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template:Optimization algorithms

Hi Ruud!

(1) Thanks for providing some level of protection for the Eppstein article.

(2) Optimization algorithms template:

Some months ago, you were quite right to complain about the over-emphasis on continuous optimization in the optimization algorithms template. I revised the template last week, at least indicating that combinatorial optimization was a category at a high level. Perhaps you could list graph/network problems and algorithms?

Also, I added some references on combinatorial optimization to the main article on Mathematical optimization.

BTW, I saw that a new edition of Minoux/Gondran has material on biologically inspired methods. With its new hierarchical structure, there is a lot of room for more on heuristics.

It would be great if you could add collapsibility to the template.

Best regards,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 22:41, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I'll have a look at it tomorrow. Cheers, —Ruud 22:51, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I started a graph/network section.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 02:34, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

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ERCIM

Dear Mr Ruud, with all the respect due to your obvious commitment for this great project that is wikipedia, I rarely saw such a mess ^^

10:04, 4 November 2011 Ruud Koot (talk | contribs) moved ERCIM to User:Ruud Koot/Computer science/ERCIM

As I'm not able to move it myself I asked their Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Current_discussions#January_4.2C_2012.

Best, Zorglub27 (talk) 23:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

The article was deleted (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ERCIM). I moved it into my used space because I might be able to bring it up to standards at a later time. —Ruud 23:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

ouch, I just brought it back, all my apologies for the mistake but I really thought that it was unthinkable to find this article empty as the W3C article still have a link in direction of ERCIM :/ Shall I undo what I done? Zorglub27 (talk) 00:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Moved it back, don't worry ;) There was a message about the deletion discussion in the log, but I'm not sure if you could see that, as your not an administrator. The fact that there are incoming links to this article is a good reason for why I think there should be an article on this organization. Just have to convince a few other editors first. —Ruud 00:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks ^^ I would be glad to contribute to the new version if needed! Zorglub27 (talk) 00:29, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Dear Mr Ruud, with all the respect due to your obvious commitment for this great project that is wikipedia etc. etc. the W3C page contains links to the real legal entities hosting and representing W3C, i.e. MIT, ERCIM and Keio University. But the ERCIM link vanished recently. What a shame! Without W3C Wikipedia would not exist and ERCIM hosts the European branch of W3C, including all the European Members and the European staff.

Hieronym

p.s.: as a matter of fact an "EEIG" (European Economic Interest Grouping) is not an umbrella! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hieronym (talk • contribs) 17:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

It's not me who you need to convince we need an article on this organization. Au contraire! I argued to keep this article, but failed to convince my colleagues. —Ruud 18:48, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Changes to the edit-protected Template:MacTutor

Hi Ruud, I placed the {{edit protected}} template in the relevant template page, and wrote a brief description of the requested edits, their effects and the reason behind'em. Could you do the job? All the Best, Daniele.tampieri (talk) 21:14, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, you replaced the more general cat "Bibliographic databases" with the more specific on "Bibliographic databases in computer science" in this edit. However, as far as I can see, CiteSeer covered much more than just computer science. As the more specific cat is included in the more general cat, it would seem to me that it does not need to be included in the specific one. Otherwise, each and every general database should be included in the category "Bibliographic databases in computer science", too. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 17:46, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

"Citeseerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science." (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/about/site) —Ruud 17:55, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

• But it is the article on CiteSeer, not CiteSeerX that I am talking about. That one starts with saying that "CiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers." (Implying that even social sciences and/or humanities were included). Is that incorrect? if so, it should be corrected. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I used Citeseer and use CiteSeer^X regularly and haven't seen them indexing anything beyond computer and information science, so our article would be incorrect. —Ruud 18:03, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

• Ah, I just see that CSX redirects to CS. If CS was broader than CSX, perhaps both cats should remain and I was too hasty to remove the specific cat. The article is not very clear, though, because even the section on CSX talk all the time about "scientific and academic" papers. Computer science belongs in the sciences, not humanities/social sciences, so it would be clearer if that were specified and "academic" deleted throughout. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:06, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

• (ec) I see. I'll leave it up to you to correct that then, as you seem to know more about this database than I do. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:06, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

