lot ! I will try again when i have my computer back! Zoe diam (talk) 08:43, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Zoe diam:, Ok cool. And by the way "it's not wiki"...it is Wikipedia. Please do follow Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Thanks! Peppy Paneer (talk) 09:01, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Valueguyz
[edit]Apologies - I didn't see you'd already CSD'd Valueguyz as it had been reverted by the editor. Samuel Tarling (talk) 12:32, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Samtar: No issues :) , the article has been deleted. Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
August 2015
[edit]Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors, which you did not do on User talk:84.90.219.128. Do not template the regulars! That may look to you like 'just' an IP; it is an experienced editor, who, whilst not being perfect, will not be aided by your templating. Try a conversation! Ciao! Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 19:41, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Oh! my bad :/ ... Well I certainly did thought for a moment that template message is "not" apt in this case (but the edit resulted into the removal of a table from the article). So I put it, but suddenly seemed that the user is an experienced editor. Anyways, I didn't close the tab. I have removed it with an apology in the edit summary. Thank you for bringing it up! And Yes, I do assume good faith towards other editors. You are welcome to see it in the contributions. Thanks! Peppy Paneer (talk) 20:07, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- I saw your edit on the IP's page Peppy. Cheers! Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 20:10, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi there PP, from Portugal,
I know that your intentions were the best, but I reverted the other user because they: 1 - inserted a source to their chart addition from a user-generated website, poses no problems as a mere link (especially for Portuguese footballers, as it's Portuguese itself) but it's not reliable/acceptable as a ref; 2 - added wrong info therein. I have been here for almost nine years, only wanting to help out :)
On a related note, I have already: 1 - duly relocated chart in order of contents; 2 - replaced source; 3 - corrected wrong info. Keep up the good work, sorry for any inconvenience --84.90.219.128 (talk) 20:35, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- @84.90.219.128: Hi yes I viewed it. You may check a dummy edit by me on William Carvalho :). And 9 years..."Cheers for your contributions". By the way, I appreciate your reply here. Thank you Peppy Paneer (talk) 21:13, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Rollback
[edit]Hi Peppy Paneer. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:
- Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
- Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
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If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk) 16:24, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Beeblebrox: Hi, Thank you for granting Rollback feature. It will be useful and sure will be in touch in case of any confusion/trouble. Cheers! Peppy Paneer (talk) 18:41, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Please stop him.Xx236 (talk) 10:59, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Xx236: Hi, I have put a request again at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Although I have explained the reason for block, still you may wish to add your comments if I have misssed any. Thanks Peppy Paneer (talk) 11:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Mumia Abu-Jamal Edit
[edit]The edit wasn't a mistake. An en dash was being used when an em dash should have been used. –2602:304:28AA:D5F0:64D0:527D:38B6:CFF (talk) 06:56, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- @2602:304:28AA:D5F0:64D0:527D:38B6:CFF: Hi, when you tried to correct the dash, the edit resulted into a typo. You may see in the differences. Anyways, I have put a comma in place. You may check. Happpy editing Peppy Paneer (talk) 07:10, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
My edit at Kashmiri muslim tribes from hindu lineage
[edit]Hi. You just revered my edit. I have infact given a clear edit summary. That page deals with Kashmiris and the tribe Sudhan is not Kashmiri tribe and so i removed it. Kmrhistory (talk) 08:14, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Kmrhistory: Hi...its a clear copy paste move from article Sudhan done by an IP address, I have placed a message on its talk page.User:Wasimulhaq removed the vandalism and it was reverted by a bot (considering possible blanking as vandalism). So, that's how it got its place in the article. And when you removed, it showed content removal without any reason, while I can see now the edit summary is clearly stated in the history. I don't know how. So, it seemed as if you undid the edit by bot removing vandalism. Anyways, Sorry for the trouble and Thank you for bringing it up. Cheers :)
- But I feel that we can just add the name of Sudhan as a tribe in Kashmiri Muslim tribes from Hindu lineage. I have added it. If you still feel that it should not be in the article. Ping me and lets discuss the same on talk page of the article. Thanks Peppy Paneer (talk) 11:20, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- Actually Sudhans are a community in Azad Kashmir and are not ethnic Kashmiris which is why this tribe name does not belong to that page. It is good to have some pre-hand knowledge of these matters before editing these pages. Thanks.Kmrhistory (talk) 08:50, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi there - just a heads up that I have moved your recent question at the Teahouse from the bottom of the page to the top. Most talk pages require that new discussions be placed at the bottom of the page. At the Teahouse, however, new questions are placed at the top to maximize visibility. Thanks! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 17:09, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- @SuperHamster: Yes, I am aware of this concept. I don't know how it got there :/ ... Anyways, Thank you for the kindness. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hmm, interesting...did you use the "Ask a Question" button? I did see someone mention once that their question ended up at the bottom when they used that button. Curious if it's still a problem. Thanks, and sorry for the unnecessary note :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 17:16, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hi again @SuperHamster:, yes I did use the "Ask a Question" button. And I actually saw the question at the end of the page, thought of some error and when refreshed the page it was at the top. Didn't know it was your effort until you post it here Thank you. And never mind for the note. I know your intentions were best. By the way, question has been answered. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 20:45, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hmm, interesting...did you use the "Ask a Question" button? I did see someone mention once that their question ended up at the bottom when they used that button. Curious if it's still a problem. Thanks, and sorry for the unnecessary note :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 17:16, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
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Your edit to Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics
[edit]You reverted an edit claiming it was nonconstructive, when in fact the edit you reverted was done to undo vandalism. I have reverted the article to a version prior to any vandalism taking place. — Jkudlick tcs 08:40, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Jkudlick: Hi yes i saw it, it happened by mistake. Thank you for correcting the same. Peppy Paneer (talk) 17:59, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, the Huggle is not loading since yesterday. Is any technical error going on ? I doubt. As I saw few of the editors using it while Special:RecentChanges patrolling. Should I uninstall and install again or what ? Thanks Peppy Paneer (talk) 09:37, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- As far as I know there is no broad technical problem going on. Uninstalling and reinstalling sounds like a good place to start. If that doesn't help, try posting on Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback where those with more Huggle-specific technical knowledge can assist you. Cheers, Nick—Contact/Contribs 16:20, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- @NickW557: Hi again. I reinstalled again. Its not working :( Ok, I will put it at Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback. Thank you Peppy Paneer (talk) 18:38, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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Rasool shahsevani
[edit]Hey there. I saw you originally listed this page under WP:PROD. I thought you may want to know that I've opened a formal nomination for deletion. Cheers! Mww113 (talk) 09:10, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Mww113: Hi and Thank you for informing the same. I was on a "Wikibreak" in the first 2 weeks of September. So, missed it. Now, I am back. Anyways, I have participated in the discussion. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 10:30, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
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- Hi again. I'm not sure how you did it, but with this edit you created a duplicate of the "Discount coupon for Wikipedia T-shirt" section and deleted another editor's question and the responses in the section "Khushbu Thakkar". I've fixed everything, but you might just want to take extra care when editing discussion pages in future. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:57, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Cordless Larry: First of all Many Thanks for correction :)...it was done by mistake. And actually I typed the response almost 3 hours before and submitted but the internet connection went down. And when I refreshed the page latter, it opened the editing version, so clicked the "Save page" button. And moved ahead. Unfortunately things got messed up. Apologies to Sdhakray too for messing up the question.
- And yes I do understand the importance of discussion page like Wikipedia:Tea house, I always give a visit now and then irrespective of the fact I have asked anything or not. Thanks once again and sorry for unnecessary trouble. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 13:41, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- No need to apologise, Peppy Paneer. You are always welcome at the Teahouse and your continued interest in goings-on there is appreciated. When I've had similar problems to your loss of internet connection while editing, I've found it best to copy the text you've written out of the edit window, refresh the browser and then start the edit again by pasting the text back in. Those situations can be tricky though. If you hit "save page" at the wrong time when the connection is lost, it can result in loss of the text entirely, which is even more annoying! Cordless Larry (talk) 15:22, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Cordless Larry: haha...yes it is annoying. And that's the best to do while internet connection loss in mid way. I will use it Thank you. Anyways, I feel there is no harm in apologizing for any trouble even though if done unknowingly and with best intentions. Happy Editing :) Peppy Paneer (talk) 17:06, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- That's a good policy, and one I try to follow myself. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:13, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Cordless Larry: haha...yes it is annoying. And that's the best to do while internet connection loss in mid way. I will use it Thank you. Anyways, I feel there is no harm in apologizing for any trouble even though if done unknowingly and with best intentions. Happy Editing :) Peppy Paneer (talk) 17:06, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- No need to apologise, Peppy Paneer. You are always welcome at the Teahouse and your continued interest in goings-on there is appreciated. When I've had similar problems to your loss of internet connection while editing, I've found it best to copy the text you've written out of the edit window, refresh the browser and then start the edit again by pasting the text back in. Those situations can be tricky though. If you hit "save page" at the wrong time when the connection is lost, it can result in loss of the text entirely, which is even more annoying! Cordless Larry (talk) 15:22, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
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- @MusikAnimal: Hi Thank you for granting "pending changes reviewer" userright. I will use it with good judgement in accordance to Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Peppy Paneer (talk) 11:55, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
New page patrolling
[edit]Hi Peppy Paneer! I wonder if you could give me some tips about new page patrolling, as I have recently stumbled across Special:NewPages and marked off a few pages that were not patent nonsense. I started to feel like I could use some guidance about best practices, though, and as I know you are a new pages patroller, I thought of asking you directly.
(Unrelatedly, I wonder from your username if you are from India? Mmm, paneer. I'm from the U.S. but lived in Europe for a couple of years a long time ago also.) —GrammarFascist contribstalk 23:54, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi GrammarFascist, first of all I would appreciate your work at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions, I see it frequently. I visit Teahouse (a great place to hang out and learn at Wikipedia) often. And yes I will be more than happy to assist you in patrolling New pages. Do you have Wikipedia:Twinkle gadget installed ?
- And as far WP:G1 is concerned one thing which I always check before tagging with WP:G1 is "If we can understand the article, then WP:G1 does not apply" (the last line at WP:G1). You may find the detailed information at Wikipedia:Patent nonsense. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:12, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I am from India. Peppy Paneer (talk) 12:13, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the appreciation, Peppy Paneer. You do fine work at the Teahouse as well.
- I don't yet have Twinkle installed; I only just installed my first script and am still getting the hang of it, so I don't want to overwhelm myself all at once. I was thinking about going in baby steps as far as new pages patrolling, and just marking pages as patrolled that seem to have no issues, rather than trying to mark the pages that do have issues and doing it wrong — so pages I was unsure about I would just leave alone. I thought that would help at least somewhat with the volume of unpatrolled new pages.
- So I guessed right! One of the things I enjoy about Wikipedia is meeting editors from all over the world. —GrammarFascist contribstalk 14:54, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
- @GrammarFascist: Hi, been busy these days in making presentations...so a delay in reply. Well how I started patrolling new pages is on the opposite side. Initially I started tagging the articles which were strictly according to CSD criteria and keeping a bit distance from other ones. While you are patrolling the articles which are in compliance to the policies. Anyways, it's a nice approach. I would suggest installing Twinkle when you feel like doing the patrolling too often. It is very handy tool and saves time. Feel free to ping for anything. And yes I do appreciate this too that editors from different parts of the world working constantly for Wikipedia. Happy Editing Peppy Paneer (talk) 13:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Metolite
[edit]Sir I know you r faster than me ! So pls allowed me to create this really needed for Public Education,...... Er. Hrithik Vardhan (talk) 08:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- Er. Hrithik Vardhan Hi, check the message I have left on your talk page. The current article is not in accordance to the basic Wikipedia guidelines and could have been deleted anytime. So, based on the edit summary which you provided. I have alredy moved it to draft space where you can continue to work and improve upon the article, it's at Draft:Metolite. Please do go through Wikipedia:Notability (web) and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest too, it will help. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 09:03, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- And Er. Hrithik Vardhan, you need not use salutation Sir. I am a Wikipedia editor like everyone else here including you. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 09:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks!
[edit]Thanks for the coffee -- I try to stay ahead of the vandals. :) Cheers, GABHello! 20:38, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
is the article ok now
[edit]Just did a couple changes and plan on doing more every blue moon. Thank you for your understanding and help. Kingsamhippy (talk) 18:33, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Kingsamhippy: No, instances like " we hear", "overrated with negativity and nonsense" and even the tone of the article is unencyclopaedic. Please click on Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and read, it's very helpful. One more very basic lag is that the article does not cite any third party reliable sources. Thanks Peppy Paneer (talk) 19:57, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
OK thank you for your help and that line "overrated with negativity and nonsense" I kinda figure I need to delete that. I am going to read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view so I can get a better understanding on what I need to do. Thank you very much again.
- @Kingsamhippy: You are welcome. I am here to help. And after reading Wikipedia:Neutral point of view & WP:SOURCE. You may go through WP:BLP, it will state exactly what you need to do. Let me know if you face difficulty with any of these policies although they are interesting :). And please remember to "Sign your posts on talk pages" using four tildes like this
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. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 22:00, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Kingsamhippy: You are welcome. I am here to help. And after reading Wikipedia:Neutral point of view & WP:SOURCE. You may go through WP:BLP, it will state exactly what you need to do. Let me know if you face difficulty with any of these policies although they are interesting :). And please remember to "Sign your posts on talk pages" using four tildes like this
Peppy Paneer OMG this is so complicated but, I'm learning little by little and thank for your help again. OK I will do some research on Wikipedia:Neutral point of view & WP:SOURCE and WP:BLP let me see if I did this talk sign right. Kingsamhippy (talk) 22:24, 13 October 2015 (UTC)(talk
- @Kingsamhippy: Yes, it's a bit complicated but once you start too follow the terms it's interesting. And yes you signed your post write this time. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 06:19, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Peppy Paneer Great! Yes it is very interesting but kinda fun at the same time. its a saying "gaining some kind of knowledge is a blessing" and gaining knowledg here is a blessing. I wrote another article that is in draft now I was wondering if you can check it out and if it need to be fixed can you PLEASE fix it so I can publish it? The world need to know about us. If u need more info of Outreach Music Group you can check us out @ www.Facebook.com/myoutreachmusic again thank you for your help. Kingsamhippy (talk) 12:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Possible namespace issues with https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vfrickey/Archive_5 you tagged for speedy deletion
[edit]You just now blanked and tagged https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vfrickey/Archive_5 - which is an archive of my user talk page, because it appeared in wikipedia's main space.
Tracking back over how I created that archive, I clicked a red-linked "Archive 5" from the archive box on my user talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Vfrickey, assuming that it was in archive space, seeing as the bot running that archive box had the file there.
Clicking back over it I do see now that the URL for that page is different from other archives in my list (I neglected to have Clue Bot III create an archive index in my user talk page space this morning, getting to it now).
I withdraw my objection to speedy deletion of the page in question. Thanks for the good catch! loupgarous (talk) 17:52, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Vfrickey: Hi...look at the irony...today in the morning, I was reading Help:Archiving a talk page to know about how to archive the talk page discussions. Actually it was getting a bit longer to scroll down when I viewed it through mobile. And as I visited your talk page, came to know know that your intentions are best and it is an innocent mistake. So, went ahead and did the needful. Cheers to your more than a decade editing on Wikipedia :) Peppy Paneer (talk) 19:35, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
[edit]Thanks for catching me early on a boneheaded inadvertent page creation! Dunno if you like cats, I do - so it's well-meant.
loupgarous (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you Vfrickey and yes, I do like Cats :)...I have one...his name is Butter. Happy Editing! Peppy Paneer (talk) 19:40, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Original Barnstar | |
Thank you so much Peppy. I am new at Wiki; people like you make this world better place to learn & live. Sunovikas (talk) 14:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC) |
- @Sunovikas: Hi Thank you for the Barnstar. And I like contributing to Wikipedia. If you need any assistance regarding editing, feel free to ping. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 16:52, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
A beer for you!
[edit]Sorry for creating an attack page that i never wished to do it on the first place. We have a beer together. Angry Bald English Villian Man Chat 20:48, 22 November 2015 (UTC) |
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Spam
[edit]I deleted User:Microzite Pty Ltd. If you find a promotional page with no non-promotional history, you may tag it for deletion using {{db-spam}}. Thanks, BethNaught (talk) 14:32, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
- @BethNaught: Hi...Yes that's what I always do. This time I thought of blanking the page and putting a message and letting them aware of the guidelines and wanted them to start contributing productively. Anyways, promotional history was there...so, it does qualify for deletion tag. Thanks for correction & Happy Editing Peppy Paneer (talk) 14:58, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Hey 7&6=thirteen Thank you for the Wikilove and I will spread it too :) Peppy Paneer (talk) 09:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
A Dobos torte for you!
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- Thank you @Poepkop: And I wish the same for you too :) :) Peppy Paneer (talk) 13:49, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Peppy Paneer!
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Happy New Year
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Hi Peppy Paneer,
You recently declined my article submission citing the notability criteria. I believe the subject fairly notable to which I have provided links to major news sources (Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, Institutional Investor and Business Insider). Please let me know what else you are looking in term of notability or how can I improve it to be accepted by wiki. Thanks for your help and time.
Warm Regards.
Wcf1975 (talk) 00:34, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Wcf1975: Hey, the article has 7 references, out of which 1st is from the organization itself. 2nd is a good source at an introductory part of the article. Sources 2,3,4 covers the same event. 5th is a very good coverage (mix of industry & about the company) but it also looks like an interview of the promoter & about them. 6th is a good source when used for the promoter of the company. 5th & 6th are good coverage but not alone sufficient to establish the notability. 7th is a mere passing by. There are other recent sources too which I found on the internet. You may use them and to establish notability, you may want to read WP:CORPDEPTH. Thanks Peppy Paneer (talk) 09:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: Hi Peppy Paneer, Thanks for replying for my request. I indeed have link for Business Insider article which is very recent but if you believe other recent sources can improve the notability can you please direct me to the sources so that I can improve the article by including the recent links. I appreciate your time and help in this regard. Thank you.
Wcf1975 (talk) 10:23, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Hi Peppy Paneer, did you get a chance to review my last reply? Can you please direct me to the sources you think are to establish notability, thanks for you time and help. I appreciate. Thanks in advance.
- @Wcf1975: Hi, please use the link "Find sources" in the bottom of the "declined submission notice" on the Draft : Draft:Covepoint Capital Advisors. Let me know if any problem. And Sorry for the delayed response. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 08:39, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Hi Peppy Paneer, thanks for your valuable suggestions, I searched through the links you provided and found below relevant articles which can prove subject notability. Can you please take a look at the articles below and guide me? I appreciate your time and efforts on this article. Thanks in advance.
--02:34, 20 January 2016 (UTC)Wcf1975 (talk)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Hi Peppy Paneer, did you get a chance to review the links I provided for notability? Thanks for you time and help. I appreciate. Thanks in advance.
--Wcf1975 (talk) 11:26, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Hi Peppy Paneer, still waiting for your comments, please let me know.
--Wcf1975 (talk) 02:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Hi Peppy Paneer, still waiting for your comments, please let me know.
