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Calling all bots, calling all bots...

It's time to go 1-2-3 doing the botty-bot! - The Bushranger One ping only 17:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you,  trial done. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:56, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2013

Just two months into his second term as an arbitrator on the English Wikipedia, Coren resigned from the Committee with a blistering attack on his fellow arbitrators. At the heart of a strongly worded statement, posted both on his talk page and the arbitration notice board, was the claim that ArbCom has become politicised to the extent that "it can no longer do the job it was ostensibly elected for".
This week, we composed a tribute to WikiProject Composers. The project was created during the final hours of 2004 and finalized in early January 2005. It has grown to encompass over 8,000 pages, including 26 Featured Articles and 23 Good Articles. WikiProject Composers faces a difficult workload, with a relative WikiWork rating of 5.45.
Ask librarians what they think about Wikipedia and you might get some interesting answers. Some will throw up their hands about the laziness of the Google generation and their overdependence on Wikipedia. Some see it as the "competition". And some will tell you it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Nine articles, seven lists, eleven images, and one topic were promoted to "featured status" this week on the English Wikipedia.
On Thursday, arbitrator Coren resigned, following closely on the heels of Hersfold's resignation on Wednesday. There are two open cases. A final decision has been given in the Richard case.
The WMF's engineering report for January was published this week, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.

Crystal Kelly Cup

Hallo Armbrust, habe meinen eigenen Artikel aus der deutschen WP übersetzt. Wäre nett, wenn du da mal drüber schauen könntest. Es gibt wahrscheinlich noch ein paar kleine Änderungen, was die Syntax betrifft, zu tätigen (Notes e. g.). Evtl. fehlen noch Kategorien und SORTKEY. Habe auf der Talk page den entsprechenden Baustein für Übersetzung eingefügt. Dank im Voraus. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 14:43, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done Armbrust The Homunculus 15:44, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Einige Übersetzungen doch noch übersehen. Danke.--LezFraniak (talk) 15:50, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Leonard Michaels photo

Thanks for approving my request! One tiny thing, though, the Facebook page still shows a flag (standard unspecified page logo) instead of his photo. Any idea how that can be fixed? It's linked to the wiki page, but doesn't show the photo like it's supposed to. I'd be very grateful for any help. I'm Aumurto, by the way. (http://www.facebook.com/aumurto.chaudhury) P.S. I wish I knew how to give you a Barnstar, but I don't. Sorry. I owe you! (especially if you can find a way to fix the problem) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.221.254.36 (talk) 11:42, 23 March 2013

Sorry, but I can't help you with this. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:45, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

CFR

Thanks for tagging the cats I've nominated for renaming. I forgot.--obi2canibetalk contr 23:20, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I did it, because I agreed with you. Armbrust The Homunculus 23:30, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Donghak Peasant Revolution

Thought about editing Donghak Peasant Revolution? I really need help, it's only me, bots, and AWB for months. Answer in talk, in T.A.L.K. P.A.G.E.--Seonoo of Kim (ANSWER IN MY T.A.L.K. P.A.G.E!!!!!!!!!) 05:06, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but this is completely out of my area of interest. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:05, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

BW equations

Hey - are you the person who wrote this paper? If so, I never knew he was on WP - sorry for the late notice! You may have already come across the BW equations article, but if not the WP article cites that paper, just thought to let you know. Feel free to edit by all means. It is one of the few papers I've ever seen clearly state the generalized gamma matrices used for describing spin fields. Best regards! M∧Ŝc2ħεИτlk 12:44, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

No, I never wrote anything outside of Wikipedia. Also my name is only "Gabor Toth", I have no middle name. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:46, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
... Indeed, sorry for not paying attention to the diacritics/full names, happy editing anyway... M∧Ŝc2ħεИτlk 13:21, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Actually, my name has also diacritics, I just tend to omit it, when writing in English. Happy editing to you too. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:24, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

AGIPI Billiard Masters

Hallo Armbrust, habe einen neuen Artikel übersetzt. Schau doch bitte mal drüber. Das passende Logo dazu (selbst erstellt) habe ich ebenfalls hochgeladen. Schaue dort bitte auch mal vorbei ob ich die Rechte etc. richtig angegeben habe. Evtl. fehlen noch Kategorien. Dank im Voraus. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 17:26, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Danke.  Done --LezFraniak (talk) 18:53, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Eigentlich habe ich es erst jetzt  beendet. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:01, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Habe ich gesehen. Nochmals Danke. --LezFraniak (talk) 19:15, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 March 2013

Our travels have brought us to Pittsburgh, the American city known for steelworks and bridges.
Seven articles, one list, six pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This case, brought by Mark Arsten, was opened over a dispute over transgenderism topics that began off-wiki. The evidence phase was scheduled to close March 7, 2013, with a proposed decision due to be posted by March 29.
Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation since December 2007, has announced her plans to leave the position when a successor is recruited. Ranked as one of the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine, Sue Gardner is widely associated with the rise of the Wikimedia movement as a major custodian of human knowledge and cultural products.
Since its inception in May 2011, the Foundation's Visual Editor project has grown to become one of its main focuses. As the project nears its two-year birthday, the Signpost caught up with Visual Editor project manager James Forrester to discuss the progress on the project.
A paper presented at last month's CSCW Conference observes that "Mass collaboration systems are often characterized as unstructured organizations lacking rule and order", yet Wikipedia has a well developed body of policies to support it as an organization.

Hold up!

