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Hi everyone! I've recently created some ribbon equivalents for the WikiProject's current barnstar award system. Would it be possible for them to be added with the corresponding barnstars on the awards page? Cheers, Freebirdthemonk Howdy! 17:22, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Now that Template:Wikify is deprecated, is Template:Wikification (a similar template that goes on talk pages) really needed? Should it be redirected to Wikify? It is only used on 20 talk pages anyway, and is inferior to all the specific templates we use, and also inferior to WikiProject Wikify's "How to wikify". Del♉sion23 (talk) 12:59, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
i think a drive should be maintained each month, considering the amount of articles still carrying the tag. i can help coordinate it in any way needed. cheers ,FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 11:34, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Quick question: Why has this drive not been started? It's time to go. Oh, is this the Top Secret room? I had no idea... (talk) 00:27, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm thinking about User:FoCuSandLeArN. See his/her drive log, You can see he/she is the leader. He/she has wikified 99 articles. But I don't think he/she has wiified that much. I have some proof for my suspicion. See down.
There're 4 but I think there're more. You see in this four article history he/she doesn't have any contributions but the drive page says he/she has wikified and completed these article. If he/she thinks he'll wikify them then he can put this article with a working headline. That's okay, But without wikifieing someone can't say he/she has wikified that. Watch this please.--Pratyya (Hello!) 14:21, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi all. I am building a navigation sidebar for the wikiproject and have a copy in my sandbox ready for review. One thing that's different from the current navigation system is this template lists all the categories under the purview of the wikiproject. We need to fill out the list of related templates as it's incomplete right now. I have to go do some RL stuff but thought I would post here for feedback on this preliminary version. Cheers, -- Dianna (talk) 16:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
As mentioned on the awards page, there are special awards known as "Most Excellent Wikification Awards", that are to be issued to those backlog drive participants meeting the criteria after every calendar year. I checked over who qualified under each criteria, and distributed the awards accordingly:
Participation in every drive (including the March Mini):
Most leaderboard appearances (March Mini included):
Just so it's on record. Cheers! Oh, is this the Top Secret room? I had no idea... (talk) 12:15, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
While I'm at it, I'll keep track of the awards distributed for February 2013's backlog drive. As follows:
Now that that's all on record, I can take a break! :) Oh, is this the Top Secret room? I had no idea... (talk) 13:33, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Template:Nowikify has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. GoingBatty (talk) 17:09, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Everyone there...? What?...sorry didn't hear you. If yes then someone create the April's drive for Wikify sake. :-) -- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ( T - C - G ) 17:50, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello there! Maybe it's just me, but given one of the wikify stipulates is to place the sort template in articles that need it I think a tutorial or an explanation is needed. I for one don't know how to use it and what it does (sort of...). I think I've successfully placed it in a few articles, following the instructions. Could any help be provided? And possibly a how-to be appended to the wikify instructions in case it helps others? Thank you! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:51, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:ARTICLE NAME}}
magic word. There are minor exceptions (you put articles like "the" and "a" at the end, after a commna) but that's the general idea. As for why...well, that's way beyond me by now. There's more info at WP:SORTKEY, and if you need further help, I'm sure you know the general places (help desk, helpme template, etc). I don't know if this really answer what you wanted to know, but I just didn't want your query to go completely unanswered. Best, Nolelover Talk·Contribs 14:06, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
I am a beginner Wikifyer, and am feeling disillusioned and inclined to quit. So I am here for counselling, pointing in the right direction, or a good slap to get me back to work.
I have Wikified about 15 articles and have found it quite rewarding, but now that I have a little experience I am becoming pessimistic about what lies ahead. I have just generated about 10 random articles in a row that need Wikifying in order to get a picture of what my future might be, and it is pretty depressing. Of the ten articles I looked at, about 5 are obviously very shallow, lack-of-notability candidates for people or organisations. I don't feel motivated to spend any significant amount of time seeking to support such articles: they are about 10-15 lines in length and contain no significant content. Should I simply add a "recommended for deletion tag" and move on to articles that will can be improved?
PS: I expect that this question has been asked and answered many times before, but I haven't come across a FAQ or similar page to help me with the job apart from the Project Wikify page. Travers (talk) 06:35, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
As I did with the awards for February's drive, I'm going to keep a record here of the awards distribution for April 2013.
