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Talk pages consultation 2019

The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the various Wikimedia communities, including the English Misplaced Pages, to participate in a consultation on improving communication methods within the Wikimedia projects. As such, a request for comment has been created at Misplaced Pages:Talk pages consultation 2019. You are invited to express your views in the discussion. ~ Winged Blades 05:23, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --67.129.187.130 (talk) 05:43, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

The ANI thread has already been deleted as vandalism, and I have reported the IP for personal attacks after a final warning. Meters (talk) 06:03, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

PNCA Art+Feminism Misplaced Pages Editathon, Saturday, March 9

The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is hosting a Misplaced Pages edit-a-thon in the Shipley Collins Mediatheque (511 NW Broadway) on Saturday, March 9 from 10am – 2:30pm. This is a free community event designed to teach people to add and edit information about cis and transgender women and nonbinary folks to Misplaced Pages. We'll have training sessions, artist talks, snacks, free childcare, and plenty of exciting energy and collaboration! You're welcome to drop in any time during the event. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops and charging cables, though if you are not able, computer stations will be available. Please visit this link for more information. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

International Women's Day Misplaced Pages Edit-a-thon, Oregon Jewish Museum, Thursday, March 7

The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, in partnership with social practice artist Shoshana Gugenheim and as part of the Art+Feminism Project, will host the 2nd Annual International Women's Day Misplaced Pages Edit-a-thon to edit and/or create Misplaced Pages articles for Jewish women artists. The event will be held at the museum on Thursday, March 7 from 4 to 8 pm. Pre-registration is preferred but not required. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact, and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively edit/enter 18 Jewish women artists into the canon. Support will be provided by an experienced local Wikipedian who will be on site to teach and guide the process. This edit-a-thon will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participants will have an opportunity to select an artist/s ahead of time or on site.

Please visit this link and the meetup page for more information. Thanks! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:25, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Please participate to the talk pages consultation

Hello

Our team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a project to improve the ease-of-use and productivity of wiki talk pages. As a Teahouse host, I can imagine you’ve run into challenges explaining talk pages to first-time participants.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We're currently leading a global consultation on how to improve talk pages, and we're looking for people that can report on their experiences using (or helping other people to use) wiki talk pages. We'd like to invite you to participate in the consultation, and invite new users to join too.

We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.

Trizek (WMF), 08:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Please participate to the talk pages consultation - link update

The previous message about the talk pages consultation has a broken link.

The correct link has been misinterpreted by the MassMessage tool. Please use the following link: Misplaced Pages:Talk pages consultation 2019.

Sorry for the inconvenience, Trizek (WMF), 08:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

you've got mail

I sent you an email William Gazecki 23:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC) William Gazecki 16:26, 13 March 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wgazecki (talk • contribs)

@Wgazecki: thank you for the notice! I do not see anything in the email that couldn't be better addressed here; my preference would to discuss in Misplaced Pages talk space rather than over email. Any objection? VQuakr (talk) 00:28, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello VQuakr,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Misplaced Pages pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

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--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for my (first) thanks. What I did not include in the Biot-Savart edit is that Laplace was a kind of mentor/support of Biot, since around 1800 (so it is not so surprising that Laplace was involved in 1820), and also Biot in his 1824 book on the experiments (which was actually the first time the results were reported in detail) explicitly mentions that Laplace did the calculations (so not even a dispute). In short, Biot-Savart were skillful experimenters who provided the empirical results, Laplace provided the mathematical law based on the results, and the rest...as is said...is history... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdc870 (talk • contribs) 07:59, 23 March 2019 (UTC)