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thanks for fruits :)

thanks for fruits :) Alenbohcelyan (talk) 22:25, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

A big NPT update

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

coding

• 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 interface.
• 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 otherwise complete.

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 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.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

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.

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! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:03, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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) 14:43, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Dispute resolution survey

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Sonia. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 02:17, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

A (late) Easter 'Wiki Egg' for you. - 220 of ^Borg 15:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! sonia♫ 23:49, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

User talk archiving

If you get a chance.. could you help me fix the archiving on my user talk? I'm not good at that sort of thing as you know. Kansan (talk) 15:00, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I...manually archive my talk. Not sure how to help you fix it, sorry. Try the help desk? sonia (talk) 06:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Educational peer reviews

Hi Sonia. I noticed on the Online Ambassador Census that you might be able to help a bit more, so I was wondering if you could try out one or two Category:Educational peer review requests (would be a paragraph or so on just a general review of the state of the course as a whole). This is a bit of a new direction for the ambassador program, and I'd be glad to see you help blaze the trail!--Pharos (talk) 15:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Needs clearer directions, but will do! sonia (talk) 06:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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Heh, wow! sonia (talk) 06:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting

Hi. You might be interested in this. outreach:Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. The next meeting is April 23. You can also add your name to the list here to get meeting announcements in the future. meta:Global message delivery/Targets/Wikipedia Education Program meeting. Pine(talk) 09:52, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Done, and that as with nearly all WMF meetings is at a time when I'm waking up, making my morning commute, or, as in this case, actually already at uni (on the day of a test too!) Thanks for the note though; your thinking of me is much appreciated. sonia (talk) 10:26, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool office hours

Hey Sonia/Archive 8; 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) 03:50, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Oy, 6am on a Saturday? sonia (talk) 04:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey, your waking/sleeping schedules are pretty weird. Y'never know ;p. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 04:59, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

True that. Well, I'll try to make it. If I'm not there, ring my phone or something—I sleep with it by my side, so it should wake me up. sonia (talk) 07:26, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm not waking you up at stupid o'clock for an office hours session! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:27, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Excuse the Java-esque expression (I've been coding for the last four hours)

if (officeHours == saneTime || sonia.Wakes() != saneTime) {
   sonia.Attends(officeHours);
}

So, uh, yeah. :P (Seriously though, s'long as there's on-wiki logs, I'm not fussed.) sonia (talk) 11:49, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Ahh, see, I'd just use:

$officehours = time
$soniawakes = time
if ($soniawakes <= $officehours) {
include ('officehours.php');
}

Also, the use of == to check equality still gets on my tits. Internally inconsistent string logic! ARGH. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:31, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Argh. Did I not reply to that? I swear I did. In short, good idea, have very few thoughts at this point. Will try to recall exactly what they were tomorrow – just finishing off some pressing work tonight. sonia (talk) 10:13, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Poke. Pine^(talk) 19:04, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Belinda

Hi Sonia - just to let you know that I've worked with a bureaucrat to resolve the little glitch that was encountered when renaming another account to User:Belinda. I think we have worked it all out; I've emailed the user, but you might also be in a good position to follow up, if you don't mind. Sorry this took so long. Risker (talk) 01:27, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Great! I will do so, and thank you so much for your continued diligence. sonia (talk) 01:34, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Mapping

Do you think you might be able to make a map for The Amazing Race Norge? My buddy's working now and the Norwegian broadcast schedule is like twice a week so he doesn't have the time for it.—Ryulong (竜龙) 02:24, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Send me over the details, and I'll see. A map, or several maps? sonia (talk) 02:38, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Well just one map now for the episodes that have aired so far, and maybe another map down the line. Because it's a foreign version they're never touching the Americas so it only has to be half a map. The stops so far are:

1. Oslo (start line)
2. Dubai
3. Agra
4. Jaipur
5. Bangkok
6. Hanoi
7. Huế

If another episode airs and I get more information, I'll tag you here, again. So the same as the other maps there've been, like the TAR19 map.—Ryulong (竜龙) 03:21, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Looks like stop #8 is Sydney.—Ryulong (竜龙) 19:23, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Hey, Sonia, they've been to Blue Mountains (not sure if that's still close enough to Sydney to warrant another dot) and Melbourne, now. :P—Ryulong (竜龙) 18:57, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Right. I'll have that up by tonight! sonia (talk) 19:37, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

And if you wouldn't mind, once the upload is complete, could you change the number in the caption on the page so we can make sure the thumbnail updates? I think the commons has been having problems with the thumbnail cache update lately. And also, my buddy decided to throw in a couple more aesthetic changes in the last map (yellow rings with red dots to match the race's colors, a green dot for the start line city), but I don't know where the Norway version's going to end, so perhaps these changes would be best for the end?—Ryulong (竜龙) 20:23, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Silly thumbnails haven't updated yet. Next jump is Hong Kong, but you don't have to do it immeadiately.—Ryulong (竜龙) 04:56, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

