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On 2 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Meligalas, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after the withdrawal of German forces, left-wing partisans defeated and summarily executed some 700 to 1,100 Nazi collaborators in Meligalas, Greece? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Meligalas. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Battle of Meligalas), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:01, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Constantine,
Thanks for your suggestions, unfortunately I know no German whatsoever - some Old English, but it isn't really of much help with modern German. I have Angold, M. (2012) Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, but as a digital copy which is lacking page numbers, so not a great deal of use. Feel free to add any modern interpretations that can be gleaned from other sources. Urselius ( talk) 10:14, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Constantine,
Thanks for the download on Constantine V.
I did a digital restoration of the mosaic of John II - just wanted you to see it in case I did something wrong (not having uploaded any image before) and they remove it for some reason. Urselius ( talk) 12:55, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
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- LouisAragon ( talk) 00:35, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:
Way to go!
Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.
He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.
Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.
Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.
One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.
This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.
Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.
This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.
We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.
We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...
Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:
{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}
Using both maxheight=120px
and overflow=Hidden
produces this:
There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.
Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.
Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.
Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.
See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:41, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Constantine. I have just nominated this for an ACR - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Gascon campaign of 1345. It is the campaign which included Battle of Auberoche, the ACR of which you were kind enough to comment on. And so I thought that I may be able to sweet talk you into looking at this one too. Thanks in advance. (He wrote, pushing his luck.) Gog the Mild ( talk) 18:37, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Constantine. I nominated Seleucus VI Epiphanes for FA. An reviewer noted that no image have an alt. One of the images is a drawing of a Greek inscription found on a statue base. He asked that the alt include a translation of the Greek text. Problem is, the source itself do not translate the inscription, it just explain it. And I cant read Greek. So, is it possible that you translate it for me? Thanks in advance. Attar-Aram syria ( talk) 08:48, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi
Attar-Aram syria, here it is, both in the original and in translation:
[Βασιλ]έα Σ[έλευκον Ἐπιφανῆ]
[βασιλ]έως Ἀν[τιόχου Φιλομήτορος]
[Διον]ύσιος [...]
[Ἀθη]ναῖος τ[...]
[Ἀπό]λλωνι, Ἀ[ρτέμιδι, Λητοῖ]
(implied: Dedicated to the) King S[eleukos Epiphanes],
(son) of king An[tiochos Philometor],
[Dion]ysios [...]
the [Athe]nian [...]
to [Apo]llo, A[rtemis, Leto].
Cheers, Constantine ✍ 09:44, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Can I get your current judgement on the article of Basil II? Векочел ( talk) 17:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
There are now 4,180 portals.
Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?
I know we can. But, that is up to you!
( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}}
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Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
The following portals have been created since the last issue:
Keep 'em coming!
By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).
We'll keep it short this issue.
Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.
Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:46, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
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With the gradual conquest of southeastern Europe by the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the name of Macedonia disappeared as an administrative designation for several centuries and was rarely displayed on maps. The name was again revived to mean a distinct geographical region in the 19th century defining the region bounded by Mount Olympus, the Pindus range, mounts Shar and Osogovo, the western Rhodopes, the lower course of the river Mesta (Greek Nestos) and the Aegean Sea, developing roughly the same borders that it has today. Regards. Jingiby ( talk) 16:34, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Cplakidas I removed that prod. It has already been G5'd. I think an Afd is required. I was puzzled the first time around when was not deleted when more than 50% of the edits at that time anyway, were socked edits. Still puzzled. But I think an Afd is needed to determine if the info is worth keeping in a new article. scope_creep Talk 17:50, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
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On Lygdamid dynasty, you removed Category:Carian people and Category:Achaemenid satraps of Caria. Did you do that because the Lygdamids (unlike the later Hecatomnids) shouldn't be treated as native Carians, and because they need to be categorized with Category:Rulers in the Achaemenid Empire, respectively? I got kinda confused as you removed all "Carian people" categories from individual members of the Lygdamid dynasty (i.e. Pisindelis, etc.), but seemingly did decide to keep the Category:Achaemenid satraps of Caria categories on the very same articles. :D - LouisAragon ( talk) 21:38, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:51, 18 December 2018 (UTC) |
Hello Constantine! I was reading the aforementioned article and saw that it's protected since 2015! I thinks it's too much, even for an article where a moving-war occured. Cheers!-- Renato de carvalho ferreira ( talk) 22:36, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Constantine. We need to access some articles ( 1, 2, 3, 4) from EI3 because of the GA nominations in FAwiki, specially for Husayn ibn Ali. May you help us? Benyamin-ln ( talk) 12:58, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
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For Internment of the Greek IV Corps at Görlitz. Sorry to have to put that ugly tag on it, but you did say you'd expand given more time.. Buckshot06 (talk) 05:58, 22 December 2018 (UTC) |
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Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...
