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City Ballet has over 400 ballets in their rep. (the biggest of any ballet company in the world) and dances nearly 80 each year.
I have been putting articles about each ballet on Wikipedia for the past few months in preparation for the upcoming season (December 30th is their last Nutcracker, January 2nd the beginning of the real winter season.)
Having discussed this with dance professors, ballet masters, company members and choreographers, it's felt that one of the most valuable entries on Wikipedia would be each seasons rep. with casting.
This is information of intense interest to dance scholars and is not available on line after the season nor much of anywhere else. Casting is not made known until two weeks before performance and even then subject to (frequent) change, right down to show time.
Most evenings there will be a little slip of paper tucked into each program stating who is out injured and who is dancing in their place.
In very rare cases an announcement is made just before the curtain goes up.
These last minute changes are not necessarily recorded even on the NYCB website.
As I live in Times Square and attend City Ballet almost nightly (they've got $15 tickets for us poor folk) I can maintain a true record of the casts that perform, which is one of the most central issues in dance history -- if not the most central issue.
Ballets have large and complex casts compared with operas or plays and are sometimes mix and match affairs; in extreme situations a dancer may begin learning a dance at 10 AM and perform it at 8 PM, and this is the stuff of ballet history (not just its gossip).
I will be adding the casts as the season progresses including those pesky curtain time cast changes.
I took the liberty of removing the uncategorized tag, but may I ask that you remove the notability tag, please?
I have reacently decided to say hi to everyone that i can on wikipedia to try to help make it a more frendly place. you are the first person to be afected with my new mission. so without further anticipation, HI.
DranceI know 719:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I was completely unaware of the peer review. Probably due to the holidays, I did not keep a very close eye to the article.
Just for your reference, the initial chance in rating were because from the WP:Elements point of view, this is a GA-wannabe article (IMHO GA is more worthwile than A since the GA at least goes through a review process). Later on I decided that I should not mess up with the WP1.0 rating so I changed that one back. Several days ago I noticed that the article is not A-level anymore, and I thought the confusion vetween the WP:Elements rating and WP1.0 made somebody set both to B. Nergaal (talk) 05:48, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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You said we needed two more articles for each topic, but each has four featured articles, and 20% of 26 (rounded down) is 5, so we only need one more article for each topic. -- Scorpion042223:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but it doesn't specify that you have to round up. In fact, in the discussion, you yourself specifically said that it's 20% rounded down. 20% of 26 = 5.2. Rounded down, that's 5. -- Scorpion042200:43, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'd love to, but only if I'm not the only one deciding. In past votes, other editors have used sound and music programs to look at the sound, and judge its quality from a scientific/visual perspective and not just a subjective view. Especially when it comes to classical music. Zidel333 (talk) 00:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for pointing out a problem with the image licensing ... I must admit despite being a seasoned contributor I find this image licensing stuff pretty confusing and hard to get right .. are there recommended examples of standard things like book covers, album covers, paintings etc? Have I done the Jonah cover ok now, or not? Stumps (talk) 23:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed you were a member of WikiProject Education, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Homeschooling. In this "WikiProject," we have been together working on the collaboration of Homeschooling-related articles. As a member, I really hope you can join, and let me know if you need any help signing up or with anything else. If you have any questions about the project you can ask at the project's talk page. Cheers!
RC-0722communicator/kills23:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
[edit] Image source problem with Image:CirLogix4.jpg
Thanks for the note regarding the CirLogix4.jpg. I haven't uploaded an image in a while and I seem to have made an error in the copyright notice. I created the image myself using a software program called CircuitLogix. I tried to delete the image and start again but with no success. Best regards, Carl142 (talk) 01:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A New WikiProject Homeschooling member, Basketball110 has been hired by Diligent Terrier (Project Founder and Newsletter Writer) as the official newsletter deliverer. When you get a chance, stop by his talk page and thank him for joining and volunteering at the project! This newsletter is part of the Newsroom project, which has been created to update our members on the latest news at the project and on homeschooling.
Project member count reaches 181920 21 :) members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends using our invitation templates. Remember to thank users Burner0718 and RC-0722 for helping to recruit users for this WikiProject.
Wikipedia userSherurcij, currently not a member, has asked for support from our members at other Wikimedia projects such as WikiSource and Wikimedia Commons. This message can be found at the project's talk page.
Remember: The project is now accessible from new shortcuts, WP:HOME and WP:WPHS.
Collaboration of the Month Nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. You can nominate and vote here.
