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Contents
- 1 Question: where to place Directory listing for WikiProject Invention?
- 2 Australia Directory listing needed
- 3 Please check my WikiProject proposal
- 4 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
- 5 Best way to prioritize BYU library Wikipedia activity?
- 6 WikiProject Under Construction
- 7 Epicatalysis: Two different Wikiprojects
- 8 Towards a wikipedia for kids/children/youth - making the wikipedia more attractive to kids/children/youth?
- 9 Benzodiazepines & appetite
- 10 Comments subpages
- 11 Portal worthwhile?
- 12 Best practice for meetup page naming convention
- 13 No one receives the wikiproject proposals
Question: where to place Directory listing for WikiProject Invention?
Greetings, Wondering if WikiProject Invention is listed in the directory? Not able to find. If it is missing, could another editor, more experienced, please add? Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 03:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
Australia Directory listing needed
Greetings, At Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical#Australia I created a section heading with a temporary link to Portal:Australia/WikiProjects that contains many Australia-related WikiProjects. It is way beyond anything I that I know how to do, so I'm asking for help from another more experienced editor to create another directory page for Australia directory. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 21:26, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
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- ω Awaiting – Hello! Anybody here? Just wondering... JoeHebda (talk) 19:35, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- ω Awaiting help — JoeHebda • (talk) 16:11, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- What do you need done? -- Moxy (talk) 18:06, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- Please add Directory entries for Australia (Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/WikiProject) at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical#Australia with content from this Australia Portal subpage. — JoeHebda • (talk) 18:57, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Please check my WikiProject proposal
Hello, I am BOTFIGHTER I gave a proposal for making WikiProject Statues. So I request Wikipedia Council to check it!RegardsBOTFIGHTER (talk) 16:49, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
- I need for more support please get your username on WikiProject Statues,in the support section please I need more support!BOTFIGHTER (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Best way to prioritize BYU library Wikipedia activity?
Hi, I'm BYU's new coordinator of Wikipedia initiatives at the Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL). My job is to help improve articles related to holdings in the HBLL, especially our special collections. I was wondering if a WikiProject would be an appropriate way to categorize articles for me and my future two students to work on. I wouldn't mind just making a task force, since there will only be three of us actively editing, but I'd like to assess pages based on the general importance of the article and also our holdings at the library. For example, even though Brigham Young is a notable figure within the LDS movement, we don't have a large collection of his in special collections, so I'd classify his page as low importance. On the other hand, we have a considerable Cecil B. Demille collection so his page would be high importance for us (although his article is already good). Having articles classified by their time period would also help me involve special collections curators--even if they don't personally edit, they'd at least be able to easily see the what pages related to their material. However there would be significant overlap with the existing LDS, BYU, and Utah Wikiprojects.
Having written that, I guess my real question is: is it possible to make a task force but still assess articles? And is it possible to have a sub-category within assessments (i.e., BYU library - 19th century Americana)? Would it be better for Wikipedia if I just keep track of all of this on a spreadsheet somewhere on my own?
Thanks for your help. Rwelean (talk) 17:54, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- I've thought about this a little, and I think it might be best for me to make a set of spreadsheets with the data I need/want. Rwelean (talk) 17:38, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject Under Construction
I recently started a new WikiProject for Hampshire County, West Virginia topics at Wikipedia:WikiProject Hampshire County, West Virginia. I will be providing workshops to Hampshire County Wikipedia editors, and wanted to use this as a structured framework for rating Hampshire County articles, recognizing featured content, etc. I have no experience in this realm, and may need to even make this a task force within the West Virginia WikiProject. If the latter is the case, I'll need some assistance converting the WikiProject to task force. I've been a Wikipedian for over ten years, but I am admittedly new to this aspect of Wikipedia. Any assistance you could provide would be of the greatest help! -- West Virginian (talk) 15:18, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hello, West Virginian! My project WikiProject X offers a toolkit to make it easier to start up WikiProjects and to generate to-do lists. You can see as an example Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghana. If you would like to proceed with this, let me know and I can set up the project. (Unfortunately it takes a good deal of work now to set up, but we're working on making that easier.) Harej (talk) 19:36, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- Harej, you've just made my day. I would indeed like to proceed with setting up the Hampshire County WikiProject. Just let me know how to proceed. Have you seen what I've created this far? Thank you so much for your assistance and guidance! -- West Virginian (talk) 00:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- I have moved the discussion over to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hampshire County, West Virginia#New WikiProject layout. Harej (talk) 20:15, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
- Harej, you've just made my day. I would indeed like to proceed with setting up the Hampshire County WikiProject. Just let me know how to proceed. Have you seen what I've created this far? Thank you so much for your assistance and guidance! -- West Virginian (talk) 00:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Epicatalysis: Two different Wikiprojects
Is it possible to tag an article as needed attention from TWO different Wikiprojects instead of just one? (Please reply on my Talk Page) Come to me... Ravenheart 20:18, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Towards a wikipedia for kids/children/youth - making the wikipedia more attractive to kids/children/youth?