The Soviet program/progamme cat names I rolled back already once as I need to develop a full CfD for them as a complete group, which I'm doing right now - please revert the CFDSes, thanks. - The Bushranger One ping only 10:40, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Already seen at WP:CFDS.  Already doing.... Armbrust The Homunculus 10:42, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll ping you once I have the full CFD complete. - The Bushranger One ping only 10:46, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Okay, but shouldn't Category:Soviet Mars probe program also included in the group nomination? Armbrust The Homunculus 10:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Good point, I'll fix that. And here's the full discussion. - The Bushranger One ping only 10:54, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

On the C. Everett Koop nom

This is passing, right? Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:06, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes. I assume, that Mediran also supports the edit. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:22, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Well, they thanked me for doing the edit, so I presume so. Just hate pushing people to annotate votes. Feels canvassingish. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:38, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 March newsletter

We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate London Miyagawa (submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's New South Wales Casliber (submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.

Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr (Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions)), on the European hare (Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions)), on the constellation Circinus (Alaska Keilana (submissions) and New South Wales Casliber (submissions)) and on the Third Epistle of John (Indiana Cerebellum (submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.

Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.

A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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. 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 22:29, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: CFD

Thanks for the reminder. I got distracted literally seconds after closing it, and only now am I back on the computer. If Tim hadn't come along, I would have had to go to a CFD regular and ask for help on the mechanics of getting the categories moved. Nyttend (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

No problem, that can happen with anybody. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:01, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Just in case

... any offence caused, was not meant Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:20, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

No offence taken. Happy editing, Armbrust The Homunculus 17:41, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 April 2013

The Wikimedia Foundation has released its latest report card for the movement's hundreds of sites. The WMF has published statistics about the sites since 2009, but only recently have these been expanded in scope and depth to provide a rich source of data for investigating the movement and the world it serves. Dutch-born Erik Zachte is the driver of the WMF's statistical output, and he writes that the report card and accompanying traffic statistics comprise "enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while".
This week's Report is dedicated to answering our readers' questions about WikiProjects. The following Frequently Asked Questions came from feedback at the WikiProject Report's talk page, the WikiProject Council's talk page, and from previous lists of FAQs.
The Signpost interviewed prolific featured content creator and former Signpost "featured content" report writer Crisco 1492 about ? and Indonesian cinema. ? was the "Today's featured article" for 1 April 2013. 1 April is popularly known as April Fools' Day in many countries.
The first round of individual engagement grants (IEGs) have been awarded, disbursing about $55.6k (€42.7k) to seven applicants.
A case brought by Lecen involves several articles about former Argentinian president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
Users of ten Wikipedias got access to phase 2 of Wikidata following its first rollout to production wikis.

Working Wikipedian's Barnstar (from Pine)

Thanks for the Barnstar. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:47, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

bet-at-home

Just a heads up: I do agree with the whitelisting request, and I would even be favourable to requests to de-list it on meta. However, the casino-review.org site is not a redirect .. it was plain affiliate spam (which I could not revert due to your subsequent edit .. :-( ). I've meta-blacklisted the latter, removed it from en.wikipedia (including using an intermediate whitelist to be able to do so), and replied to the whitelist request. Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:22, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for you swift reply. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:34, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2013

Numerous Wikimedia Commons editors have chimed in on the Wikimedia Foundation's deployment of a new feature to its mobile website. Allowing anonymous users to register and upload pictures for use in an article, the feature was placed prominently at the top of Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.
This week, we felt the world tremble in the presence of WikiProject Earthquakes. The project was started in May 2008 to deal with articles about earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, plate tectonics, and related articles. While the project has seen success building 14 Featured Articles, one A-class Article, and 21 Good Articles, a fairly heavy workload remains, with a relative WikiWork rating of 4.94. WikiProject Earthquakes maintains a portal, a list of open tasks, a popular pages listing, and an article alerts watchlist.
Last Friday, the Wikimedia movement awoke to news that one of their number—Rémi Mathis, a French volunteer editor—had been summoned to the offices of the interior intelligence service DCRI and threatened with criminal charges and fines if he did not delete an article on the French Wikipedia about a radio station used by the French military.
The arbitration committee is looking for expertise in Argentina and the Spanish language for a case involving former Argentinean president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
Four articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The deployment of phase 2 of Wikidata to the English Wikipedia, originally scheduled for 8 April but delayed due to technical problems, may be rescheduled again as the result of community resistance.

WP:FFU

Greetings! I've been working in the file space doing minor tasks for some time, and I'm starting to try to help out with WP:FFU. I'm only working on the obvious ones until I am confident that I have a good understanding of the procedures. I see you always helping out, so if you see something I do wrong, or if you have any advise, I would greatly appreciate you sharing. Thanks, -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 17:28, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. Your work at FFU seems fine to me. I didn't see any error on your part there. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:32, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

FC report (April)

Hi, I saw that you wrote this week's featured content report for the Signpost. While we appreciate being bold and helping out, it is also typical to talk with the section's normal writer(s) beforehand, which in this case are Hahc21 (talk · contribs) and Pine (talk · contribs). So while I thank you for doing it, could you collaborate with them before writing future sections? :-) Thanks again, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:24, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, of course. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:25, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks very much! I do want to emphasize that I'm not criticizing you, at all, no matter how that came off above. :-) Typing text can be an unfortunate medium. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:42, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

EUROCITIES logo change request

If the problem was the low quality of the logo you could have asked for a better quality instead of declining the request immediately! — Preceding unsigned comment added by EUROCITIESbrussels (talk • contribs) 10:31, 16 April 2013‎

I don't think so. Most of the time a request with a higher quality image isn't made. Also the fact that the image was declined doesn't mean, that you can't make another request. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:31, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2013

