User talk:Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry/New Archives/2012/January

Abortion amendment request

Hello. I have made a request to the Arbitration Committee to amend the Abortion case, in relation to the structured discussion that was to take place. The request can be found here. Regards, Steven Zhang ^{Join the DR army!} 04:07, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool - notes and office hours

Hey guys! Another month, another newsletter.

First off - the first bits of AFT5 are now deployed. As of early last week, the various different designs are deployed on 0.1 percent of articles, for a certain "bucket" of randomly-assigned readers. With the data flooding in from these, we were able to generate a big pool of comments for editors to categorise as "useful" or "not useful". This information will be used to work out which form is the "best" form, producing the most useful feedback and the least junk. Hopefully we'll have the data for you by the end of the week; I can't thank the editors who volunteered to hand-code enough; we wouldn't be where we are now without you.

All this useful information means we can move on to finalising the tool, and so we're holding an extra-important office hours session on Friday, 6th January at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. If you can't make it, drop me a note and I'll be happy to provide logs so you can see what went on - if you can make it, but will turn up late, bear in mind that I'll be hanging around until 23:00 UTC to deal with latecomers :).

Things we'll be discussing include:

• The design of the feedback page, which will display all the feedback gathered through whichever form comes out on top.
• An expansion of the pool of articles which have AFT5 displayed, from 0.1 percent to 0.3 (which is what we were going to do initially anyway)
• An upcoming Request for Comment that will cover (amongst other things) who can access various features in the tool, such as the "hide" button.

If you can't make it to the session, all this stuff will be displayed on the talkpage soon after, so no worries ;). Hope to see you all there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 04:49, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2011

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OTRS workshop

Sorry to bother you here. I'm due to be at the OTRS workshop this saturday but my membership hasn't come through. I left a note on the OTRS workshop talkpage but I thought I would post here too in the hope that you might know who might be able to help with this. --filceolaire (talk) 23:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm the one to help! I'm almost certain that your membership has come through, we've just not sent out the emails yet - could you send me an email to richard.symondswikimedia.org.uk with your name? I'll double check when I'm in the office tomorrow. The Cavalry (Message me) 00:09, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I think he's talking about the processing of his OTRS application at m:OTRS/volunteering rather than membership of WMUK, but I could be wrong. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:09, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Ah, that would make more sense. I will have a word with some OTRS admins and see if I can get it ushered through. It won't be a problem on the day. The Cavalry (Message me) 16:30, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I had an email from Mike Peel saying I've been turned down :( If this is wrong and I can do OTRS then can you phone me?. Sorry to be a bother. --filceolaire (talk) 00:53, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Sure, willdo. The Cavalry (Message me) 12:41, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool - things to do

Hey guys! A couple of highly important things to do over the next few weeks:

• We've opened a Request for Comment on several of the most important aspects of the tool, including who should be able to hide inappropriate comments. It will remain open until 20 January; I encourage everyone with an interest to take part :).
• A second round of feedback categorisation will take place in a few weeks, so we can properly evaluate which design works the best and keeps all the junk out :P. All volunteers are welcome and desired; there may be foundation swag in it for you!

Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:55, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Fishery Protection Squadron history

Template:Fishery Protection Squadron history has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Bulwersator (talk) 20:00, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Bad Boys Blue

I responded to an edit request today at Bad Boys Blue to update the lineup of the band (which was supported by the band's website), and I noticed that you put it on indefinite full protection in October 2009. As I don't have OTRS access, I don't know exactly what the problem was/is, but it's been locked down for 2+ years now. Is it safe to at least downgrade it to semiprotection at this point, or would that still be too risky? The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 00:26, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Just to keep it from getting archived; I'd have already downgraded the protection by now, but if there's OTRS business that I don't know about I don't want to do anything before getting clearance. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 03:06, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay! Long story short, it should be OK to downgrade the protection. The Cavalry (Message me) 21:58, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

No problem, I figured you'd be busy given recent events. Thanks. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:55, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

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Help offered

Hi Richard. Many thanks for your kind offer a few days ago re. Wicipedia cy: here. I have briefly outlined, maybe, the travelling costs to one of our sysops down to a tech meeting in Aberystwyth. I would also like to discuss another possibility please; can you email me sub rosa? Diolch, Llywelyn2000 (talk) 17:22, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Sure - drop me an email via chasemewikigmail.com. We can certainly pay back the costs for the tech meeting if you can email those to me too? The Cavalry (Message me) 22:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Google Translate

Many thanks for yor Welsh article here. However

Thank you, Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry/New Archives/2012, for your new article, or contributions to Wicipedia Cymraeg.

Sorry us, but we removed her, because it appears that automatic translation product engine (like Google Translate) was.

If you want to see an article about that subject on Wikipedia, which you can write it in the original Welsh rather than with the help of machine translation?

Thank you for your understanding.

The above was translated from English into Welsh using Google Translate.

This note is asking you not to use machine translation to compose articles in Welsh.

To show you just how bad the results can be, we have taken some perfectly good Welsh and translated it into English using Google Translate, which produced the garbled English which you saw. You may or may not have understood the general sense, but it is certainly not decent English. Well, we can assure you that the results when translating from English to Welsh come out equivalently badly, if not a good deal worse.

Many thanks, Llywelyn2000 (talk) 05:17, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Not Google - oddly - but certainly poor Welsh! I won't do it again, but might I suggest you 'tone down' the template a little? It's a bit bitey :-) The Cavalry (Message me) 22:08, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Peacock Pages

Hi,

I have some spare time and thought I would take a crack at some peacock pages as I've been away from Wikipedia for a while and wanted to get some page edits under my belt for my new profile so that I can start posting on subjects I'm interested in. One of the pages appears to have a note from yourself asking for someone to take a stab at editing it, so I thought I would let you know that I was doing so. I'm in the middle of a major edit so I put the major edit banner at the top of the page and took down the peacock banner in the process. Please feel free to take a look to let me know if you still see something (or throw the banner back up there if you'd prefer it there). I'm going to be looking at some others over the next day or two and would love feedback if you have any on this particular project. Also, if you have any other pages that I could try to fix, I'd also be happy to practice on them. Jeremy112233 (talk) 20:20, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Sounds excellent! Let me know if you have any troubles or anything - I'm happy someone's having a stab at fixing the article. The Cavalry (Message me) 22:09, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool

Hey guys; apologies for the belated nature of this notification; as you can probably imagine, the whole blackout thing kinda messed with our timetables :P. Just a quick reminder that we've got an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 in #wikimedia-office, where we'll be discussing the results of the hand-coding and previewing some new changes. Hope to see you there :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:42, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Public Relations Consultants Association

I note you recreated this page. Whatever the reason it was deleted previously, this version appears to be a copyvio of the association's About Us page. Regards, Bazj (talk) 15:36, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Reverted edit

I reverted this edit. In this case 'ie' was a diphthong, not an abbreviation. —teb728 t c 19:37, 31 January 2012 (UTC)