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GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update
GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk)

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

Use of Matt Wade's Albany Houses Photo

This is to let Matt Wade know that I have used his photo Albany Houses with an article on my website Anglicans Ablaze and have credited the photo to him as per his instructions. The article is at: http://anglicansablaze.blogspot.com/2012/10/mission-least-reached-may-be-your.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robin G Jordan (talk • contribs) 22:19, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 October 2012

GOCE fall newsletter

Fall Events from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

  • The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best October copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
  • Voting is in progress for the September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not.
  • NEW!! In the week from Sunday 21 October to Saturday 27 October, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} belonging to selected project(s). For the first blitz, we'll start with WikiProject Olympics and WikiProject Albums and add more Projects to the blitz as we clear them. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded.
  • November 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in 2011 and to complete all requests placed before the end of October. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.
>>> Blitz sign-up <<<         >>> Drive sign-up <<<

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Great collection

Hi Matt. I just stumbled across your extesive collection of photographs on Wikipedia. A fine body of documentary work. Thanks for sharing. --Marcbela (talk) 15:01, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much! upstateNYer 16:45, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request for use of Cuomo photo

You have a great photo of Andrew Cuomo that I just found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Cuomo_by_Pat_Arnow_cropped.jpeg I would be very interested to use it in a television ad about Cuomo and fracking. I work for a nonprofit that is doing work to oppose fracking in New York State. Would you be willing to let us use the ad? I think it's a creative commons license but I wanted to be sure. Please respond asap. This is a time sensitive request.

PS my Wikipedia user name is Mackabean. I have not been very active of late but used to do a lot of wikipedia editing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mackabean

Thanks!

I'm getting a lot of credit for that photo of Cuomo. But it's not mine. I convinced the photographer to release the rights on Flickr so we could have a legitimate photo on Wikipedia. I made some edits and happened to upload it, but I didn't take the photo, therefore you need to talk to Pat Arnow. A link to her Flickr page is on the photo page. upstateNYer 16:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
THanks a lot for connecting me with Pat. I found her and got the photo from her! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mackabean (talk • contribs) 23:18, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kirsten Gillibrand

I would like to discuss this article, and any possible "beef" you may have with Kirsten Gillibrand's promotion, or me. I am aware you are an administrator, and I may very well be stepping on some toes here, so if it ever seems I am being rude, please forgive me, I am never one to mince words

  • As you made your opinion known here, you claim there are still issues with the article such as "spelling, grammar, and clear truncation errors", may I recommend you just fix them, there is no need to go around poo-pooing every non-perfect GA.
  • During our "feud" on the talk page when we discussed the lead, I felt you were being uncompromising, and when I "won" with the arbiter siding with me, you made no comment. And as you said in the GA promotion page "Had I felt it deserved it to be a GA, I would have nominated myself"; I feel I need to remind you that you do not own this article; I took it upon myself to improve the article, and when the time came when I felt it was GA worthy, I nominated it. This in no way makes me the owner either, as you hinted at: "someone else has taking [sic] an ownership role".
  • On an non-Gillibrand subject, I would request that you do not interject yourself in conversations on users talk pages as you did on mine, it was a "private" conversation.

Grammarxxx (What'd I do this time?) 21:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No beef. I'm sorry you've interpreted it that way. I think it's great that you went through the article to clean it up overall. I think we just have different expectations and interpretations of the wiki guidelines, which is fine. I'm from an older guard here and I guess I don't really have the right to complain about things now since I haven't been very active as of late. Real life and diminishing interest seem to be getting the better of me. You were right to be bold. I'd like to see if we couldn't flesh this article out a little more. I still think we're missing some critical content in the Tenure sections. And you're right, I'll go through and fix the errors I came upon. To me though, those errors are evidence of a quick review, which isn't the way the process was intended to be. Sure, it's not an FAN, which can take weeks, but it's also not a DYK, which just requires a few checks on a requirements list. GA is a big deal in my opinion; I was pretty pumped when I got my first one. I guess I still have that idealistic view on what a GA should be. As for the comment on your talk, I figured you would have rather been notified explicitly than stumble across the comments I made. Just trying to be transparent. :/ upstateNYer 01:43, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Btw, I've read through a good portion of Jon Huntsman's article (out of interest because I've been impressed with him during the last year), and I like what I'm reading. :) upstateNYer 01:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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photo

Hello Matt,

My name is Viktoria Vassileva, and I'am a execitive producer of bulgarian TV show - " Slavi Show". We wont to use your photo - "White House" in the show. We will notififed your name as a creator. It is ok ?

Have a nice day !

Viki — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.212.13.6 (talk) 13:12, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

pending NRHP noms in Capital District

The latest round of nominations being considered by SHPO includes one from Troy that seems to be impossible to miss: United Waste Manufacturing Company Building, 1 Jackson Street. Apparently it's a big six-story brick complex right on the river that you can see quite well from across the river ... seems like it would be around Watervliet Arsenal. Yeah, the one that looks like a castle. So, if you get the chance, take a picture. Daniel Case (talk) 06:08, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

Helderberg Mountains

I redirected this link, which you had created three years ago, and which was deleted two years ago, to Helderberg Escarpment. Bearian (talk) 22:12, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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POTD notification

POTD

Hi Wade,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:LOC Main Reading Room Highsmith.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 5, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-01-05. —howcheng {chat} 18:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

Wikipedia Ambassadors update

Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Wikipedia:Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

Please do these steps as soon as possible

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.

Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:

Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).

After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

Communication and keeping up to date

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:

  1. The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
  2. The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
  3. If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.
Ambassador training and resources

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:49, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Permission to use your images

I would like to use 2 of your images for an informatial fact sheet I am putting together for the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center. Specifically the panorama of Albany from across the river. And the photo of the NY capital building. I can add the attribution credit to the photos.152.130.6.71 (talk) 21:11, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You, Adam Lyon Visual Information Specialist Bath VA Medical Center, Bath NY adam.lyon@va.gov

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