Awards distribution for April 2013's wikification drive. | |
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1. | Wilhelmina Will (200) Trophy; Diamond. |
2. | Captain Assassin! (197) Greater Working Wikifier's; Platinum |
3. | FoCuSandLeArN (136) Greater Working Wikifier's; Gold |
4. | pjoef (95) Greater Working Wikifier's; Gold |
5. | Pratyya Ghosh (63) Greater Working Wikifier's; Silver |
6. | Faizan Munawar Varya (21) Working Wikifier's; Iron |
7. | Dianna (16) Working Wikifier's; Iron |
8. | Travers (15) Working Wikifier's; Iron |
9. | Kristephanie/Freebirds/Whpq (3) Working Wikifier's |
10. | Ryan Vesey (2) Working Wikifier's |
So a print encyclopedia, a strawberry shortcake, and a sycamore walk into a bar - wait, have you heard this one? (talk) 20:36, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Will someone create the June 2013 drive, there's not much time left for new month now.-- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ( T - C - G ) 19:24, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Top Ten (by number of articles completed) | |
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1. | Wilhelmina Will (204) - Diamond; Trophy Done |
2. | pjoef (120) - Gold; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
3. | FoCuSandLeArN (65) - Silver; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
4. | R00m c (60) - Silver; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
5. | Way2veers (11) - Iron; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
6. | Tentinator (2) - Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
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I shall now, with this information, distribute the awards. Can you decipher this acronymical code? CYDTC (Hint: It's really easy!) (talk) 06:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem with the "Click here to find a random article to wikify" link on the Project page. I tried it five times and all five articles appear to be already "wikified" in the sense that they have the expected formatting and layout for Wikipedia. These were:
Am I misunderstanding something about this process? 86.128.6.65 (talk) 20:06, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
So in summary, I think you do generally have the right understanding of the process. Feel free to be bold if you come across articles which have been improved but still have their tag and untag them. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 21:52, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Up until July 4, the disambiguation project was making steady progress in combating disambiguation links, reaching an all-time low of only 62,419 disambiguation pages with incoming links. Since then, the number of disambiguation pages with incoming links has quickly shot up by over a thousand. I don't know why this number is suddenly increasing, whether editors are becoming more active and less careful in making links, or new articles are justifying increased numbers of disambiguation pages, or frequent disambiguators are getting discouraged and leaving the project, but we are falling behind and need help. Please make sure that the links you make point to the right articles, not to disambiguation pages. If you turn an existing page or redirect into a disambiguation page or a redirect to disambiguation page, please fix the incoming links, as your regular disambiguators are likely too swamped to get to them. If you can find and fix a handful of disambiguation links, that would be great. bd2412 T 17:46, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I have an open request on the Talk page for the Education Management Corporation (EDMC) article, which falls under the scope of this wikiproject, so I'm hopeful that an editor here can help complete it.
First let me explain my relationship with this topic: I am a consultant to EDMC and have been working over the past few months to clean up and improve this article. I have always disclosed my financial COI with this topic when asking for help and have not made any direct edits to the article. All of the improvements have been done with the help of non-COI editors, following Jimbo's advisement that outside advocates should stick to Talk pages.
The improvements to the article are nearly complete, but I am looking for help adding the {{infobox company}} template to this article, as there is currently no infobox on the page. I am also looking to clean up the introduction so it provides a more complete overview of the article. I have actually already prepared the infobox and revised introduction and placed them on the Talk page for review so I am only looking for an editor to look over what I have put together and make the changes to the article if it looks OK. (I've also added the markup for these changes to the Talk page, for convenience.)