Hi, I'm from the OLPC one laptopschool per child community. I hope this is the place to ask this. Is here any project to make the wikipedia more attractive to kids? Like, a special entry page per age group, or a compendium/table of contents with articles that are typically interesting to kids from a certain age group, maybe some lay-over to some pages, like the wikipedia page about the earth, but then making it attractive for say 9 year olds and if they really start digging, they then end up to the general wikipedia page on the earth? Thy --SvenAERTS (talk) 20:42, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- Greetings SvenAERTS – While your question is somewhat outside of my area of expertise (computers) this website for kids may be helpful, and the Simple Wikipedia Schools frontend page. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 21:20, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- Hi JoeHebda that's some very interesting links. OMG yes - your spot on, I just had a look on the wikipedia, in the navigation pane on the left, under the section "Languages" , there is a "language" / category mentioned that is not a language and intended for a specific public. What is the name of that "language"?
Answer: "Languages" Simple English https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page exactly for the groups we intend to focus upon!
OMG and indeed you point to that Simple English page having a starting page for schools! That's brilliant! Joe, thy, you made me even more brilliant with your contribution ! :)
PS what the heck is that code JoeHebda – ?! How on earth did you find that out? :) Amazing place the wikipedia. Thy again ! --SvenAERTS (talk) 10:36, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Benzodiazepines & appetite
All journals articles say Benzodiazepines increases appetite but patients sites say opposite which one is correct? example:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666380800055
http://www.drugs.com/clonazepam.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by M-G (talk • contribs) 22:39, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- M-G, this question might be more appropriate for WikiProject Pharmacology or WikiProject Medicine, but I would stick with citing journal articles, specifically review articles and meta-analyses. Harej (talk) 00:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Comments subpages
Just to let you all know, that I am finally moving ahead with the plan to deprecate all the /Comments subpages. This decision was made by the community in 2009 but was never enacted. Please see WP:DCS for more details, and if you have any comments/questions, please post at WT:DCS. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:47, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Portal worthwhile?
WikiProject Disability has an associated portal at Portal:Disability, which has not been updated or maintained for several years. We need some help to decide whether it is worth keeping, and thus commit to putting in the effort to maintain it, or if it will simply be a waste of effort and editor time, thus either delete it or keep the status quo and leave it as a static page? How does one determine the value of a portal page? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:54, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Best practice for meetup page naming convention
Hi there, I'm with WP:WikiProject Women in Red. We are running our 10th virtual online editathon: Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Red/10. What is the best practice for naming a WikiProject's meetup pages? Should we be doing this instead: [[Wikipedia:Women in Red/Meetup/10]]
? Thank you, --Rosiestep (talk) 14:13, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
No one receives the wikiproject proposals
I have a complaint, I had made an proposal of making WikiProject Statues in somewhere December or January, still the council members have not checked it! I request to check this WikiProject, it as really a very important project! Regards BOTFIGHTER (talk) 07:08, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
- BOTFIGHTER, my personal recommendation: if you have a group of people ready to start the WikiProject, just go ahead and do it. Harej (talk) 08:03, 7 April 2016 (UTC)