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Hi, MER-C. :) I have to sadly conclude that Verno is no longer available to us. :( I have received no responses to my last couple of e-mails. I'm hoping that this is because he has happily settled into a new life on the low-technology island of his dreams. But I'm here because I want to ask for a new bot to take over some of what Verno's bot did, and I wanted to see what we need doin' before I do that.
Obviously, we need User:VWBot tasks to be taken up by something else. Do you know of anything else? (I'm going to ask NortyNort to stop by here as well. :)) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:32, 7 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Oh hey, it does. (This isn't particularly obvious from the toolserver wiki). I hacked up some code today but it needs some polishing before BRFA, etc. I think the fastest way is for me to give you a JAR to run. MER-C 07:50, 11 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C. Hope you're well. I've been working a great deal with Wiki.java, and I really feel I must compliment you for your excellent bot framework. If it helps, I believe I have discovered a bug you may be interested in. Wiki.getCategoryMemberes(String name)
does not appear to support certain unicode characters. Take the following code:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.wikipedia.*;
import java.net.*;
public class Demo
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
Wiki wiki = new Wiki();
String[] l = wiki.getCategoryMembers("FTest");
for (String str : l)
System.out.println(str);
}
}
The expected output is:
User:Fastily/AäáãǣėƐħóöūü
The actual output is:
User:Fastily/A???????????
If it's not a bug or if I'm missing something, sorry for wasting your time.
I also have a feature request I was hoping you could implement: Wiki.delete(String page)
? I tried implementing such a method myself, but after doing some research, I found I did not have the technical expertise to do it. In all honesty, I am a total noob programmer who started learning java not but a few months ago. I remember you told me you hadn't implemented any sysop functions because you weren't an admin. If you're willing, I'd be more than happy to help you test this method and compile whatever resources you may need. If you're not interested, it's okay, no pressure. This method would be a huge help to me in an upcoming bot I hope to write. Please consider. All the best, FASTILY (TALK) 05:42, 10 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
JOptionPane
) and screencap it?Hi, I have explained to Surajt88, there was no deliberate intention and apologies if I got it wrong, I saw the hotcorsets.co.uk links and noticed there is no further contribution or mention of hotcorsets.co.uk. All I did was exactly what they and others have done, yet these links have not been removed so I assumed it OK to add to it. I would be grateful if you can let me know what I have done different to the person who added hotcorsets.co.uk? I have noticed there is also no mention of Symington Corsets, only a single mention under Market Harborough. Please can you advise if it would be OK for me to write a contibution on them, as I am already authoring some work on them? Many thanks, Andrew 19:56, 11 August 2011 (UTC) Andy-Thom 19:57, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
The Corsetique brand name originally evolved from a fusion of various chic words that best described our corset quality, design range and wearer comfort. Words such as:
— User:Amt586thompson/sandbox (emphasis added)
I get your point, I have never contributed to Wiki before, so I used the format from the contibutions like IBM and Accenture. I can see how this comes across as commercial spam - so am deleting the corsetique bit i'm writing from the sandbox. With regards to the work on Symington Corsets, again I will create something, and will place it in the sandbox first. When ready, I will ask for your help and views before we make it public. Once again, apoligies for how I may have come across, I now understand it would have been prudent to have got to know things better first. I'm not sure exactly how this works but others that I came across that you may want to look into are links for: Curvelining Garment C & S Constructions Wasp Creations These seem to be commercial spam also. If I see any other suspects, I'll let you know. Thanks for your help.
Andrew Andy-Thom 11:47, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello, when you remove refs, you should add citation needed to those removed ones, now there is new data without any sources thx -->Typ932 T·C 08:36, 13 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C, I tried testing out Wiki.java's new delete() method with the call:
wiki.delete("Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 8 August 2011", "[[WP:CSD#G6|G6]]: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup");
I received the following terminal output when running the program:
Aug 16, 2011 1:24:31 PM Wiki getPageInfo() INFO: [en.wikipedia.org] Successfully retrieved page info for Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 8 August 2011. Aug 16, 2011 1:24:32 PM Wiki delete() WARNING: [en.wikipedia.org] Exception: MediaWiki error, response was <?xml version="1.0"?><api><delete title="Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 8 August 2011" reason="" /></api> Retrying.... Aug 16, 2011 1:24:32 PM Wiki getPageInfo() INFO: [en.wikipedia.org] Successfully retrieved page info for Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 8 August 2011. Aug 16, 2011 1:24:32 PM org.wikipedia.Wiki delete INFO: Page "Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 8 August 2011" does not exist.
