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This Month in Education: December 2013





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Professor, I am Sanha Lee. I have just finished my wiki assignment. [[1]] is my wiki article Then, I hope that you will check my assignment. Thank you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tksgk262 (talkcontribs) 23:08, December 26, 2013

This Month in Education: January 2014





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WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II

WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II
For our freedom and yours

Welcome to the second issue of WikiProject Poland newsletter, the Monitor (named after the first Polish newspaper).

Our Project has been operational since 1 June, 2005, and also serves as the Poland-related Wikipedia notice board. I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions. We hope you will join us in them, if you haven't done so already! Unlike many other WikiProjects, we are quite active; we get close to a hundred discussion threads each year and we do a pretty good job at answering all issues raised. Last year we were featured in the Signpost, and our interviewer was amazed at our activity. In the end, however, even as active as we are, we are just a tiny group - you can easily become one of our core members!

In addition to a lively encyclopedic, Poland-related, English-language discussion forum, we have numerous useful tools that can be of use to you - and that you could help us maintain and develop:

  • we have an active assessment department. As of now, our project has tagged almost 83,000 pages as Poland-related - that's an improvement of over 3,000 new pages since the last newsletter. Out of which 30 still need a quality assessment, and 2,000, importance assessment. We have done a lot to clear the backlog here (3 years ago those numbers were 1,500 and 20,000, respectively). Can you help assess a few pages?
    • assessing articles is as easy as filling in the class= and importance= parameters on the talk page in the {{WPPOLAND|class=|importance=}} template. See here for a how-to guide.
  • once an article has an assessment template, it will appear in our article alerts and news feed, which provides information on which Poland-related articles are considered for deletion, move, or are undergoing a Good or Featured review. Watchlisting that feed, in addition to watchlisting our project's main page, is a good way to make sure you stay up to date on most Poland-related discussions.
  • you can also see detailed deletion discussions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland (which is a good place to watchlist if you just want to stay up to date on possible deletions of Poland-related content)
  • we have also begun B-class quality reviews on our talk page, and if our activity increases, hopefully we will be able to institute our own A-class quality reviews. As of now, we have about 500 C-class articles in need of a B-class review. If you'd like to help with them, instructions for doing B-class reviews are to be found in point 10 of our assessment FAQ. In addition to this automated list, you are also encouraged to help review articles from our B-class reviews requested list found here.
  • also, those articles will be included in our cleanup listing, which allows us to see which top-importance articles are in need for attention, and so on. We have tens of thousands articles in need of cleanup there, so if you ever need something to do, just look at this gigantic list. (I am currently reviewing the articles tagged with notability, either proving them notable or nominating for deletion; there are still several dozens left if you want to help!).
  • did you know that newly created Poland-related articles are listed here. They need to be reviewed, often cleaned-up, occasionally nominated for deletion, and their creators may need to be welcomed and invited to our project if they show promise as new authors of Poland-related content.
  • we are maintaining a Portal:Poland
  • automated Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Popular pages lists the most popular Poland-related pages from the previous month(s)
  • Breaking news: we are looking for a Wikipedian in Residence for the New York City area. See Wikipedia:GLAM/Józef Piłsudski Institute of America for details.

This is not all; on our page you can find a list of useful templates (including userboxes), awards and other tools!


With all that said, how about you join our discussions at WT:POLAND? Surely, there must be something you could help others with, or perhaps you are in need of assistance yourself?

It took me three years to finish this issue. Feel free to help out getting the next one before 2017 by being more active in WikiProject management :)

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This Month in Education: March 2014





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Timestamp for LCSB3. Revicomplaint? 13:55, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 March 2014

DYK for Kazanie Skargi

The DYK project (nominate) 08:01, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

For some points

2014년 3월 17일 한양대학교 ERICA캠퍼스 (한대안산)에서 2014-1 집단지성의 실제강의 발표용으로 만든 발표자료.

Check on nomination

Aye Piotrus. I just nominated the Tadeusz Kościuszko page for FA. For all my editing experience I have never nominated a page for FA before, so I'm hoping I did everything correctly. There was mention about a nomination number, but I didn't see one, so could you check into matters to see if everything was done right? Thanx. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 17:42, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Week 4 of Writing Wikipedia Articles: Final Projects Ahoy!

