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Dear Lquilter,
it is now one year since WikiProject Open Access was started by User:Bluerasberry on January 10, 2012. Since then, the project has advanced modestly, but we have not interacted much. For the coming year, we certainly want to improve on that.
We also plan to overhaul the project pages to make them more conducive to collaboration, and we are pondering the idea of expanding the concept of a WikiProject Open Access to projects other than the English Wikipedia, e.g. to other languages or to Wikimedia Commons. You are warmly invited to add your voice to all that. We would also appreciate if you would share some of your OA-related activities by way of our news ticker or via the monthly Open Access report that is part of the GLAM newsletter (to which you can subscribe here), or as you see fit otherwise.
As a visual token of the anniversary, I am adding today's Open Access File of the Day. Feel free to nominate files yourself. As of today, commons:Category:Open access (publishing) contains more than 15,000 files, of which about 2/3 are video and sound files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.
Thanks for being part of the project, and looking forward to more interaction. With a smile, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS ( talk) 23:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for all the good work! ...especially regarding all these categories. Thank you. Edcolins ( talk) 09:17, 6 April 2013 (UTC) |
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Related to our discussion from WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech:
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Thanks for developing articles relating to the consumer movement. I saw that you just created Category:Works about consumer protection. Could you please comment somehow on differentiating that with Category:Works about consumerism? Also, if you want to collaborate on anything related to this then let me know. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:15, 11 April 2013 (UTC) |
I just saw that you've made a minor edit to The World Forum. I've Afd'd it and any comments you have would be welcome. Bromley86 ( talk) 08:08, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
I want to make a new category for films, not sure if it should be:
What do you think?
— Cirt ( talk) 21:47, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Please see Category:Films about freedom of expression. Look good so far? — Cirt ( talk) 15:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
You may be interested in this freedom of speech-related topic, I've done a quality improvement project recently on the article, Fuck (film), would be interested to know your thoughts? — Cirt ( talk) 19:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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In recognition of your patient efforts to explain to editors the difference between diffusion to a gender subcategory vs. viewing gender categories correctly: as additional, redundant categories. Andreas JN 466 07:39, 28 April 2013 (UTC) |
Incidentally, did you know about the CatScan tool?
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php They're using that on the German Wikipedia (a link to it is present on every category page there).
Basically, the German Wikipedia has a very different categorisation system. Man and Woman are attributes applied to biographies, just like Poet or American. To search for American women poets in Catscan, you simply combine these three attributes. For that reason, the German Wikipedia does not have categories like American women poets; it is users running a query who combine three or more attributes like that to construct a query.
It strikes me that this system avoids a lot of needless madness, and removes most of the opportunities for sexist (or racist) systems to arise where users consider straight white males the default, and seek to "diffuse" everyone else. Happy editing. Andreas JN 466 07:39, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
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on this? Wikipedia_talk:Category_intersection#A_working_category_intersection_today. cheers, -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 04:00, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
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You have been mentioned at Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Copyright_in_Canada. X Ottawahitech ( talk) 16:23, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Category:American writers by ethnic or national origin. Ugh. This one isn't about last-rung, it's purely about notability of intersections. Some of them seem clear, and others seem, well, quite muddy indeed. Ukrainian? Russian? hmm. thoughts welcome. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 21:05, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
I was really thinking much simpler, as a start. (1) Don't undo the division-by-nation. This has two advantages - first, it is a natural division of people, people usually strongly identify with a given nationality, though there are of course edge cases. Secondly, it makes the search space much smaller, so would increase performance. if all men were in Category:Men, then you'd have to troll through hundreds of thousands every time you did an intersection. Grouping by nation cuts down on the search space, and would be a much less dramatic change to extant categories. (2) For the intersections, again, I'm thinking that we start just with EGRS - leave the rest (novelist genres, centuries, etc) - let those play out as they are. In the future, if we had budget and time for programming, we could get so checkboxes and droplists, etc, but for now I was thinking that at the top of each cat that needed it (say, American writers) - editors could add intersections- show me all American women writers, show me all African-American women writers, etc - the intersections could be collapsed or multiple-collapsed, so regular browsers of the cat aren't bothered by it). I agree in the long term just specifying "american" and "woman" and "novelist" would be ideal, but that should probably wait for wikidata. This proposal is more of an incremental step, that would disarm much of the current drama around these EGRS cats.-- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 20:40, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
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What if we had "category creators" and "categories-for-creation" - so certain people would have permission to create new cats, others would have to submit it for creation - the submit process would be lightweight, and two positive votes would suffice? This might serve to filter some of the massive category cruft by providing a bit of a vetting mechanism, while allowing those who are responsible category-creators to go about their business. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 16:22, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
