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GA Review

My review of WhoBob WhatPants has been put on hold. Hope it can get through! buffbills7701

Hi.

Just wanted to let you know that I'm done reviewing Sailor Mouth for a GA. I know you're taking a vacation from Wikipedia, so feel free to start fixing the article when you come back. Good work, so far! EditorE (talk) 16:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

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

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July 7, 2013

Sorry for asking this but, I am curious how I get banners and all that pretty stuff onto my article page. Thanks.  11Block |talk 01:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

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

IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle users

Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. --EpochFail(talk • work), Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 18:29, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

July 2013

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You are invited to comment

Hey Mediran my greetings to you. You are a member of WikiProject BPL that's why you are receiving this message. Currently there's a discussion going on the talkpage. You are always welcome to join the discussion. Thanks in advance.--Pratyya (Hello!) 13:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 July 2013

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

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permission of the picture Eukaryotic Cell

Dear Mediran,

I am a PhD in medical imaging and is preparing a presentation in a conference. In the talk I need a model of Eukaryotic Cell, and found the one from yours awesome. So can I have the reprint permission of using your picture in my talk(not for commercial use)? it would be very nice if I can put it in. Thank you very much!

Best, Yang 07:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)07:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)07:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)07:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)07:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)07:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)Robinchyna (talk) 07:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC) 07.24.2013

Of course. You are free to do whatever you want to that image. Thanks also for the appreciation. :) Mediran (t • c) 12:40, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of SpongeBob's Last Stand

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013

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

Your GA nomination of SpongeBob's Last Stand

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Please participate in the discussion going on WikiProject BPL

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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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

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Have You Seen This Snail?

The Original Barnstar
For your work on "Have You Seen This Snail?", an article a lot stronger than I expected it to be! J Milburn (talk) 14:24, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Wow, thank you too for your appreciation and also for the GA pass! Thanks and have a nice day! Cheers! :) Mediran (t • c) 09:50, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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I have left some comments on the review page.--Dom497 (talk) 12:03, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
One more comment!--Dom497 (talk) 15:47, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Question

Hello Mediran

i just want to ask a question , in this page bug number 50590 , i have put a request to enable huggle to ar.wikipedia , but from 14 july there are no answer , can i contact with someone to finish that thing?

thanks.--ASammour (talk) 08:51, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Please notify Petr Bena, one of the developers and who you're discussing with before, about this concern. Thanks. :) Mediran (t • c) 09:29, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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

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STiki emergency

Thank you message

Hello Mediran, I am WikiFanCreator2010 and I want to thank you very much for expanding the article, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie because now I know what happened during the development of the film. It must have took you hard work for you, but we knew you can do it. I love SpongeBob very much and I wanted to expand the film's article since its film adaption was based on a very popular cartoon. But I was a little too lazy and couldn't find all the info I need. So thank you for expanding the article. =) WikiFanCreator2010 (talk) 23:43, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Pleasure is all mine. Thanks. :) Mediran (t • c) 00:15, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Polo. You have new messages at Talk:Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss/GA2.
Message added 04:30, 24 August 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

和DITOREtails 04:30, 24 August 2013 (UTC) Added MPAA rating. 和DITOREtails 12:37, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

A seal for your GA review

Thanks! Also, I noticed that your GA message said the article failed, even though it passed. HA HA HA!!!! Anyway, Great work on reviewing this. 和DITOREtails 14:02, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Haha! Thanks! :) Mediran (t • c) 00:35, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Mark Mainz?

Hi: is your name Mark Mainz? If not, why do you claim this as your "own work"? -- Zanimum (talk) 15:19, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Zanimum! ---> email replied. Mediran (t • c) 00:37, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 August 2013

Wikipedia's gender identity MOS section and its effect on Chelsea Manning was both praised and emulated in the media this week. ... Coverage of the distributed open collaborative course called "Storming Wikipedia" continued this week.
98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.
This week, we secured free admission for WikiProject Amusement Parks, the project dedicated to amusement rides, roller coasters, theme parks, traveling carnivals, and funfairs.
The debt that Wikipedia owes sites like Reddit or Google often goes unacknowledged around here. If the purpose of Wikipedia is to bring knowledge to the world, then it is sites like these that are actually doing it.
The 2013 WikiCup competition is entering its final round. Eleven articles and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), Wikimedia's annual volunteer-driven and the world largest photo contest, is gearing up to be conducted throughout September 2013. The event, originally developed in the Netherlands in 2010, has gone global with 34 countries taking part last and 49 this year.
Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.