A Wikipedia Ad for the project will be created by User:Miranda. This user would like to know exactly what the ad should say. Suggestions should be left at Diligent Terrier's talk page.
Recent Homeschooling News
Homeschooling has been banned in California by recent court ruling on March 6, 2008. As homeschool families protest, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked for the ruling to be overturned.
Hi. Regarding Rex Tremlett, an article for which you recently warned the creator that a tag had been placed for speedy deletion [1] (I can only assume mistakenly [2]). It appears to me from the content in the article (such as it is) that the guy is notable, though the content is a bit fuxxed. It'd be better to just fix it up (it'll take me 5 mins tops ;) than nominate it for deletion. -- Naerii · plz create stuff20:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Time Times I, Zginder, have started this the official newsletter of the project. This newsletter is part of the Time Times, which has been created to update our members on the latest news at the project and on time.
This first posting is late because I did not even come up with the idea until 2008-03-08. In the future I plan to have it ready to publish before the month begins. (If anyone should do things on time on Wikipedia it should be us, no?)
Article count over 800! By my count we now have 873 articles but, will have many more soon. Less than 200 are assessed though, plenty of work for us to do.
WikiProject merger:Diligent Terrier has proposed that WikiProject Alternative Education be merged into this WikiProject. Although it is currently inactive, the merger may give the projects a chance to grow stronger. You can read the proposal at their talk page.
Collaboration of the Month nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. It is mandatory, well not mandatory, but highly encouraged that you, as a member, nominate and/or vote for the Collaboration of the month.
A Wikipedia Ad for the project has been created by User:Miranda. You can view it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling/Ad. Please include the ad in your userpage to show your support for the project.
The Userbox Discussion for the selection of our official and standard userbox has been reopened now that we have more members. The discussion was originally opened by Unschool last month, but was put on hold until our group had more users.
Assistant Coordinators Diligent Terrier has nominated two users to be assistant coordinators, User:Burner0718 and User:RC-0722
Project member count has reached 21 members! Several users joined following the publication of the previous newsletter.
Remember: The project is now accessible from new shortcuts, WP:HOME and WP:WPHS.
The "homeschooling convention season" (March - August) has started. . Sorry — couldn't think of a better story.
Homeschooling has been banned in California by recent court ruling on March 6, 2008. As homeschool families protest, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked for the ruling to be overturned.
all the files are now online - and thanks again for coming along for a chat... whether you were vocal, or more of a listener, your support is fantastic - and do consider hosting a skypecast of your own before too long! (I think I pressed all of three buttons this time!) - once again thanks, and I look forward to seeing you around! cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 03:18, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the revert, I didn't see that he chose to comment at the top rather than at the bottom. For future reference, if you are going to remove a nomination, make sure you add it to the log. Even though cases like this aren't really "fails" per se, it's useful to have all past noms in one place in case someone ever needs to look back on things. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The problem with most sound files, is that the uploader did not add enough information about the source of the file to meet criterion 5. Zginder (talk) (Contrib)12:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Article count on at 961! We now have 961 articles but, will have many more soon as only a few are marked as in our project. At least 803 are unassessed though, plenty of work for us to do.
Project member count reaches 12 members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends.
An IP added this funny comment to Portal talk:Time "I never though I would see the day mankind succeeds in creating a time portal."
Recent Time News
From the leap second article: in April 2008: ITU Working Party 7A will submit to ITU Study Group 7 project recommendation on stopping leap second[s].
Calendars met on March 21. It was Good Friday (Western Christianity, 2008); Purim ends at sundown (Judaism, 2008); Naw-Rúz in the Bahá'í calendar, Benito Juárez Day in Mexico, World Poetry Day.
Re your post: I'm not familiar with the terminology. Would you do me a favour and explain what the difference is between quality versions and sighted versions -- or give a link to somewhere where it's explained? Does "sighted" just mean that an autoconfirmed user (or whatever) has confirmed that it doesn't seem to be vandalism? Thanks. --Coppertwig (talk) 23:15, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Homeschooling Early April 2008 Newsletter
Collaboration of the Month nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. So far there have been two nominations. You can nominate and vote at April's Collaboration page (link).
The March 2008 Collaboration of the Month was a real success! You can view the before and afters at the project page. The following users contributed: Zginder, Wrad, E104421, Diligent Terrier. Stop by their talk page and give them a smile.
Peer Review: The homeschooling article is currently under peer review. Constructive criticism is welcome at the peer review page (link).
