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The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:
We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists,
Another Believer (
submissions),
Piotrus (
submissions),
Grandiose (
submissions),
Stone (
submissions),
Eisfbnore (
submissions),
Canada Hky (
submissions) and
MuZemike (
submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.
In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha ( talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.
A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:04, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
It appears that the move from...
Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-08-29/The pending changes fiasco
...to...
Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-08-29/Opinion essay
...broke the script that transcludes comments from talk to article. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 12:56, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Still re the signpost and my article. Rcsprinter (talk) 08:55, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Harry, inspired by your example of the village pump archives, I've just created archives of all of Jimbo's pre-September 2005 discussions; they go from User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive A to User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive G. I've also added Template:Archive list alpha to Template:Talk header. I did all the work manually, but it was fairly straightforward (if tedious!) to find the old discussions because Jimbo was the only one who removed old messages from his talk page. Anyway, while saving my archiving work, one of the major problems I ran into was the spam filter, and I'm wondering whether that could be the reason for some of the gaps in the village pump archives created by the script? Or do you run it with supervision for that reason? Graham 87 16:19, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
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Rcsprinter (talk) 10:39, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
First some feedback - I like the Signpost in general and especially this week I felt it was well written. Second - would you please reply to my comment on the Signpost talk page from Aug 26? I'll look for your reply there. Thanks. Pine talk 20:57, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
That's got to be yours, right?
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Hi Jarry, a month ago, there was "irc" and "web" to click on. I always used the first. Now, the only button is back to the clunky old version I had to use when I first participated in the IRC. Any reason for this change? Tony (talk) 14:33, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Jarry, thanks indeed for your work in managing The Signpost. Slightly concerned that FC's reader-hits are not what they were a year ago. Do you have a link for the raw data you generated? Tony (talk) 14:38, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I am Jivesh. I edit Beyonce-related articles most if the time here. I wanted to ask you if you do copy-edits on request? Please reply me on my talk page. Jivesh 1205 ( talk / ♫♫Give 4 a try!!!♫♫) 11:14, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Jarry. I hope it is the right page where to ask for some help about your SVG traduction tool. I can download files but I never manage to load them on commons. They ask a jpg or a svg extension and I dont understand. Is the file I download not in svg yet? Well where can I find something to help . I'm working as sysop on a little wiki (wiki.br) and I won't anybody to explain a=I'm afraid nor to do the job... Thanks-- Kadwalan ( talk) 02:06, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
I think this [3] was well meaning but in error; you might want to move the !vote back to support as the general impression was that it was a joke. Cheers. Pedro : Chat 11:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
ot → to
Cheers, – xeno talk 19:54, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Geez Jarry, please don't plagiarize my words. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:53, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Ambassadors!
I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.
On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!
Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 23:12, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey, did you manage to get my last message about the VP archives here? I understand that you're busy with uni, and there's no real rush, but just wondering. Graham 87 04:06, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
then I prithee you to watch this excerpt from Marilyn vos Savant where she talks about encyclopedias for bright people and where they find out information that they want to find out. That's the type of "customer" who comes to Wikipedia--nobody is going to read an article they're not interested in, and readers want to read different sources. Obviously in a couple years, the "making the case" section title will no longer be applicable (this will all be past tense, like "the case Obama tried making" or whatever, just something to reflect we are no longer in a futuristic vantage point) but please, please, please take 30 seconds to watch that clip which is pre-loaded from 4min 47sec to 5m 49sec because I think you'll be hard-pressed not to appreciate the beauty in her wisdom, as it applies to how AJA is written... 67.77.174.6 ( talk) 00:14, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by
Miyagawa (
submissions),
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Sp33dyphil (
submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (
1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and
Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's
1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the
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Thank you very much for temporarily blocking the bot. -- Luke (Talk) 13:58, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Jarry, I'm so sorry to disturb you, but can you please have a look at this and this? Thanks in advance. -- SMasters ( talk) 17:00, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
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The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is
Hurricanehink (
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Dreamafter (2007),
jj137 (2008),
Durova (2009) and
Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:
Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.
No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.
Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:41, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:55, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Jarry1250,
I noticed that you added the following sentence to the signpost paragraph about the WikiChallenge: "Unfortunately, because it relied on patterns in the training dataset that would not be present in the actual one, the model's ongoing use is severely restricted." While technically it is not incorrect, I am wondering what you want to achieve with this. First, I do not think it is relevant for general readers as this is more complicated then a single sentence. Second, it makes it sound like the competition was a failure while it has been a huge success: we have attracted about 200 people who have seriously crunched our data and we received in total 6 fully documented algorithms. I would have appreciated if you had contacted me first and had asked me if we should have made a reference to the anomaly in the dataset.