Thanks

Thank you very much for reviewing The Call (2013 film). --1ST7 (talk) 01:03, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

You're most welcome. BTW, congratulations and thanks again for improving it! Cheers! :) Mediran (t • c) 01:11, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Yay!

Hi Mediran, I'm glad to see you active again in the "SpongeBob SquarePants (season N)" articles. I think you do excellent work, and these articles need your expertise and attention to detail. I'm on the verge of taking VP44444 to ANI for persistent disruption to these articles in the form of edit tests, self-edit-warring, etc., (see his/her talk page for examples) so if you happen to agree with my objections (and that is not a requirement at all), I'd be interested in hearing your input. Keep up the good work! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 06:25, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Cyphoidbomb. Yes, I'm really worried about his/her disruptive editing. I think s/he must know how Wikipedia works first because it seems that s/he's so confused about everything. S/he also ignore talk page discussions not knowing that it can help him to blend in. I'd interested if you'll take him/her to ANI (if s/he persists, but if not leave him/her be). Thanks again. Cheers. :) Mediran (t • c) 06:54, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
The editor's disruptions are persistent and obstinate. They are on the fast-track to ANI. Switching gears, I noticed that you changed some of the credits at (season 9), which VP44444 convoluted by creating a new column for Storyboard Director, then mushing the credited directors and writers into this column, which is a bad call, because writers aren't directors unless they are credited as such. I did a spot check on "Gary's New Toy" (0:03) and it appears that there is a credit for Storyboard director, Marc Ceccarelli, then writing credits for Marc Ceccarelli and Derek Iversen. I didn't check all the eps in S9, but assuming they are all consistent, maybe the fields we should include in this article should be "Storyboard Director" (instead of Animation Director) and "Writer"? Although I just realized that we're using a set "Directed_by" field, so maybe that's not an option. Do you have any thoughts on this? I could go either way, because I know that animation directors and "storyboard directors" are the same thing. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 09:02, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
Yes, we can add another column for the storyboards but why I changed that is because some (e.g. Tom Yasumi) are moved to another column in which they aren't credited. Sotryboard and animation directors are not the same. For an example, in the episode "Extreme Spots", Tom Yasumi served as animation director while Luke Brookshier and Marc Ceccarelli are the storyboard directors.
I stand corrected! :) In any event, I don't think what VP44444 did was useful. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:24, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

Wikipedia's gender identity MOS section and its effect on Chelsea Manning was both praised and emulated in the media this week. ... Coverage of the distributed open collaborative course called "Storming Wikipedia" continued this week.
98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.
This week, we secured free admission for WikiProject Amusement Parks, the project dedicated to amusement rides, roller coasters, theme parks, traveling carnivals, and funfairs.
The debt that Wikipedia owes sites like Reddit or Google often goes unacknowledged around here. If the purpose of Wikipedia is to bring knowledge to the world, then it is sites like these that are actually doing it.
The 2013 WikiCup competition is entering its final round. Eleven articles and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), Wikimedia's annual volunteer-driven and the world largest photo contest, is gearing up to be conducted throughout September 2013. The event, originally developed in the Netherlands in 2010, has gone global with 34 countries taking part last and 49 this year.
Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.

Your GA nomination of Band Geeks

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Your GA nomination of Extreme Spots

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Your GA nomination of Band Geeks

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Tagalog help needed

Hello Mediran, I'm contacting you because we need some Tagalog translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on tl.wikipedia. There are help pages, user guides, and description pages that need translating, as well as the interface itself. The translating work is going on over on MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message for the Tagalog Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 17:36, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Extreme Spots

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Your GA nomination of Graveyard Shift (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013

After media praise for Wikipedia's decision to move the Bradley Manning article to Chelsea Manning, the reversion of that page move on August 31, after a discussion in which several hundred Wikipedians participated, has so far triggered less favourable feedback, as well as a blog post from Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner expressing her disappointment with the decision.
On September 3, the Wikimedia Foundation launched the second stage of the process to improve the privacy policy implemented on most Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia and its sister projects, by publishing a policy draft.
A news-heavy week offers some insight, perhaps, into humanity's priorities.
As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."
Four articles, four lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status this week on the English Wikipedia
This week, we spent some time with the minds behind WikiProject Psychology. The project was created in March 2006 and has grown to include 14 Featured Articles and 43 Good Articles.
The dispute over the title for the Manning article escalated quickly to arbitration levels, as the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute case was accepted for arbitration.
In this week's "Technology report", we explore ways of making Wikipedia more accessible to users of screen readers. Graham87 is a highly active contributor who is also blind and accesses the site through a screen reader.