I ran the program twice, and obtained the same result: the page was deleted, but without a reason (See log). The deletions at 20:21 and 20:24 were made by the aforementioned method call. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:37, 16 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Sorry to bother you again. Between lines 6280 and 6281, you may want to add
if (line.contains("<delete title="))
return;
The API doesn't return a standard "success" message after properly deleting a page so the delete() method was retrying deletion despite a successful deletion. This code will fix the issue. Regards. FASTILY (TALK) 19:45, 18 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hello MER-C! I hope you accept this brownie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 04:08, 25 August 2011 (UTC)Reply |
Someone turned up quite a few of these at Talk:International Biographical Centre - may need a group deletion. Dougweller (talk) 11:09, 27 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Did you see my comments at the Village Pump? I'll repeat them here: Has anyone checked to see how many of these accounts turn out to be vandalism accounts? I know I've found several. One big problem for me is that nothing is put on their talk page. Normally we hope new users will get a talk page welcome message. Looking at the timing of one I just blocked, the user page message was added before their first edit. But when they edited, they will not have seen any banner telling them they had a user page, right? But if there had been a talk page message tailored towards new users, the new message banner would have flashed up when they edited. And when I say tailored towards new users, I mean something that kindly and tactfully says what are constructive edits and what are not, and maybe even gently says non-constructive edits lead to editing priveleges being withdrawn. Does this make any sense to you? Dougweller (talk) 06:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
I opposed a CCI earlier saying it'd be simpler to delete if there were any copyvios, but at that time I didn't realize the impact on existing articles. Can you check the section "Existing article contributions" under the ANI report and comment. Many of the sources used require some access to the journals so it's not something that's easily identified. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 09:19, 12 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Hi MER-C, hope you're well. I think I may have found a bug in Wiki.java. When running the following code:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.wikipedia.*;
import javax.security.auth.login.*;
import java.net.*;
public class getImageTest
{
public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException
{
byte[] b = new Wiki().getImage("GD - Yesterday.jpg");
}
}
the program throws a MalformedURLException. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:55, 25 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Fastily:Fbot $ java getImageTest Sep 25, 2011 5:45:33 PM Wiki getCurrentDatabaseLag() INFO: [en.wikipedia.org] Current database replication lag is 0 seconds. Exception in thread "main" java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: l version= at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:567) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:464) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:413) at org.wikipedia.Wiki.getImage(Wiki.java:2909) at org.wikipedia.Wiki.getImage(Wiki.java:2871) at getImageTest.main(getImageTest.java:11)
Hi there,
I added a new external link to the DePuy company entry and I see you reverted it back shortly afterwards. May I ask why? I work for Johnson & Johnson (owners of DePuy) and the site I added is the OFFICIAL DePuy surgeon education site for the company. While DePuy.com is the official corporate site, www.do-surgery.com is a very important resource for our customer base.
I just read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ELNO#Official_links about linking to official company websites and this website appears to comply with both requirements:
1. The linked content is controlled by the subject (organization or individual person) of the Wikipedia article. 2. The linked content primarily covers the area for which the subject of the article is notable.
Furthermore, it states that 'More than one official link should be provided only when the additional links provide the reader with unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites'. I believe in this instance this is true.
Additionally, and importantly, there is another statement 'In other situations, it may be appropriate to provide more than one link, such as when a business has one website for the corporate headquarters and another for consumer information'. This is most definitely true.