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Did you see my talk page FAQ? Specifically the second section. But yes, I did note that there was a number of new users, but there was not a consensus to delete taking all into account. Stifle (talk) 16:44, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

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Strongly Connected Components Algorithm

The strong components algorithm discussed in "Cheriyan-Mehlhorn/Gabow algorithm" is actually due to Dijkstra. I discussed this in the Talk section of that article. My discussion was written in the form of several suggestions to the Editor. I don't know if this is you Ruud. But if it is you might want to check it out. Hal Gabow Hngabow (talk) 21:59, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I didn't write any of that article (except for changing the article title to disambiguate it from your shortest path algorithm, although admittedly I no longer remember why I chose the current name). I'll try to find some time to incorporate some of the comments you left on the talk page into the article. Of course you're also free to do so yourself. Regards, —Ruud 22:35, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate your help. I didn't change the page myself because I thought it would be better to have an impartial editor do it. I showed my Talk page addition to Joseph Cheriyan and Kurt Mehlhorn and they're both fine with it. I'd be happy to answer any questions that might arise in the editing process. I understand you won't be able to do this right off the bat. Thanks for your quick reply. hal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hngabow (talk • contribs) 23:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Would it be more appropriate for me to contact another editor to update the page? Hngabow (talk) 00:28, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

I've been quite busy with thesis work lately, so I will probably not get around to it very soon. Might I suggest you contact User:David Eppstein? Regards, —Ruud 00:31, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

done. thanks for the suggestion Ruud. Hngabow (talk) 01:40, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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MSU Interview

Dear Ruud Koot,

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:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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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,

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• No need for the rudeness. Wizard (band) seemed fairly uncontroversial to me since it has no real assertation of notability. Please do not talk down to me like that as if I'm a clueles n00b because I'm not. I know when to prod and when not to prod — I prodded dozens of articles in the past month and only a couple were deprodded. I also didn't realize that prod removers are not required to explain, but I still think it's common courtesy to do so if you remove prod. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:02, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

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WP:COMPSCI direction

Hi, I would like to discuss with you where you see WP:COMPSCI going. I think I should understand this before contributing in this area. Feel free to reply here or on my talk page. Thanks, Ideogram (talk) 12:36, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

If you are referring to the restructuring proposals. I'd like to reduce the number of computing-related WikiProjects to approxiately two. WikiProject Computer science focussing on computer science in its broadest academic sense, including many aspects of computer programming, and WikiProject Computing on all practical aspects of computing (including e.g. everything currently covered by WikiProject Software). —Ruud 13:00, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

OK in general what do you think needs to be done next? As you know Wikipedia is always a work in progress. I'm assessing a lot of articles and I hope we can agree on some guidelines to deal with the current situation, which I expect will continue for some time.

I also have a specific concern, which is I don't think that maths subjects with applications to CS should be tagged WP:COMPSCI, that would be like tagging Calculus as part of Physics. Thanks, Ideogram (talk) 13:47, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Apart from the issue with WikiProject Databases, I'm not really sure you mean with "the current situation"? What should be done next? Write more articles and tag the current ones, I guess?

Regarding mathematical articles, for articles concerning "basic" mathematics like arithmetic or group theory, I would agree these should not be tagged with WP:COMPSCI. For more specialist articles in logic and discrete mathematics, I'd say these should be tagged with WP:COMPSCI as well. Many of those are primarily of interest to computer scientist (e.g. CTL) or at least use papers from computer science journals as their references (e.g. Hadwiger conjecture (graph theory)) . —Ruud 17:38, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

As far as I can tell every article tagged WPDATABASE is included in WP:COMPSCI. I don't think this is a good idea. What can be done about this? Ideogram (talk) 23:13, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

As discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Databases#Restructure proposal, we would have to implement one of the proposals at Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases#Restructure proposals. This would require assessing/retagging ~600 articles (more without the assistance of a bot). I think User:Pnm preferred Option 1, listed there. You might want to discuss this with him. —Ruud 23:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and we still haven't figured out what to do with all the articles like C-SPAN Video Library, which would probably need to be sorted out first too. —Ruud 23:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

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Oh well ...