The final episode has aired, so after Melbourne is Hong Kong; Macau; Almaty, Kazakhstan; and finally Oslo.—Ryulong (竜龙) 23:06, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Just saw you updated it. But you forgot to color in China and Kazakhstan in that blue. :(—Ryulong (竜龙) 08:56, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Asgfl. Will do it now. sonia (talk) 09:04, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! Now to just wait for the Commons to update its thumbnails.—Ryulong (竜龙) 20:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Ah, so it wasn't just me? I hard-refreshed maybe seven times and nothing happened even to the larger image, but I was positive I'd uploaded the right image. Good to know it went through! sonia (talk) 20:21, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update

Hey Sonia/Archive 8 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

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

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 here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Grar, they still haven't updated? When's the HK episode aired? sonia (talk) 07:24, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the warm welcome. Yes, I was lucky and obtained adoption from two users. I should have my work cut out for me! "Selene Scott (talk)" —Preceding undated comment added 03:31, 7 May 2012 (UTC).

Fairly sure I didn't welcome you....? sonia (talk) 07:24, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WAP assignment

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Poke

Poke. Pine^(talk) 19:13, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Saw that you'd gotten much more productive feedback on the list, if this is still about the same thing; I've been trying to fix my connection, but half my IM/IRC things aren't working :/ Will probably do a clean reinstall at some point, if only because I'm swapping out the hard drive, and hopefully that gets me back online fine. sonia (talk) 07:24, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

OK, I was wondering why I never see you on IRC anymore, now I know. I miss seeing you! Pine^(talk) 07:41, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Ditto. Hopefully stuff gets sorted out soon. sonia (talk) 19:09, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Sonia! 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! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:30, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	For getting me addicted to sourcing lists, I award Sonia theSpecial Barnstar. ~ Matthewrbowker Talk to me 05:33, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Hee. I'm flattered! (Really need to get back into editing myself, hopefully time frees itself up.) sonia (talk) 19:09, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed 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.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

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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.
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8am Friday? Since it's exams, I can actually make that for a change! Woo etc! sonia (talk) 06:59, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

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TAR Australia 2 map

Hi! Can you please create a map for The Amazing Race Australia 2 in svg (scale vector graphics) mode? I haven't created maps since TAR18. Thanks. ApprenticeFan ^work 01:58, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Link me or give me a list of the destinations in order and I'll do it. When do you need it for? sonia (talk) 02:08, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

The link for season 2 of The Amazing Race Australia. The destination for the first two legs. User:Ryulong has not involved with TARAu and the ratings are getting outside of one million mark in Australia.

The destinations are:

1. Sydney (starting point)
   
2. Manila
   
3. Albay province
   
4. Delhi
   

Cheers. ApprenticeFan ^work 02:47, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Cool. Just add to this list whenever a new destination's announced and I'll add to the map. Will try and create it tomorrow or Saturday, but no guarantees as I have a final exam Monday. Should be done by Tuesday though. sonia (talk) 02:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Got a new update and you were busy on your other non-commons contributions. Can we give a favor of two destinations for last and this week's episodes:

1. Jaipur
   
2. Dubai
   

Do it right now as in other TAR editions. ApprenticeFan ^work 10:23, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

New update once again. Istanbul is the new destination for that reality show. Can you please edit it right away? ApprenticeFan ^work 11:08, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

One second... heading to bed but gimme a sec. sonia (talk) 11:13, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

I think I tried to, hoping it's commons that isn't refreshing properly. Let me know if this didn't work and I'll re-upload tomorrow. Now, bed. sonia (talk) 11:18, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Another new update for this episode. The destinations are Paris and Havana. Edit and update right now. ApprenticeFan ^work 10:58, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

<sighs> Can you stop with the "do it right now" stuff? It's... kind of rude. I can't see well enough to do it right now but all things going well I'll actually be able to get enough sleep tonight for things to settle down a bit. If that's the case, it'll be done tomorrow. Can't tell from here though. sonia (talk) 13:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Done. sonia (talk) 11:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Wait, another new one for the episode: Vancouver and can you add Hawaii is actually missing in your map. ApprenticeFan ^work 01:59, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

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Pine, help! FiverFan65 here

Pine, I loved the kitten you sent me! She and her twin brother are treated very well at my home. Dozens of photos of them, and...

Pine, I haven't been doing much work on WP this past day or two (Mom in town), but when I was working this evening on the WP's requested trimming job on "Watership Down", I received a message that what I was writing was ... I don't remember, because now I'm really sleepy, but I want to do it right! My efforts were going to be canceled.

I was so startled that I began clicking here and there and ... now, like a newbie, which I am, I can't remember how to get back to where I was.

Pine, maybe it was a bot stopping me?

(I'm so sorry I can't remember! My boyfriend was singing, and I was interrupted. He sings like an angel.)