As I believe that this list is legitimate under the 'official links' requirements set out above, would you mind if I reinstate it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jnjmedical (talk • contribs)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Ose\fio is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI. |
Closed two today! And created a new update template.--Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
I've left the fellow a note here. This seems to me to a bit akin to somebody uploading a lot of content under NFC where some of the material may not conform. I'll try to keep an eye out and see what he says. Hopefully he'll be willing and able to work on this one himself. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Would you reply to my comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caiyad Phahad regarding userfication? Thank you, Cunard (talk) 06:19, 8 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C. Hope you're well. Sorry to bother you again, but I seem to be having an issue with Wiki.java again. As of today, I am having issues with getCategoryMembers() and login(). When I run a program which calls either of these two methods, it intermittently crashes with the following stack:
INFO: [en.wikipedia.org] Successfully retrieved contents of Category:Candidates for speedy deletion (50 items). Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Not in GZIP format at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readHeader(GZIPInputStream.java:143) at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.<init>(GZIPInputStream.java:58) at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.<init>(GZIPInputStream.java:67) at org.wikipedia.Wiki.fetch(Wiki.java:6181) at org.wikipedia.Wiki.getCategoryMembers(Wiki.java:4014) at org.wikipedia.Wiki.getCategoryMembers(Wiki.java:3985) at TestCategory.main(TestCategory.java:13) Fastily:Fbot $
I'm hoping that this is only a temporary issue caused by the update to mediawiki 1.8, but it may be something worth looking into. I've appended some code below which currently attains the aforementioned results.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.wikipedia.*;
import javax.security.auth.login.*;
import java.net.*;
public class TestCategory
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable
{
Wiki wiki = new Wiki();
for (int i = 0; i < 25; i++)
wiki.getCategoryMembers("Candidates for speedy deletion");
}
}
Thank you for your time. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 03:55, 11 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C. See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_October_17#.22Article_cv.23.22_templates where someone has nominated both Template:Article-cv and Template:Article-cv2 for deletion. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
I don't know if I can stand it. [3] :/ --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:07, 18 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
I'm glad you going to the office hours yesterday. :) It was past my bedtime, but I was hoping that some of us would manage to go. Nice to see you and Risker there asking necessary questions. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
User:Ljaic edits are like the previous groups. Bolding the percentages in epidemiology. Adding refs in the headings. Adding refs that are blogs. [4]. Thoughts? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:03, 22 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
If this user is your concern, try one of noticeboards in {{Noticeboard links}}. --Gh87 (talk) 19:44, 24 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for this nifty easy-to-use framework. First I wanted to make a ticket [5] but then I realized that I wanted a lot of tickets. So I decided to ask here. Is it possible to do anything of this:
void edit(String title, String text, String summary, boolean minor, boolean bot)
void prepend(String title, String stuff, boolean minor, boolean bot)
...
where bot flag is given by users. All this stuff I had to do in my bot (NirvanaBot). Thanks. ~Нирваньчик~ ⊤άλҟ 09:19, 29 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
if (user.isA("bot")) buffer.append("&bot=1");
and I (my bot) can't make edits without "bot" flag because user.isA("bot") returns true always for my bot. What would be more desireable is this:/** bot flag specified explicitly*/
public synchronized void edit(String title, String text, String summary, boolean minor, boolean bot,
int section) throws IOException, LoginException
{//the same as edit in r32, but without if (user.isA("bot")) buffer.append("&bot=1");}
/**bot flag defined by user group membership*/
public synchronized void edit(String title, String text, String summary, boolean minor,
int section) throws IOException, LoginException
{ edit(title,text,summary,minor,user.isA("bot"),section); }
So, change will not break code of other users, because edit(/*no bot argument*/) and prepend() would work the same as in r31. ~Нирваньчик~ ⊤άλҟ 12:17, 11 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hm, well, this is just thoughts after watching code. I didn't check r32/r33 yet. I'll check when come home. ~Нирваньчик~ ⊤άλҟ 12:17, 11 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Joyaaioxom is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI. |
Hi, I am trying to use your java framework to make a tool for uploading images.
The login with my account-pw in commons is okay, the retrieving page info is positive, but when the upload starts I receive a bad token - invalid token error
MediaWiki error, response was <?xml version="1.0"?><api servedby="srv295"><error code="badtoken" info="Invalid token" /></api>.