If you can help with one or both of these remaining revisions, I'd be very grateful, and you can see my original request here. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 17:22, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Top Ten (by number of articles completed) | |
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1. | Wilhelmina Will (218) - Diamond; Trophy |
2. | Pratyya Ghosh (31) - Bronze; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
3. | pjoef (27) - Iron; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
4. | FoCuSandLeArN (25) - Iron; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
5. | Diannaa (10) - Iron; Greater Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
6. | Way2veers (3) - Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
7. | Tentinator (1) - Working Wikifier's barnstar Done |
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That'll help keep things in order. Editing with a pen leads to a lot of things unsaid. (talk) 14:22, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Template:Wikify request (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 05:00, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Wilhelmina Will has set up the pages, and I've asked EdwardsBot to send invites to everyone listed here. benzband (talk) 18:44, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Editor name | Top Ten (by number of articles completed) |
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1. pjoef | (164) Trophy, Platinum Wikification Barnstar |
2. Wilhelmina Will | (55) Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar, |
3. Lineagegeek | (33) Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar, Bronze Wikification Barnstar |
4. Prof. Squirrel | (18) Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar, Iron Wikification Barnstar |
5. Diannaa | (6) Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar |
6. Iamthecheese44 | (2) Working Wikifier's Barnstar |
7. | () |
8. | () |
9. | () |
10. | () |
In order to keep track of things. If I said "I'm miffed!", would you come running or go? (talk) 03:57, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
The project hasn't had a newsletter for a whole year now so I figured I'd write one and distribute it towards the end of the month, along with an announcement for the December drive, to the editors who have opted-in at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify/Participants/Newsletter. benzband (talk) 14:11, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
The template currently categorizes pages into Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify which ideally it shouldn't really be doing. See Template talk:Infobox requested#Categorization. benzband (talk) 14:11, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, on my travels with the December drive have discovered the series of articles in need of a lead paragraph, that are named, for example 1934_in_film - I wondered if there is a consensus about these articles and how to create a lead section? there are many of them and across different categories etc. It could almost be an article sub-genre with a standard template introduction ... Then there is another issue about how comprehensive and reliable the articles are - but that's way beyond me and simple wikifying i think ... Any thoughts? directions to policy pages? Thanks Depthdiver (talk) 02:22, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
If a page has multiple issues and you correct ONE of them to 100% completion can you mark that as completed under your log? Or do you have to completely fix all of the page's issues? Skarz (talk) 18:18, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
As we have concluded yet another year of wikification, I've also gone over the participation in each drive held in 2013, to determine the recipients of the Most Excellent Wikification Award, both for appearing the most times on the leaderboard and for participating in every drive held. For convenience, I've incorporated mention of this into the same table as the award distribution for the December drive.
Editor name | Awards earned |
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1. Pratyya Ghosh (221) | The WikiProject Wikify Trophy , The Diamond Wikification Barnstar |
2. Sesamehoneytart (145) | The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar , The Gold Wikification Barnstar |
3. pjoef (64) | The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar , The Silver Wikification Barnstar , Most Excellent Wikification Award (for being in every drive) , Most Excellent Wikification Award (for being on the leaderboard in each drive) |
4. SarahTheEntwife (56) | The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar , The Bronze Wikification Barnstar |
5. Captain Assassin! (33) | The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar , The Bronze Wikification Barnstar |
6. Lineagegeek, Prof. Squirrel (22) | The Working Wikifier's Barnstar , The Iron Wikification Barnstar |
7. Diannaa (15) | The Working Wikifier's Barnstar , The Iron Wikification Barnstar |
8. Wilhelmina Will (11) | The Working Wikifier's Barnstar , The Iron Wikification Barnstar , Most Excellent Wikification Award (for being in every drive) , Most Excellent Wikification Award (for being on the leaderboard in every drive) |
9. Benzband, Depthdiver (7) | The Working Wikifier's Barnstar |
10. WikiCopter (4) | The Working Wikifier's Barnstar |
Is it the end already? It felt like we were just getting started! (talk) 01:10, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
What about the February drive, is it gonna happen or not? --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 20:28, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 17:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC).
As usual, just so everyone knows it's been done:
Editor name | Top Ten (by number of articles completed) |
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1. Wilhelmina Will | (79) Trophy Done; Silver Wikification Barnstar Done |
2. pjoef | (71) Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar Done; Silver Wikification Barnstar Done |
3. Dianna | (10) Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar Done; Iron Wikification Barnstar Done |
4. Depthdiver/SarahTheEntwife | (3) Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar ( Done, on both accounts.) |
Okay folks, say it with me: 1 for the money, 2 for the - the - okay, just let me read the script again first... (talk) 23:54, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Who keeps the record of contributions of every editor to this project and where can one see the records.Skr15081997 (talk) 13:01, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Just so everyone knows, the April 2014 backlog drive has commenced! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:37, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
The above category is the oldest one of our project. It contains only 7 articles. It should be eliminated within this month.--Skr15081997 (talk) 05:48, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Article list
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April 2014
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Our project relies solely on the honesty of participants. When I saw the contribution history of the 2nd article, I heard the warning bell, Pratyya had never contributed to the article. The article still uses bare urls. I saw the contribution history of other articles and found no contribution in April from Pratyya to articles 8(1), 9(2),10 (3)and 23(4).