Hey Piotrus - hope all is going well with you as we segue into Week 4 of WIKISOO! Just a reminder, in case you need it, that depending on your time zone, class time may have shifted - check out this link to make sure you know when to join us. Looking forward to chatting more with you this week about the Final Project - if you already know which article you're working on, you'll find instructions there for sharing this information easily with your classmates. Post any questions to the class Talk page, please! See you in class tomorrow! Sara FB (talk) 01:46, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East

Hello! Your submission of Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:12, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

About Wikipedia Adventure

Hi Piotrus, I tried to do Wikipedia adventure, but I couldn't do for some reason. What that means is that It didn't operate well. Is it same for you too? or is it only for me? (why does my new message keep being in the box...?)--Db9023 (talk) 01:22, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


Thank you! I don't think I can drop by your office today, so I wrote a message on the talk page. Let's see what's happening, kind of exciting, yay! Oh, and that was my mistake...^^;Db9023 (talk) 02:36, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


Hi again :) Then, where can I add article-level categories with an example of My Love From the Star?Db9023 (talk) 03:35, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@Db9023: You should add Wikiproject templates on its talk page. You can see talk next to logo and Article namespace. I will do article level creation for you. Revicomplaint? 06:22, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

Piotr, serdeczne dzięki za doprowadzenie sprawy nazwy i kategoryzacji tego pliku końca. Zamierzałem to "odkręcać" na Commons jak wrócę ze spotkania, ale teraz widzę, że Ty juŻ wszystko zrobiłeś. Dzięki! Boston9 (talk) 11:11, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your encouragement.

Hi Piotrus, I have a question about our class project. :) Our group chose to make the article about Economic determinism on Korean Wikipedia. Is it okay to select one article just for Korean Wikipedia? Should we list this subject in the Articles edited section of our wiki page before next class? - Kjeongeun (talk) 11:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East

Victuallers (talk) 20:37, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Szombierki Heat Power Station

Victuallers (talk) 20:38, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the DYK nomination and work on Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East

Thank you for the DYK nomination and work on Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East. I know I'm not perfect in doing everything with Wikipedia pages and you're a fine example of "many hands make light(er) work." I'm just glad the information is there for people to see and thank you very much for all the additional work you did on the page. Escottf (talk) 21:16, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—March 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on changes to the template and image dialogs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks was the redesign of the template dialog. The template dialog now opens in a simplified mode that lists parameters and their descriptions. (The complex multi-item transclusion mode can be reached by clicking on "Show options" from inside the simplified template dialog.) Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. With today's update, searching for template parameters will become case-insensitive, and required template parameters will display an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. In addition to making it quicker and easier to see everything when you edit typical templates, this work was necessary to prepare for the forthcoming simplified citation dialog. The main priority in the coming weeks is building this new citation dialog, with the ultimate goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs, URLs, DOIs and other quick-fills. This will add a new button on the toolbar, with the citation templates available picked by each wiki's community. Concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.

  • The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. Pages that exist, but are not indexed by the search engine, are treated like non-existent pages (T56361).
  • Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from the paragraph you are editing.
  • The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has been slightly redesigned, to introduce larger buttons. Your suggestions for more significant changes to the special character inserter are still wanted.
  • The page options menu (three bars, next to the Cancel button) has expanded. You can create and edit redirect pages, set page options like __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__, and more. New keyboard shortcuts are listed there, and include undoing the last action, clearing formatting, and showing the shortcut help window. If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged.
  • It is easier to edit images. There are more options and they are explained better. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. You can now set image sizes to the default, if another size was previously specified. Full support for upright sizing systems, which more readily adapt image sizes to the reader's screen size, is planned.
  • VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. These "slugs" are now smaller than normal blank lines, and are animated to be different from actual blank lines.
  • You can use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+S shortcuts to open the save window, and you can preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window.
  • After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed to the Interlingual Occidental Wikipedia, the Portuguese Wikibooks, and the French Wikiversity.
  • Any community can ask for custom icons for their language in the character formatting menu (bold, italic, etc.) by making a request on Bugzilla or by contacting Product Manager James Forrester.