We now have 4,620 portals.
And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...
Can we make it?
The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.
( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}}
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After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.
Be sure to welcome him back.
User:FR30799386 is working on making {{ Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.
Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.
Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).
So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.
Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.
In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.
Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.
The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.
Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.
To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.
And I'll see you next issue.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:07, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
On 28 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the followers of Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, the founder of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn, believed that he would return after his death, and kept a saddled horse at the entrance of his tomb? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Casliber 00:01, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.
User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{ Portal image banner}}...
So, this:
Becomes this:
Here's the code for the above banner:
{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}
To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.
We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).
We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!
And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.
Congratulations!
The 10,000th portal mark. But...
...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:
And whatever else you can dream up.
But most of all, have a...
Cplakidas, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 12:27, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
"...and yet you prefer blanket-reverting than simply visiting the article and drawing a reference from there; very constructive behaviour, it is not..." Well, obviously I prefer to remove the problem rather than spend time fixing it - have you seen how many such incorrect edits I've :had to undo in the past six months (since the new guideline came in)? if you couldn't be bothered to include the reference yourself, why would you expect others to? Also, check out what happened to User:Mill 1 when he tried the approach you are suggesting. Deb ( talk) 16:32, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
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As voted by your peers within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the WikiProject Barnstar for being nominated for the 2018 Military Historian of the Year Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts in 2018. Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:20, 31 December 2018 (UTC) |
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For you work on Siege of Constantinople (674–678), Battle of Fardykambos, Adrianos Komnenos, Battle of Azaz (1030), Andronikos Komnenos (son of Alexios I), John Komnenos (Domestic of the Schools), Junayd of Aydın, and Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430) you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons. Congrats! TomStar81 ( Talk) 19:09, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
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For your work on Siege of Constantinople (674–678), Battle of Fardykambos, Adrianos Komnenos, Battle of Azaz (1030), Andronikos Komnenos (son of Alexios I), John Komnenos (Domestic of the Schools), Junayd of Aydın, and Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430) I hereby award you with the Greek Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 ( Talk) 19:09, 4 January 2019 (UTC) | ||
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For your work on Adrianos Komnenos, Andronikos Komnenos (son of Alexios I), John Komnenos (Domestic of the Schools), and Junayd of Aydın you are hereby awarded The Biography Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 ( Talk) 19:09, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
Wow, thanks TomStar81, I am feeling very virtuous after this ;). I wish you and those you hold dear a happy and productive new year. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 19:13, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
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The Featured Article Medal | |
One year ago I felt moved to award you a barnstar "in recognition of your persistent effort in generating consistently high quality good articles". Since then you have excelled yourself, gracing Wikipedia with comprehensive, erudite and captivating articles beyond number. They include the Featured Articles Siege of Constantinople (674–678), Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430) and Battle of Halmyros; six A Class articles; sixteen Good Articles; and new articles more numerous than the stars in their Heaven. It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge their quality as much as their quantity with this barnstar. May your quill never dry. Gog the Mild ( talk) 20:38, 19 January 2019 (UTC) |
For we need your help with creating and improving portals...
Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...
A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.
There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.
DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.
Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.
Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).
Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 09:23, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi (and χρόνια πολλά). The attack on Kassos is one of several cases about the War of Independance where the primary event has been so much amplified that it has almost lost its original significance and acquired some mythical traits. Lots (all?) of modern accounts of this (ie non reliable sources like touristic or romanticized patriotic litterature/websites) now describe an extensive slaughter of the entire population coupled with total destruction. Don't you think the discrepancy between contemporary accounts and modern ones might be worth mentionning?-- Phso2 ( talk) 10:31, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.
If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.
There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.
You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".
Speaking of upgrades...
The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:
Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.
The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.
As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.
Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.
And be sure they are on your watchlist.
Keep 'em coming!
As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.
What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.
Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...
Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.
That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!
To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.
It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.
Good news indeed.
Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!
That's all I have to report this time around.
No doubt there will be more to tell soon.
Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:10, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
On 30 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hamdan Qarmat, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Qarmatian movement began when Hamdan Qarmat renounced the claims of Abdallah, the future founder of the Fatimid Caliphate, to be the Islamic Messiah? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hamdan Qarmat. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Hamdan Qarmat), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi Constantine. I hope that things are well with you. You seem to be busy, Wikipedia wise. I am looking for a favour. I have greatly expanded Battle of Cape Ecnomus, from the First Punic War, and nominated it for GA. I am hopeful that this one may, eventually, go to FA. If you have the time and motivation I would be grateful if you could pick it up at GAN and give it a rigorous looking at. Obviously, if time does not permit feel free to decline. Many thanks. Gog the Mild ( talk) 13:14, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Here's a quicky status report:
But of course, there has been more going on than just that...
Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.
What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.
We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.
When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.
Get ready...
Get set...
Go!
User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.
When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.
The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
And the corresponding talk pages:
Until next time, — The Transhumanist 08:59, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for the barnstar you recently gave me!
I've recently done quite a bit of work on the
Coat of arms of Greece. I seem to remember you are interested in vexillology and heraldry, I'd love to know your opinion. It's quite hard to find reliable information on Greek heraldry, but I've done my best with what's available. Thanks! --
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As I said, it may well be, it is a possible interpretation. Barring any direct visual evidence from Greece, however, it is interpretation. I agree it is better left off for now. I will definitely have a look over the article over the next few days. Constantine ✍ 14:55, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Constantine. I was thinking of assessing this one for GAN. But I seem to be assessing a lot of yours lately. If you would rather I leave it in the pool for someone else to pick up, let me know. If you are happy for me to assess it, would you prefer a straight GA version, or should I have an eye on your wanting to take it further in its present form? Gog the Mild ( talk) 16:44, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello Constantine! Long time no see! I hope you keep producing all marvelous articles of yours to Wikipedia. I came just to announce that a blessed soul from Heaven uploaded all books from Irfan Shahid on the internet (LibGen) and I presume you would like to know it in case you already don't. I cannot put any direct link here from them, but if you don't have any link to access, I can send by e-mail any time you wish. Cheers!-- Renato de carvalho ferreira ( talk) 03:35, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
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Where we are at:
You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).
Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!
Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:
The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...
Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.
For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch
We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.
There are 5 drives for portal development:
Let's take a closer look at these...
Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.
Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.
Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.
The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...
More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.
By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.
There are two approaches here:
Or "portal deorphanization"...
Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.
And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.
See below...
Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.
What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?
Quantum portals.
What are quantum portals?
Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.
Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:
...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...
Introducing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).