Best, Diederik
Drdee ( talk) 01:49, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey Jarry, mind checking the Signpost gmail account? There's a conversation addressed to you (re:mobile/offline development) I'd like to get your response on. Cheers, Skomorokh 15:59, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Jarry. I really appreciate your eagerness to help improving Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. However, your edits completely change the meaning of text and are unsupported by the sources given. Not mentioning when you remove entire sentences. Could you at least talk with us before you start making considerable changes to the article itself? Kind regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 18:45, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hullo Jarry, the bot seems to have managed most of publication well this week (removing the freeze/lock-out was a great help), except the body of the blog post was blank (now fixed), and while it posted properly to Wikimedia Announcements (your hyphen fix seems to have solved the malformed header), there was no post to foundation-l (now rectified). Any ideas? Skomorokh 15:13, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the future and the growth of the US education program along with the future of the Wikipedia Ambassador Project here. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:07, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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Re this, I understand you have removed it because of the Hackathon but can I ask, will it be included next week? Rcsprinter (rap) 16:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
This outputs:
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In this edit your bot overwrote improvements I made in preceding edits per WP:HLIST. How can we prevent that from happening again? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:51, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. Are you still adding projects to the Milestone Announcements? – Lionel ( talk) 05:35, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I see you've contested my PROD on this article. If you think it is more than a dictionary definition of jargon, could you perhaps find a source that indicates this? As it stands, my argument seems valid to me - the article provides no source for the term beyond an online dictionary. AndyTheGrump ( talk) 16:54, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
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...they might coincidentally happen to be true, but the philosopher proposing them would be unjustified in believing them to be true as it's just an accident that the world conforms to the thought experiment.
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Could've sworn I asked already, but I don't see it in the archive. What's with the "weasel" in your sig? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 01:01, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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So we have this barnstar laying around, gathering dust; and I feel as though none of the editors that put pen to paper every week to produce the much-demanded Signpost has been properly compensated for their efforts. You deserve this :) Res Mar 05:29, 22 December 2011 (UTC) |
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That sounds fantastic- thanks very much. I will update the instructions accordingly. J Milburn ( talk) 21:15, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Jarry1250, the name of the project is "Wiki Loves Monuments", not "Wikimedia Loves monuments". I corrected this at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-12-26/News and notes. Multichill ( talk) 14:24, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to come to you so late in the game, but would you be able to script the bot to place the bonus points from "multiplier" articles in an eleventh column, titled "Bonus"? (Also, have you remembered that FS is now out?) Thanks. If it's not possible, no biggy- if it won't be ready for a week or two, that's fine, as no one will be scoring bonus points at the very start anyway. J Milburn ( talk) 23:41, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to the 2012 WikiCup! The competition officially begins at the start of 2012 (UTC) after which time you may begin to claim points. Your submission page, where you must note any content for which you wish to claim points, can be found here, and formatting instructions can be found in hidden comments on the page. A bot will then update the main table, which can be seen on the WikiCup page. The full rules for what will and will not be awarded points can be found at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There's also a section on that page listing the changes that have been made to the rules this year, so that experienced participants can get up-to-date in a few seconds. One point of which we must remind everyone; you may only claim points for content upon which you have done significant work, and which you have nominated, in 2012. For instance, articles written or good article reviews started in 2011 are not eligible for points.
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The bot seems to be automatically adding all points to the "bonus" column, instead of just the bonus ones. See the diff. I've fixed it manually for now, but can the coding be fixed? Thanks, and happy new year. J Milburn ( talk) 16:09, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your query - I have now deliberated after getting my Wuffas and Wehhas all mixed up. Hel-hama ( talk) 23:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Have you gone completely nuts? Please undo your recent mass unprotection spree. If you genuinely wish to re-create any of those articles, please form a consensus to do so at Deletion Review. Deletion Review would probably love to hear about the interesting, informative, well-sourced and highly encyclopedic content you intend to introduce at titles such as World War V: Grawp vs. Wikifags and Sexy Horny Slut Kristin Gebert. Thank you. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 05:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings and happy new year. I have a coding question that I am trying to work through and can't seem to figure it out. This is for a C# (or something else if its easier for you) module for AWB. Currently there are several reasons why it would be useful to do this but I am only going to give one scenario for brevity. Here is what I am trying to do:
Bored of me yet? I'm not sure what caused it, but, apparently, someone had -4 bonus points. Manually fixed it, but I thought you'd like to know. J Milburn ( talk) 13:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
See WT:WP DNB#Volume of the Month for a collaboration that I'm in the course of setting up. Everyone who signed up to the WikiProject for the Dictionary of National Biography is being notified, while there is still time to alter the way of working if need be. Charles Matthews ( talk) 12:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jarry1250. What would you say to unprotecting a number of pages at Special:ProtectedTitles, listing them on page, and then using a bot to track and notify the unprotecting admin in the event of recreation? I mentioned it in the above linked thread, and User:Shadowjams agrees with me that it's a good idea. - FASTILY Happy 2012!! 21:40, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
I am disappointed in the quality of the feedback you've received on this. You saw something, did something about it, and then opened discussion on it. Clearly you must be blocked, and probably de-adminned as well. Well done all around, I say to you, and in particular your measured response was admirable.