The developers apologize for a regression bug with the deployment on 6 March 2014, which caused the incorrect removal of |upright size definitions on a handful of pages on the English Wikipedia, among others. The root cause was fixed, and the broken pages were fixed soon after.

Looking ahead: Several template dialogs will become more compact. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. You will be able to see the Table of Contents change live as you edit the page, rather than it being hidden. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") may be offered to a few Wikipedias soon.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on 19 April 2014 at 2000 UTC. Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Assessments

Thank you. For some reason, I've always assumed that those things were added by a bot! WQUlrich (talk) 17:11, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

Thank you!

Thank you for your welcome message, I appreciate it!User:Rdaram|Rdaram]] (talk) 19:48, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

My Email Issue

I've corrected my email issue, just letting you know. Have a great day! Db9023 (talk) 06:10, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Mass PROD of articles

Hi Piotrus, I've removed the PROD tags from some of the articles you tagged this morning. We try and promote a friendly collegial environment here, so I'm rather disturbed by the way you've filled a relatively new and less experienced user's talk page with 72 PROD notifications. You clearly believe these articles don't meet our notability criteria (I disagree) but this would be something you should have discussed with Mrluke485 first, instead of burying the poor chap under a whole host of impersonal boilerplate warnings, which can be very off putting.

I believe I and several other editors have now removed all of these PROD tags, as we believe notability is asserted, if you do wish to take this to AfD, I'd be grateful if you could discuss this with myself, Myluke485 and any of the other users who removed your PROD tags first. Many thanks, Nick (talk) 12:37, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I share Nick's concern about these prods, and also for another reason: I haven't checked them all, but those I have sampled have had corresponding articles on other Wikipedias (with some form of references or external links as apparent sources), presenting the realistic possibility that the subject is notable. English Wikipedia's notability standards may differ, of course, and the final determination is not dependent on whether another Wikipedia decides differently. But WP:PROD is supposed to be for uncontroversial deletions, and I have doubts that it's the best way to handle articles like these, where an apparently stable article about the subject exists in another language. --Arxiloxos (talk) 20:19, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Georg "Åby" Ericsson

Hello and sorry to bother You here. I created the article about Georg "Åby" Ericsson, but unfortunately I did spell his name wrong, and thereby also the name of the article was spelled wrong. (His Chistian name is "Georg" not "George") Since I don't know how to rename an article, I did create a new one (correctly spelled this time) and copyed everything. I gather this isn't correct way to deal with such matters. And am unsure of if Your history credentials vanishes ? I just wanted to alert You about (hopefully) minor thing. I'm sorry for this. But as I see it, it is better to change the article name to the correct one, as soon as possible. Boeing720 (talk) 21:41, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

WIKISOO check-in

How's it going, Piotrus? Just touching base as we start the fifth (!) week of the WIKISOO course. We're excited to see students working on such a diverse range of articles! If you haven't already, log in, scroll down to the bottom of the main course page to list your chosen final project article next to your own name; brag a little about your work (or just ask questions!) on the course talk page; and join the live lecture tomorrow as we move towards completion of the course! This is when things get exciting. :) Looking forward to seeing you in class! - Sara FB (talk) 23:44, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Michael Chugg

This is a new article, it previously only existed in my sandbox it therefore complies with criteria 1d. Dan arndt (talk) 07:47, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

I would appreciate it if you could correct the obvious errors in your assessment promptly.Dan arndt (talk) 04:19, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue XCVI, March 2014

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Natalia Poklonskaya

Per your suggestion, I've added a still frame from the video. If you think anything needs tweaking, feel free to adjust as you see fit. --benlisquareTCE 17:35, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

It's been nominated for deletion, please see my user talk page. --benlisquareTCE 09:28, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