Bare url's still exist in the articles -3, 4,5 ,8,12,21,14,15,17,18,19,25,28,29,30,31,36,37,38,39,41,43,44,46,48,49,52,55,59,60,61 and 62. 47, 50 ,64 are still covered by the project. 21,11,14,27,28,34,53,59 and 63 still lack the required infoboxes. In 22,26 and 58 cite web template hasn't been used properly. In the article 57 of the above list, I had filled the references. So a total of more than 40 articles from the above list are covered by the project and need the attention of willing users. I have presented the log here and I leave it to the project co-ordinator Wilhelmina Will to decide whether such type of work can be permitted or not.--Skr15081997 (talk) 08:40, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
No changes were necessary in [[Willie Aames]]
. That's why I removed the link rot from that article. Now one thing I use a 150kbps net. It costs me 2 minutes to load a normal wiki page and many websites doesn't load for slow net connection. So I really couldn't check every link and that's why trusted the tool. But in future I believe I've to do that painful work. But it's not my dishonesty. I've never been dishonest here. Anyway I don't know when I'll be able to post the next reply. So if you don't get a reply please don't lose your patience. At last I really gonna thank Mr.Skr15081997. Thanks for showing me my mistake.--Pratyya (Hello!) 13:48, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Editor name | Top Ten (by number of articles completed) |
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1. | Skr15081997 (264) - WikiProject Wikify Trophy; Diamond Wikification Barnstar Done |
2. | Wilhelmina Will (260) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Diamond Wikification Barnstar Done |
3. | pjoef (100) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Gold Wikification Barnstar Done |
4. | Lineagegeek (96) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Gold Wikification Barnstar Done |
5. | SarahTheEntwife (39) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Bronze Wikification Barnstar Done |
6. | Pratyya Ghosh (24) - Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Iron Wikification Barnstar Done |
7. | Captain Assassin! (22) - Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Iron Wikification Barnstar Done |
8. | FoCuSandLeArN (15) - Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Iron Wikification Barnstar Done |
9. | Prof. Squirrel (13) - Working Wikifier's Barnstar; Iron Wikification Barnstar Done |
10. | Iamthecheese (5) - Working Wikifier's Barnstar Done |
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 22:31, 10 May 2014 (UTC).
Just so everyone knows, I've gotten the June 2014 Wikification drive started. Spring in Wikipedia is lovely! Just avoid the articles on flowers... (talk) 00:30, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.
• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.
• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____
• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost
For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 16:25, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
No notice, but I heard there may be an August drive going on. True? --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:09, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
First off, I must apologize that, from the messages under the main header here, the August drive was not announced via invitation after it was started; I was certain there's a bot that's supposed to do that automatically. In the second place, for those users that did join the drive and enter wikified submissions, I must apologize for the long delay in the awards' distribution. Though I've been back from my wikibreak for several days, it only just occurred to me now. Without further hesitation, therefore, the job shall be seen to:
Participants |
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1. Lineagegeek (23) - Trophy; Iron Done |
2. Wilhelmina Will (12) Greater working wikifier's; Iron |
3. SarahTheEntwife (5) Greater working wikifier's Done |
She ran down a hill... (talk) 18:18, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
I have created the drive pages for the upcoming October wikification drive, and put out the usual invitation (sent using MassMessage to subscribed participants listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify/Participants/Newsletter). benzband (talk) 16:10, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Editor name |
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1. Lineagegeek (105) - Trophy, Gold Wikification Barnstar Done |
2. pjoef (31) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar, Bronze Wikification Barnstar Done |
3. NickGibson3900 (13) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar, Iron Wikification Barnstar Done |
4. Wilhelmina Will, Pratyya Ghosh, Whpq (12) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar, Iron Wikification Barnstar Done (aside from myself) |
5. Dianaa (9) - Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar Done |
6. SmileBlueJay97 (3) - Working Wikifier's Barnstar Done |
7. SarahTheEntwife, Safety Cap (2) - Working Wikifier's Barnstar Done |
I shall now see to it that these are handed out, without further delay. If I had to guess... (talk) 08:19, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)