Project member count reaches 23 members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends using our invitation templates.
A Homeschooling Portal may be created by User:WBOSITG. However, this user will soon be on a WikiBreak, so don't expect it anytime soon.
Remember: The project is accessible from the shortcuts, WP:HOME and WP:WPHS.
First of all, the Princeton Review is a horrible guide for the ACT, so I would not use their chart. You cannot place exact values for conversions between the tests, so a range is much better. If you feel a conversion chart is necessary, use the EXACT same conversion chart that is on the SAT wiki page and CREATE A NEW SECTION for the conversion chart. That seems very reasonable. The percentiles between the two tests do not match up exactly, so you need to make a new section, and not group everything together. Copy the conversion table from wiki, and keep the percentile table. Second of all it IS STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to be in the 100th percentile for anything unless you are number one. Number one does not include ties at scores of 36, and certainly does not have scores of 35 and 34 in the 100th percentile. You have also not cited your imaginary percentile rankings, probably because you have made them up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redskins2k9 (talk • contribs) 21:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Today (Apr 20th), around 15:00 UTC! Possibly on Skype, but certainly on IRC (#wikipedia-en-lectures on freenode)! I don't actually know about the Skype details... Message me on Skype (xavexgoem) about that, if you have it (no harm in getting it, either), and then maybe by that time I'll have a clue :-p Xavexgoem (talk) 14:28, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You just posted notice to my user page of speedy deletion of Martin's Brandon Church, and it was already deleted. I posted request to Alexf's talk page to restore, is that you also, and/or are you working closely with Alexf, who is listed as the deleter?
Anyhow, Would you please undelete it so that i can develop it. That was just too abrupt.
It was a one sentence stub with an infobox already and a Talk page pointing to references to add, and it was documented that the site is listed on the U.S. National Register. It was not "incoherent" or "patent nonsense".
Whatever about the talkback policy, please reply to my Talk page or indicate there that you have answered here, please don't just reply here without informing me. doncram (talk) 21:37, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for replying, i suppose. You should recognize that the article should not have been deleted. A statement that a site is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places is an assertion of notability. Would you please clarify what is your relationship to Alexf? Are you or is that a sockpuppet? doncram (talk) 21:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I did start the article with just a few words, and but had a copy-cache ready to put into the Talk page so went over to that for a minute. Then i was back and developed it approximately as it is now. I did not then see any db notice, so don't see how it could have happened that you marked the first version. Maybe Alexf is at fault for so quickly performing the actual deletion? But per new page patroller guidelines that i read once, I recall that you are not supposed to patrol instantly upon creation of an article, you are supposed to work on the oldest pages first or something. It is common that users create an article with several edits and it is not helpful to mark them for deletion instantly. doncram (talk) 22:12, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
History of timekeeping devices reaches Good Article Status —On April 7 the history of time keeping article became a GA. This is our only top importance article to reach this prestigious status. This was only possible with the dedication of the Tzatziki Squad. They are continuing to work on the article to reach Feature Article status.
Hi. I believed that there was actually a rationale in place already at the bottom of the page (though I noticed some sort of Bot reversion that may have changed things), but in any event, I've expanded on the rationale for Image:Private.jpg. Please note that I've reproduced rationales that are already considered acceptable for other book covers, such as A Song of Ice and Fire. Thank you. --James26 (talk) 07:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In your recent edit to the homeschooling article you seem to have inadvertently removed a large portion of the article in addition to reverting the previous edit. It's not difficult to undo, but please try to be more careful in the future. Amillion (talk) 23:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Good morning, and good luck with your Request for Adminship. Could you doublecheck the date on which you recieved rollback? 2006-04-16T01:44:36 Your userlog shows 11 January 2008, and you have 2006-04-16T01:44:36 - the same time and date of your first logged-in edit. Rather than comment there or changing it myself, I wanted to ping you on it so that you can correct the issue. Again, best of luck! UltraExactZZClaims~ Evidence14:34, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It must have not stored the text when I copied. Zginder 2008-05-09T14:51Z (UTC)