VP44444 and AN/I

Hi Mediran, I thought I'd let you know that I've filed a report on VP44444 at WP:ANI in case you were interested in weighing in at any point. Salamat! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:20, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Million Award

The Million Award
For your contributions to bring SpongeBob SquarePants (estimated annual readership: 1,946,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:27, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

The Million Award is a new initiative to recognize the editors of Wikipedia's most-read content; you can read more about the award and its possible tiers (Quarter Million Award, Half Million Award, and Million Award) at Wikipedia:Million Award. You're also welcome to display this userbox:

This editor won the Million Award for bringing SpongeBob SquarePants to Good Article status.

If I've made any error in this listing, please don't hesitate to correct it; if for any reason you don't feel you deserve it, please don't hesitate to remove it; if you know of any other editor who merits one of these awards, please don't hesitate to give it; if you yourself deserve another award from any of the three tiers, please don't hesitate to take it! Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:27, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Sponge Who Could Fly

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Your GA nomination of The Great Patty Caper

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Your GA nomination of Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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Future Planning Meeting for WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League

Hey, Mediran. Hope you are having good times. You are a Wikiproject Bangladesh Premier League member and this is why you are receiving this message. We are organizing a future planning meeting for our project at Saturday 14 September 2013 at 13:30 (UTC) in #wikipedia-wikiproject-BPL connect. We would highly appreciate it if you would come and participate in the meeting. Thanks in advance and hope we see you at the meeting. --Pratyya (Hello!) 15:27, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Road to Vegas promo.jpg

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013

'The National Law Journal reported on September 9 that lawyer Susan L. Burke has been taking legal steps to discover the identity of Wikipedia editor . Zujua had edited her biography, allegedly adding misleading content about various lawsuits in the process
The Signpost went to Indonesia this week.
Four articles, eight lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
The deadline for proposals to the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) volunteer committee on Meta will pass on 30 September. The program is designed to fund projects that tackle long-term problem and have a significant editing community impact; it has previously supported solutions like The Wikipedia Library, which improves Wikipedian access to online reference sources like JSTOR (see Signpost coverage).
While the Syrian Civil War crept its slow way into the minds of the public, with a new fourth related entry in the top 25, the top 10 remained dominated by celebrity, mainly sports and music. Two megabucks transfers stimulated public interest in football/soccer ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, while Lil Wayne's public apology ahead of his latest album release sent him to the top.
Discussion over the Manning title dispute was off to a running start as evidence and workshop phases continued in the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute. The Infoboxes case closed with topic bans for two users, and a recommendation for community discussion of infoboxes.

CVUA

Hi Mediran, can I copy some parts of your User:Mediran/CVUA page as I am going to start working as a CVUA instrcutor? Jianhui67 Talk 12:24, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Of course. Also, good luck in working as an instructor. Thanks. :) Mediran (t • c) 12:28, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Having seen some of your scripts of your graduated students, for the rollback section, I am wondering if I can add a 'request for rollback and I'll assign you a task with rollback', but I will write on my 'Rollback' section that 'rollback isn't a status or an award. Misuse of rollback can lead to its removal by any administrator.' I'll also want to modify the 'Tools' section. I'll provide the Huggle manual too on the 'Tools' section. And also a task with Huggle. For STiki, I'll do the same. And I'm also going to a 2nd final exam for those who failed the first one. My 2nd final exam is in my sandbox. Jianhui67 Talk 13:14, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
That's very nice. You can do whatever you want on what kind of instructions you want to conduct with your students seeing to it that they are learning something from your expertise. Thanks! :) Mediran (t • c) 13:27, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
I also decided to use pictures to illustrate Twinkle. With these pictures, they will understand how to use Twinkle. The pictures will be 'how to report a user at AIV, ANI and UAA', 'how to warn a vandal' (with a group of templates they can choose), 'how to request a page for protection' and 'tagging a page for speedy deletion' (with all the different criterias of speedy deletion). But I think that to do these things may be troublesome because I would have to upload a lot of images to Wikipedia. And by the way, are you active on Commons? Currently patrolling for vandalism there too, though vandalism there is not very frequent, unlike English Wikipedia. Also a rollbacker there too. I patrol for vandalism on both Wikipedia and Commons. Jianhui67 Talk 13:49, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Have you seen the continuation of my message? Jianhui67 Talk 05:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
I'm terribly sorry about the late reply. :) BTW, you can upload images in Commons to illustrate what you mean but I guess it's better to say it and let them to figure it out. If you want to upload some illustrations, you can and you can also search for some existing images to make sure the image you will upload doesn't duplicate other files. It's your choice on how your students will learn more effective. Thanks. :) Mediran (t • c) 05:39, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Ed Big Picture Show.jpg