Apparently you do not value my participation. Ideogram (talk) 09:36, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Let me try this again. Apparently you are trying to enforce a hard limit of 100 Top-importance CS articles. I have a couple objections. First, I was not done sorting through the articles, I was going to add candidates first and then prune down. Second, if you will please note there are several articles from WPDATABASE in this category e.g. Column (database), not all of which belong here, which is the issue I raised with you above.

I'm sure you find me annoying, but we are going to need to communicate if I'm going to work in this area. If you feel that is too much trouble, then of course I will find something else to work on. Ideogram (talk) 09:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, those database articles from still need to be downgraded in importance (using computer-science-importance=). I do value your participation, I just think you're overusing the Top-importance tag. This should be a relatively short list of articles^* that probably need to be raised to FA first. And, yes, 100 is not a lot – if you take a few key algorithms (Quicksort), data structures/types (Graph (abstract data type)), fields (Computational complexity theory), biographies (Alan Turing) and concepts (Lambda calculus) – you're already there, but that's sort of the point of this category, everything else can simply go into High. Choosing these articles should therefore be done by taking all the other articles currently in the category into consideration. Simply dumping stuff (e.g. Coprocess) in there, planning to take some out later is not going to work. The correct approach would be to study the category, study the list of most popular pages and make a careful decision as to whether something critical is missing and then to think again, because humans are prone to overestimating the importance of a lot of things. When assessing lots of articles is probably best to try and constrain yourself to Mid, Low and the occasional High.

There are still masses of untagged articles in Category:Algorithms, Category:Data structures and Category:Computer scientists. It's probably more useful to get those tagged first than going around tweaking the importance-rating of already assesed articles.

^* My educated guess would be that there are ~15 000 articles in the scope of the project, ~5 000 currently either tagged or marked as a relevant stub. Most of them are by definition and the long tail effect of Mid or Low importance. Tagging in the order of 100 as Top and 1000 as High importance would in my opinion be a good rule of thumb to restrain oneself and keep the rating system useful.

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Happy Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Ruud Koot a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 00:38, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. How old did I get? —Ruud 11:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Promoted in 2006 means six years old. :) Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 17:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Thesis_title

What about the thesis year? And you do realize that most scientist, by the time they become notable, they probably do something way different from what their thesis was about, I hope. Also, thesis URL will most of the time stay empty. Until, say, 10 years ago, theses in life sciences rarely went online and I don't think that there is any effort at bringing older stuff online, either (sadly, very few people actually read somebodies thesis...). Anyway, if you're going to include it in the infobox, then I think the year should be there, too. Happy editing! --Guillaume2303 (talk) 01:16, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Good suggestion about the year. I also agree that the thesis topic is often on a quite different topic, sometimes in a very different field of science, than what they become notable for. For others it's very related to their current work, or a good explanation for their favourite side interest. I think it's, like academic genealogy, a relevant bit of trivia in most cases. —Ruud 01:29, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

• That's how I see my own thesis by now, although I would certainly have disagreed way back when (1984). I was the first in our department to write the thing using a computer 'a mainframe, using markup language for formatting, if that tells you anything... :-) Even if the files would still exist, there'd be no way to make a decent PDF out of that... --Guillaume2303 (talk) 01:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

It's a sad thing. Hopefully university libraries will once have the time and budget to scan the parts of their collections that aren't available digitally yet. —Ruud 01:51, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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RFC/U

Please review this diff.  I'm new to RFC/U and i'm not sure where I should put additional evidence.  Thanks, Unscintillating (talk) 20:33, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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Article Feedback Tool updates

Hey all. My regular(ish) update on what's been happening with the new Article Feedback Tool.

Hand-coding

As previously mentioned, we're doing a big round of hand-coding to finalise testing :). I've been completedly bowled over by the response: we have 20 editors participating, some old and some new, which is a new record for this activity. Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far!

Coding should actively start on Saturday, when I'll be distributing individualised usernames and passwords to everyone. If you haven't spoken to me but would be interested in participating, either drop me a note on my talkpage or email okeyeswikimedia.org. If you have spoken to me, I'm very sorry for the delay :(. There were some toolserver database issues beyond our control (which I think the Signpost discussed) that messed with the tool.