The RfA process is widely discussed here on the English Wikipedia and it has been well documented that less and less new Requests for adminship are being filed. There are an abundance of bytes devoted to the discussion and analysis of this situation and plenty of hands have been wrung over the matter. Various RfCs have attempted to find a way to fix the problem. Many proposals have been made offering solutions, some more potentially drastic than others, with the goal of making the changes necessary to kick–start RfA back into regular action. However, Wikipedia operates based on consensus and, to this point, there are have simply been too many disagreeing views for us to reach a consensus on how to increase RfA activity.
This week, we ventured to WikiProject South Africa. The project was started in February 2005 and is home to thirteen pieces of featured material, two A-class articles, and twenty-one good articles.
The most recent move to reform the requests for adminship process on the English Wikipedia has failed, after a complex and drawn-out three-step procedure for community input was subject to decreasing participation as time wore on and came up with no clear consensus.
Four articles, twelve lists, and seven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Category help

Hi Armbrust, I put SIMPOL in Category:Political campaigns - it showed up in the upper section (subcategories) instead of lower part (categories). I'm very new to all this (and not too clever) therefore I'm not surprised that I made a mistake - many apologies for you needing to put a question mark on it (it can be deleted by the way). I have now put International Simultaneous Policy Organization into the category section there instead - I know how I was able to put it there; but please can you tell me how I put SIMPOL as a subcategory (so that I don't do it again and cause work for others). Many thanks for your time. Best wishes, Richard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fountain Posters (talk • contribs) 20:50, 19 April 2013

You put the Category:SIMPOL page in the category instead of International Simultaneous Policy Organization. As the former is a category it appeared at the right place. For more information on categorizing pages see: Wikipedia:Categorization. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:04, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

April 2013

This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks for your disruption caused by edit warring and violation of the three-revert rule at 2013 World Snooker Championship. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bbb23 (talk) 01:43, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
I don't get it Armbrust. You do so much great work and are a real help in numerous administrative areas, but you don't seem to be able to restrain yourself from edit warring. I felt so bad when I accidently blocked you two years ago, now that block is just the beginning of a very long record of actual valid blocks for edit warring again and again in the same topic area. When this block expires I would strongly suggest you simply topic ban yourself from the world snooker championship articles. Nobody wants to see a user who does so much great work get thrown out for good, but eventually that is what will happen if you can't find a way to avoid these edit wars. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:17, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2013

An article by John Sweeney published on 22 April 2013 on scnow.com, the website of the Florence, South Carolina Morning News, reported that Florence city officials have taken to monitoring and correcting the Wikipedia article on their city.
This week, we spent some time with a project that develops tools and methods for improving the user experience in the hope that new users will continue editing the encyclopedia. The project was started in July 2012 and has grown to include 124 members. The project's members partner with the Teahouse and the Welcoming Committee to spread WikiLove, welcome new users, encourage civility, and other related activities.
The Wikimedia Conference is an annual meeting of the chapters to discuss their status and the organisational development of the Wikimedia movement. For the first time it included groups that wish to be considered for WMF affiliation as thematic organisations and one of the three groups that was recently affiliated as a user group. The conference was also attended by members of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the WMF Affiliations Committee, and a representative of the Wikivoyage Association.
Nine articles, four lists, eight pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
The Sexology case is nearing completion after arbitrators were unable to agree on a topic ban for one of the participants.
On Monday, the English Wikipedia became the 12th wiki to be able to pull data from the central Wikidata.org repository, with other wikis scheduled to receive the update on Wednesday.

The Signpost: 29 April 2013

The Funds Dissemination Committee released its recommendations to the WMF board last Sunday. The news that the Hong Kong chapter's application for US$212K had failed was followed by a strongly worded resignation announcement by Deryck Chan on the public Wikimedia-l mailing-list.
On 24 April 2013, novelist Amanda Filipacchi published what turned out to be an influential op-ed in the New York Times; illuminating the unusual background of the Yuri Gadyukin hoax.
Nine articles, three lists, three pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" this week.
This week, we traveled to the Japanese Wikipedia's WikiProject Baseball for perspectives from a version of Wikipedia that treats WikiProjects as their own unique namespace (プロジェクト:) independent of "Wikipedia:".
The WP:TOP25 and WP:5000 reports chronicle the most popular Wikipedia articles on a weekly basis.
The Sexology case closed shortly after publication with no changes.
A report on an online service which was created to conduct real-time monitoring of Wikipedia articles of companies, and more.
This week saw the deployment of the Echo extension, also known as "notifications".

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:33, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Already seen. Just as you'd expect from spc 21, warn and report. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:41, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
I thought that's exactly what you did to me 3 weeks ago? Weird..... Spc 21 (talk) 00:48, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
No. I did warn you, then you reverted again. I only reported you after that. (But of course you won't notice this fine difference.) Armbrust The Homunculus 00:50, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2013

Although not yet in great numbers, candidates are coming forward for Wikimedia Foundation elections, which will be held from 1 to 15 June. The elections will fill vacancies in three categories, the most prominent of which will be the three community-elected seats on the ten-member Board of Trustees (or the first Board meeting after the election results are announced, if sooner). The current two-year terms for these trustee positions ends on 1 September.
The Wikimedia Foundation will be receiving more than $100,000 worth of free developer time courtesy of internet giant Google, it was announced this week. The funds, allocated as part of Google's Summer of Code programme, will support up to 21 student developers through three months of coding time.
May sees the beginning of Round 3 of the 2013 WikiCup, with 33 of the original 127 competitors remaining. ... six articles, ten pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The SOS Children's Villages news service advised on 3 May 2013 that Wikipedia for Schools 2013 is nearly ready for release. ... On 26 April 2013, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation published an article reviewing Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's edits to the English Wikipedia, where it revealed the name of Breivik's English Wikipedia account.
This week's English Wikipedia project, WikiProject Biophysics, is home to several experts in their fields and a collaboration with the Biophysical Society. The project is hosting a contest through July 15 with six contributors winning $100 in cash and given the opportunity to attend the 2014 meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco. Other strong entries will be awarded barnstars online and everyone who contributes can receive a physical button mailed out to them.