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Ed Big Picture Show.jpg)

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the volunteer-led body that evaluates chapter and (for the first time) thematic organizational annual plan grant requests to the Wikimedia Foundation, is preparing for its third round of public proceedings to deliberate on the distribution of several million US dollars of Wikimedia movement funds.
This week, the Signpost headed to WikiProject Good Articles. As of publishing time, out of the 4,331,477 articles on Wikipedia, only 18,464 are rated as "good" (about 1 in 235).
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status last week on the English Wikipedia.
In this week's "Technology report", we look at how the growth of Wikidata can benefit Wikipedia. Gerard Meijssen is a highly active contributor and frequent blogger about Wikidata. We asked him to share his thoughts on how the new project benefits Wikipedia.
The top 10 is bookended by unlucky dates, as Friday the 13th fell just after the anniversary of 9/11. Breaking Bad's final season continued to draw attention, while interest in Miley Cyrus's youthful exuberance is fading only slowly.

Your GA nomination of Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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Your GA nomination of Pest of the West

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Your GA nomination of Pest of the West

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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Atlantis SquarePantis storyboard.jpg

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Your GA nomination of Pest of the West

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Monopoly SpongeBob edition.jpg)

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Barnstar from Soham

The Autograph Book Barnstar
This barnstar hereby acknowledges and appreciates the fact that you signed my Autograph Book, Thanks. ---$oHƎM ❊  আড্ডা  13:43, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2013

Over the last year, there's been extensive debate about whether public relations professionals and other corporate representatives should participate on Wikipedia and, if so, to what extent and what kinds of rules should be followed.
The saga of Walter White, chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin, as told in the critically adored television series Breaking Bad, has been a water-cooler necessity for years, and now, as it nears its end, audiences are feverishly following every plot thread to guess what the finale will reveal.
Fox News writer Perry Chiaramonte published an article detailing Wikipedia's alleged abandonment of its fight to remove pornography.
On 30 September, Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the Wikimedia community's global photo competition, will reach to the end of its submission period. The proceedings have been underway since the first of this month; national juries will start reviewing submissions for the first round of selections after it closes ... Community aggravation with one of the Wikimedia Foundation's signature initiatives, the VisualEditor, came to the fore again this week with the announcement and implementation of code blocking the tool.
This week, we continued our exploration of other language editions of Wikipedia by visiting the Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto Fútbol (WikiProject Football).
Twelve articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
A conference paper makes a rather serious claim: "We find a surprisingly large number of editors who change their behavior and begin focusing more on a particular controversial topic once they are promoted to administrator status."

Election at WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League

Hey Mediran. Hope you are having good times in Wikipedia. Now straight to work. Our Project WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League is organizing an election for electing Co-ordinator and Vice Co-ordiantor for our project. The election is open for all members and it's located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League/October 2013 Elections. You can nominate yourself as a candidate or can cast a vote. But this rules needs to be followed.

  • Only project members will be able to vote.
  • Candidates Will not and Will not be able to cast a vote.
  • Before nominating yourself as a candidate please use your common sense if you are eligible.
  • Voting will take place between 0:00, October 7th 2013 UTC, and finish at 0:00, 21th October UTC.
  • After it's over you will not be able to cast a vote.
  • Follow the page to know if any rule is changed.
  • Mdann52 is the Election Co-ordinator. He'll count the vote and let the members know what is the result.
  • These rules can be changed anytime.