New designs and office hours

Our awesome designers have been making some new logos for the feedback page :) Check out the oversighter view and the monitor view to get complete coverage; all opinions, comments and suggestions are welcome on the talkpage :).

We've also been working on the Abuse Filter plugin for the tool; this will basically be the same as the existing system, only applied to comments. Because of that, we're obviously going to need slightly different filters, because different things will need to be blocked :). We're holding a special office hours session tomorrow at 22:00 UTC to discuss it. If you're a regex nut, existing abuse filter writer, or simply interested in the feedback tool and have suggestions, please do come along :).

I'm pretty sure that's it; if I've missed anything or you have any additional queries, don't hesitate to contact me! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:48, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2012

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The Signpost: 09 April 2012

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Lookahead

I was about to go to bed, so I'm going to fix this right now, but I don't think result of the split you just performed here makes much sense at all. One dubious blurb of text made little sense in the context of Lookead and none in Lazy evaluation, the other piece of text has nothing to do with Combinatorial optimization. —Ruud 00:35, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I agree that the article as it stood wasn't helpful, and also that the split is not much of an improvement as I was simply using the unsourced text that was available, but hopefully it's a step in the right direction. I was going by what the text and links indicated, and followed the split request. The difficulty is the lack of sources. These might help if you're looking to tidy up: Lookahead in combinatorial search, Lookahead parsing, and Lookahead and lazy evaluation. Regards SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 14:32, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 April 2012

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Abuse Filter on the Article Feedback Tool

Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.

For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:30, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 April 2012

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• Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content

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Article Feedback Tool office hours

Hey Ruud Koot/2012; just a quick note to let you know that we'll be holding an Office Hours session at 18:00 UTC (don't worry, I got the time right ;p) on 4th May in #wikimedia-office. This is to show off the almost-finished feedback page and prep it for a more public release; I'm incredibly happy to have got to this point :). Hope to see you there! Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:59, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2012

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• News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities

• Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more

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This Month in GLAM: April 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue IV, April 2012 Headlines USA report: Wikimedia presence at American Association of Museums; Oregon Historical County Records mass upload; brief news UK report: MonmouthpediA project; first QRpedia railway station Spain report: Augmented Reality; emerging artists internship; workshop for museum professionals France report: Release of content and outreach Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon at Teylers Museum Germany report: Long Nights; Wikipedia Academy; Wikipedia meets Museums, GLAM coordinator; Wikipedian in residence vacancy; Open GLAM workshop Australia and New Zealand report: Australian and New Zealand GLAM efforts Israel report: GLAM:NLI Edit-a-thon; Two Wikipedian-in-Residence positions Sweden report: Wikipedian in Residence at the Swedish National Heritage Board Bulgaria report: State Archive, Zoo and Natural History Museum Open Access report: Journal meets Wikipedia; presentations at OA and Wikimedia conferences Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 07 May 2012

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• News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013

• In the news: What does Wikipedia call an expert; and untruths in biographies ... again.

• WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages

• Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?

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The Signpost: 14 May 2012

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• News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic

• WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse

• Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week

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The Signpost: 21 May 2012

• From the editor: New editor-in-chief

• News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues

• WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....

• Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week

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The Signpost: 28 May 2012

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• Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph

• WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology

• Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese

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This Month in GLAM: May 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue V, May 2012 Headlines USA report: OCLC announces Wikipedian in Residence; 2 edit-a-thons; US cultural partnerships report; brief news UK report: Monmouthpedia launches; British Library Wikipedian in Residence Spain report: Wikipedian in Residence at National Art Museum; Wikimedia representation at MuseumNext France report: Cultural lobbying; current and future projects Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments and Case Studies Germany report: GLAM work in cities across Germany Sweden report: GLAM handbook released; Europeana Awareness project launched Mexico report: Collaborating with local artisans through Museo de Arte Popular Africa report: Lagos Black Heritage Festival and Case Studies Australia and New Zealand report: Wikimedia representation at Intelligent Info conference; editing workshops Open Access report: Open Access developments: politics and software Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Article Feedback Tool, Version 5

Hey all :)

Just a quick update on what we've been working on:

• The centralised feedback page is now live! Feel free to use it and all other feedback pages; there's no prohibition on playing around, dealing with the comments or letting others know about it, although the full release comes much later. Let me know if you find any bugs; we know it's a bit odd in Monobook, but that should be fixed in our deployment this week.
• On Thursday, 7th June we'll be holding an office hours session at 20:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. We'll be discussing all the latest developments, as well as what's coming up next; hope to see you all there!
• Those of you who hand-coded feedback; I believe I contacted you all about t-shirts. If I didn't, drop me a line and I'll get it sorted out :).