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This might be it. Maybe I'm just of a mood. But that's a winner for sure. Can you imagine if we extended that approach more broadly? Cities with stone bridges in them. Villages with 12c century churches in them. We could go a step further - Villages with windmills near historic houses with stone bridges in them. Borges may have been right, after all - is this whole thing madness? -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 22:57, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hoping, hoping, hoping.... -- Orange Mike | Talk 17:44, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
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The CFD for Category:African-American films has (finally) been closed by me. As discussed, the category needs "purging". Because you participated in the discussion, I am notifying you in case you would like to participate in purging the category. I am not expecting that you do this or suggesting that it is your job; my comment here is simply a notification so you are aware of the situation. Thanks. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
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The ERGS rules apply to ethnicity, RELIGION, gender and sexuality. Why are you ok with a last rung subdividing of Category:American hymnwriters by religion? How is this acceptable? Especially when people are clearly in the discussion of Category:American Latter Day Saint hymnwriters saying that "Latter-day Saint hymnwriters are not real hymnwriters". If people said dismissive and marginalizing things about women writers that they have said about Latter-day Saint hymnwriters there would be an outrage. Thre fact of the matter is that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is one of the most listened to choirs in the country, and so sworks by people like W. W. Phelps are being heard by many people who are not latter-day Saints. The attempts to dismiss and marginzalize him as just a Latter-day Saint hymnwriters and not an American hymnwriter are truly outrageous. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 22:03, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Category intersections. LQ, plz take a look at this: User_talk:Magnus_Manske#new_version_of_category_intersections - the last entry by Magnus - you need to add one line to your commons javascript file as outlined, to import a new library, then check out the demo. Super fast. It's just a start, but let me know what you think. I think we still should have a solution for those who don't edit their javascript files, but it's a great prototype, no? -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 15:20, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I've listed the article Fuck (film) for peer review.
Help with furthering along the quality improvement process would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Fuck (film)/archive1.
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Thanks very much for creating Category:Free speech activists.
After reading secondary source reporting about the dearth of quality coverage on Women and female related topics on Wikipedia, I decided to improve in quality a page on a woman from Category:Free speech activists.
Therefore, the quality improvement project for Judith Krug is inspired by your freedom of speech-related category creation.
Thanks again,
— Cirt ( talk) 23:49, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
If you enjoyed Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, hopefully you might also like Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties.
The book is quite a fascinating read.
I hope you're doing well, — Cirt ( talk) 07:52, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello; you recently participated in a discussion about Category:Reissue albums, which I closed as "no consensus". The category has now been re-nominated for deletion; you may be interested in participating in this second nomination. The discussion is here. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:16, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Lquilter, A while back, you were involved in a discussion about improvements I'm hoping to make to the Center for Copyright Information article. I had to focus on other things for a bit, so it took me awhile to get back to this, but I've now addressed the feedback, and posted an updated draft of the article in my userspace. A list of the changes that I made can be found on Talk:CCI. If you have a chance, could you take a look and, if things look okay, replace the current draft of the article with my draft? Thanks! ChrisPond ( Talk · COI) 16:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, I just recreated a category you successfully nominated for deletion back in 2008. The original discussion is located here. I think the articles have now been developed to justify the cat but, if you have any concerns, please let me know. Thanks RevelationDirect ( talk) 09:53, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
As a lawyer and a librarian you may be interested in this deletion proposal: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_22#Professionals. Regards, Ottawahitech ( talk) 13:36, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
I just requested a sock investigation here: WP: Sockpuppet investigations/Craigsender. Lquilter, I copied almost all of your comments on the CCC talk page into the complaint, and have attributed these comments to you. I added some of my own words for syntax purposes. But I made it clear that I copied from this section almost verbatim. I hope you don't mind. Also, feel free to add to the complaint as you see fit. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 02:24, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
P.S: However, just to be clear, I filed the complaint, I just used your comments, attributing them to you. I hope this makes sense. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 02:29, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
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I've placed Portal:Freedom of speech up for portal peer review. Comments would be welcome, at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Freedom of speech/archive1. — Cirt ( talk) 23:44, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Maybe you’d like to share your view here. Tuvalkin ( talk) 21:12, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
I've nominated Portal:Freedom of speech for Featured quality consideration, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Freedom of speech. — Cirt ( talk) 04:48, 20 December 2013 (UTC)