I know "Watership Down" really well - I can quote the text when not reading it. I quote it in my effing sleep. So I must have made a different sort of error -- I mean not an error of knowledge, but one of formatting, or something -- to have been kicked out of my last minor error correction. You've always been good to me. Please teach me where I went wrong, give me a kick in the ass, and I won't err like that again. Thanks! (And I hope you do not live in flooding or burning states. How awful for those sufferers!) FiverFan65 (talk)08:19, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Continual diligence in editing over the past 3 years! Cntras (talk) 07:08, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

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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.

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EduWiki Conference 5-6 September in Leicester, UK

I am writing to you as you have signed up to the Education Meetup at Wikimania 2012 and perhaps are interested in how Wikipedia links to education. Wikimedia UK is now running a education related event that may be of interest to you: the EduWiki Conference on 5-6 September in Leicester. This event will be looking at Wikipedia and related charitable projects in terms of educational practice, including good faith collaboration, open review, and global participation. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in your institution or online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's work in this area!

The conference will be of interest to educators, scholarly societies members, contributors to Wikipedia and other open education projects, and students.

For details please visit the UK Chapter Wiki.

Please feel welcome to register or promote within your network.

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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!

The Wikipedia Adventure: Request for feedback on Community Fellowship proposal

Hi! I'm contacting you because you have participated or discussed The Wikipedia Adventure learning tutorial/game idea. I think you should know about a current Community Fellowship proposal to create the game with some Wikimedia Foundation support. Your feedback on the proposal would be very much appreciated. I should note that the feedback is for the proposal, not the proposer, and even if the Fellowship goes forward it might be undertaken by presently not-mentioned editors. Thanks again for your consideration.

Proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/The_Wikipedia_Adventure

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Page Triage newsletter

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

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. 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.

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! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:54, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

have a good day

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Fall 2012 Online Ambassador Program

Hi, Sonia!

If you're still planning to work with a class in the US and Canada Education Program this Fall, please add your name to this census. Once the new class list is available, I will notify you guys so you can sign up for a class (or two) that interests you. I hope you're still interested in supporting these students for the coming term. Thanks! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:25, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

New Pages newsletter

Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

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 Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed 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 project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:01, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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This Month in Education: August 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 1, August 2012 Headlines Welcome to the first This Month in Education newsletter! EduWiki Conference, UK "Students Write Wikipedia", Czech Republic Reaching out to different target groups in Germany Involving more professors in the Wikipedia Education Program in Brazil Working with International Baccalaureate students at ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México Cairo Pilot wraps up successfully with conference Project TAO at Wikimania: Promoting Wikipedia among Seniors "Wikipedia for Seniors": Upcoming Presentation at WikiCon 2012 (Austria) To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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OMG. Is it really nearly 5 weeks since we chatted?  :- / My G-Mail chat seems to be broken, my 'chat list' is missing. (Just a mo', I seem to have, finally, found somethin' to click on to "chat with Sonia ... ", I'll give it a go.) :-) - 220 of ^Borg 09:27, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

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abstination / abstention

Sorry for any mistakes made on my part in the same-sex marriage in New Zealand regarding abstination / abstention - I didn't have a spell check handy at the time (I was using adifferent computer to the one I normally use, which is in the shop), so I just spelled it as I guessed it was spelt. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 02:38, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXVII, August 2012

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; award recipients; contest results Articles: The month's Featured and A-class content Book reviews: Nick-D on the legacy of World War II Op-ed: Bomzibar on German military history

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Military history coordinator election

The Military history WikiProject has started its 2012 project coordinator election process, where we will select a team of coordinators to organize the project over the coming year. If you would like to be considered as a candidate, please submit your nomination by 14 September. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the current coordinators on their talk page. This message was delivered here because you are a member of the Military history WikiProject. – Military history coordinators (about the project • what coordinators do) 09:55, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Online Ambassador

Hi sonia! Are you interested in being the Online Ambassador for any classes this term? We've got a few classes that are looking for ambassador right now (Canada, US), so if you're up for helping any, please do! Let me know if you have any questions, or if you'd like me to pick a course for you.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 16:11, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation update

Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome.

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This Month in Education: September 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2012 Headlines EduWiki Conference 5-6 September 2012 Leicester, UK Next year of cooperation between WikiProject Protected areas on Czech Wikipedia and Charles University International Baccalaureate students in Mexico begin working on Fall 2012 project ASA Annual Meeting features Wikipedia initiative Journal article shows four case studies Blog post highlights U.S. student's contributions Media coverage of program grows in Arabic, English Communicate OER project getting underway To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Hello!

We are editing your talk page for practice! Welcome to research and methods of cognitive neuroscience! Queeralice (talk) 18:23, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm chiming in Requiredforclass (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:25, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Excellent use of the colon! Queeralice (talk) 18:27, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Testing four tildes. Requiredforclass (talk) 18:27, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

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Page Curation newsletter

Hey Sonia. 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 to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:55, 24 September 2012 (UTC)