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talk)
04:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I have looked at your best claimed work (The FA and 6 GAs in your header) and it seems to me that you do not believe in organizing categories in any manner that I can perceive. Could you please enlighten me on this issue.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 08:22, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
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...for the update. I'll have a filter through that this evening. J Milburn ( talk) 17:17, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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I'm finished. Regards. -- TIAYN ( talk) 18:54, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I've replied on my talk page. J Milburn ( talk) 21:55, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Mind listing all articles that could get Cup multipliers with the words "tropical", "hurricane", or "cyclone"? Thanks, ;) HurricaneFan 25 16:23, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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I have just seen your offer to recreate this tool in the Village Pump archives. Yes please! I have been waiting months for the Soxred tool to be fixed. Spinning Spark 09:59, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
My review of the article on Metternich might be delayed for a few days. I hope this isn't troublesome. DCI talk 03:18, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
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I will be closing the review of Klemens von Metternich sooner than expected. I am impressed with your work on this article, and most of the issues I have with it don't really impede its advance to GA, although I'd advise some revisions if you intend to nominate this for Featured Article. I do have one major concern with the Historical assessment section, which I believe can be fixed. As soon as my concerns are addressed, I think I'll be able to pass it. DCI talk 20:51, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
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The Resilient Barnstar |
Despite this article's failing GA review earlier, you've done outstanding work on it lately. Thanks for your work. DCI talk 02:53, 31 January 2012 (UTC) |
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010.
Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is
Grapple X (
submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about
The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at
good article candidates. Second place is currently held by
Ruby2010 (
submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is
Jivesh boodhun (
submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I recently nominated Swedish heraldry for WP:FAC, and we need knowledgeable editors to comment on the article. Since you have been a contributor to that article, I hope you will take some time to look it over and leave your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Swedish heraldry/archive1. Thank you for your time and your contributions! Wilhelm Meis ( Quatsch!) 14:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The trouble I am having with the gadget is that we are usually only interested in recent edits. The gadget is fine if there are not too many edits in the range, but for heavily used ranges it is too time consuming to go through them finding the recent ones. Any chance that you can recreate the Soxred tool? Any one of these features will adddress my problem: ability to sort results by date order, ability to restrict to a range of dates, or ability to specify last x edits. Thanks. Spinning Spark 19:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Dear Jarry1250,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jarry. I see you've listed this as a bot on the AWB checkpage. I'm not really sure if it needs that. It's a bit silly, but it might not be a bad precaution to just list it as a regular user. Even if this just prevents accidental editing (as it would require approval for each individual edit) by Grashoofd. Anyway, if you're okay with it, I'd rather have it listed as a normal user. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 17:46, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for notification of the prod notice on Get Well Soon: 500 Ways to Make You Feel Better. Looking at this again, you're absolutely right, it's not notable enough for its own article - I don't know what I was thinking when I created it in the first place, to be honest. I've WP:preserved the content by adding it to the Challenge Anneka article and created a redirect there. Best wishes. SP-KP ( talk) 18:17, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! If you find the time, please have a look here. IMHO the template is in the right spot. OR am I wrong again? :) Thx -- Hedwig in Washington (TALK) 22:09, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 23 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in 1812, the British government temporarily made the crime of machine-breaking punishable by death despite Parliament having rejected the same suggestion in 1788? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 16:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 23 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Protection of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1788, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in 1812, the British government temporarily made the crime of machine-breaking punishable by death despite Parliament having rejected the same suggestion in 1788? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 16:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the withdrawal; that was a decent thing to do. With the DYKs, you should still make it to round two, when you can hit the ground running. For what it's worth, that one is a hell of an article, WikiCup or not, so congratulations. J Milburn ( talk) 16:28, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
Thank you for your SVG translate tool (and the nice maps background). Dereckson ( talk) 20:24, 26 February 2012 (UTC) |
There are a few things your optimizer doesn't do that would reduce filesize just a bit more. For one, it doesn't remove the default Inkscape metadata (which, BTW, is often inaccurate, since, for some reason, it assumes that everything is Creative Commons licensed.) It also leaves in the namespaces that are only necessary if there is metadata. It also doesn't remove the "created by" comments. Finally, it apparently is unaware that "standalone=no" is the default in the XML specification and that it can therefore be left out. — trlkly 01:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)