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The Signpost: 12 November 2012

Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.

Thank you!

That brought a smile to my face this morning.

Best wishes, — Hex (❝?!❞) 13:45, 17 November 2012 (UTC).

You're welcome! CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 21:47, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Kamek character.png)

Thanks for uploading File:Kamek character.png. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hazard-Bot (talk) 04:20, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Mario Lanza at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 07:46, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.

Paper Mario soundtrack cover

Wikipedia's Fair use criteria requires that the image not be redundant; the image in question is nearly identical to another image on the same article. There is also no discussion whatsoever of the image itself - a necessity if a second cover of any kind is to be featured on an article. As Wikipedia strives to use as little copyrighted material as it can, we must have strong rationales for all images. Unfortunately, being helpful is not a good rationale, because if it is, then that opens a floodgate of images that could be posted on articles, simply for being helpful. We cannot use copyrighted images as decoration. If you would like to continue this discussion, a discussion on the general use of soundtrack covers is being held here. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 04:38, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:42, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
No problem. I take it then that you're fine with me removing the image? - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 04:45, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Yes. Thanks. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:51, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Also, I was the one who removed the Super Mario Kart R image; I did so because players can understand that it had a different name just through reading the text. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 22:27, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
OK. Thank you. ;) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 22:35, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Email Me Maybe

Hey Curtaintoad. I wanted to discuss something in personal, perhaps, can you leave me a line at thespecialuseronwikipedia@gmail.com if possible? TheSpecialUser TSU 03:40, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm very sorry, but I don't think it is going to work. :( CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:50, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.

Articles for creation needs YOUR help!

Articles for creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently there are 834 submissions waiting to be reviewed and many help requests at our help desk.

Do you have what it takes?
  1. Are you familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines?
  2. Do you know what Wikipedia is and is not?
  3. Do you have a working knowledge of the Manual of Style, particularly article naming conventions?
  4. Can you review submissions based on their individual merits?

If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. You might wish to add {{AFC status}} or {{AfC Defcon}} to your userpage, which will alert you to the number of open submissions. Plus, reviewing is easy when you use our new semi-automated reviewing script!
Thanks in advance, Nathan2055talk - contribs

Sent on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation at 22:29, 29 November 2012 (UTC). If you do not wish to receive anymore messages from this WikiProject, please remove your username from this page.

Adoption

If you're still looking for an adopter, I'd love to adopt you :) For more information on my course see my adoption headquarters. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Because you seem to have the basics of editing down, we can skip parts of my course. I'll fit it to you :) gwickwire | Leave a message 02:53, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

OK! Thanks :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 06:09, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Can I please adopt you?? Thank you, CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 06:18, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello again! I'd be happy to adopt you. I'll get your adoption headquarters set up when I get a chance, should be sometime later today. In the meantime, I'd like you to think about your answers to these questions:
  1. Why do you edit Wikipedia?
  2. What do you do most here?
  3. What is your least favorite part of editing?
Like I said, just ponder those questions, and I'll reply here when I have your page set up. Regards, gwickwire | Leave a message 14:00, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I've started your page now! Feel free to complete the first 'assignment' as you can! I'd also suggest that you watch the page, so you can see when I reply. Thanks! gwickwire | Leave a message 19:37, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you! ;) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 19:41, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I have added the page on my watchlist :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 03:10, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! I will not add any "talkback" messages here for you then, you can just find it in your watchlist and do tasks as you can. Also, I hope your health issues aren't too bad, and I wish you the best. First lesson of Unit 1 is up. Study up and post there when you're ready for the next thing. Thanks again! gwickwire | Leave a message 04:06, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Administrator

Okay, so I may have done a bit of stalking and I noticed you wanted to be an admin. As your adopter has told you, it takes a good year of editing, if not more. It also takes showing that you're a good contributor to the site (no blocks, no being rude, good writing, etc). That being said, I became an admin at 15, and started editing at 14, so it is possible; you just have to do a lot of hard work in the meantime. --Rschen7754 04:10, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Great. Thank you for telling me! :D CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:18, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
You might want to wait a while though - right now you don't have a lot of edits and you've only been here 4 months. The minimum that people will support at is 1 year and 6000 edits. However, some people want more. You will also typically need the autopatrolled, rollback, and reviewer flags (which also have requirements you must meet) - those show added responsibility that hopefully you would have handled well. Finally, you need some experience, whether that is writing articles, or fighting vandals, cleaning up typos, etc. Those aren't the only qualities that people look for, but that's a start. Adoption is a good step towards this as well. --Rschen7754 07:43, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Okay! Thank you! LOL. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 07:49, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Please help!

{{Admin help}} Hello friends. Can I please be an administrator on the English Wikipedia? I believe that I have made lots of edits, being helpful to other editors, not being rude at all, and writing lots. Thanks and regards, CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 10:18, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Start by reading these pages:
I would also recommend reading some recent RFAs, both successful and (particularly) unsuccessful ones, which you can find linked from the box at the top of WP:Requests for adminship.
Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:41, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
I'll also add that it's not as simple as asking, there is a process that you must go through. Also, I have your first lesson up now. gwickwire | Leave a message 17:31, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for removing vandalism on my talkpage. Cyan Gardevoir (used EDIT!) 07:38, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

You are welcome :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 07:41, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Your user page was also vandalised; it has already been reverted by another user. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 20:56, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Adoption

In case you didn't see, your first lesson is up. I'd like you to go replace the {{4~}} with your signature so I know you've seen it, and ask any questions you may have. Thanks! gwickwiretalkedits 23:38, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Great! Thank you for telling me! :D CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Lee Everett

I was wondering- is there a specific reason why you added the Japanese spelling of this character's name to their page? Bobtheadventurer (talk) 04:25, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm Not sure :| ... CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

The WikiProject: Good Articles Newsletter (December 2012)

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Henry Foss Hall

Hi, Curtaintoad. I've come to drop you a note about an AfC submission that you accepted and moved to mainspace, Henry Foss Hall. When I looked into the submissions from the user that wrote it, I realised that it was mostly made up of copyrighted text from another website, so it's since been deleted. AfC can be a...tricky area to work in. You really do need quite a thorough understanding of almost all of Wikipedia's various policies. I've been here for years now, and I still don't know all the policies yet. :P It might be a good idea to wait until you're more experienced before volunteering in that particular area.
But don't be discouraged by this message. It looks like you're doing great work everywhere else, and we're grateful to have you around. :) OohBunnies! (talk) 14:04, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for telling ;) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 21:06, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.
Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.
This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.

Adoption

Your first test has been up for a while now. I'm just sending a friendly reminder that it's there for whenever you want to do it! Have a nice day! gwickwiretalkedits 02:57, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 03:09, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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