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Thank you. DASHBot (talk) 05:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Two different page names for Signpost pages

Hi--I am trying to straighten out the Signpost /subpages, and there seem to be half under WP:Wikipedia Signpost/ and half under WP:Signpost/. Since WP:Wikipedia Signpost is a move-protected page, wouldn't it make sense that all the subpages should be under that page, so that it would avoid double-redirects? Also, it would be easier to find the subpages while during a search. Would like to know what you think. Regards, --Funandtrvl (talk) 07:57, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

See also User talk:Funandtrvl#Moving Signpost pages. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:21, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

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Bad script-assisted edit

[1] Note the removal of the '$3's? I assume the weren't deliberate? - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 09:26, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

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A brownie for you!

Wow your achievements are great !! Monica2202 (talk) 06:31, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

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Change on Community Portal

Pretzels, I just rolled back your change on the Community Portal. Please get consensus before you make that big of a change. I will voluntarily observe 1rr on that page regarding this change. Thanks @-Koshā–ŗ Talk to the Vorlonsā–ŗMarkab-@ 22:54, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

I saw your note. 1 person doesn't make a consensus. (As far as I know...and I can definetly be wrong).

@-Koshā–ŗ Talk to the Vorlonsā–ŗMarkab-@

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Pipe trick

You can shave a bit off the Signpost preload by using this pipe trick. Really, people should know about this one; it's quite useful, as pipe tricks go ;). Happy holidays, ResMar 14:42, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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What do you know

About this? ResMar 16:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Nothing, I'm afraid. I'm not sure who controls wikipediasignpost.com. ā€” Pretzels Hii! 16:08, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
Your proposed SOPA blackout screen looks amazing. Great job! v/r - TP 00:35, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I was just headed here to give you the same barnstar. :) Thanks for your help, gifted designers are rare commodity in the FOSS world, so it makes a big difference having you around the 'pedia. Steven Walling ā€¢ talk 02:05, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the design work! I'm sad we didn't get to incorporate it into the page. It was an excellent design! Kaldari (talk) 10:23, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

SOPA coding

Hey there,

I've just submitted a design for the SOPA blackout - so far there have been no responses (yet!); should my design receive any votes I wondering if you could do the coding for it since I haven't the slightest clue on where to start

From France :) Jeanbaptiste.s (talk) 02:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

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File:Wikipedia SOPA Blackout Design.png

"Warning sign This media file does not have sufficient information on its copyright status. Unless the copyright status is provided, the file will be deleted seven days after this template was added: (17 January 2012)." and "This media file has been nominated for deletion since 17 January 2012. Reason for the nomination: "Wikimedia Commons accepts only free content"" - see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Wikipedia_SOPA_Blackout_Design.png Bulwersator (talk) 12:02, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

In case you need a little inspiration.

The art looks awesome. Words to live by...


"The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable."

ā€”Madison

"The Bill of Rights changed the original Constitution into a new charter under which no branch of government could abridge the people's freedoms of press, speech, religion, and assembly. Yet the Solicitor General argues and some members of the Court appear to agree that the general powers of the Government adopted in the original Constitution should be interpreted to limit and restrict the specific and emphatic guarantees of the Bill of Rights adopted later. I can imagine no greater perversion of history."


"The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell."

Thanks for the hard work!. ā€”ArtifexMayhem (talk) 20:06, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Award

Designer's Barnstar
For your distinguished visual contributions during the SOPA initiative, I hereby award you this barnstar.

P.S. Few people can claim to have ever created something that garnered ā‰ˆ10:1 support in a controversial setting, but you're now one of them. Keep up the good work!   ā€” C M B J   13:24, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

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Web Design

Hi Pretzels. I notice you have been making changes to the web design page, currently the University of Hull are running a module which requires third year students to work in teams and improve the quality of some pages. One group are working on the web design page and have a discussion on its talk page. Perhaps you'd like to join in with the discussion and help the students improve both the page the way the edit pages. One of the most important parts of this module is to engage with the community so any communication positive or negative will be beneficial, thanks. WBClarkson (talk) 11:45, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

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Dispute resolution survey

Dispute Resolution ā€“ Survey Invite

Hello Pretzels. 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! 02:21, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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Help Project newsletter : Issue 1

The Help Project Newsletter
Issue I - May 2012
Project news
  • the wub has been appointed as a Wikimedia Community Fellow to lead a data-driven improvement of the English Wikipedia's help documentation, and will be working closely with the Help Project. You can read more about his plans at Wikipedia:Help Project/Community fellowship or in this Signpost article, and he has just released a first report on progress so far.
  • The project's pages have had a major redesign, introducing tabs in order to make them more usable. If you haven't stopped by recently then check them out!
  • A table of statistics is now available for all pages in Category:WikiProject Help Project, this includes page views, word counts and a variety of readability scores. This should be helpful in prioritising improvement work and finding redundant pages.
  • {{Breadcrumb2}} is a new template for making attractive navigational breadcrumbs. This may be useful for linking help pages.
  • This newsletter was started :-)
From the editor

Hi, and welcome to the first issue of the Help Project newsletter! This is a new monthly initiative to keep project members and the wider community informed about our work to improve Wikipedia's help pages. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter.

