User talk:Seabuckthorn/Archives/2014/01User:Seabuckthorn/Archive Header A barnstar for you!
Your reviews in generalI feel that you are barely looking at the articles that you are passing.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 08 January 2014
Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.
MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.
On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.
At the very start of the new year, 2014's WikiCup—an annual competition which has been held on Wikipedia in various forms since 2007—began.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Television.
Twelve articles, three lists, seven pictures, and a portal were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.
"Finn the Human" GAFirst off, let me say thanks for reviewing my articles. Second, I made the changes you suggested and dropped a line on the GA review page, but it looks like it didn't refresh (it seems the issue is affecting "Evicted!" and "Lady & Peebles" as well), so I thought I'd just post on your talk page. How do these changes look?--Gen. Quon (Talk) 01:26, 12 January 2014 (UTC) Cliff AlexanderHave you noticed my responses to your concerns?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:12, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Multiple reviewsI would give one last piece of advice regarding GAN reviews, that I didn't mention during our mentorship. I'd recommend against having too many GAN reviews open at the same time. It's great that you're performing so many GAN reviews, and it's really helping reduce the backlog! Your enthusiasm is fantastic. But currently, you have a couple that you accepted for review 8 or 9 days ago, but that you have not yet posted a review, because you've been working on other GAN reviews instead. Usually, it shouldn't take more than 7 days between when you accept a GAN for review and when you actually post the review. What I do is, I accept one GAN, and the focus on it until I have a review posted. Then I put it on hold. Once the first one is one hold, then I start another. I may have 4 or 5 open at once, but I'll only have 1 that's waiting for an initial review. See what I mean? So that's what I'd recommend. Anyway, thank for helping with the GAN backlog! All the best, – Quadell (talk) 14:38, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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GANsWhen I nominate these GANs, I don't plan for them all to be reviewed at the same time. It is going to take me a while to get to all of your issues.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:42, 16 January 2014 (UTC) GA reviewsHey Seabuckthorn, which of the GA review templates do you use to generate that great setup such as you used on Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971? I like it, would like to swipe it if I knew which one it was and how to make it "go". Montanabw(talk) 01:35, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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Talk:Parliamentary Monitoring Services/GA1Thanks for your review at Talk:Parliamentary Monitoring Services/GA1, I've responded at the subpage. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 04:31, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
GAR notificationFrank Underwood (House of Cards), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC) Additional issueYou should also comment at Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations#query.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:49, 19 January 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 15 January 2014
Wikimedia Germany, the largest national affiliate, has authored an extensive critique of the Funds Dissemination Committee's process for issuing funding recommendations for the various large organizations in the movement.
The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.
It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.
Wikipedia's recent decline in readership, possibly due to Google's Knowledge Graph. ... Judith Newman in the New York Times asks "What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page?"
We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.
This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at WikiProject Sociology.
Thank youThank you for this comment, I hadn't noticed it before! Most appreciated! Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 04:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Regarding Talk:Velodona/GA1Hello there. Thank you for agreeing to take on the review of Velodona. I've looked over some of your reviews, and you seem exceedingly thorough. I'll be interested in hearing your feedback. Some of the sources are, unfortunately, behind a paywall. If you would like for me to send them to you so that you can do a copyvio check, shoot me an email, and I will attach them in a reply email. Please note that I am in Eastern Standard Time (UTC -5), so while it's half an hour before noon where you live, it's an hour after midnight where I live. Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 05:57, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 January 2014
A particularly esoteric anthology of speculative fiction, filled with imaginary Wikipedia entries from, as the introduction puts it, "the many Wikipedias across the Multiverse."
The Wikimedia Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy's application of pending changes level two on the article Conventional PCI—an action taken under its rarely used office actions policy—has escalated to the Arbitration Committee after an editor upgraded it to full protection.
Fifteen articles, nine lists, twenty pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.
On 15 January, Wikipedia turned thirteen years old. In that time, this site has grown from a small site that was known to only a select few to one of the most popular websites on the internet. At the same time, recent data suggests that there is a power curve among users, where the comparative few who are writing most of Wikipedia have most of the edits. The result of this is that there is going to be bias in what is created, and how we deal with it as Wikipedians is indicative of the future of the site. Furthermore, this brings up what we have to do in order to combat this bias, as there are many ideas, but the question is whether they will work or not.
This week we're interviewing Brion Vibber about the then-upcoming Architecture Summit. Brion is a long time Wikipedian, the first employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently the lead software architect working with the mobile team.
An article in USA Today announced that a European-funded project called RoboEarth that is designed to give robots a mechanism by which to access information to dispense.
While the 71st Golden Globe Awards, held on 12 January, had an impact on the top 25, their presence was largely absent from the Top 10. With the exception of Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the only Golden Globe entrants in the Top 10 are films that would have been there anyway.
Talk:Bomis/GA1Thanks for your helpful suggestions at Talk:Bomis/GA1. I've gone ahead and went through them and modified the article accordingly. Perhaps you could reevaluate at Talk:Bomis/GA1. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 00:10, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
GA reviewsThanks once more for taking the time to thoroughly review the two articles I nominated. :) Lemonade51 (talk) 15:12, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
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