...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:18, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Category:Upper Mesopotamia under the Abbasid Caliphate, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle ( talk) 21:09, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kostas, hope all is well. I just made two templates for the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. [1]- [2] Could you review/inspect them? Thanks a lot, - LouisAragon ( talk) 20:38, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, this is to let you know that the above article will appear as Today's Featured Article on March 6, 2019. The blurb to be used can be found here. You are free to edit the blurb, and may want to watchlist that page, as well as WP:ERRORS in case there are queries about it on the day it runs, as well as the previous day. If you have questions or concerns, feel free to post on my talk. Thanks for building quality content!-- Wehwalt ( talk) 13:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the article, "about the eighth Abbasid caliph. A younger prince who under normal circumstances would never have become caliph, as a person al-Mu'tasim was in stark contrast to his erudite predecessors, by being a military man through and through; indeed he cemented his fame as a warrior caliph by leading one of the most famous early Muslim feats of arms, the Sack of Amorium. More importantly, his reign saw the completion of the process of dis-empowerment of the older elites, including the Arab settler communities that had held power in the provinces since the Muslim conquests, in favour of the Turkish slave soldiers as the main military (and inevitably also political) support of the monarch. In this way, he inadvertently created the preconditions for the downfall of the Abbasid Caliphate, but also established a new norm of political organization that was widely emulated and prevailed in large parts of the Muslim world even until the early modern era (think of the Mamelukes or the Janissaries)."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:49, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey Constantine - Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this. In regards to al-Mu'tadid's family, I wasn't able to find much, but his fourth son was named Harun: [1]. To add slightly to that, Ibn Hazm, p. 29, describes Harun as "long-lived" and says that he died in the days of al-Muti. Afraid I don't have anything to contribute in regards to wives or concubines.
Other than that, I really don't have anything substantive to add here - it's a very good article, and I like it a lot!
A slightly related though random question - have you ever gotten a look at al-Mu'tadid's expenditure budget that Hugh Kennedy references? There's a complete version of it that's available in German, but I've never been able to reconcile it to either Kennedy's totals (the German version has a daily expenditure of 6,981 dinars, vs. Kennedy's 7,915) or his allocations between military/non-military items . Not an article issue per se, just one of those things that always drove me a bit crazy trying to figure out. Thanks, Ro4444 ( talk) 01:03, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Constantine. Apologies again for the amount of work I left for a reviewer - you - to do, and many thanks for how thoroughly you did it. I have counter tweaked some of your comments re marine capacity and you may want to take a look. Would you care to venture an opinion as to whether this article might be ready for ACR, or even for jumping straight to FAC? Thanks. Gog the Mild ( talk) 22:57, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
To be honest, I am a little bored with shepherding articles from 1345 and 1346 about the Hundred Years' War and would like a change of pace. But I need to get the map sorted, so I will put this in for ACR while waiting and, as you say, get more eyes on it. Gog the Mild ( talk) 18:42, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Constantine, what more do you think the article on Basil II needs? Векочел ( talk) 23:18, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
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A long-overdue token of gratitude for your incredible work creating and expanding articles about the medieval Arab world, from the battle for Umayyad existence to the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim and much more. I look forward toward seeing the fruits of your future efforts. Your presence here has been, and will continue to be, indispensable and inspiring. Thank you! Al Ameer ( talk) 21:22, 26 February 2019 (UTC) |
Hi Constantine. I have just started reading "Prospective Gain or Actual Cost? Arab Civilian and Military Captives in the Light of Byzantine Narrative Sources and Military Manuals from the 10th Century" by Szymon Wierzbinski (of Lodz University) and it occurred to me that it may be of interest to you. I am only part way through, but it seems to cover some of the same ground as your Battle of Andrassos, albeit from a different perspective. Let me know if you would like to look at it and I will email it to you. Gog the Mild ( talk) 23:12, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello Cplakidas, you don't happen to be in possession of the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire vol II and III in pdf? If so, could you send them to me? Would very much appreciate it. -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 23:40, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