I've initially sent this to all existing members of the project, if you don't wish to receive the newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. Conversely if you've just stumbled on this newsletter (perhaps through talk page stalking) and want to receive it in future then please feel free to sign up!

the wub "?!" 16:15, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Tasks
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An SOS from the Community portal

Hi Pretzels! I noticed that you contributed to the Community portal awhile back (I think your proposal to get rid of the extraneous help links was definitely worth a proper discussion, and it's a shame that it got dismissed). I'd really appreciate your input on a new discussion I just started on the talk page. Since the bot that used to update the open tasks has been MIA since February, I thought it was about time to talk about what purpose(s) that page is serving and how we can make it more useful. Thanks in advance for your thoughts on this :) Maryana (WMF) (talk) 18:37, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 2

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Issue II - June 2012
Project news
  • Progress on the help redesign fellowship continues apace. In-person usability testing is due to start next week, watch this space for results!
  • A large survey about help pages was conducted. Responses are still coming in, but preliminary results are available.
  • A new gadget has been proposed to make it easier for new- and non-editors to leave feedback about help pages. Please test it and leave your thoughts.
  • In somewhat-related-project-news: the Teahouse has wrapped up its pilot phase with an extensive report. Planning and discussion is underway for phase 2.
  • A discussion is taking place about the purpose and future of the venerable Community portal.
From the editor

Hello from the Help Project, and welcome to the second issue of our newsletter!

The biggest project I've been working on this month has been a large survey of users to find out what they think of our current help pages. Preliminary results from this are now available, although there are more responses trickling in from the lower edit count groups since a batch of email invitations were recently sent out. Finalised results and further analysis should be posted next week.

Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name.

the wub "?!" 18:47, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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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

Cheers, User:Ocaasi 16:41, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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Help Project newsletter : Issue 3

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Issue III - August 2012
Project news summary
  • Final results and conclusions from the help pages survey were released.
  • The wub gave a presentation at Wikimania 2012 about help pages, and the slides are now on Commons.
  • A discussion is taking place about the purpose and future of the venerable Community portal.
  • New designs for tutorial pages have been proposed, comment from project members is welcome.
From the editor

Welcome to the (slightly delayed) third issue of the Help Project newsletter.

The past month has once again been a busy one for my fellowship. The full results and conclusions from the extensive user survey on help pages are now available, and make interesting reading. These do confirm a number of our suspicions about Wikipedia help, and suggest that the current plan for the remainder of the fellowship is a sound approach.

Also last month I was fortunate enough to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, where I gave a presentation about help pages and the aforementioned survey results. You can find the slides from this on Commons. Wikimania was also a great opportunity for many discussions with staff and community members, and these brought up some interesting ideas which I hope to follow up on.

One of the things much discussed was the planned tutorial pages. I've been working on a new design for them which can be seen at User:The wub/sandbox/1, please let me know what you think (especially if you spot any bugs!).

Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name.

the wub "?!" 13:24, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Hallo. Just to clarify, I meant change the header to something unique/meaningful/descriptive, such as "Pretzels' design - feedback requested". Or similar. ;) -- Quiddity (talk) 21:45, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

  • Thanks - I completely didn't realise at the time of posting. I've responded to your (very useful) feedback! I'm thrilled you don't passionately hate it :) ā€” Pretzels Hii! 21:52, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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I love, love, love your proposal for the main page. I'm particularly thrilled with the showcasing of the featured picture. Good work! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 09:03, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Also have you seen The Verge's website or the USA Today Beta? Maybe there is something to draw on from them. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 09:05, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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The straw poll has now closed (see results), but the discussion continues on the talk page ā€“ hope to see you there! Evad37 (talk) 00:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

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Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

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edward snowden

nice work. hope Greenwald didn't get a total snowjob and this guy is legit. Decora (talk) 22:06, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Seconded. The quotation box is a very nice addition, too. I am almost wondering if this wouldn't be an even better summarization of his impetus?
Anyway, great work, it's much appreciated. petrarchan47tc 23:10, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

hi "pretzels"- the "mass editing" came after someone listed unnecessary obscenities on the edward snowden page. you're welcome. ā€” Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.78.23.126 (talk) 18:54, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Hey Pretzel, you deserve a barnstar for your work so far on the Snowden article. I can't be bothered to look up the right template, so this will have to do for now. -- Hillbillyholiday talk 00:22, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

June 2013

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Thanks!

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Could you link to a wikipedia guide that shows the exact syntax for full ref tags? ā€” Preceding unsigned comment added by Fan.of.devin (talk ā€¢ contribs) 22:25, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hey Pretzels! Cute name. Whatever -- I do NOT have a conflict of interest in the material concerning Edward Snowden. I do NOT HAVE a close connection with EDWARD SNOWDEN in any way shape or form. So kindly remove your yellow card.

I have met plenty of people on Wikipedia with a conflict of interest. So I know it when I see it.

And one more thing -- you better come with PROOF before you start accusing me of 'CONFLICT OF INTEREST' again. There is a great difference between having an interest, and a conflict of interest. So if you have any proof -- of your accusations, make it public. And it better be good. Otherwise, delete your yellow card. ā€” Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.108.207.38 (talk) 19:49, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

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