Any ideas Michiel1972 (talk) 22:30, 30 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
FYI: I use the slightly changed "login" & "pageInfo" & "upload"-code in an Android app to upload pictures to Commons by mobile phone. [6] (github repos). Michiel1972 (talk) 22:57, 4 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi. If you are working on IEP clean up, for easy checking and follow up of students and their articles, please see:
IEP student and article lists and how to use them
If you are not working on this clean up, please pass this message along to anyone you know who is. Thanks, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:21, 1 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi, first thanks for your Wiki.java wrapper, really convenient :) However it seems you rely on a beahviour in your search method that is not longer given:
(around line 3735, I have edited the file quite a bit)
// if this is the last page of results then there is no sroffset parameter if ( !line.contains("sroffset=\"")) done = true;
at least on the german wikipedia even the last page will have a sroffset, leading to an infinite loop. Not sure how to fix that though, I hardcoded a maxPages limit to stop the search but that is not the best option I guess... Best, Andre --137.226.59.101 (talk) 09:39, 7 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
I have deleted two articles created by User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) as copyright violations:
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) | Source |
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Hewas a public affairs officer of the National Council of Boy Scouts of America from 1928 to 1970. In 1934hefounded the American Polar Society for people involved or interested in polar exploration and research. | Mr. Howard was a public affairs officer of the National Council of Boy Scouts of America from 1928 to 1970[...] In 1934, Mr. Howard founded the American Polar Society as a forum for people involved or interested in polar exploration and research. |
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) | Source |
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Job Male was born in Somersetshire, England on August 24, 1808. He came with his parents to America in 1816 and worked as a toll collector on the turnpike between Jersey City and Newark, New Jersey. He worked for the Union Ferry Company to build their ferry houses in New York and Brooklyn from 1838 to 1845. He was the superintendent of construction for the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company from 1853 to 1859, and built their docks, ferry houses, and depots at Jersey City.Hewas a member of the board of education in Jersey City from 1803 to 1807. For twenty years, he was a director of the Hudson County National Bank and president from 1873 to 1878. | Job Male was born in Somersetshire, England on August 24, 1808. He came with his parents to America in 1816 and began to earn his livelihood by attending the toll gate on the Turnpike between Jersey City and Newark. [...] He was employed by the Union Ferry Company to build their ferry houses in New York and Brooklyn from 1838 to 1845. He was the superintendent of construction for the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company from 1853 to 1859, and built their docks, ferry houses, and depots at Jersey City. Mr. Male was a member of the board of education in Jersey City from 1803 to 1807. For twenty years, he was a director of the Hudson County National Bank and its president from 1873 to 1878. |
Further research found not immediately such obvious copyright violations as these two very recent examples, but a lot of articles that had longer copyrighted quotes than actual content, and what little text the articles had stayed very close to the copyrighted sources, e.g.
Richard Arthur Norton is one of our most prolific editors, with over 100,000 mainspace edits, and this sample is only taken from articles he created, ignoring the many articles he expanded completely. What is the best way to proceed here? A CCI investigation? An ANI report? An RfC (seems useless in this case)? All advice is welcome. (As this is a preliminary request, I haven't contacted Norton about this post: I have commented on the two deleted copyright violations on his talk page though. If you would prefer to have his input from the start, you are free to contact him or may ask me to do so of course). Fram (talk) 15:06, 7 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
I've listed the CCI on the template and in the CCI list. I've also notified Richard that it is open. I'll try to put some time into this over the next few days or at least the weekend. I think it's important that we figure out soon how widespread the issue is. Fram, if you want to keep an eye out, Richard may or may not want to discuss this. In respect to his prior CCI, he had a tendency not to respond to notes, but although he didn't tell us so he was evidently quite upset and confused about the way the process works. That may be the case here as well, but if so hopefully he will let us know sooner. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:36, 8 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
I have started a discussion about these edits at WP:AN#Richard Arthur Norton copyright violations. Fram (talk) 08:29, 9 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
A strange habit seemed to be to include hidden text in disambiguation pages, with the results from some search engine. See e.g. his edits to General SmithorMcGhee. In both cases, the hidden text is still present. It clearly has to go, it has no lasting function on these pages, but is it a copyright violation or not? It certainly is very sloppy editing... Fram (talk) 08:40, 10 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C,
Since you were a part of the WikiGuides project, I thought I'd give you a heads-up about a new way you can help/mentor newbies on en.wiki: we've recently released a feature called the Feedback Dashboard, a queue that updates in real time with feedback and editing questions from new registered contributors who have attempted to make at least one edit. Steven Walling and I are putting together a task force for experienced Wikipedians who might be interested in monitoring the queue and responding to the feedback: details are here at Wikipedia:Feedback Dashboard. Please sign up if you're interested in helping out! Thanks, Maryana (WMF) (talk) 22:03, 7 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C. Could you comment here at the IEP talk page? There seems to be a lot of confusion about the CCI. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 22:26, 9 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Any input? Codrin.B (talk) 02:30, 16 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
2 links in personal injury section are not present Rebeccanolen13 (talk) 07:57, 16 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi
I'm the public affairs officer for Combined Maritime Forces and would like to update the above pages but when I did got a warning message from you.
