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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 2px solid lightgray" |Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]] for your diligence, dedication and devotion to the benefit of Wikipedia readers. Thank you for the great contributions! <span style="color:#a0a2a5">(courtesy of the [[WP:WER|<span style="color:#80c0ff">Wikipedia Editor Retention Project</span>]])</span> |
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[[User: Buster7]] submitted the following nomination for [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]]: |
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An editor since July of 2007, most of User:Invertzoo's barnstars are over 2 yrs old so an updated thanks and a pat on the back is timely. Some comments from her talk pages reflect her Wikipedia career and how she inter-relates with other editors; "a very special person", "passion for her work", "polite with integrity", "So welcome and helpful to a newbie", "a skilled writer", "a great friend and mentor", "Diligence dedication and devotion", "elegant work with clarity for non-specialists', "persistent". 75% of her 86000 edits are in article mainspace and she uses the edit summary 95% of the time which are examples of an editor hard at work. This nomination was seconded by [[User:L235|User:L235]] and [[User:John from Idegon|John from Idegon]]. |
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Thanks again for your efforts! . [[User: Buster7|'''<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven</em>''']]<small>[[User talk:Buster7|'''<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk</em>''']]</small> 05:20, 14 June 2015 (UTC) |
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Fabulous work
I am sitting in your presentation at the Wiki NYC Conference. Fabulous work on gastropods. Thank you. :)--Jimbo Wales (talk) 21:01, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 April 2015
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April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
Wednesday April 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our inaugural evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
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The Signpost: 15 April 2015
- Traffic report: Furious domination
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3
Greetings! For this month's issue...
We have demos!
After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:
- A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
- An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.
We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.
Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.
While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.
Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.
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WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!
As an aside...
Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.
Harej (talk) 00:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Coral terminology
When describing species of coral there are many technical terms which I do not think are adequately covered in Wikipedia. Examples are coenosteum, coenosarc, septa, costa, corallite, massive, foliose, meandroid, phaceloid etc., though there is a comprehensive article on polyp. I could write some stub articles on the different topics to expand our coverage, or I would prefer to write a more comprehensive article, or list, on "Coral terminology". What do you think of the idea? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:26, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Cwmhiraeth. I know very little about coral (Anthozoa), so I am not a good person to ask. You might perhaps ask Epipelagic and Materialscientist, who have both made a number of edits on the main article. Invertzoo (talk) 11:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 22 April 2015
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The Signpost: 29 April 2015
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Thanks!
Thank you for taking an interest in Predator-prey reversal. When I saw the article I had no idea the term existed, but it quickly became clear that there was an abundant literature (har, har). Your work to edit and improve the article is appreciated. It's nice to see a new topic being fleshed out so quickly. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:12, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
- It's really nice that you appreciated what I did to the article. It can be really rewarding to polish up a promising article. I also did not know this term existed, so I learned quite a lot! Invertzoo (talk) 19:32, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Wednesday June 10, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our next evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month will also feature on our agenda: recent and upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
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Thanks for your thanks! I wish I could get a picture of Bathymodiolus tangaroa though... FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:12, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
- You can always try writing to one or more of the authors of the published papers on this species, asking if there is an image available that is not copyrighted. You may not get anywhere with the request, but you can try, if you can be bothered. Invertzoo (talk) 16:41, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
- Or if perhaps there is a shell on display in a museum somewhere, you could take a picture of it yourself. Invertzoo (talk) 16:42, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
- Those are two good ideas I could try! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 22:51, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I hope you manage to get somewhere with that. Let me know if anything comes through. Invertzoo (talk) 23:17, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 May 2015
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Your GA nomination of Scotch bonnet (sea snail)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Scotch bonnet (sea snail) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Daniel Cavallari -- Daniel Cavallari (talk) 12:40, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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Assistance or advice on page
Hi Invertzoo Thank you for your comments on the Britannia Beach page. I appreciate your comments and suggestions and have done my best to make the edits and corrections to the page. The images have disappeared and though I addressed issues of ownership in wikimedia commons with emails and information from the image owners, indeed, the images were put online at the owners request, they have still be removed and I can only assume it is due to copyright issues. Can you assist with this? Wikimedia commons allows for upload of pictures that are not your own creation but then how to prove permission and copyright?
Thanks. Evolve Multimedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evolve Multimedia (talk • contribs) 21:26, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Scotch bonnet (sea snail)
The article Scotch bonnet (sea snail) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Scotch bonnet (sea snail) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Daniel Cavallari -- Daniel Cavallari (talk) 01:21, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 May 2015
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DYK Medal
The 25 DYK Medal for Invertzoo | ||
Congratulations! You surely deserve this one. Here's a medal for you in appreciation of your hardwork in creating/expanding 25+ articles for DYK. I see you are around fifty now! On your way to silver! Well done, Invertzoo! ----Daniel Cavallari (talk) 22:43, 1 June 2015 (UTC) |
How sweet of you Daniel to think of doing this! I was pretty active with DYKs for a while, often working with someone else who has since retired from Wikipedia. I haven't submitted one for a very long time. Today I met with someone from WikiEd. I talked to him about a few things we really need in the Gastropods Project. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 23:36, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 June 2015
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A kitten for you!
Wikilove
Zijle (talk) 13:11, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Submission
Hey Invertzoo! What do you reckon on Draft:FMRFamide in Biomphalaria glabrata? Best, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:08, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hey FoCuS. I am away on a marine expedition and I am very busy indeed so I can't really take the time to comment properly on that draft article. Sorry. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 00:41, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 June 2015
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Draft for Editor of the Week
Editor of the Week | ||
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for your diligence, dedication and devotion to the benefit of Wikipedia readers. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
User: Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
An editor since July of 2007, most of User:Invertzoo's barnstars are over 2 yrs old so an updated thanks and a pat on the back is timely. Some comments from her talk pages reflect her Wikipedia career and how she inter-relates with other editors; "a very special person", "passion for her work", "polite with integrity", "So welcome and helpful to a newbie", "a skilled writer", "a great friend and mentor", "Diligence dedication and devotion", "elegant work with clarity for non-specialists', "persistent". 75% of her 86000 edits are in article mainspace and she uses the edit summary 95% of the time which are examples of an editor hard at work. This nomination was seconded by User:L235 and John from Idegon.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient user box}}
Thanks again for your efforts! . Buster Seven Talk 05:20, 14 June 2015 (UTC)