On 2 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 914–915 and in 919–921, just a few years after its founding, the Fatimid Caliphate launched two unsuccessful invasions of Egypt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 2 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 914–915 and in 919–921, just a few years after its founding, the Fatimid Caliphate launched two unsuccessful invasions of Egypt? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi Cplakidas. I want to know in what year this character died. Because there are many proposed dates like 23 December 1332, 24 December 1331 or 26 December 1332 and I'm not so sure what is the real date. A greetings. Kardam ( talk) 03:49, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Cplakidas. I asked you this question because you edited an article called Philip, Despot of Romania. I know that he is Philip's son, but in this article you took as a source an article in italian called "Filippo I d'Angiò, imperatore nominale di Costantinopoli" and it said that Philip I of Taranto was born in 1276 and that he died 24 December 1331. Also "The Old French Chronicle of Morea: An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth Crusade" (2018) and "The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece" (2009) said that Philip of Taranto died in 1332 not 1331, but they didn't mention the day or the month. That's the reason why I have that doubt, and even when he was born. A greetings. Kardam ( talk) 19:44, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Congratulations on putting an outstanding article on the front page. It only seems a week or two since I was looking at it; it must have flown through ACR and FAC. It reminds me of just how well you do these things. Keep them coming. Gog the Mild ( talk) 11:31, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey Constantine. I would like to hear your opinion regarding a newly created article. It titles: the Sons of Antiochus VIII. Simply, all the featured articles about those kings were copied and pasted in this huge new replicat article. I have started a discussion here and would really apreciate your thoughts. Cheers.-- Attar-Aram syria ( talk) 04:07, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
@ Attar-Aram syria: Steady. Let's take a deep breath. Certainly, let's review all articles which Векочел nominated. But if they are worthy of their status it doesn't matter if the nominator did nothing to them. In fact the rules specifically allow this. They have done the encyclopedia a service by identifying articles worthy of promotion. We don't demote them just because the nominator's practices. That said, I will be opening a reassessment of Ptolemy IX Lathyros. There may well be others which one of us considers it worth reassessing. It may also be helpful for us to visit Векочел's talk page, point out as positively as possible what we consider the issues with his edits and nominations to be and offer some contrucive suggestions as to how they might address them, both short and longer term. Gog the Mild ( talk) 23:31, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I had a look at the GA review of Basil I. I agree that the reign is too sparsely represented. Out of interest, I looked for a copy of the Tobias biography online, there was one copy on Amazon for £1,200+! I cannot see any editor acquiring one soon. I was quite put out, stating it mildly. Urselius ( talk) 14:56, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
I have only a few sources on the emperor and I cannot get my hands on a copy of The Oxford Encyclopedia. Векочел ( talk) 00:39, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, I just created this template. [4] I modeled it on your EoI THREE template. [5] Could you review/check it? Thanks a lot, - LouisAragon ( talk) 14:33, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
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Previous issue:
This issue:
All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019
Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
Individual Nominations:
Related WikiProject:
(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)
This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).
It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.
At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.
Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 10:09, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, please see if you like the headers I inserted in the Liever Turks dan Paaps-article. Regards, Jeff5102 ( talk) 10:30, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Some interesting new material:
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Absolutely true. If I had a pound for everyone who's put that in their edit summary, I'd be very rich indeed. Deb ( talk) 10:35, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
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10:22, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I recently created this article. What the article really needs is a map showing Cappadocia in the Achaemenid era, or during the Kingdom of Cappadocia. Are you perhaps aware of any good map I could use? I'm thinking about using this one, [8] but I haven't made up my mind yet. I guess I could use a map of early Roman Cappadocia, as a last resort? Any suggestions are welcome, - LouisAragon ( talk) 14:09, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah ( talk) 20:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
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I'm sorry to drop this in your lap, but I don't have the time to chase it up myself. Could you possibly have a look at [ [9]] and take some appropriate action? I fear I find myself in a desperate struggle not to be 30 days behind on my own watchlist. Pinkbeast ( talk) 11:48, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Category:Egypt under the Fatimid Caliphate, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:46, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Do you have any improvemnts to suggest for the article on Basil II? Векочел ( talk) 11:45, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cplakidas, thanks for the links to Kapudan Pasha, etc. As for the Victorian spelling, I realize that we are not obliged to follow it, but I try to keep both the Victorian and the correct, or current spelling or terms in articles for two reasons. One is general education to help readers make the connection between what's in the source and the modern form, and two, to facilitate search. If someone wants to search older sources, it might help them if they know the names contemporaries used. This comes up a lot in geographical terms. Regards, Acad Ronin ( talk) 10:54, 19 April 2019 (UTC)