About Week 5 assignment

Hi, Piotrus. I added a reference to Self-justification article. I thought the example in this article is related to the book which I read, and the reference I added is also just cited in the book. So, I checked it on google scholar as you taught. I made a mistake to add another reference first, but I changed it correctly now. I think the reference is trustworthy. Can you check it for me? :) This is my edit link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Self-justification&diff=prev&oldid=601498899 -- Kjeongeun (talk) 13:00, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for welcoming an instructor

Hello, you welcomed an instructor with whom I am working in the WP:Wikipedia Education Program. Another user somehow deleted her message to you, so I wanted to express that I appreciate your welcoming people. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:18, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

A write up in which I cited you

Hi, I thought you might be interested in this, since I cited some of your work you've written for The Signpost: Anthropology That Anyone Can Edit: Wikipedia and Public Anthropology.--¿3family6 contribs 20:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Polish National Historic Monument

Hi Piotrus -- I see what you've done and appreciate it very much. Well done. And yes, I'll be happy to redirect those (roughly) 20 links to your new list. All best! --Lockley (talk) 20:17, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

oh, I'm unreservedly proud of my Polish barnstar. Sincere thanks! --Lockley (talk) 07:05, 28 March 2014 (UTC)


Review

Hi, I looked at the article you nominated. I am very new to this, but If I have understood things correctly, it needs 1500 characters.

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did_you_know_nominations/I_am_a_Ukrainian at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Star Lord - 星王 (talk) 18:39, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

Regarding Article: Manhattan Film Academy

Regarding your proposed deletion of the article, I find it unreasonable because according to Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources" and the article does have reference sources which includes IMDB, Dubai Government's Studio City, etc... and the organization is active in Middle East and New York City, and has received a wide coverage in world the media which includes "Variety" and Hollywood Reporter. Therefore, You claims is unfounded. Best Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saudjubaer (talkcontribs) 19:09, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Regarding your latest message

Although I corrected the email issue, I still don't get email notifications.... weird... So I am afraid that I just checked your message about Wikipedia citation. I will make sure I do by tomorrow. Have a great day.Db9023 (talk) 00:24, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes I did it..... Db9023 (talk) 03:52, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail), The ed17 (talkemail) and Miyagawa (talkemail) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Week 6 of WIKISOO

Hi Piotrus! Just checking in as we head into the final week of the Writing Wikipedia Articles class. You can look through last week's ether pad notes, check out your homework assignments from Week 5, and watch last week's lecture on YouTube - all right here. Check out my note from last week (above) if you're still diving into your Final Project... or head over to the course talk page to see if anyone else is having the same issues you are! Looking forward to seeing you in the last live webinar of the session tomorrow. Big WikiLove. -Sara FB (talk) 23:25, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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Talkback

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Thank you. Dan arndt (talk) 09:31, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello Piotrus -- that Vistula template was a good short education in itself, and I am still happily busy elsewhere on Polish geographic articles, doing minor stitching. As to the general question of retaining red links in templates, I'd agree with you, but I've seen a contrary opinion advanced by at least one vocal and rather unbending editor who has at times busied himself completely removing ALL red links from templates, "because the article doesn't exist" and "write the article first". Speaking personally such disputes are often out of proportion to the amount of underlying work actually getting done. Maybe you feel the same way. all best to you --Lockley (talk) 07:13, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

hello! I've seen your kind offer of assistance and appreciate it very much. I'll make a mental note in case it happens again. This prompted me to have a look at your thoughts on editor retention, civility, the apparently lost art of IAR, etc., all of which makes me want to buy you a beer, Piotrus, if beer you drink! (clink!) --Lockley (talk) 16:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup error

Hi there- this is just a quick note to apologise for a small but important mistake in the last WikiCup newsletter; it is not 64 users who will progress to the next round, but 32. J Milburn (talk) 18:48, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus, why did you change the organization of the references in this article? While I appreciate your efforts and corrections to the references, I find the reorganization troubling. With all the references grouped at the end of the article, it becomes very difficult when editing to see whether or not perhaps a reference gets deleted and should be removed from the end section. As far as I am concerned, the organization should not have been changed, but perhaps there's a compelling reason for this? --Randykitty (talk) 10:42, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

trans_title

Where the title of a reference is non-English, there are the |language= and |trans_title= parameters available where the language can be noted and an English-language translation can be provided. One article that could do with this is Maria Konopnicka. Also, a plea for a space before each pipe separator in references so that word-wrap is more natural. -- 79.67.241.229 (talk) 14:44, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

algorithmic logic

What I have done is just a stub.