Please advise.
Lt GH Turner RN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.132.224.130 (talk • contribs)
Hi. I'm writing to request a favor. The India Education Program pilot is concluding in Pune, India. It has been extraordinarily challenging and a series of learnings have emerged from the pilot that we intend to take on board to inform the way forward. I had promised an honest, open and comprehensive review. There are multiple ways that we are trying to collate and distill these learnings. One of these is that the Foundation has commissioned a study to do in depth interviews with a wide variety of folks who were directly or indirectly involved in the pilot. The include discussions with students, Ambassadors, faculty as well as members of the global community such as yourself. I thought it would be really particularly useful if we could get your views. You have been involved in the project (albeit not as part of the formal project structure.) I thank you for your involvement. You have made some interesting and insightful comments in the discussions you have participated in. Would you be willing and available for the person working on this study so that she can get your feedback and suggestions and comments? If so, would you let me know on my talk page? Do also let me know how I can have her reach out to you. Many thanks in advance. Hisham (talk) 10:00, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C. Hope you're well. I believe I have found 2 bugs in Wiki.java.
The first has to do with .getImageHistory(String title). Any parameter that contains a space character crashes the program. This is exemplified in the below:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.wikipedia.*;
import javax.security.auth.login.*;
import java.net.*;
public class TestGetImageHistory
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable
{
Wiki wiki = new Wiki();
wiki.getImageHistory("Example.jpg"); //works
wiki.getImageHistory("Davis Motor Car Company logo.jpg"); //IOException
}
}
The second bug is with .userExists(String username). It returns true for any input:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.wikipedia.*;
import javax.security.auth.login.*;
import java.net.*;
public class TestUserExists
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable
{
Wiki wiki = new Wiki();
Scanner m = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Enter a username: ");
while(m.hasNextLine())
{
String user = m.nextLine().trim();
if(wiki.userExists(user))
System.out.println(user + " exists on en.wikipedia");
else
System.out.println(user + " does not exist on en.wikipedia");
System.out.print("Enter a username:");
}
}
}
Could you please look into these? Thanks in advance. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 03:09, 27 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
Because your framework saves Fastily "so much coding time it's not even funny", and I'm rather a fan of Fbot, I award you this star. Sven Manguard Wha? 13:28, 27 November 2011 (UTC)Reply |
Thanks for your interest in the Wikipedia Education Program's Metrics and Activities Meeting. We're attempting to schedule the next meeting, and we'd like to get your input on days and times that you'd be available. If you're interested in joining us, please fill out this Doodle. We look forward to talking with you then. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 1 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi! As you were very active in discussions about the India Education Program's Pune pilot, I wanted to draw your attention to Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Analysis, a page that documents our analysis plan for the next few months. I encourage you to join the discussion if you have any thoughts. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 23:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Please check the history before deleting this article as a copyvio. In August, before IEP, it was a clean stub and should be returned to that state, not just deleted. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:59, 3 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi there. Two questions for you. First, would it be alright if I participated in the investigation in my normal Wikipedia capacity, or would you like to check over my work like any other OA? Second, it seems like the students from my class are missing from the CCI list. I'm not sure why and I'm not sure whether you're the person to inform or what I ought do about it. Apologies for going MIA; to say that my life has been insane over the past month would be a disservice to the concept of insanity. Danger High voltage! 23:11, 4 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C, Thanks for agreeing to participate in the Pune Pilot Project Review.
Here are the core questions:
1. Do you support the goals of:
2. What is/are your role/roles on Wikipedia?
3. How did you come to know about the India Education Program (IEP) and the Pune Pilot Project?
4. What is the best, most efficient way for Wikipedians and Wikimedia Foundation to communicate about such programs, given the diversity of roles in these programs?
