User talk:Stormbay - Knowledge (XXG)

797:. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs. 329: 41: 1817: 1569: 1513: 1457: 1070: 1627: 1252: 1757: 1366: 753:

the R.M.'s if someone felt it was necessary. Take a look at my editing record over the last seven years and you will notice that I don't (knowingly) request deletions without some reason. Your point on procedure is noted. I'll leave the rest alone. Replace anything that offends the criterion that applies. I find that most often less than nothing is accomplished at sites such as

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I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it!

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Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but

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Hey Stormbay. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes

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The removal of the categories was the end product of a large clean-up of rural municipalities in Manitoba to make all the naming of them consistent...some of the Categories were simply wrong and it seemed sensible to remove them all and then someone could create a properly named category for each of

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I have to agree. There does not seem to be any reason for your removal of these categories other than a desire to delete them. You appear to be trying to do an end run around the proper procedures for doing so. Why you would do such a thing is not important, what is important is that you stop doing

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and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion

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All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72

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Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage

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on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular

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First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the

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tag — but strictly speaking, the nn tag is incorrect as "city councillor in Calgary" would be a perfectly legitimate claim of notability if proper sourcing were present, and the tag doesn't really need to be there in addition to all of the others anyway, since it serves little purpose besides

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The CFD has been closed as "No Consensus" by Jc37 and should not be modified. It is not important to me. In my mind, they should all be deleted but I will move on to something else. (I am always surprised at the amount of effort expended by some Wikipedians to enforce silly rules.) Cheers!

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is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

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I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing

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until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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To whome this may cconcen Hi my name is lawrence joseph black and I was doing some family history and came acorossed this joseph laurnce black I am sure I am related to him if u could give me some info it would be much appreciated thank my email is

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Hey Stormbay! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there!

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

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until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've

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I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

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by not to remove the speedy deletion template, It looks like you have some unfinished business with you and Jc37 on the only empty Manitoba category. And maybe go to March 23, 2012 CFD nomination page and maybe remove

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set of categories. I hope you both will agree, after checking me out further, that I was probably well intentioned but woefully lacking in respect for/knowledge of the continually evolving proliferation of rules.

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and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the

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session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at

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I have had a good deal of your incivility over the years. Your "civil question" was phrased in your usual style. By its nature it is not civil. I recognize civil when I read it. Enough said!

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but that's fine. There appears to be little or no activity from editors doing Manitoba stuff. I'm an ex-patriot and have been all over the province. There is no use of names like

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Are you incapable of giving a civil answer to a civil question? How am I following you when I edited the article before you did? And the citation that I added had a link to the

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excludes categories that are emptied out of process, which is what you have been doing — if you wish to have an already-populated category deleted, you must take it through

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during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.

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article, so I don't understand how anyone could think it was a trade mag, question-marked or not, unless they were basing their editing on guesswork rather than evidence.

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is one that I do follow. (The other involves trying to use a civil tone with everyone. I hope I was successful in this instance. I tried, anyway). Happy editing!

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is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

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On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup

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hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

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Did you see the question mark? Do you follow me around to insult my editing? The tag was valid; the rest I included to "bemuse" you and other editors.

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Citation restored. Since it is also under Donald McKay I assumed you put it there to be sure I would check it. Thank you. 22:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on

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how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the

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I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment!

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In accordance with our policy that Knowledge (XXG) is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia

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Just for the record, Calgary is one of the few Canadian cities large and internationally prominent enough that its city councillors

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mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones

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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to

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Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the

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Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in

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on the list and the rest will keep. This is for you to resolve with you, User:Jc37 and the only empty category

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Hey Stormbay :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As

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Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs

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or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

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No more Category:Geography of Manitoba cats unless no such cat exists...I will probably remember. :-)

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Your point about notability is noted. Your supplementary comments on the prod outline it well. Thanks!

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is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the

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If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available

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On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our

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Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

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requesting that it be speedily deleted from Knowledge (XXG). This has been done under

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We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism;

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Knowledge (XXG):Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Peter O'Reilly (civil servant)/Comments

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Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

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If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under

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tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with

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to identify a Rural Municipality. I'll move on to something more exciting.

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If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read

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describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Hello, Stormbay. It has been over six months since you last edited the

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Hi Stormbay, I have to tell you regarding of the empty category called

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sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at

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On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's

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it and instead use CFD for categories you believe should not exist.

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Please do not tag empty categories for C1 after emptying them. The

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There wasn't much of a discussion (hence the "no consensus" result).

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Thanks for your submission to Knowledge (XXG), and happy editing.

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in addition to their appropriate settlement-type category. Thanks.

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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion/Natalia Karenka Parra Sierra

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on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks!

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If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review

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to be speedy deleted. Let me know if this is resolved. Thanks.

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with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of

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at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

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repeating issues that the other tags are already covering.

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sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks,

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I emptied a number of the categories...didn't see it as

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