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:53, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2012

• Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women

• News and notes: Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture

• Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change

• WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts

• Featured content: On the lochs

• Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three open cases, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban

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The Signpost: 11 June 2012

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• News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI

• WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit

• Featured content: The cake is a pi

• Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three open cases

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Polytonic

Template:Polytonic has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.

You're one of the few editors who've edited this template more than once, so I'm dropping a notice here. All best — ^[dave] cardiff | _chestnut — 01:23, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

AFT5 release coming up - help us design a banner!

Hey all :). First-off, thanks to everyone for all their help so far; we're coming up to a much wider deployment :). Starting at the end of this month, and scaling up until 3 July, AFT5 will begin appearing on 10 percent of articles. For this release we plan on sending out a CentralNotice that every editor will see - and for this, we need your help :). We've got plans, we know how long it's going to run for, where it's going to run...but not what it says. If you've got ideas for banners, give this page a read and submit your suggestion! Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:28, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 25 June 2012

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Deletion review for Julia (programming language)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Julia (programming language). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Msnicki (talk) 00:32, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 July 2012

• Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism

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• In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?

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• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport

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This Month in GLAM: June 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue VI, June 2012 Headlines From the team: We want your feedback! USA report: Walters Museum upload, GLAM Consortium, QRpedia in Congressional Cemetery UK report: National Archives digitisation grant; WWI edit-a-thon; brief news Italy report: New case studies and featured contents from Italian GLAMs Germany report: Long nights; New Wikimedians in Residence; Wikipedia Academy & Zedler Prize Sweden report: Council of Central Museums co-operation Austria report: WikiCon 2012; Zedler Prize Finland report: Open Knowledge Festival Africa report: WikiAfrica Content Partnerships and Knowledge Projects Australia and New Zealand report: Workshops in Queensland; Creative Commons activity Open Access report: Obama petition; SpringerImages; World Open Educational Resources Congress; Wikipedia Academy; Wikipedia Cite-o-meter Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 09 July 2012

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Credo Reference Update & Survey (your opinion requested)

Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:

• Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).

Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.

If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

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• News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone

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Simple precedence parser

Nice work!

(Also good comments at the RfA.)

Cheers, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 08:43, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback newsletter

Hey all!

So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the #wikimedia-office ^connect channel, and another at 01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:41, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Mizar system page

Hi Ruud, Would you be interested in reviewing my revision of the Mizar system page? Yaniv256 (talk) 21:40, 22 July 2012 (UTC) Thanks!!!Yaniv256 (talk) 23:34, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

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AFT5 newsletter

Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!

On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.

For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!

Talk:Mizar system

If you want an explanation for my edits, ask me. You need to dial back your use of the undo button. This in particular was egregious: if you think the article has sufficient secondary sources (which it most assuredly doesn't at the moment; there are only two references which aren't by sources considered to be primary) then remove the tags instead of throwing out a bunch of other copyediting in the process. As for the talk page, there have been two ANI threads on the primary contributor's misuse of the talk page as a forum and I was putting an end to that. I am all ears as to your explanation for reverting. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:39, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Your edits to both the article and talk page where inappropriate. The article contains a sufficient number of secondary sources and you claimed to remove some dead references, which seemed perfectly alive to me. Don't expect me to cherry pick a few minor formatting changes from your mess. The inappropriate use of the talk page had already been hidden. There was absolutely no need to hide the constructive comments left there by me and other editors. Perhaps you should do a little background research before barging in from ANI. —Ruud 12:06, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

