User talk:Billinghurst/Archives/2023
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The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 16 January 2023
- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
The Signpost: 26 April 2023
- News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
- In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
- Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
- News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
- Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
- Humour: The law of hats
- Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
The Signpost: 8 May 2023
- News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
- In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
- Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
- Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
- News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The Signpost: 22 May 2023
- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Billinghurst! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 23:08, 4 June 2023 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
The Signpost: 3 July 2023
- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
Precious anniversary
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Kittehs
Are we sure this is link spam and not a legit citation? I'm not Italian-fluent and don't really know much about the site. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 08:25, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
- @SMcCandlish: I am pretty sure that it is conflict of interest editing and we have no guarantee that a link to an Italian language site is relevant or pertinent (m:User:COIBot/XWiki/gattofili.net). I am more than happy to challenge that level of 1-to-1 editing to domain addition, esp. crosswiki. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:41, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I like that tool; wasn't aware of it before. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 08:47, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 August 2023
- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
The Signpost: 16 September 2023
- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
Wallace Heard Goldsmith
Hi, I wanted to thank you for your Category:Wallace Heard Goldsmith. Have you thought about writing a Wikipedia article on him? Greg Henderson (talk) 22:17, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Greghenderson2006: Less into writing articles these days. Happy to do the research and transcriptions at enWS, as interest exists. You can see I did a few basics at s:en:Author talk:Wallace Heard Goldsmith. I was establishing the basics of their life for the birth and deth information. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:52, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
- As a further note, you would be welcome over at enWS for transcriptions, our difference is that if it is credibly published it is suitable notable, so all the articles that you cited for Charles O. Beebe would all be able to be reproduced. Identifying obscure writers, and collating basic details and pushing that data to WD is of value IMNSHO. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:04, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks! I appreciate your response and info for WP:WD and WP:Wikisource. That is where I found you when doing research for Delos Goldsmith the father of Wallace Heard Goldsmith. It is amazing how Wikipedia can tie these facts together to understand how the Goldsmiths, for the most part stayed east, whereas Delos Goldsmith and his niece Abbie Jane Hunter-Goldmsith came to the west looking for new opportunities. However, I am having some problems with WP:N issues and the high mark some editors the notability of some of my articles. Your suggestion to move items to WD and Wikisource is good. Wikimedia Commons is another way to preserve a lot of informatioin and images about someone. I hope you are doing well and moved on to other areas that interest you. Greg Henderson (talk) 15:59, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
- As a further note, you would be welcome over at enWS for transcriptions, our difference is that if it is credibly published it is suitable notable, so all the articles that you cited for Charles O. Beebe would all be able to be reproduced. Identifying obscure writers, and collating basic details and pushing that data to WD is of value IMNSHO. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:04, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
The Signpost: 23 October 2023
- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
Restoring links to new scholarship that were erroneously taken down
Hello. A number of edits (often to the "Further reading" section) were just made to pages related to some major British poets of the Romantic era. The edits announced and linked to brand new original essays by major international scholars on those poets, which constitutes new and significant contributions to the important literary field and to these poets. We believe that these were very wrongly (and for unsupportably reasons) removed by--perhaps the moderator did not get what wa going on. We hope these can be restored as soon as possible. Thank you for your prompt attention. Gkblank (talk) 04:11, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Gkblank: Yes, indeed they were taken down. This is an wp:encyclopaedia not a WP:directory. Please read WP:External links to better understand the purpose of that section. I also think that you would do well to read WP:conflict of interest and how to manage it. It seems that you are here primarily to point to your work; and I should add that we especially do not need further links to EB1911 versions via your site, as the work which already exists within the WMF set of wikis. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:13, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
- To repeat: these are brand new essays by leading international scholars, who are critically commenting on the respective entry in EB1911; so what is being pointed to with the links I made is to THEIR work, NOT to my work, as you say ("primarily to your work"--so that is wrong, if not not perhaps insulting). The point of the new site (did you look at it?) is to place the new commentary about these major poets beside the old commentary about these poets, and this is extremely valuable new knowledge. It if is the case that links to the respective essays by these scholars (NOT to my work) should not be in "External links," that is actually a useful comment.
- There are NOT links to EB1911 versions via the site--the only links are to the "Then & Now" site itself!
- Please advise: should I just remove those links that are in "External links" section and place them elsewhere on the respective Wikipedia pages on these poets? Gkblank (talk) 17:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
- I read what you said, and I most certainly reviewed the linked pages before doing any link removals. Have you read the links to which you were pointed? Those written articles are simply not fitting the criteria of external links, as what was written by EB1911 is just one component for the basis of these articles, and the articles are written from the pantheon of available sources not directly EB1911. The only place that I can see relevance would be in a commentary about the EB1911 itself, though it would still have be in context that EB1911 is built on the 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, ... editions and the articles in those may or may not have had any variation when published in the 11th ed.
You still have not directly addressed the component about an association with the site, in fact you avoided any such commentary.
If you are needing guidance on how to edit on enWP, then please use the Teahouse — billinghurst sDrewth 10:28, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- I read what you said, and I most certainly reviewed the linked pages before doing any link removals. Have you read the links to which you were pointed? Those written articles are simply not fitting the criteria of external links, as what was written by EB1911 is just one component for the basis of these articles, and the articles are written from the pantheon of available sources not directly EB1911. The only place that I can see relevance would be in a commentary about the EB1911 itself, though it would still have be in context that EB1911 is built on the 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, ... editions and the articles in those may or may not have had any variation when published in the 11th ed.
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
- Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
- News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
- Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
- Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
- Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
Block needed
User:Hasnainbv seems to be continuing to add irrelevant cites ([1]). -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:11, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Ssilvers: Yep, saw that. Blocked and globally blacklisted m:special:diff/25862626 He cannot say he wasn't told, and we didn't create monitoring bots for no reason at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — billinghurst sDrewth 08:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks. I can't imagine why someone would come here so determined to make a mess. -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:27, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 November 2023
- In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
- News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
- Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
- Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
- Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
The Signpost: 4 December 2023
- In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
- Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
- Comix: Bold comics for a new age
- Essay: I am going to die
- Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
- Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
- Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
LLaMA version
Thanks for your restoration. I believe unfortunately we have the wrong version of the page now. There has been an IP editor edit warring to blank a number of references on this page and we now have their preferred version again. This is the difference between the state of the page before the vandalism and now, in other words this revision of Nov 9 is the preferred one. Thank you. —DIYeditor (talk) 22:11, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
- I went back to a version with the known references intact, and happy for the community work out whatever else needs to be done. That was the intent of my commentary. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:31, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
- Your edit confirmed the vandal's version and removed links other than the 4channel link, which I still cannot restore. If you would, restore this version from before the vandalism. I am still waiting on a whitelist request here at en.wiki. —DIYeditor (talk) 14:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- I have recovered your specified version. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:14, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Your edit confirmed the vandal's version and removed links other than the 4channel link, which I still cannot restore. If you would, restore this version from before the vandalism. I am still waiting on a whitelist request here at en.wiki. —DIYeditor (talk) 14:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 December 2023
- Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
- News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
- In the media: Consider the humble fork
- Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
- In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
- Technology report: Dark mode is coming
- Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
- Crossword: when the crossword is sus
- Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
- From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
- Humour: Guess the joke contest