Now we think you have understand this message. We will highly appreciate it if you keep in touch with us in this time and cast your valuable vote at the Election. --Mdann52 and Pratyya (Hello!) 14:46, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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CVUA

I have a rather comprehensive CVUA tasks page at User:Jianhui67/CVUA/Tasks. You may want to use mine for your CVUA instructing. Jianhui67 Talk 10:11, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Is there still any improvement I can still make? It is incomplete. I have not expanded some parts. Jianhui67 Talk 12:14, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Jianhui67 for this. Anyway, I think it's better than what I've been using before but I think you should correct your grammar like "an person's privacy", etc. All in all, it's looks great now! Thanks. Mediran (t • c) 00:10, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
I decided not to instruct first. I'll be Ross Hill's CVUA assistant for a while to gain experience before instructing other people on my own. I will leave my User:Jianhui67/CVUA/Tasks page in WP:CVUA's Trainers' Methods for reference for other CVUA instructors. The page will also benefit me in the future when I start to instruct other people on my own. Jianhui67 Talk 04:04, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Ghoul Fools (DVD cover).jpg)

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WikiProject Environment article for review

Hi Mediran, I found your name on the list of participants at WikiProject Environment and was wondering if you had a few minutes to look at a draft I've prepared for an article that falls under the scope of WikiProject Organizations: The Climate Reality Project

I've rewritten this article on behalf of The Climate Reality Project and for that reason will avoid all direct edits to the article. I have instead placed my revised draft in my user space for editors to review.

I left a more detailed note on the Talk page that explains several issues with the current version I have aimed to address. I have also proposed merging in the two articles on the organizations that joined to form The Climate Reality Project.

I hope reaching out to you on your Talk page is OK. I've tried posting at several WikiProjects in addition to WikiProject Environment, but haven't had much success yet. If you know of someone who might be interested in reviewing this, or a WikiProject I might have overlooked, please let me know. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk ·COI) 22:45, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Sponge Who Could Fly

The article The Sponge Who Could Fly you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Sponge Who Could Fly for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 18:42, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

You Are Spreading Confusion Using Wikipedia

Hello I am Bhaskar, you should keep in mind that wikipedia is not a place for gossip. So please do not play with the affection of people. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added byBhaskarwp (talk • contribs) 19:56, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Bhaskar. So what "gossip" are you talking about? Please point out what you mean so I/we can discuss this issue further. Thanks.Mediran (t • c) 00:40, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
I don't think Bhaskarwp's comment makes any sense at all. They are welcome to prove me wrong by explaining it. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:48, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
I have already thought about that one. Mediran (t • c) 00:56, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
You're not the first. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 01:02, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
In what will be remembered as a game-changing week for Wikimedia grantmaking, the Foundation's executive director, Sue Gardner, published a forthright and in places highly critical statement, Reflections on the FDC process, and grantmaking staff revealed that the WMF will significantly strengthen its targeting of optimal impact in funding.
Six articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.
This week, we revisited the enthusiastic editors at WikiProject U2. Started in June 2007, the project has grown in spurts, resulting in a collection of 8 Featured Articles and 24 Good Articles. The project maintains a to do list, portal, and a list of references.

Your GA nomination of The Great Patty Caper

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Your removal of my edits at Sylt airport

Excuse me, but this is not my first day here. I just checked the official schedules on lufthansa.com and there are no direct flights from Frankfurt or Düsseldorf to Sylt - neither now nor next summer. All sold connections are flown via Munich as shown on lufthansa.com. So please tell me what is not constructive with removing wrong routes and providing a reliable primary source? --84.156.27.170 (talk) 14:41, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Whatever that is. I'm really sorry. Honest mistake. Thanks. Mediran (t •c) 14:42, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad.
This week, we moved to the esoteric world of Australian roads.
Seven articles, six lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
An investigation by the English Wikipedia community into suspicious edits and sockpuppet activity has led to astonishing revelations that Wiki-PR, a multi-million-dollar US-based company, has created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts.
The University of California, San Francisco attracted substantial media attention over its new course offering that will give credit to fourth year medical students for editing Wikipedia articles about medicine.
A proposed decision has been posted in the Manning naming dispute. The workshop phase of the Ebionites 3 case closes 13 October. Arbitrator NuclearWarfare has resigned.

Sankararamank

Dear Sir My Name Is User:Sankararamank I created One Story In Wikipedia I Requested You To Protect That Article Name The One Minute Apology I am Not Registered User. So Please Protect My Article Thankyou Sir — Preceding unsigned comment added bySankararamank (talk • contribs) 11:51, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

So which article you want to protect? First of all, Mediran is not an WP:ADMIN. Anyway, both articles you mentioned should not be protected in accordance of Wikipedia:Protection policy. Also, The One Minute Apology is already deleted because of it actually contains contexts from other work/s thus it is violating copyrights. If you want to protect an article, please request atWikipedia:Request for page protection and please read though Wikipedia:Protection policy before making such. Thanks.Mediran (t • c) 01:39, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


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