I am planning to write full article on algorithmic logic for

  • it is earlier and better developed than 'dynamic logic',
  • it has real applications

Concerning the bibliography item. I do not find a template that is as good as the template of PL Wikipedia, in the english wikipedia. So I did a bit provocative editing. Would you guys tell me if there exists a way to organize a Bibliography in a way similar to what can be found in https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Kreczmar#Bibliografia

The concept of references is similar but distinct. I think that a scientific articles need Bibliography section as it is done in scientific journals.

  Best regards

Andrzej Salwicki (talk) 15:12, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Nomination in Limbo

Aye Piotrus. Just wondering why the Tadeusz Kościuszko FA nomination seems to have come to a stand-still. It was nominated three weeks ago. The article has strong support and is quite stable. Is there anyone we can 'ping' to get the ball rolling? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 20:06, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

K. Rudzki

Could you take a look at K. Rudzki i S-ka in your spare time? Any ideas how to improve it? DYK? //Halibutt 14:25, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Fort Srebrna Góra

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Polish films

Thanks. I'll hopefully be creating some more soon. Lord Cornwallis (talk) 00:18, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Move request for Structuration

When you have a moment, could you please look at the move request for Structuration? I think it is ready to close but I commented on the move so should not do the close. Thanks, Meclee (talk) 01:02, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Ignacy Skorupka

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Cześć Piotrus, Michał Słaby się kłani. I'm very impressed by your work and thank you for your commitment to this endeavor. You seem very experienced with it and though I have long navigated Wikipedia as an end user, I am new to Wikipedia as a contributor and seek your advice. Mianowicie, jak odwiedziłem Babkę w Polsce w ubiegłym roku, miałem okazję ją nakręcić jak opowiadała swoją historię w Kresach i tak dalej. Zrobiłem z tego film, skorzystając podczas editingu z wielu żródeł na Wikipedia. Zauważyłem że było dużo na temat historii polski w języku angielskim ale że te artykuły nie były zawsze w najlepszy stanie. Postanowiłem to poprawić ale wówczas oczywiście byłem zbyt zajęty z innymi tematami. Skoro film jest prawie skończony i mam trochę więcej czasu na to, założyłem sobie konto na Wikipedia. Zacząłem poprawiać stronę na temat miasta Trembowli, postanowiając dodać link do kawałku filmu gdzie właśnie Babka opisuje to miasto. Problem w tym oczywiście że to moja Babka w moim filmie na mojej stronie gdzie ja staram się sprzedać sztukę. Chcę pomóc jak mogę w celach Wikipedii, ale nagle się obawiam że cokolwiek bym zmienił na lepsze, to co najbardziej chciałbym dodać jest zamieszane z konfliktem interesu. Co byś radził na ten temat? Siakasiaby (talk) 21:44, 18 April 2014 (UTC)Siakasiaby

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DYK for Pointy ears

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DYK for Pyramid of Capitalist System

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The Bugle: Issue XCVII, April 2014

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Entry for Network of International Business Schools

Hello, and thank you for your ongoing contribution efforts to Wikipedia. While I appreciate that notability is a concern for any encyclopedic repository of information, I object to the proposed deletion of the entry or Network of International Business Schools for the following reasons:

-organization is worldwide in scope -has existed for over 20 years -has meaningful operations, including academic accreditation -similar associations/organizations have entries

The evidence provided in support of the rationale for deletion is insignificant media coverage. I will endeavour to address this through improvements to the article, particularly addition of suitable references. By nature, coverage of the organization is often within publications within the university realm, and thus not always well-indexed. Moreover, the organization itself is not of a nature that strives for media coverage but, rather, is merely 'known' among schools of business, making a Wikipedia entry particularly useful.

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Your guidance in this regard is appreciated. I am reviewing the relevant Wikipedia pages regarding notability, and will endeavour to address concerns raised, using sources that specifically meet the criteria indicated in these pages. I agree that standards are important, and look forward to enhancing the credibility and usefulness of this and other Wikipedia entries.

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Mova nanova

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Whenever you have time, can you review this for me? Not sure what else is needed, for it to be accepted. Jaewon [Talk] 19:32, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with Afc either. I became curious in the time for it to be reviewed and now know why new users avoid it. Well, I managed to find some Korean articles that backed-up the English ones (Kim Joong-do, Company debut and 10th year anniversity). Which parts seem spammy? Removed some references while adding others. Once I get this reviewed, I'll see if I can become a reviewer for Afc Korean articles. Thanks for the feedback. Jaewon [Talk] 13:31, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
Well, I worked on it some more by rearranging, rewording, removing and adding information (sources too). I find it funny that everything you reply back, I find new articles (good and bad). Not sure which part was promotional but I think I removed it while editing. AfC needs more reviewers needs the backlog is big. Jaewon [Talk] 15:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Wow, somebody did a quick creation of Namoo Actors. So what should I do about the one I had in AfC? Jaewon [Talk] 13:44, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

I tried the merge tags but they didn't link correctly to the AfC one (so I copied it over and speedy deleted it). Now I can clean up the requested section in WP Korea. Thanks! Jaewon [Talk] 14:20, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Jan to Mar 14 Military History reviews

Military history service award
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Przepraszam,

I'm a university student in South Korea learning Polish.

Well, what I want to express is that 2014 Exploitation of workers in the South Korean island is very famous in Korean Internet. You can find by searching "염전 섬노예" in google.

I'm very sorry because I'm not good at writing English... ㅠㅠ --햄빵이 (talk) 13:41, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's United States ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Washington, D.C. Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Canada Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Minas Gerais Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Nepal Czar (submissions) and Indiana Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail), The ed17 (talkemail) and Miyagawa (talkemail) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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WikiConference USA 2014

Hi Piotrus, You seem to be based in Pittsburgh, yes? I want to invite you to WikiConUSA 2014 this year May 30 - June 1st. Website. It would be great to have you participate. We are expecting around 300 Wikipedians and Wiki supporters. I have also invited the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America to give a lightning talk so it might be a good chance for you to connect IRL! Hope you can make it! Cheers. OR drohowa (talk) 21:01, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

User:OR drohowa Thank you, but unfortunately I am now based in Korea. If any Wiki info still states Pittsburgh, please let me know what and I'll update it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:14, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

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I'll be nice and reply here: "more than 1,000". But I can't be bothered sending an email. You should've at least registered a Wikipedia account to receive replies here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:34, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

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I believe that this is a picture of my parents. Room can I contact to find out? Any information will be greatly appreciated. 166.137.101.169 (talk) 13:53, 10 May 2014 (UTC) Lili Cahlon

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Tadeusz Kościuszko FA review

Aye Piotrus, have been making improvements and dealing with various issues, legitimate, petty and otherwise, for the last couple of weeks. If you get a chance, it would be nice if you chimed in. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 04:23, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

RE: Naming of Kościuszkowców Memorial article

I called it Kościuszkowców Memorial reluctantly - I realise it is something like Dave's's in English - a monument for a group named after someone, so I couldn't figure what it should be in English so stuck with the Polish version (remember I don't actually speak Polish yet). I do check with my Polish wife but she doesn't have too much patience for my Polish enquiries ;) All I could think of differently might be Kościuszko Infantry Division Memorial or something similar. Escottf (talk) 13:30, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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  • Also need bibliography information on the Stanisław Herbst (1969) source. Can't find it listed anywhere. Need publisher information and any other info asap. Thanx, -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:45, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK for I Am a Ukrainian

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Kosciuszko's artillery manual

Found some interesting info about Kosciuszko's Maneuvers of Horse Artillery, one of the first text books used at West point, which helped to earn him the reputation and title of "Father of the American artillery". I would like to cite this using an existing source, Storozynski, but the Google listing doesn't show the page number. Can you somehow find this out? (i.e. Do you have the actual book?) There are other sources (1, 2), but I'd prefer Storozynski so we don't have to add other sources to the Bibliography. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 16:52, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2014





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DYK for Ecological-evolutionary theory

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Znaniecki

Piotrus,
Thanks for your message. I looked for some stuff on Znaniecki myself and I inquired with Marek, but we were not able to identify any materials, including photos. I am, however, in possession of the book Polish Peasant in America and I can lend it to you if you're in the NYC area. Or if you want me to fill in some quotes, I'll be happy to do it. Piotr Puchalski (talk) 01:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Ivan Pavle, Slovak painter

Dear Piotr, Mr.Ivan Pavle gave correct permission to all photo images. He communicated with the Czech version of Wikipedia. I am not an expert on your administrative procedures, but in my opinion, gallery amplify information about the painter. Please, let me know, how to proceed in this case, that you have placed on the Galleries page. I send you information and link:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siesta_80x100cm-_akryl,_olej,_zlato,_striebro_na_platne-2011.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jazda_B_40x50-olej_na_kartone-1999.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strateny_den_145x120-olej_na_platne-1991.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tane%C4%8Dnica_50x70-olej_na_papieri-2001.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tri_gracie_50x70-olej_na_papieri-1995.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ticha_dohoda_A_200x150-olej_na_platne-1995.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ticha_dohoda_B_200x150-olej_na_platne-1995.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po_kupeli_II_130x160-olej_na_platne-1995.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modra_veza_80x100-olej_na_platne-2002.jpg

Similarly, I do not understand the objections to show on the page. All citations are from public sources and the assessment his work is from the book, written by Daniel Hevier, distinguished Slovak writer... Please, could you help me... Thank you...

Jozef Heriban, Secretary of the Slovak PEN Centre Jozef Heriban (talk) 07:25, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

About our project

I have a question about our Wikipedia project. As you Know, I was assigned the Rigveda Wiki. But it is hard to find the reference. So my question is, Is it okay that we linked as a reference 'Rigveda Wiki' website page?--Tmannya (talk) 08:39, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

We've on our way to almost finish the article Rigveda Wiki. Can you help us with nominating Did you know section?Db9023 (talk) 06:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Patryk Wezowski

Hi Piotr, apologise for my late revert, I am travelling. I accepted the article on the basis of two premises; (a) The citations in the article and my own searches returned adequate references, (b) the branch of science the subject of the article practices was worth of notice from an encyclopedic perspective. I believe an encyclopedia is a reservoir of knowledge where the access is through search and not by random reading and as such, any worthwhile piece of information should not be denied space. Cheers jojo@nthony (talk) 07:52, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I do not intend to contest your argument. If the subject of the article and his area of work deserve a space, they will eventually find a way. Thanks for your inputs. Cheers! jojo@nthony (talk) 08:10, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Germany-Poland border

Hello! Your submission of Germany-Poland border at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! HerkusMonte (talk) 15:51, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Jakub Szymański

Ignorance is a blessing. You are good example of this. Article is still under construction, but as for now holds Wiki standards. Check again now. Besides you should see articles in category: prophecies. I don't think that they are made in better style. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakub Szymański (talkcontribs) 16:56, 19 May 2014 (UTC)


DYK for DeCSS haiku

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Virtuti Militari

Hi Piotrus. I have been working on an article on a French field marshal, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. My French language sources tell me that he was awarded the Virtuti Militari, but now what grade of the award he received. Would you have any ideas as to how one could find this? Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:09, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue XCVIII, May 2014

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Historical Dictionary of Poland doesn't say Germany.

Xx236 (talk) 10:51, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Xx236: please be more specific. I guessed what you meant, maybe, see my edits in Polish-German border. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:19, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
being one of the earliest natural boundaries between Germany and the Slavic tribes. - the quoted Historical Dictionary of Poland doesn't say Germany.Xx236 (talk) 06:12, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

May 2014

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VisualEditor newsletter—May 2014

Did you know?

The cite menu offers quick access to up to five citation templates.  If your wiki has enabled the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, press "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" and select the appropriate template from the menu.

Existing citations that use these templates can be edited either using the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" tool or by selecting the reference and choosing the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu.

Read the user guide for more information.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" item in the "Insert" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.

Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.

  • There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction.  This allows editors who have opted in to use the "Language" tool in the "Insert" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span>. This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis.
  • The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "⧼math-visualeditor-mwmathinspector-title⧽" item in the "Insert" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
  • The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field.  Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
  • TemplateData has been expanded:  You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones.  "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work.  There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name, for file names.  The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
  • Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
  • Several messages have changed: The notices shown when you save a page have been merged into those used in the wikitext editor, for consistency.  The message shown when you "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cancel⧽" out of an edit is clearer. The beta dialog notice, which is shown the first time you open VisualEditor, will be hidden for logged-in users via a user preference rather than a cookie.  As a result of this change, the beta notice will show up one last time for all logged-in users on their next VisualEditor use after Thursday's upgrade.
  • Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
  • In the "Images and media" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
  • There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData.  You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box.  If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
  • There have been multiple small changes to the appearance:  External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.  This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links.  The styling of the "Style text" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin.  VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images.  Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
  • The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
  • At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.

Looking ahead:  The toolbar from the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. More buttons and icons will be accessible from the keyboard.  The "Keyboard shortcuts" link will be moved out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) and inline images is being developed. You will be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. VisualEditor will be available to all users on mobile devices and tablet computers. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 10:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

DYK for Poland–Ukraine border

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:27, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Recent image concerns

See- User:Bocajpj - OTRS required to be really sure? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:23, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Rigveda wiki

I've corrected some reference and language issues, although I had to use Rigveda wiki as my reference for features and history as it seemed the only reference. I left a message on the talk page of the article in terms of references I uses since I knew that Rigveda wiki itself wouldn't be the best resource and could look problematic to people. I would appreciate if you check this out and let me know. Also regarding my attendance, please give me a heads up if you need any documents to prove my future absences. Hope you feel better, take care. Thank you. Db9023 (talk) 03:30, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Let me know if I need to fix more.Db9023 (talk) 22:48, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Piotr Skarga

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Piotr Skarga you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ammodramus -- Ammodramus (talk) 00:32, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Congrats on getting Tadeusz Kościuszko to featured article! MONGO 00:53, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Nowy Majdan, Biłgoraj County

I reverted a broken edit at this article, but then noticed it has never been looked at by an experienced editor. It looks like it was created by a bot copying text possibly from pl:Majdan Nowy. If you have time, please check the basic facts stated in the article because I'm wondering if some IP edits were attempts to correct errors. Johnuniq (talk) 02:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

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RE: Cleanup for you

Hi there,

Re cleanup on draft articles about Draft:The memorial in memory of the Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust and Draft:Korczak's Last Walk: A Sculpture by Nathan Rapoport. I started going over them and Wikilinking, etc and the memorial is "worthy" (especially as Korczak is a hero) but beyond the first paragraph, the rest of the page (both drafts seem similar) is just info that isn't directly relevant (i.e. should just be linked to with the existing articles - on the synagogue, the sculptor, Korczak). The only new data is on the sculptor himself, which could be woven into his article - but we don't know where it came from or if it's accurate.

There really isn't a load of information there - and, sadly, even if there was a photo, it's not the most photogenic monument around (I checked to see if it actually existed by checking Google's Streetview where I got the address from and checked the inscription and description).

I've added the Warsaw monuments to Korczak to my "possible to translate" list when I'm feeling energetic. Sorry I couldn't be much help with that one.Escottf (talk) 13:15, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

When you get a chance, could you clean up some of the citation tags on Wojciech Jaruzelski's page, as that is holding it back from the main page on this site. Thanks a lot! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:50, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Nbsp

In this edit, you add the HTML code for a non-breaking space. Do you know how/why that happened? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:20, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

EW thread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:Piotrus_and_User:Volunteer_Marek_reported_by_User:Patriot_Donbassa_.28Result:_.29 Cheers, --Patriot Donbassa (talk) 10:00, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014