The "dead references" were stragglers from when I pruned a named ref that just went to the project home page. "References" that just go to the root page of a website are mostly useless. As for the talk page, I still think that it should be properly formatted, but I suppose that isn't critical right now. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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hello rudd....... I am student of engineering and working as coordinator for an event in our college's technical event "MINDS PARK". Can you suggest me some topics for computer departmental ppt presentation??????Madhusudan 11:08, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

I you want me to give you some appropriate suggestions, I'm afraid you will have to give me some more detailed information than this. From what area of computing should the topics be chosen? —Ruud 12:58, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Revision of the article on logic programming

Hello Ruud Koot, As I think you know, the article on logic programming is a mess. I get the impression that no one wants to try to fix it in case Hewitt subjects them to attack, as the talk page of the logic programming article amply attests. Hewitt seems to be relatively quiet, although I notice he has recently been trying to push his point of view on the article on Goedel's incompleteness theorem. I would like to contribute to a revision, but I don't want to enter into an editing war. I can make some suggestions on the talk page, but is there a better way? Best wishes Compulogger (talk) 12:25, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that article certainly has a bit of history. At some point even Bob Kowalski and the Association for Logic Programming got involved ([1], [2], [3]). Unfortunately, not much came out of that at the time. Hewitt seems to have mostly moved on to his own website and Lambda the Ultimate, but still pops up once every few months. His biography is probably the only article I won't touch anymore, the rest is just due to time constraints. So if you want to take a stab at rewriting the article on logic programming, feel free to do so. Don't forget to cite your sources, they will generally give you the winning argument if you run into any disputes. Regards, —Ruud 12:55, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Ruud. Maybe what I will do is put up some suggestions on the talk page first, together with an argument justifying the proposed changes, to see if anyone has any suggestions or reasonable counter-arguments. Then, all going well, I will implement the suggested changes afterwards. All the best. Compulogger (talk) 15:28, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

I have made a start. Wish me luck, and don't be shy to suggest changes - or offer help. Best. Compulogger (talk) 19:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing

Hello, Ruud Koot

I have noticed that you recently merged Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Command-line examples into Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing. While I like the decision, is it wise to merge a guideline into an essay?

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I think the difference between the two is a bit arbitrary for MoS pages, so I doubt anyone ever made a conscious decision to them as one or the other. Cheers, —Ruud 17:01, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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Syntax Highlighting

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I agree with the consensus that seems to have been forming at the RfC. In principle, syntax highlighting would be a very good thing (assuming some care is taken with the design of the colour scheme.) The last time I tried using various gadgets to enable syntax highlight—at least two years ago by now—it turned into a horrible experience, though: the available highlights contained numerous annoying bugs and were even on a decent computer quite slow to load and use. Even a small bug or small increase increase in loading time and decrease in interactivity can more than offset the benefits. But perhaps the state-of-the-art has progressed since that time. —Ruud 17:14, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

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Sorry, my mistake. I was looking at this edit, which followed yours, and clicked on the wrong "user talk". Mitch Ames (talk) 13:15, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #31

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Wikidata weekly summary #33

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  • Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue
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  • Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
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Hey all :). Just a quick note to say we'll be holding office hours in #wikimedia-office at 21:30 UTC this Thursday (the 29th) to show everyone the additional tools we're thinking of working on. All attendence and feedback is appreciated :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:02, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #34

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
  • Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
  • Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
  • Better recent changes comments on the client
  • Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
  • The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but has still a few glitches
  • The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
  • Added a number of profiler calls
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  • User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
  • Statements can be created and saved now
  • Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
  • Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
  • Improved entity selector widget
  • Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
  • Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
  • Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
  • Some PHPUnit test fixes
• Discussions/Press
  • Behaviour on null edits
• Events
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  • Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
  • SWIB
  • foss.in
  • upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Chart of item creation progress
  • Demo system will be unavailable shortly next week
  • Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines
  • You can now look up Wikidata identifiers on dbpedia lite and it shows up in the RDF
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Welcome to the Michel Laurin defense team.