--Wcf1975 (talk) 10:31, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Wcf1975: Hey, apologies...I am continuously travelling from last week so, didn't get time to go through. I will check these by tomorrow. Cheers Peppy Paneer (talk) 16:29, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Hi Peppy Paneer, Please let me know once you go through the additional links I provided. Thanks. --Wcf1975 (talk) 10:51, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Just wondering did you get a chance to review the links I sent on 19 Jan, 2016. Thanks. --Wcf1975 (talk) 10:16, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
@Peppy Paneer: @Peppy Paneer: Hey there, just checking last time would you be able to review the content? . Thanks. --Wcf1975 (talk) 01:20, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Peppy Unfortunately my draft has been declined a couple of times now. And I am not sure if I make the references in a technical wrong way or if it is the references themselves that are wrong. You wrote on Jan 23rd: Need few more coverage like the one published in NY Times & LA Times to establish the notability and @bradv asked me to get rid of all external links. I deleted all external links and added more references like Pen America, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Telegraph UK, Publishers Weekly. But still got rejected again. Can I ask you for advice on how to proceed ? Femme Nuit (talk) 16:44, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
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- Humour: Guys named Ralph
- In the media: Facebook and poetry
- Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK
- Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment
Wikipedia Asian Month 2017: Invitation to Participate
[edit]Hello! Last year, you signed up to participate in Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) 2016 on the English Wikipedia. The event was an international success, with hundreds of editors creating thousands of articles on Asian topics across dozens of different language versions of Wikipedia.
I'd like to invite you to join us for Wikipedia Asian Month 2017, which once again lasts through the month of November. The goal is for users to create new articles on Asian-related content, each at least 3,000 bytes and 300 words in length. Editors who create at least four articles will receive a Wikipedia Asian Month postcard!
Also be sure to check out the Wikipedia Asian Art Month affiliate event - creating articles on Asian art topics can get you a Metropolitan Museum of Art postcard!
If you're interested, please sign up here for the English Wikipedia. If you are interested in also working on other language editions of Wikipedia, please visit the meta page to see other participating projects. If you have any questions, please visit our talk page.
Thank you!
- User:SuperHamster and User:Titodutta on behalf of The English Wikipedia WAM Team
This will be the last message you receive from the English Wikipedia WAM team for being a 2016 participant. If you sign up for WAM 2017, you will continue receiving periodic updates on the 2017 event.
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
- Interview: A featured article centurion
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
- Featured content: We will remember them
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
The Signpost: 18 December 2017
[edit]- Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up
- Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017
- In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more
- Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors
- Gallery: Wiki loving
- Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"
- Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech
- Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys
The Signpost: 16 January 2018
[edit]- News and notes: Communication is key
- In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media
- Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics
- Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count
- Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers
- Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018
- Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017
The Signpost: 5 February 2018
[edit]- Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible
- Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles
- Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative
- Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues
- In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations
- Humour: You really are in Wonderland
The Signpost: 20 February 2018
[edit]- News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
- Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
- Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
- Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
- Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
- Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
[edit]- News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
- Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.
- Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers
- Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs
- Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.
- Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.
- Humour: WikiWorld Reruns
The Signpost: 26 April 2018
[edit]- From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again
- Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost
- In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop
- In focus: Admin reports board under criticism
- Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide
- Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias
- Discussion report: The future of portals
- Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History
- Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March
- Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
The Signpost: 24 May 2018
[edit]- From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals
- Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics
- News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia
- Traffic report: We love our superheroes
- Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies
- Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
- Humour: Play with your food
- Gallery: Wine not?
- From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
The Signpost: 29 June 2018
[edit]- Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?
- Op-ed: What do admins do?
- News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania
- In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress
- Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page
- Featured content: New promotions
- Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed
- Traffic report: Endgame
- Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa
- Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry
- Humour: Television plot lines
- Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors
- From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
The Signpost: 31 July 2018
[edit]- From the editor: If only if
- Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality
- Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose
- Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes
- Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else
- Technology report: New bots, new prefs
- Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons
- Humour: It's all the same
- Essay: Wikipedia does not need you
The Signpost: 30 August 2018
[edit]- From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
- News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend
- In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles
- Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Special report: Wikimania 2018
- Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
- Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work
- Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
- Humour: Signpost editor censors herself
- From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
The Signpost: 1 October 2018
[edit]- From the editor: Is this the new normal?
- News and notes: European copyright law moves forward
- In the media: Knowledge under fire
- Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2
- Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom
- Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile
- Gallery: A pat on the back
- Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
- Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle
- Essay: Expressing thanks
The Signpost: 28 October 2018
[edit]- From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely
- News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks
- In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias
- Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform
- Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring
- Technology report: Bots galore!
- Special report: NPP needs you
- Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six
- In focus: Alexa
- Gallery: Out of this world!
- Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion
- Humour: Talk page humour
- Opinion: Strickland incident
- From the archives: The Gardner Interview
The Signpost: 1 December 2018
[edit]- From the editor: Time for a truce
- Special report: The Christmas wishlist
- Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee
- Arbitration report: A long break ends
- Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight
- Gallery: Intersections
- From the archives: Ars longa, vita brevis
The Signpost: 24 December 2018
[edit]- From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?