SignPost's Featured Content report

Hey! If you have time, could you help me finish up this week's report? Only the FAs are yet to be done. Thank you for all the help :) — ΛΧΣ21 03:10, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

 Done Armbrust The Homunculus 10:16, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks a lot :D — ΛΧΣ21 14:22, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Doctor Zhivago (TV miniseries)

I know it was a year ago, but there wasn't a consensus yet on whether to rename the article. I wonder if you can revert the closure and the relist the discussion. Also, I wonder if you can revert it back to Doctor Zhivago (TV serial). --George Ho (talk) 17:03, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Snooker Q School 2013 Event 2

Hallo Armbrust, ich hoffe meine beiträge zur qschool sind nun gut. ;) Was genau bedeutet den "kl."? (siehe) Ehrlich gesagt verstehe ich auch nicht wieso spiele gegen bereits qualifizierte nicht einfach mit "w/o" oder halt "kl." markiert werden, dies macht worldsnooker auch so. (siehe) Grüsse badesalzloesung — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badesalzloesung (talk • contribs) 17:54, 15 May 2013‎

Ja, ich denke es stimmt alles. "kl." ist die Abkürzung des deutschen Wortes für "kampflos", und "w/o" steht für das englische Wort "walkover". Armbrust The Homunculus 18:25, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2013

The removal of administrator rights from all volunteers on the Wikimedia Foundation's official website sparked a highly emotional reaction on the Wikimedia-l mailing list—one of the largest off-wiki methods of communication for the Wikimedia movement.
This week, we spent some time watching WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts, which was started in August 2005 and has grown to include 12 Good Articles and a Featured List.
Fourteen articles, three lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia, including Boletus luridus, seen above.
An article published on May 10 on Odwyerpr.com written by Greg Hazley documented a "spar" between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and public relations firm Qorvis partner Matt Lauer, who disputes Wikipedia's guideline discouraging public relations firms from editing articles on their clients.
The Race and politics case has been accepted for arbitration, and the evidence phase is now open. Two other cases remain open.

This week's FC report

Thanks for your work on the Signpost FC report this week. Please be careful when crediting nominators of featured content. Please note the comments at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-05-13/Featured content. Thanks! --Pine✉ 05:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Oops. It looks like I added one of the credits to the wrong line. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:08, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Signpost's Featured content report for 20 May

Hi, if you have a moment today, could you help finish Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-05-20/Featured content? I have Hahc21 doing a story on the Spanish Wikipedia's one millionth article, so he's a bit too busy to work at FC at the moment. If not, it's not a problem, but please let me know as soon as possible. :-) Thanks! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:53, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm on it (shortly, just close some FPCs). Armbrust The Homunculus 05:52, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 Done. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:31, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:00, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Spanish Wedding by Marià Fortuny
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Fortuny - La Vicaría (Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, 1870. Óleo sobre tabla, 60 x 93,5 cm).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:50, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for closing it. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:06, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2013

Nominations closed last Friday for the three community-elected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) ten-member Board of Trustees—the ultimate corporate authority of the worldwide WMF. The Board has influential roles and responsibilities over one of the most powerful global information sources on the Internet.
This week, we traveled to WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. The project was started in May 2006 and has 37 featured articles.
On 16 May, the Spanish Wikipedia became the seventh Wikipedia to cross the million article Rubicon, a symbolic yet important achievement.
Salon.com published another article detailing the ongoing incidents with Wikipedia user Qworty, who has identified himself as Robert Clark Young. It documents Qworty's role in the controversy involving Amanda Filipacchi's op-ed, which kindled a debate on Wikipedia sexism as it relates to categories, where Qworty was responsible for a series of revenge edits against Filipacchi in the days after she released her op-ed.
Nine articles, six lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Template:Announcements/New featured content

Hi, Armbrust. Adding nowrap to this breaks Portal:Featured content for me. I do not think having to scroll the whole page is better than a wrapped title. Don't assume such fixed formatting works just because it works for your particular setup. I am talking about 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian). 80.132.77.140 (talk) 14:24, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't know what you mean. {{Nowrap}} can't break the table in any way. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:26, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Well it makes the first column take up as much space as it needs to display the title unwrapped (say 90% of the page width). The remaining columns try to squeeze in the remaining 10 % but they can't get narrower than the longest word in them. So in effect the table overshoots and one has to scroll. This has to happen if there is really not enough space but nowrap forces it unnecessarily. 80.132.77.140 (talk) 16:45, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
That's unfortunate, but to achieve the result you describe someone needs a monitor with a resolution less than 1024x768. Per Wikipedia:ACCESS#Resolution: "The lowest resolution that it is considered possible to support without adversely affecting other users is 1024×768". It looks just okay at that resolution. See there. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:01, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Well it's not just screen resolution but also font size etc. And I would not complain if there was a good reason for the nowrap. Do you really think it's that bad to have the title wrapped ? Regardless of screen/font size it also makes the width of the columns unequal (they are supposed to be 33% each). 80.132.77.140 (talk) 18:16, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
If you would add such long titles with nowrap to all 3 columns you could make it overshot even on 2560x1600. 80.132.77.140 (talk) 18:21, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I think it is. Every list should contain 15 items, but the wrapping of a line has caused many confusion on the page, and the wrapped line was seen as 2 item. There is also no rule, that says they had to be 33% each. To your last point, that's the exact reason, why the Featured Lists columns is in the second row. The promotion of Featured Topics and Featured Portals is very rare nowadays. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:31, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
That's what the bullets are for. All that fiddling with fixed formats is futile I think, there will be the next case when it breaks. It's also not required because Wikipedia isn't a "stylish" website anyway. As to the 33% the code says style="width:33%;. Has this already been discussed somewhere ? 80.132.77.140 (talk) 18:41, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
But only for people with a monitor resolution of less than 1024×768, and according to Wikipedia:ACCESS#Resolution these don't need to be considered. Also the style="width:33%; code is also there in the second row, but there is no third empty column. BTW the WP:MOS contradicts your assessment, that "Wikipedia isn't a "stylish" website". Armbrust The Homunculus 18:48, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
OK, I don't agree, but thank you for explaining your view. This particular item isn't very important. Where do you think this point could be discussed in general ? 80.132.77.140 (talk) 18:54, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Everything that's related to this template should be discussed on it's talk page, there. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:13, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Patrick Einsle

Hallo Armbrust, der Artikel hatte einen Übersetzungsbaustein. Habe diesen abgearbeitet. Geh doch bitte nochmal drüber. Kann evtl. noch ein bisschen Schliff vertragen. Dank im Voraus. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 17:45, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

PS: Sieht hier nach einem edit-war von Dutchsnookerfan aus.

Habe einige Verbesserungen mit dem Text gemacht, einige Links korrigiert. Es gibt aber noch zwei Probleme: (1) Die Einführungsteil ist viel zu kurz und (2) es gibt viel zu viele Information, die durch gar keinen Einzelnachweis unterstützt werden. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:28, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
PS: Es sieht aus, dass es aufgehört hat. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:28, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Auf der deutschen Seite gibt es auch keine ergänzenden Refs. Der Text ist so nach und nach entstanden. Aber im Prinzip kann man ja den Text durch die Turniere nachweisen. Danke für's glätten. Schönen Abend noch. --LezFraniak (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2013 (UTC)  Done
Dir auch. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:54, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2013

Alongside the Signpost's interviews with the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees candidates, the Signpost asked the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and its Ombudsperson position a series of questions relating to the positions they may be taking on. For the FDC candidates, this will include specific recommendations to the WMF on how to disburse over US$11 million in donors' funds to affiliate organizations, something which appears to have garnered little attention from the editing community at large so far.
In the continuing saga of User:Qworty's outing as author Robert Clark Young, several blogs and websites covered the now-banned user's anti-Pagan editing. In an article published on 22 May 2013, TechEye described Qworty's edits as a "reign of terror" and were pleased to find that he had not succeeded in removing several prominent Pagan biographies from the encyclopedia.
The elections for the three community seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees start on 8 June. This second and final part of the interview explores two broad themes: Meta, the site that hosts movement-wide coordination; and offline entities—the chapters and the new thematic organisations and user groups.
This week, we plotted out the demarcations of WikiProject Geographical Coordinates, which aims to create a single standard of handling coordinates in Wikipedia articles.
Twelve articles, four lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
An article in Library Review offers a much-needed comparison of data from a population of editors outside the English Wikipedia.
Second only to the technical track of Wikimania in terms of numbers, the Berlin Hackathon (2009–2012) provided those with an interest in the software that underpins Wikimedia wikis and supports its editors a place to gather, exchange ideas and learn new skills.

Featured content

Hey Armbrust. I'd like to formally ask you to take the FA section of the FC report and make it yours, just like Pine does with the FP part. I'll be very busy from now on and I won't be able to do both the FL and FA parts of the report. So, I'll make the FL part, you do the FA part, and Pine does the FP part. Pine and I will handle the special reports and interviews, though if you have one, we'd be glad to publish it too :) I'd also like to give you my words of appreciation for all the help you've been doing. I deeply thank you for all your efforts, and for backing me up when I was unable to finish the work. Thank you! — ΛΧΣ21 03:47, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

I have not missed it, was just a bit busy this week. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:52, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
We were thinking of just having you write the FA section, not the entire FC report as you wrote this week although I appreciate your initiative. That's ok with me this week though, I can use some time for other things. --Pine✉ 19:28, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Setzplätze Qualifikanten

Hi Armbrust, nur zur Info für mich. Warum sind die Setzplätze der Qualifikanten unnötig? Werden bei Snooker.org ebenfalls genannt. Sieht außerdem nicht schön aus. Ah, noch etwas. Warum müssen Dunn und White nochmal die WC spielen? Haben ja ihre Quali schon gewonnen. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 07:38, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Die Seztplätze der Qualifikanten wird auch in anderen Artikeln nicht angegeben. Also sie sind unnötig für Konsistenz. Im Zeizplan steht: "The Australian wildcards 1 and 2 will play two players selected at random from the lowest 16 seeded qualifiers". Armbrust The Homunculus 08:25, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Danke. Schönen Tag noch. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 09:06, 6 June 2013 (UTC)  Done