As you may or may not know, Michel Laurin is a world-class expert on the phylogeny and anatomy of early tetrapods, eminently familiar with the latest research. Fortunately for Wikipedia, he has joined the ranks of editors. As he is a leader in his field, he finds it necessary at times to cite his own work, all of which is in highly respected peer-reviewed journals. User:MrOllie has been repeately reverting his contributions, either with no edit summary or with a brief comment that the COI policy has been violated. As I understand it, material that "is relevant and conforms to the content policies", in the language of WP:COI, does not violate the policy.

User:Sminthopsis84, User:Medeis, User:Stranger forever, and I are following this and regularly reverting MrOllie's reversions of Laurin. I am pleased to note that you have joined the effort. Wikipedia is privileged to have Laurin as an editor, and this harassment is most undesirable.

Peter Brown (talk) 01:38, 7 December 2012 (UTC) Hello,

Thank you very much to all of you. I had actually decided to give up contributing to Wikipedia before I learned that there might be a recourse to stop seeing my contributions systematically destroyed, mostly by MrOllie. I understand that Kuud is a moderator, so if you can please check out the discussion here and see if you want to do something abou this, I would very much appreciate. And if this requires me putting another appeal elsewhere, I am perfectly willing to do it, although I may occasionally need some technical help (although I am an experienced scientist, I am fairly new at working for Wikipedia), which I hope Peter can provide, if need be, so that Kuud will not need to put too much time into this.

Best wishes,

Michel Laurin (talk) 04:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #35

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
  • http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
  • Added wbsetqualifier API module
  • Added wbremovequalifiers API module
  • New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
  • Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
  • Selenium tests now independent from ULS
  • Selenium tests for statements UI
  • Existing statements can be edited now
  • Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
  • Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
  • Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
  • Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
  • Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
  • Improvements in templating engine
  • Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
  • Set up a fresh dev server for testing
• Discussions/Press
  • Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
  • “Importing data is hard: a rant about integrating open data projects”
  • Disallowing links to locked wikis
  • Sourcing of every statement
• Events
  • Foss.in
  • Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
  • WhereCamp Berlin
  • Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
  • Announced next office hours
  • Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
  • New admin notice board
  • “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
  • “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
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  • Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SableVM

I'm loath to allow this AfD to be derailed into off-topic discussion. How about just accepting that someone else may have a different experience of academia to your own? I'm happy to accept that your experiences may be of rigorous peer review for conference papers, why can't you just accept that my experiences may differ? If you feel the article should be kept, fine. I'm not convinced. If someone can come up with a good argument for keeping then I would be happy for it to be kept, but I don't see it yet - the onus is not on me to prove that coverage doesn't exist - one can never prove that, only that insufficient coverage can be found. I asked which source is independent and provides significant coverage, simply because having looked through the sources I don't see one - maybe someone could answer that question? I'm fine with you having a different opinion to mine. Could you afford me the same courtesy? Thanks. --Michig (talk) 19:10, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

As you haven't retracted your claim I have replied at the AfD in the interest of transparency. —Ruud 19:48, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh well. I tried. --Michig (talk) 19:53, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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RE: Welcome

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I was once a member here years ago and remember some javascript utilities for watching for malicious edits, etc. Do you know what I'm talking about or where I can get utilities to help with editing? I also frequent other Wikimedia learning resource sites, and was wondering if you know of any efforts to really, effectively tie together the learning resources into curricula. Wikiversity never seems to advance compared to Wikipedia, and if there were just some sort of prerequisite tree based guide to the articles on Wikipedia, I think it could be a very useful addendum to traditional books and/or coursework as knowledge guide. If not I may have to bust out some ruby or something.

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Wikidata weekly summary #36

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
  • Updated demo system
  • http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
  • Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
  • It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
  • Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
  • No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
  • Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
  • Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
  • Removed many singletons to reduce global state
  • Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
  • Improved settings system
  • Improved options of ValueFormatters
  • Improved options of ValueParsers
  • Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
  • Fixed serialization of SiteArray
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
  • Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
  • Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
  • Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
  • Moved the demo system to a larger server
  • Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
  • Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
  • A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
• Discussions/Press
  • “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“
• Events
  • WhereCamp
  • Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
  • upcoming: 29C3
  • upcoming: Office hours
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  • More pretty Wikidata artwork
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Wikidata weekly summary #38

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.

• Development
  • Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
  • Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
  • Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
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