I closed your RFA prematurely as unlikely to succeed; you may want to try admin coaching (if you haven't already). Sorry about that, and better luck next time. Cheers, · AndonicOEngage.18:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, we're posting on time for once (40 minutes early). Todays lecture is by Vassyana (an expert mediator), who will be talking about how to deal with conflicts, whether you are a mediator or not. Hope to see you there! --Kim Bruning (talk) 14:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Your RfA is currently sitting at 19%... I'm sorry, but I don't see it rebounding any time soon, and it looks like you've gotten plenty of feedback in the Opposition section. Would it be alright to pull the RfA as "withdrawn by candidate"? EVula// talk // ☯ //18:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Zginder. I've removed your RfA from the main page as unsuccessful. Please take the time to review it, and carefully go over the oppose concerns. Please do not let this discourage you from further volunteering on the pedia. I hope to see you again at RfA, at an undisclosed time, and will be looking to support you given improvements. :) Until then, happy editing. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 19:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about your RFA. There were some inflammatory comments of yours on other RFA that proved more fatal for you. Please dont be dissappointed. Take a break and come back again. If you can prove your oppose comments wrong then , I will be happy to support you . Best of the luck for the future -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 03:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Zginder, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your participation in my RfA which was passed with a final tally of 114/10/4. I'm both shocked and honoured to gain so much support from users whom I admire and trust, and I hope I can avoid breaking that backing by being the best administrator I possibly can. I will take on board the opposition's comments and I hope to improve over the coming months and years. Once again, thank you! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It seems fair to notify you of my intention to Oppose any future Requests for Adminship you submit, citing the Oppose you left on Risker's RfA. I will give you the option to avert such a situation by removing your Oppose from Risker's RfA or if you do feel you need to Oppose the RfA, to provide a proper rationale for Opposing. Nick (talk) 21:33, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Just to say that it was very kind of you to change your !vote to support me at my RfA. You didn't have to at all, and it was most unexpected. So all the more a pleasant surprise! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 19:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your participation at my recent Request for adminship. I’m not sure that I will be able to suitably address your concern, as I don’t intend to ever be an admin candidate again, but I hope you find I live up to your expectations of administrators. Best, Risker (talk) 16:45, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Zginder, just a note of thanks for your participation in my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Collaboration of the Month nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. So far there have been two nominations. You can nominate and vote at May's Collaboration page (link).
Project member count reaches 37 members! Invite others using our invitation templates.
Many thanks for your participation in my recent request for adminship. I am impressed by the amount of thought that goes into people's contribution to the RfA process, and humbled that so many have chosen to trust me with this new responsibility. I step into this new role cautiously, but will do my very best to live up to your kind words and expectations, and to further the project of the encyclopedia. Again, thank you. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 06:12, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I see you have removed the notice. I am just enquiring as to why the notice was removed before proceding. Thanks. FiveYears12:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That is how Prod works if someone opposes they remove the notice. Zginder 2008-05-18T12:45Z (UTC)
It is not a indiscriminate collation of information. It is a list of famous people who were homeschooled. Similar lists exist on similar topics. Zginder 2008-05-18T12:51Z (UTC)
Todays lecture is starting! The topic is "How source experts judge source reliability" and the speaker is DGG. The meeting location for setup is #wikipedia-en-lectures on irc.freenode.net. The lecture will be given over skype. Contact Filll2 or kim_bruning to be invited to the lecture chat also.
I couldn't believe there was actually controversy about whether a license plate image is copyrighted or not. After following up on the heated discussions I see there is disagreement. It seems silly to me as I've never heard of a state objecting over novelty plate key chains with their designs. I will follow up with our Arizona DMV and see if they will approve the images. Also see if maybe they have some better ones then I've used so far. I won't upload any more images until getting their approval. Hopefully before the deadline to pull the ones uploaded so far. Skywayman (talk) 15:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for supporting my RfA, which went through 93/12/5. I'll be steadfast in this trust the en.Wikipedia community has given me. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Suddenly we're filling a gap in the weekly SignpostDispatch section with an article on Featured Sounds, and I'll have to do it within a day. I'm contacting several people on the history page, you among them, who might be able to review the draft (I hope it will be written in about 12 hours' time). Can you suggest anyone else? Do you know anyone who's been around from the start, who might know more about the history of the page? I guess I can find it via the edit histories. TONY(talk)04:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Zginder; delighted to see your text (we edit-conflicted). I've pasted mine in below, and will attempt to merge the best of both. Then I'll work further on it, adding some visual images.
Perhaps then I could buzz you to review the article? Sorry to have left you out of my historical account—I'll address that; it was hard to make it all out from the edit histories. TONY(talk)14:19, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there - thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed 69/10/3 yesterday. I will put the tools to good use and hopefully justify the confidence you had in me. Best wishes Fritzpoll (talk) 11:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
History of timekeeping devices reaches A-Class Status—On May 22 the history of time keeping article was promoted by User:Zginder to A-Class. This is our only article to reach this prestigious status. This was only possible with the dedication of the Tzatziki Squad. They are continuing to work on the article to reach Feature Article status.