The Signpost: 05 June 2013

The Signpost: 12 June 2013

ArmbrustBot & CFDs

Hi, is ArmbrustBot still processing CFD outcomes? The regular bot has been down all day and a backlog is piling up. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:00, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Of course. It just has to be activated manually. Will do in a moment. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:02, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 Bot activated...... For now it works the CFDS nominations until African Commissioners. After it finished I will add the others too. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:06, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 Backlog cleared, new categories created and old ones nominated for deletion. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:46, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
We have a bunch of speedy renames to clear through in the next few hours, it would be great if we could have the bot working on these, since Cydebot seems to be on strike. I've added some, but there are several hundred more to be listed today at WP:CFDW. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 Done for now. Created target categories. The remaining ones are IMO waiting in the job queue. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:54, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Oh, I was referring to the categories listed here. Are these the ones in the bot's queue? The only targets created for those ones are the ones Vegaswikian and I have done manually. I saw you were creating some manually. Can the bot not do this—this is really all we need it to do, since these categories are populated by templates and there are really no contents for the bot to "move". Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:20, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately the bot can only recategorise pages using the AutoWikiBrowsers CFD module, it can't create the new categories. I'm afraid it has to be done manually. Armbrust The Homunculus 05:39, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Ah! I see. That makes sense. Thanks for the work you and the bot did do on the other ones! We'll try to get Cydebot up and running for these other ones. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:02, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Cheers!

Just wanted to say cheers for your diligence, patience and hardwork in closing noms over at FPC, especially in light of the recent set of 47. I know it's thankless, dull and sometimes controversial work. Cowtowner (talk) 03:37, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Oh, the 47 image set nomination. I already made every step in the closure of that on Friday, and than saved in on my computer. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:24, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 June 2013

Following last week's op-ed by Gigs ("The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"), the Signpost is carrying two contrary opinions from MichaelMaggs, a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons, and Mattbuck, a British Commons administrator.
The season finale of Game of Thrones ensured that the epic high fantasy series would dominate the top 10 again last week; however, it was joined by Maurice Sendak and Man of Steel.
Memeburn.com published an article on the yearning of students in South Africa for free knowledge through Wikipedia Zero.
This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.
With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.
Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
The WMF's engineering report for May was published recently on the Wikimedia blog and on the MediaWiki wiki ("friendly" summary version), giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.
Richard Farmbrough was set to have his day in court, but as events transpired, this was not to be so. On 25 March 2013, an accusation was made against Farmbrough at Arbitration Enforcement (AE), claiming that he violated the terms of an automated edit restriction. Within hours, Farmbrough had filed his own request with the arbitration committee, citing the newly filed AE request and claiming that the motion was being used "in an absurd way" in the filing of enforcement requests: "I have not made any edits that a sane person would consider automation."

Subcategories

Armbrust, will you please take a look at this edit and tell me if it's correct? It looks redundant to me, but I don't know much about categorization, so can you let me know if the article should belong to both Category:Snooker world rankings and Category:Sports world rankings. Betty Logan (talk) 19:38, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

WP:EPON says that's one of the possible options: "Keep both the eponymous category and the main article in the parent category." However it also says, that the best solution should be decided "by consensus for each category tree". However I think the 3rd option is the best in this case. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:54, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

AGIPI Billiard Masters, Wieder

Hi Armbrust, was meint der Baustein am Anfang des Artikels? Sollten noch weitere Refs genannt werden? Wird in Frage gestellt ob dieses Turnier wichtig genug ist? Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 11:11, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Das Problem ist, das die Artikel nur Einzelnachweise hat, die von AGIPI Billiard Masters selbst kommen. Die Artikel braucht Einzelnachweise, die von der Subjekt des Artikels unabhängig sind, wie zum Beispiel Kozoom.com. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:25, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Ich habe noch ein bisschen Text ergänzt und 4 Refs hinzugefügt. Wenn das reicht, kannst du dann den Baustein entfernen?!. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 12:31, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 Erledigt. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:34, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

TemplateData

Hey Armbrust

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I already have tested VisualEditor, and I didn't like it at all. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:29, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Poland Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, New South Wales Casliber (submissions) and Canada Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 10:00, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Glossary of cue sports terms

Hi Armbrust, schau dir mal den letzten Edit an. Worin liegt der Sinn dieser Änderung? Wenn ich mir die Beschreibung der Vorlage Template:Cuegloss2 ansehe, dann ist sie doch für den Gebrauch innerhalb des Artikels gemacht worden, oder? Hat der Autor die Syntax jetzt nicht unnötig aufgebläht? Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 12:23, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Es ist eine Demonstration um zu beweisen, dass der Vorlage {{Cuegloss2}} überflüssig zum Vorlage {{Glossary link internal}} ist. Wurde schon zur Löschung nominiert. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
OK. Das macht Sinn! Danke. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 08:54, 2 July 2013 (UTC)  Done

FC report (July)

Hey Armbrust :) How are you? I'd like to know if you could back me up at the FC report this next two weeks, given that I would like to dedicate myself to take some of my projects to FAC. I can do the FL part and Pine will handle, as usual, the pictures, but I need you to help me with the featured articles, if you can. Cheers! — ΛΧΣ21 02:07, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done this weeks edition. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:09, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Media uploading

Hi! Thank you for uploading the logo of Avea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarikaltuncu (talk • contribs) 07:12, 2 July 2013

Be my guest. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:47, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

RfPERM

Hi Armbrust, just to let you know I undid your removal of the old bot request at WT:AWB/CP, as I'm using it to test a new version of the bot (which will handle the AWB bot requests!) Cheers, - Kingpin13 (talk) 23:35, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks for the info. Armbrust The Homunculus 23:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.
Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.
The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.
The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.
Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

Thanks

Thanks for helping to clean up the new People subdivisions at WP:FP. I'll also go through and do some more work on them, but setting them up was a decent chunk of work, so... Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:06, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure. At least this is done too. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:18, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! (from Dr. Kabir Hossain)

Thanks for the Barnstar. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:47, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Request for this week's FC report

Would you please write the FP portion of this week's FC report? I'm swamped with work. Thanks, --Pine✉ 18:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

 Doing... Armbrust The Homunculus 18:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 Done. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! --Pine✉ 05:08, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Systems articles in

Thanks for adding those other ones for speedy, I hadn't checked whether there were any similar ones. Fram (talk) 08:25, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I was checking if these could be implemented by the bot. At {{WikiProject Systems}} have seen there many more categories with the same issues. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:20, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up my Files for upload shortcomings - I got called away due to School, and couldn't complete it. Thanks, Mdann52 (talk) 13:44, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the cookie. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:46, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.
This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.
The fundamental idea of an infobox is clear: keep it simple and limited to essentials. At some point, however, these basic principles seem to have been abandoned, in favour of an approach akin to "the more the merrier".
Five articles, six lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

Hungarian help needed

Hello Gábor, I'm contacting you because we need some Hungarian translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on hu.wikipedia. There are help pages, user guides, and description pages that need translating, as well as the interface itself. The translating work is going on over on MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message for the Hungarian Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 01:14, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I dislike this new feature, and therefore won't help with any translation about it. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:12, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Fair enough, thanks for the reply. PEarley (WMF) (talk) 20:07, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Requests for Closure

Hello Armbrust, In case you haven't come across me before, I'm a reviewer and rollbacker here on Wikipedia. I've been working at settling disputes and bringing closure to other disputes for as long as I have had these tools, but your incentive for earning an award is one that I'd like to take you up on. Shall I begin and let you know when I've completed the incentive? DarthBotto talk•cont 11:37, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I have no idea what you're speaking about. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Isn't this your reward board post? DarthBotto talk•cont 20:55, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Oops, totally forgot about that one already. If you list the four discussions you closed, than I will award you with the Barnstar. (BTW set the expiry date on the reward board to 31 December 2013.) Armbrust The Homunculus 21:10, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Just to say thank you again for the barnstar, Armbrust. Best, SlimVirgin (talk) 21:24, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 July 2013

This week, we explored the fantasy worlds of video game developer Square Enix by interviewing WikiProject Square Enix. The project began in September 2006 as a spin-off of WikiProject Final Fantasy, but today covers that, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and a variety of other game series, with exceptions explained in the interview below. The project is home to 32 pieces of Featured material and 104 Good and A-class articles.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
Last week the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual plan for July 2013 to June 2014. It provides a surprisingly frank view—of past achievements and failures, and future goals and risks—that could be afforded only by a non-profit that is confident and beholden to no commercial or political interests.
Four articles, five lists, and sixteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds was opened. Voting on the Tea Party movement case continued, after a failed attempt at moderated discussion. A group tasked with deciding the content of the lead section of the Jerusalem article has reported back to the committee. Applications for checkuser and oversight permissions close on 22 July.

Multi-sport events – amateur events?

Per this edit I saw that you think multi-sport events are counted as amateur events. Then also the World Games would be an amateur event and the winners Bjorn Haneveer, Gerard Greene and Nigel Bond have it as non-ranking in their articles. --BlueFire10 Let's talkabout my edits? 12:48, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done that on the other articles as well. Thanks for pointing it out. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Request for help

Would you please write the report about the Featured articles for last week in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-07-24/Featured_content? Thanks, --Pine✉ 05:34, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, it will be ready for tomorrow. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:25, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Just a ping on this, thanks :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:38, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 Done Sorry for the delay. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:09, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
No worries, there'll be a few hours before I publish (waiting on an email reply I just sent out), but I wanted to ask now as opposed to two minutes before hitting the button. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 09:14, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

The Washington Post reported Tuesday on the most controversial articles on various language Wikipedias as determined by a cross-continental research group.
This week, the Signpost delved into the vast and complex areas of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that make up religion. WikiProject Religion has been around since 2005 and has a complex scope, in that it only takes articles that deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense, along with any articles that do not have a dedicated daughter project.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Contributors to Wikivoyage, the sister project adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. ... The Wikimedia Foundation has announced via press release that it has partnered with Aircel to provide free mobile access to Wikipedia.
Death hangs over the top 10 this week, as tragic deaths both past and present continued to cast their pall over an already troubled world. The death of Corey Monteith led to a spike in interest in the man himself, his girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele, and the show that made them both famous, Glee.
Twelve articles, seven lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Infoboxes was opened. The evidence phase continues in Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Voting on the proposed decision continues in the Tea Party movement case.

Thanks for fixing backlinks to Category:Politicians of Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939). Did you have to do null edits on all the pages with template:Silesia topics? Is there a tool to do so quickly? – Fayenatic London 11:56, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, made many null edits. I use AWB to make them, and it's relatively quick. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:59, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
OK, thanks. Wish there was a version of AWB that worked on Mac OS. – Fayenatic London 20:28, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

A nod of thanks, and a teensy request for help

Hey Armbrust, I took inspiration from your user page and used it to help create mine. You seem quite handy with the code; can you help me figure out how to get overflow to work on my barnstars section? I want it to scroll so it doesn't take up too much space. The only examples I can find of how overflow works seems to require a substantial change, and I didn't want to deviate too much from your style. Any ideas? Thanks! Julia\talk 21:47, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry to answer this late, but somehow I missed this section. I have found a possible solution, but it only works if you move the Barnstars to a subpage. If you move them to User:Julia W/Barnstars, than replace the current content with {{Scroll box|height=600px|width=100%|{{User:Julia W/Barnstars}}}}. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:38, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Canada Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, London Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Poland Piotrus (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