- News and notes: Some wishes do come true
- In the media: Political hijinks
- Discussion report: A new record low for RfA
- WikiProject report: Articlegenesis
- Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case
- Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents
- Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone
- Blog: News from the WMF
- Humour: I believe in Bigfoot
- Essay: Requests for medication
- From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again
The Signpost: 31 January 2019
[edit]- Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected
- News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives
- Discussion report: The future of the reference desk
- Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity
- Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope
- Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther
- Technology report: When broken is easily fixed
- News from the WMF: News from WMF
- Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?
- Essay: How
- Humour: Village pump
- From the archives: An editorial board that includes you
The Signpost: 28 February 2019
[edit]- From the editors: Help wanted (still)
- News and notes: Front-page issues for the community
- Discussion report: Talking about talk pages
- Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!
- Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Binge-watching
- Technology report: Tool labs casters-up
- Gallery: Signed with pride
- From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love
- Humour: Pesky Pronouns
The Signpost: 31 March 2019
[edit]- From the editors: Getting serious about humor
- News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
- In the media: Women's history month
- Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
- Featured content: Out of this world
- Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
- Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
- Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
- News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
- Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
- From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
- Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
- Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?
- In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
- Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
- Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings
The Signpost: 30 April 2019
[edit]- News and notes: An Action Packed April
- In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?
- Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
- Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art
- Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde
- Technology report: A new special page, and other news
- Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns
- News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?
- Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
- From the archives: Portals revisited
The Signpost: 31 May 2019
[edit]- From the editors: Picture that
- News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections
- In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball
- Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead
- Technology report: Lots of Bots
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey
- Essay: Paid editing
- From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
The June 2019 Signpost is out!
[edit]- Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
- In the media: The disinformation age
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters
- Technology report: Actors and Bots
- Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?
- Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
- From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
- Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes
The Signpost: 31 July 2019
[edit]- In the media: Politics starts getting rough
- Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
- Arbitration report: A month of reintegration
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
- News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way
- Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
- Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract
- Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things
The Signpost: 30 August 2019
[edit]- News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
- In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
- Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
- Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
- News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!
[edit]Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Nick Moyes (talk) 22:56, 13 September 2019 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).
Edit-a-thon Suggestions
[edit]Wikipedia: Edit-a-thon
[edit]I thought it might help if I copied my Teahouse reply to you directly onto your Talk Page. You don't seem very active at present, and posts there get archived after a few days, and might then be hard for you to find. . .
- Hi Peppy Paneer Welcome to the Teahouse, and thank you for your really great question. Running a successful editathon can be really rewarding. We have a few general resources available that might help you plan an event, and I might be able to add a few suggestions of my own. Firstly, we have a basic introduction at Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon, and we even have a training programme you can work through on this topic at https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons. I have a few personal notes and planning list available for my own use at User:Nick Moyes/editathon, too. As for policies, guidelines and help - do keep these to a minimum (maybe just mention WP:N, WP:V and WP:RS) I did a printed handout (see User:Nick Moyes/editathon/handout1 which contains shortcuts they can use in order to find some of the really useful pages.
- I'll spend a few moments putting a some extra ideas for you to consider, but I thought I'd just post this partial reply first. Would I be right in assuming you're a teacher and this is a school class, or is it an extra-curricular activity for people who might not know one another, or is there a shared interest? How much time will you be making available for the event? i.e. might it be a half-day drop-in, or a 45 minute classroom session? Knowing a little more about your intentions might assist me to offer you suggestions. Please ensure you ping me correctly, by signing your post with four keyboard tildes (like this: ~~~~), and including my username in your reply. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 22:46, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Peppy Paneer: Right, back again. Here are a few random things for you to consider:
- INITIAL THINGS/PRE-PLANNING
- What is the groups' current experience of Wikipedia? What do you want to achieve? (e.g. will you focus on using Wikipedia, or actually editing Wikipedia? How much time will they have? What key things do you want them to take away from the event?
- Getting attendees to create a free account each prior to the event is highly advisable. (Lots of time gets wasted trying to create accounts on the day.
- Suggest they try The Wikipedia Adventure beforehand. (Make sure you have actually done it and got all 15 badges, too!)
- Ensure you have enough equipment/wi-fi coverage/helpers on the day
- Might you need to get yourself 'event coordinator' rights so you can create more than the normal limit of six new user accounts per IP address, per day? See WP:EVC.
- Depending on your focus, do you need to prepare example text for students to work with? If so, you could copy a small part an existing article they are likely to be familiar with, and change it off-wiki so that it contains false information, typos, poor formatting and unsubstantiated facts that they need to find and fix. They should never work on real articles until ready - use the user sandboxes!
- Decide whether you're going to introduce them to editing via the normal editing tool, or with Visual Editor. Stick to one, though do mention that the other exists.
- ON THE DAY
- Get students to bring their own devices for editing, but provide as many laptops as you can if unknown numbers might attend. (Make the wifi password clearly visible to everyone. Tell all mobile phone users to work in 'desktop' view, not mobile view, or there will be problems in understanding any instructions given.
- Ensure you record the usernames of everyone attending (signing-in book/blackboard?)- this helps you provide support, both during and especially after the event. You or one of your helpers could even post a welcome message to every attendee during the event, or perhaps afterwards.
- If there's not a fixed start time, and students can drop in at any point, consider running a short introductory talk at set times during the event.
- Sound travels - intro talks and individual working areas need to be some distance away from each other to avoid noise disturbance.
- Introduce what Wikipedia is and what Wikipedia is not. Find out who has used it, and for what purpose. Explain the principle of [[WP:V|Verifiability], and how it is essential only to add factual statements if other people can check these Reliable sources for themselves. Ask the group if anyone has anyone has ever edited Wikipedia themselves. (It's OK for them to admit they only did so out of mischief)
- Explain how valuable Wikipedia is to student and schoolchildren around the world, especially in places where books are scarce. Explain how unhelpful it is if articles get damaged through mischief, vandalism, or if wrong 'facts' are included. Explain how they can help to improve content and how cool it is to help others in that way.
- Tell them they can get help/support whilst editing by going to the Teahouse and asking us for assistance. And always listen to advice if another editor posts on their talk page.
- PRACTICAL EXERCISES
- If you have the resources, project a live webpage of Wikipedia on a screen and guide them through the basic layout. (Powerpoint screenshots are the next best thing)
- Show them how to log-in (or sign up, if they haven't already), then to add a few lines about their interests. But, ensure they never reveal personal information about themselves or their family - see WP:YOUNG. Demonstrate how to go to their personal sandbox where they can experiment with editing in relative safely.
- Get each student to work through The Wikipedia Adventure (but be aware of the limitations on both browser type, and especially of it not working well on mobile devices - see front page of WP:TWA for details), or:
- Guide them through working through and fixing mistakes in your previously created dummy article. (Get them to add one reference, if at all possible)
- If they're advanced enough by this stage, encourage students to look for articles about their local area/favourite subject and identify things that could be improved. Maybe discuss each suggestion as a group before taking action?
- ENDING
- Make sure you reprise your key message(s) of the day
- Can you provide each person with a takeaway handout summarising what they should have covered, and what they can do next
- Do they know how to contact you as event coordinator, or to seek help from us here at the Teahouse.
- Ensure you reiterate the importance of not revealing personal details, or treating Wikipedia like social media.
- Will they leave your Editathon, appreciating that they themselves can now go on to actually contribute to the world's greatest free online encyclopaedia, and perhaps help someone on the other side of the world who needs information? Will they be empowered and have a sense of responsibility in what they can now do? If 'Yes', then you've done a great job!
- Follow up with each user a week or so later. Thank them for coming, ask if they need any assistance from you, and encourage them to continue. A second follow-up can be done a month later to see if they've continued editing.
- I hope a few of these rough thoughts might be of some use. (I've had to guess at the type of audience you're aiming at) Feel free to follow up if you have any further specific questions. I did note that you haven't edited here for a couple of years, so it might be sensible to refresh your own editing practice before you dive in at the deep end. Very best of luck, and drop by my talk page with an update if you wish. Nick Moyes (talk) 00:21, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 30 September 2019
[edit]- From the editors: Where do we go from here?
- Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup
- Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads
- News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green
- Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
The Signpost: 31 October 2019
[edit]- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
The Signpost: 29 November 2019
[edit]- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
The Signpost: 27 December 2019
[edit]- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
- News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
- In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
- Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
- Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
- Technology report: User scripts and more
- Gallery: Holiday wishes
- Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
- From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
The Signpost: 27 January 2020
[edit]- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
- Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
- Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
- News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
- Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
- From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
[edit]- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
[edit]- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
[edit]- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
The Signpost: 31 May 2020
[edit]- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
- News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
The Signpost: 28 June 2020
[edit]- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
[edit]- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
The Signpost: 30 August 2020
[edit]- News and notes: The high road and the low road
- In the media: Storytelling large and small
- Featured content: Going for the goal
- Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
- Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
- Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
- News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
- Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
- Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
- From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
The Signpost: 27 September 2020
[edit]- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
The Signpost: 27 September 2020
[edit]- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
The Signpost: 1 November 2020
[edit]- News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking
- In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books
- Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20
- Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story
- Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.
- Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?
- Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
- News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
- In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia
The Signpost: 29 November 2020
[edit]- News and notes: Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"
- Op-Ed: Re-righting Wikipedia
- Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia
- Featured content: Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria
- Traffic report: 007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election
- News from Wiki Education: An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker
- GLAM plus: West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large
- Wikicup report: Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup
- Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
- Essay: Writing about women
The Signpost: 28 December 2020
[edit]- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
- Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
- Gallery: Angels in the architecture
- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
The Signpost: 31 January 2021
[edit]- News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021
- Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection
- In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades
- Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically
- Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years
- News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world
- Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers
- Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia
- Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020
- Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen
The Signpost: 28 February 2021
[edit]- News and notes: Maher stepping down
- Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video
- In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house
- News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia
- Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
- Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
- Gallery: What is Black history and culture?
The Signpost: 28 March 2021
[edit]- News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
- News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
- Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
- From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
- Obituary: Yoninah
- From the editor: What else can we say?
- Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees
- Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
[edit]- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
[edit]- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 27 June 2021
[edit]- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
The Signpost: 25 July 2021
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories
- Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong
- In the media: Larry is at it again
- Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates
- Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki
- News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department
- Humour: A little verse
The Signpost: 29 August 2021
[edit]- News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban
- In the media: Vive la différence!
- Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year
- Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs
- News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia
- Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview
- Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan
- Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 26 September 2021
[edit]- News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
- In the media: The future of Wikipedia
- Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
- Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
- Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
- Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
- Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
- Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
- News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
- WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
The Signpost: 31 October 2021
[edit]- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword
The Signpost: 29 November 2021
[edit]- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
[edit]- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
The Signpost: 30 January 2022
[edit]- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Essay: The prime directive
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
The Signpost: 27 February 2022
[edit]- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
[edit]- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
The Signpost: 24 April 2022
[edit]- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
[edit]- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
The Signpost: 26 June 2022
[edit]- News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
- In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
- Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
- Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
- Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
[edit]- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
The Signpost: 31 August 2022
[edit]- News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
- Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
- In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
- Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
- News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
- In focus: Thinking inside the box
- Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
- Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
- Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
- Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
- Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
- Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
- Essay: Delete the junk!
- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
The Signpost: 30 September 2022
[edit]- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
The Signpost: 31 October 2022
[edit]- From the team: A new goose on the roost
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
The Signpost: 28 November 2022
[edit]- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
- Book review: Writing the Revolution
- Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
- Essay: The Six Million FP Man
- Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
- Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
- Featured content: A great month for featured articles
- Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
- CommonsComix: Joker's trick
The Signpost: 1 January 2023
[edit]- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 16 January 2023
[edit]- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
[edit]- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
[edit]- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
[edit]- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
[edit]- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
The Signpost: 26 April 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
- In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
- Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
- News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
- Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
- Humour: The law of hats
- Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
The Signpost: 8 May 2023
[edit]- News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
- In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
- Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
- Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
- News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The Signpost: 22 May 2023
[edit]- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
[edit]- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
[edit]- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
The Signpost: 3 July 2023
[edit]- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
[edit]- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
[edit]- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
The Signpost: 31 August 2023
[edit]- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
The Signpost: 16 September 2023
[edit]- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
The Signpost: 23 October 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
[edit]- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
- Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
- News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
- Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
- Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
- Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
The Signpost: 20 November 2023
[edit]- In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
- News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
- Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
- Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
- Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
The Signpost: 4 December 2023
[edit]- In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
- Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
- Comix: Bold comics for a new age
- Essay: I am going to die
- Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
- Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
- Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
The Signpost: 24 December 2023
[edit]- Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
- News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
- In the media: Consider the humble fork
- Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
- In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
- Technology report: Dark mode is coming
- Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
- Crossword: when the crossword is sus
- Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
- From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
- Humour: Guess the joke contest
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
[edit]- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
- Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
- Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
- News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
- WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
- Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
- Comix: Conflict resolution
The Signpost: 31 January 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
The Signpost: 13 February 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
The Signpost: 2 March 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
- Obituary: Vami_IV
- Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
The Signpost: 29 March 2024
[edit]- Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
- Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
- Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
- Humour: Letters from the editors
- Comix: Layout issue
The Signpost: 25 April 2024
[edit]- In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics, and another wikirace on live TV
- News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
- Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
- Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
The Signpost: 16 May 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
The Signpost: 8 June 2024
[edit]- Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
- Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
- In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
- News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
- Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
- Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
- Essay: No queerphobia
- Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
- Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
- Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
- Concept: Palimpsestuous
The Signpost: 4 July 2024
[edit]- News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
- Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
- In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
- Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
- In the media: War and information in war and politics
- Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
- Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
- Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
- Humour: A joke
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
- Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
The Signpost: 22 July 2024
[edit]- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
- News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
- Obituary: JamesR
- Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
The Signpost: 14 August 2024
[edit]- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
- In focus: Twitter marks the spot
- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
- Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
- Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
- Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
- Humour: I'm proud to be a template
The Signpost: 4 September 2024
[edit]- News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
- In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
- News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
- Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
- Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
- Traffic report: After the gold rush
The Signpost: 26 September 2024
[edit]- In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
- Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
- Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
- Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing
- News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?
- Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
- Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time
The Signpost: 19 October 2024
[edit]- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
- Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
- In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
- Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
- Book review: The Editors
- Humour: The Newspaper Editors
- Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
The Signpost: 6 November 2024
[edit]- From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
- In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
- Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
- Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?