Merkhet was a DYK—The article appeared on the Main Page on April 28. With this text: "... that merkhets were Ancient Egyptian timekeeping devices that tracked the movement of certain stars over the meridian in order to ascertain the time during the night, when sundials could not function?" This also was only possible thanks to the Tzatziki Squad.
Could you please justify your motive for taking away homeschoolers who had no choice in the matter? I know quite a few, who live in remote areas, and they are certainly homeschooled... thank you Snow555 (talk) 00:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
To new and even more interesting projects, of course!
As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.
Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.
It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!
This is going to be interesting.
And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!
If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.
If everything goes according to plan, it will begin on July 15th.
The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."
Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.
The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!
For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.
And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so.
This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.
The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.
For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:
During the collaboration, co-coordinators will be standing by, to lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators will also be using advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.
Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.
Hi, I put a serious clean up template on that page because certainly the early history section is a labyrinth of anachronisms. Perhaps the rating should be lower than B?
nl:Gebruiker:JcwfJcwf (talk) 00:55, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
For the record, all three are in Public domain in America - Korean copyright on audio works expires 50 years after creation (thank god), and the Brazillian copyright act was revised in 1998; the Carmen Miranda songs were out of copyright under the old act in... about 1993, I think (the guidance I have is "Out of copyright in America if from before 1936"). God, I hate copyright investigation. I suppose it's just lucky I knew that many countries treat recordings differently to other media, and checked, or I'd have lost 2 weeks of work. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 10:30, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Commons Uploader can really mangle presentation of information - a couple of the things you commented on had the information there, just... mangled so that you had to know how Commons Uploader changes things to get at the original. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
On 3 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Frog Legs Rag, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.
I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines that will be the focus of the contest - an outline for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before those lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.
The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:
Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set (during the contest).
Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.). The main type of work participants in the contest will be doing. The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.
There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought just to earn an award. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive volumnous work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.
Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe-in-stand (award we were working on) anymore. Two awards should suffice.
Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.
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This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.
WHAT???
Well, the drafts had been sitting in Wikipedia space for a year.
WHAT???
Development has been moving at a snail's pace and we could use the help of the Wikipedia community at large (who are more likely to find these if they are in article space).
WHAT???
Yes, we've gone live. :)
This puts pressure on us to get the blatantly incomplete elements of these outlines done. The only glaring problem is the government branches sections. These need to be corrected ASAP.
I've mentioned THE GOVERNMENT BRANCHES SECTIONS many times to many people over the past year, but the problem just doesn't seem to have been taken seriously. So let me put it another way:
HELP!!! I need your help on this now. Almost all the countries have a government with an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. The links for these branches need to be completed for each country outline:
Here's a convenient list you can use WP:LINKY on to access and edit these quickly. Please copy the list's link to the top of your talk page so that you can access it easily.
If you spot any standardization in links, and ways we can automate parts of this process, or for groups of countries that have links in common, please let me know!
There has been growing pressure on me to write up the administrative pages for outlines - their instructions, guidelines, etc. Therefore, I'm now in the process of composing these. Fortunately, it is mostly a matter of gathering material from messages I've written to you guys over the past year. Still, this is taking up most of my time, and I will be buried in these for the foreseeable future.
The next big task after the government branches sections are cleaned up is link support for the outlines.
There's quite a list of links and notices that need to be put in place around Wikipedia, providing access to them to readers, and alerting editors to the need to develop and maintain these pages. This will keep our bot people very busy (and happy).
But the most important thing right now is to get the government branches sections completed. So please, put your bots aside, roll up your shirt sleeves, and start typing.
Wait a second here, so you opposed because you believed the article wasn't about the trophies enough. Okay, fair enough. So I added more about the trophies and yet you are still opposing. How about giving me some suggestions so that I can further improve it? -- Scorpion042218:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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The situation with Mystic is rather confusing. The website lists platforms that are accessible from the street and a portable lift (both of which I can confirm in person), but the system timetable does not list it as accessible. I was going off the former information when I changed the page, but lacking other 'official' information I fully support your current edit. I may place a call on Monday to determine what a ticket agent says; if they say that it is accessible then it may be an omission in the timetable in which case I will give up on citing sources and start potato farming instead. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:31, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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