Other than that, there is not much to report! 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 reduce 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:25, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Image formatting

Thanks for writing the FA section in the FC report. However, please leave the image format as I had it. The sidebar that you've been using creates some very strange formatting effects in my browser and probably those of other editors as well. Thanks, --Pine✉ 05:39, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

One of the narratives I've heard a lot is that Wikipedia is unable to change, that it's too stagnant, too poorly resourced, too inherently resistant to change. I don't believe that at all.
An ArXiv preprint titled "Highlighting entanglement of cultures via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles" is about the Wikipedia articles on individuals and their position in the hyperlink network of the articles in each Wikipedia language edition, considering the whole hyperlink network.
Somewhat predictably, the birth of a new heir to the House of Windsor on 22 July led the English-speaking world to suddenly embrace Monarchism. In honour of this occasion, the Traffic report will be assiduously employing British spelling and dating conventions. Cheers.
This week, we visited the Turkish Wikipedia for an interview with VikiProje Siyaset (WikiProject Politics). The project began in April 2010 and has sustained a small but enthusiastic group of editors focusing on both the domestic politics of Turkey and international politics. The basics for article quality and importance ratings have been determined, but tracking this data has not yet become widespread on the Turkish Wikipedia. The project maintains a portal, a variety of resources, and a rotating selection of images to spruce up the project's page.
The ninth annual Wikimania conference will open in just over a week at the Jockey Club Auditorium, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania is for people worldwide who have an interest in Wikimedia Foundation projects. It features presentations and discussions on those projects, on free knowledge and content, and on related social and technical issues.
The case Race and politics was closed, while three other cases remain open.
Eight articles, five lists, seven pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Fourteen editors have been proposed for a six-month page ban in the Tea Party movement case. In the Infoboxes and Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds cases, the workshop and evidence phases have closed, and proposed decisions are scheduled to be posted.
It's crickets and tumbleweeds this week, as the top 10 sees its lowest view-count since the project began. If Wikipedia were selling anything, we'd be having a fire sale by now.
The opening days of the annual Wikimania, referred to as the "pre-conference", are not typically newsworthy. This changed dramatically when the Chapters Association council met on Thursday.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

About a thousand Wikimedians journeyed to Hong Kong this week for the annual Wikimania conference, the annual gathering of the Wikimedia movement. Wikimania, which has been held since 2005, serves as the principal physical meetup for Wikimedians around the world.
One major story that came out of Wikimania was Jimmy Wales' statements at the conference that he would prefer to have Wikipedia banned entirely in mainland China than censored as it is currently.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and its public face to most of the media, has declared that media organizations are missing out on the "opportunity of the century" by not conducting true investigative reporting into American surveillance practices, a debate kindled by information leaked by Edward Snowden.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case has closed, with a unanimous decision to desysop a Wikimedia Foundation employee and indefinitely ban another editor. The Tea Party movement case has stalled yet again, in the wake of a controversial proposal to ban 14 editors. A proposed decision in the Infoboxes case was scheduled to be posted on 14 August.

Template:World snooker champions

One of these days, Armbrust – one of these days, one of us will come up with a template format that both of us are happy with. LookLook36 (talk) 10:32, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Article Liu Chuang moved to Liu Chuang (snooker player)

The snooker player article Liu Chuang has been moved to Liu Chuang (snooker player) and there is now a disambiguation page. But the links have not been fixed so all links on snooker articles lead to the disambiguation page. --BlueFire10 Let's talkabout my edits? 11:59, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

 Doing... Armbrust The Homunculus 12:04, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
 Done Armbrust The Homunculus 13:52, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification and your fast work!

Thanks for reminding me about the CFD for those "individuals" categories -- and for your fast work on editing the speedy CFD page. Your efficiency is incredible! --Orlady (talk) 20:55, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Armbrust The Homunculus 22:57, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage

Sorry about that, I wasn't aware there was opposition to that. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:47, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

No problem. That discussion is really not easy to find. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:55, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 August 2013

Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do, and the need for an independent, volunteer-run Signpost continues to grow, given the increasing complexity and financial expenditures of the global Wikimedia movement.
In one of the more surprising turns of events surrounding the WikiLeaks saga, US soldier Bradley Manning announced a change in his sexual identity last Thursday.
A proposed decision has been posted in the Infoboxes case that includes statements on metadata and microformat issues.
This week, we spent some time with the folks behind Today's Article for Improvement, commonly shortened to TAFI, which Coin945 notes is pronounced "taffy". The initiative began in July 2012 as an attempt to "use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles... over a short time frame." Two of the project's touted accomplishments are improving the articles for Sea and Entertainment from start-class to Good Article status. In addition to drawing veteran editor attention with a Community Portal widget and weekly announcements posted to subscribed talk pages, TAFI briefly appeared as a box on Wikipedia's main page welcoming new editors to contribute. Plans are ongoing to return TAFI to the main page.
A new post in the WMF blog describes Assistant Professor Amy E. Hughes' experience in the Wikimedia Education Program with a two term graduate class on Western theater history.
The arrival of the final season of Breaking Bad, arguably the most critically acclaimed TV series since The Wire, has spurred interest across the board, with two entries in the top 10. A Google Doodle to celebrate the birthday of physicist Erwin Schrödinger gave entries for both the man and his ill-used cat. This week was also another banner week for Indian viewers, with four India-related topics in the list, including no. 1, no doubt aided by the celebration of that country's Independence Day on August 15.
Seventeen articles, three lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Thanks to a new MediaWiki extension, editors can now use the popular LilyPond format to embed musical scores in articles.
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