5. How many hours did you spend working on the IEP and the Pune Pilot Project?
6. What recommendations do you have to improve the overall impact of the IEP and similar programs on the global Wikipedia community?
7. More generally, what recommendations do you have to improve the IEP going forward?
8. What is the best way to find qualified Online Ambassadors for the IEP and similar programs going forward?
9. What role would you like to play in the IEP going forward, if any?
10. Please provide any additional information that you think I should have.
In advance, thank you for your time. Please feel free to take until the end of the week to answer the questions.I value your input. Toryread (talk) 04:59, 5 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, this is all very useful. I look forward to getting the rest of your input. FYI, I'm going completely dark from now through 12 December, 23:00 UTC. No phone, no internet, no computer.Toryread (talk) 18:44, 5 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your thoughtful responses to the review questions.Toryread (talk) 18:38, 12 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hey MER-C, thanks for taking care of the logistics. I thought I'd try and help out a bit, but I'm not very good at reading instructions. ; Good luck, Sisyphus, Drmies (talk) 18:43, 6 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
I watch Cyber-bullying and noticed that it had a {{Copyviocore}} added. I did an analysis of two pieces of copied text, and it appears that Wikipedia is the source (see Talk:Cyber-bullying#Copyvio claim). I'm not sure where to record the fact that I did the analysis, so I'm hoping you might have a look and possibly resolve the case. Thanks. Johnuniq (talk) 02:42, 8 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hey,
Thanks for your help with Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Shariq r82. I've noticed that there's an older user who has also been copying and pasting material on Pakistani TV shows. This is User:Joinzaheer and he has not edited since March. I've removed material from three articles he created: Aashti, Baityaan and Noor Pur Ki Rani. Is there a way to add this user to the CCI for Shariq r82? Would you recommend creating a new CCI?
Thanks, GabrielF (talk) 23:43, 11 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C. Hope you're well. I'm having trouble logging in with Wiki.java. It worked fine earlier today, but now it crashes with a StringOutOfBoundsException whenever login() is called:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -21 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1937) at org.wikipedia.Wiki.login(Wiki.java:903) at LGTest.main(LGTest.java:11)
//test code
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.wikipedia.*;
import javax.security.auth.login.*;
import java.net.*;
public class LGTest
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable
{
new Wiki().login("FSII", new char[] {'p', 'a', 's', 's', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'd'});
}
}
I suspect that there may be something wrong with the mediawiki API. When you have time, could you please look into this? Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 02:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi MER-C. You participated in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive228#Richard Arthur Norton copyright violations, in which a one-month topic ban on creating new articles and making page moves was imposed on Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk · contribs). The closing admin has asked for community input about whether to remove the topic ban or make it indefinite at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Richard Arthur Norton: Revisiting topic ban; Should it be removed or made indefinite?. Cunard (talk) 08:58, 16 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:41, 25 December 2011 (UTC).Reply
Hi MER-C,
I noticed you have blanked the entire article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marton_Varo ... as noted on the Talk page, permission to grant usage of materials being contested have been emailed (now twice) to permissions-en wikimedia.org with the latter email sent on 12/28/11 9:22 AM PT. Please see that this erroneous deletion is reversed and that content is restored on the wiki ASAP.
Thank you for your prompt action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marthistory (talk • contribs)
You said :
Bot FAIL -- page a copyvio of itself?
You may wish to see this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sphilbrick (talk • contribs)
Please comment section of see http://mullasadra.blogspot.com/2011/09/scholarship-in-sayyid-family-in-avadh-i.html . Blog owner has given express permission to use the content for WP articles. If it is not sufficient please let me know I'll try my best to be complient. BTW I was not aware of Berne Convention and it's clauses but my ignorance is my fault and I am ready to fix any and all issues caused due to my ignorance of Copyright policies. If any tutorial/course is available I'll like to undertake it.--Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haidertcs 12:06, 10 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
The hunt for the best time for our January edition of the outreach:Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting is underway. If you're interested in joining us, please fill out your availability on this Doodle by Monday, January 16, so we can schedule the meeting. Thanks! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 23:01, 11 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for that accidental warning - first day using STiki after switching from Huggle. :P -download ׀ talk 05:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hi. :) Would you mind weighing in at Wikipedia_talk:Copyright_problems/Clerks#Voceditenore? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply