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Overviews Outlines Lists Portals Glossaries Categories Vital articles Featured content Good articles Indices A–Z index Reference Culture Geography Health History Human activities Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Please contact me concerning anything to do with outlines or the Outlines WikiProject. Questions, problems, conflicts, AfD's, etc. etc. Thank you. Tip of the day Now what? Are you lost, and do not know what to do? If lost in general, see the article Meaning of life If you are looking for information, but cannot find it, try our Reference desk If you are working on Wikipedia, and are stuck, ask at the Help desk If you'd like to volunteer, but do not know where to start, see Portal:Contents/Outlines, pick a subject, or fill a gap. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Department directory   [1] Quick nav Quarry Beta (search WP with SQL; here's a sample SQL query: SELECT * FROM page WHERE page_namespace = 0 AND page_title LIKE "%in_Milan%" LIMIT 500;[2] {{Contents pages (header bar)}}   {{Help pages header}}   {{Header navbar community}} X!'s Edit Counter [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6][7] page1 page2 page3 page4 Wikipedia:xTools {{WikiProject talkheader}} SiteDelta Update Scanner [8] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863 {{subst:User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox41}} http://chat.carleton.ca/~tcstewar/grooks/grooks.html Greasemonkey, Web Developer, Firebug, Stylish, Download Statusbar, NoScript, PDF Download, Foxmarks, Fasterfox, All-in-One Sidebar, Megaupload, Foxyproxy, Flashblock, and Adblock WP:LINJA (Link Ninja). WP:AWB iMacros Web Developer (Mozilla extension) Lotus Improv http://127.0.0.1:3333/ dir Specialist searches Special:LinkSearch is a tool for searching for external links from Wikipedia pages to sites outside Wikipedia. For example, all Wikipedia pages linking to Yahoo.com. External search engines – see Wikipedia:External search engines and Wikipedia:Tools#Searching Other languages – for searching other language editions of Wikipedia see http://wikipedia.org/ and the links above. Toolserver - there are multiple tools on Toolserver, most notably: CatScan — powerful search using categories, included templates, etc. petscan - list builder Page statistics More page statistics Find link Grep — search pages titles using regexps. Outline-based summarizers 7 tools for creating mind maps and outlines Wikisummarizer

Help Project newsletter : Issue 1

The Help Project Newsletter Issue I - May 2012
Project news the wub has been appointed as a Wikimedia Community Fellow to lead a data-driven improvement of the English Wikipedia's help documentation, and will be working closely with the Help Project. You can read more about his plans at Wikipedia:Help Project/Community fellowship or in this Signpost article, and he has just released a first report on progress so far. The project's pages have had a major redesign, introducing tabs in order to make them more usable. If you haven't stopped by recently then check them out! A table of statistics is now available for all pages in Category:WikiProject Help Project, this includes page views, word counts and a variety of readability scores. This should be helpful in prioritising improvement work and finding redundant pages. {{Breadcrumb2}} is a new template for making attractive navigational breadcrumbs. This may be useful for linking help pages. This newsletter was started :-)	From the editor Hi, and welcome to the first issue of the Help Project newsletter! This is a new monthly initiative to keep project members and the wider community informed about our work to improve Wikipedia's help pages. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. I've initially sent this to all existing members of the project, if you don't wish to receive the newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. Conversely if you've just stumbled on this newsletter (perhaps through talk page stalking) and want to receive it in future then please feel free to sign up! the wub "?!" 16:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Tasks Help:Diff needs to be updated for the new diff styles.

Help Project newsletter : Issue 2

The Help Project Newsletter Issue II - June 2012
Project news Progress on the help redesign fellowship continues apace. In-person usability testing is due to start next week, watch this space for results! A large survey about help pages was conducted. Responses are still coming in, but preliminary results are available. A new gadget has been proposed to make it easier for new- and non-editors to leave feedback about help pages. Please test it and leave your thoughts. In somewhat-related-project-news: the Teahouse has wrapped up its pilot phase with an extensive report. Planning and discussion is underway for phase 2. A discussion is taking place about the purpose and future of the venerable Community portal.	From the editor Hello from the Help Project, and welcome to the second issue of our newsletter! The biggest project I've been working on this month has been a large survey of users to find out what they think of our current help pages. Preliminary results from this are now available, although there are more responses trickling in from the lower edit count groups since a batch of email invitations were recently sent out. Finalised results and further analysis should be posted next week. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. the wub "?!" 18:23, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Tasks Calling CSS and template gurus: Help:Diff and {{wiki diff}} need to be updated to match the new MediaWiki diff styles. Why not wander through the lower reaches of Wikipedia:Help Project/page statistics and see if there are any pages that can be cleaned up or merged.

Help Project newsletter : Issue 3

The Help Project Newsletter Issue III - August 2012

Project news summary Final results and conclusions from the help pages survey were released. The wub gave a presentation at Wikimania 2012 about help pages, and the slides are now on Commons. A discussion is taking place about the purpose and future of the venerable Community portal. New designs for tutorial pages have been proposed, comment from project members is welcome.

From the editor Welcome to the (slightly delayed) third issue of the Help Project newsletter. The past month has once again been a busy one for my fellowship. The full results and conclusions from the extensive user survey on help pages are now available, and make interesting reading. These do confirm a number of our suspicions about Wikipedia help, and suggest that the current plan for the remainder of the fellowship is a sound approach. Also last month I was fortunate enough to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, where I gave a presentation about help pages and the aforementioned survey results. You can find the slides from this on Commons. Wikimania was also a great opportunity for many discussions with staff and community members, and these brought up some interesting ideas which I hope to follow up on. One of the things much discussed was the planned tutorial pages. I've been working on a new design for them which can be seen at User:The wub/sandbox/1, please let me know what you think (especially if you spot any bugs!). Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. the wub "?!" 13:26, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 4

The Help Project Newsletter Issue IV - September 2012

Project news summary The in-person usability tests from the wub's community fellowship have been written up. Three new introductory tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. The Article Feedback Tool has been deployed to pages in the Help namespace, and can be added manually to help pages in other namespaces. Read more... Page statistics were updated for the month of August.

From the editor Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. -- the wub "?!" 20:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 5

The Help Project Newsletter Issue V - January 2013

Project news summary Help:Contents and Wikipedia:Contact us have seen a major revamp. Page statistics were updated. Alerts are now available for discussions related to Help Project pages Many more Help Project pages now have the Article Feedback Tool (v5) enabled. GettingStarted is an experimental feature to guide new users with their first edits.

From the editor Hello again from the Help Project! In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already. Another important and frequently used help page, Wikipedia:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages. In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Wikipedia:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. -- the wub "?!" 23:34, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 6

The Help Project Newsletter	Issue VI - April 2013
Open Help Conference The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation. It has been suggested to send a team from Wikipedia/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Wikipedia's help. There may be support available for volunteers to attend from the Participation Support program (and your editor is certainly hoping to be there!) Please join the discussion in Meta's IdeaLab if you're interested, and/or have suggestions about what we could work on.	Other news The Article Feedback Tool (v5) has now been changed to be opt-in for all pages. It can be enabled for specific pages by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 to them. There are also a number of new features. It has been proposed to merge the questions forum of the New contributors' help page into the Teahouse. Discussion is taking place here. The help menu at Help:Contents/Browse and its subpages have been largely cleaned up. User:Moxy has created a descriptive help directory. A project on Video and Interactive Tutorials has begun, supported by a Wikimedia Foundation grant. Suggestions for subjects are invited on the talk page.
If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. Suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. the wub "?!" 16:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 7

The Help Project Newsletter
Issue VII - August 2013

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Hello from Hong Kong, and the Wikimania DevCamp! Just a quick bulletin to update everyone on recent goings-on:

• There was a Wikimedia blog post about our experience at the Open Help Conference.
• Based on discussions at the Open Help Conference, Seeeko, Ocaasi and the wub have drafted a series of guidelines for writing and improving help pages.
• There is now also a system in place for assessing help pages by quality and importance. See Wikipedia:Help Project/Assessment for more details and the two scales we are using.
• A project collaboration has been started, the first one is focusing on the above mentioned Assessment. Discussions about this are welcome at Wikipedia talk:Help Project#Current collaboration (and the next).
• Wikipedia:New contributors' help page/questions was merged into Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions
• A couple of other mergers have been proposed:
  • Wikipedia:Questions and Wikipedia:Requests
  • Wikipedia:How to help and Wikipedia:New contributors' help page
• Help:Introduction to talk pages and Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines have both been overhauled and updated to use the new tutorial design.

Suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter.

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:RVAN. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:RVAN redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:42, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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I invite you to an ongoing RfD discussion about those redirect to WP:AADD#Just a vote. --George Ho (talk) 19:55, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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Please copy the contents of older talkpages when centralizing discussion. If this is not done the concerns risk being lost. Best wishes and happy holidays, Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 22:26, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

I know, I'm in the middle of it. Handling multiple things. Thanks. The Transhumanist 22:30, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

If you edit someone's talk page repeatedly in quick succession, they get inundated with pings and, if email is enabled, emails. Each time you leave me a message, I tend to get lots of such interactions. The emails in particular are a nuisance, as my phone buzzes every time, which is very distracting.

I know I'm probably being hypocritical here, but please could you try to make more use of the preview button and/or leave windows open with messages half written before clicking save, so you can think of everything in one go?

Apologies for sounding petty. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:48, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@Dweller: I tend to reread my messages after I post them, and almost always find little corrections to make. I guess I'm a perfectionist. I'll try not to look at the messages again after I post them the first time. You'll be getting the communications raw! No worries. It's not petty if your phone is driving you mad. :) BTW, I hope the reasons I posted in that message made sense. Cheers. The Transhumanist 12:00, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

All makes sense. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:46, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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 Done Undefined ref tag removed. The Transhumanist 07:34, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

The Transhumanist 07:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I think your planet outlines are really cool. I have long thought it was a shame that only Wikipedians seem to know about Books or Portals, because they are really great tools for structuring knowledge (while everyone loves diving down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, we could really do with some better content organization). The outlines strike me as a great way to bring that sort content organization to mainspace, where it will actually reach a large number of readers. I notice that I am the first one to edit them besides yourself, and I hope you know that I do so with love.

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		Great idea with the outline articles - a great solution to a need for better mainspace-based content structuring! I see from WP:Outlines that you actually came up with this concept some years ago, but this is the first I've noticed it. A2soup (talk) 02:46, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Since on your user page or somewhere, you call yourself an expert in geography, you would perhaps want to look at these articles, which are in desperately in need of some attention. 103.6.159.65 (talk) 18:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, you've probably seen already but just wanted to give you a heads up that I did some work on the article. I know it still needs a lot more work but I think its an improvement and at least it has inline references and (I hope) makes some sense. I wasn't familiar with the terminology of hyponyms and hypernyms (its amazing how different groups find ways to give different names to concepts that are essentially the same). I thought that the idea of is-a hierarchies was more familiar so at first I went with that but the more I looked at all the papers the more I realized they all use (which I should have realized) the linguistics terms of hypernyms and hyponyms so I felt it was important to describe those terms. For people who start digging into the actual papers I hope at least they will start with a basic understanding of the terminology. I almost then deleted what I wrote about is-a but as I said I think that concept is more widely understood, especially these days with object-oriented programming so popular so I felt it was worth leaving both terms. I think the original article used both concepts as well although it wasn't clear to me what hypernyms were from what was in the original article. Let me know if you have feedback or of course feel free to just edit. I've asked some colleagues for more references on the topic but so far no one has come through. If they do I may update some more, or if you have some feedback and want me to address it I'll give it a shot but otherwise moving on. Thanks for asking though it was actually fun to do some non-trivial editing, haven't done it in a while. It helped that I had some actual work that I didn't want to do so this was a nice distraction ;-) --MadScientistX11 (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

replied on user's talk page. The Transhumanist 04:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Why are you moving outline pages from "Outline of..." to "Outline about..."? The former is more natural and, perhaps more important, is the long standing naming convention as described at Wikipedia:Outlines. "Outline about xxx" is not even normal English usage - I would always use "outline of" something and expect to see it, and an Ngram confirms it is about 1000 times more common.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 12:22, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm not. They got reverted, and it is currently in discussion here (I've posted a question for you there). Based on reactions so far, I don't think consensus will be on my side on this one. And so, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. You're right: grammatical correctness trumps semantic accuracy. And so, "Outline of" is fine by me. The Transhumanist 01:09, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your message about proofing Tip of the Day posts in advance. I'll be glad to try to do that, although I may forget sometimes.

If I spot an error or something that raises a question, should I notify you directly or post my concerns on the Tip of the Day talk page? Eddie Blick (talk) 02:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

@Teblick: I forget too. So, the more pairs of eyes on these, the better. Posting alerts and comments on the TOTD talk page is fine; simply {{ping}} me (and JoeHebda) so we receive an alert. Also, feel free to edit the tips directly. JoeHebda and myself have all the tips watchlisted, so we'll be able to review the changes made. Thank you for your help to keep the tip of the day relevant and useful! If you have any questions pertaining to anything to do with Wikipedia, don't hesitate to ask. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 02:31, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Before I read your reply, I found three problems in the tip for tomorrow and posted them at Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day#Problems with "Wikipedia's top ten power tips" list. I will try to remember to ping you and Joe Hebda the next time I spot something. Thanks for the okay on direct editing. I'll do that if I spot something that isn't too involved. I appreciate your offer of help regarding Wikipedia. I still have a lot to learn about it. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:39, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

@Teblick: You picked the right department: it will teach you all the best tricks! The Transhumanist 05:19, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

You are right about that! I have found many useful tips since I began reading the Tip of the Day posts regularly. Eddie Blick (talk) 18:01, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

User:SuggestBot pointed me towards Human communication as a page I might want to edit, which is tagged for cleanup. While a full article might be worth writing, it occurred to me that it might be a good case for an outline. It already gives a list of blue-linked topics to read for communication broken up by group type (with oneself, with multiple people, within a group, within an organization, etc), and it could be broken up in other ways similarly (mode: written, verbal, gestural, ...; intent: informative, expressive, persuasive, ...; register: formal, informal, slang, vulgarity, ...; relationship to truth: nonsense, lies, evasiveness, honesty, ...; transmission: physical writing, live speech, recorded speech, video, digital equivalents, ...; target-type: human-human, human-machine, human-animal, ...; ...) plus related topics such as translation, linguistics, the history of these various things, ... . Even in outline this might be too broad to be manageable, but perhaps with judicious links to sub-outlines it could work. Since it's such a large topic, I don't know that a prose article can reasonably work. Of course, having said that, even more expansive topics such as philosophy, art and science do have solid prose articles, so perhaps I'm just being timid. What do you think? Would your normal prescription be to aim to have both, one for encyclopedic description and the other for navigability? I don't really believe I'm qualified to do justice to either but I'm interested in learning more about the outline approach and how it slots in to other types of article writing, and this seemed like an interesting example. Mortee (talk) 00:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Actually, this triggered another thought: since outlines are in a way analagous to categories (hierarchical categorisations of information intended to aid exploration) but are clearly different in form, has there been discussion before about the idea of having a separate page-space for outlines? For a lot of abstract pages X, having a category X and an outline X both make sense. Perhaps outlines should live at Outline:x rather than trying to co-exist in the main article space with other pages that have a very different intent, style, set of policies etc. It might make sense for outlines to live in a parallel space in that way, but presumably that would require some serious buy-in from Wikimedia and their devs, which in turn would need them (outlines) to prove their worth in a substantial way as compared to other means of navigating between articles... Hmm. I'll ponder this some more. Mortee (talk) 00:31, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@Mortee: Thank you for your interest in my favorite topic: outlines! I copied and answered this thread over at Talk:Outline of communication#Outline of human communication. I'll see you there. The Transhumanist 05:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I've now taken time to read your questions about computer programming. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to help you with your scripting, at least not the ones you are developing, as I'm really not up to scratch with Wikipedia's more complicated script syntax. I would, however, be interested in starting a WikiProject with you. Wikipedia:WikiProject JavaScript, perhaps? Linguist^talk|contribs 16:10, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Answered on your talk page. The Transhumanist 16:46, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I took the liberty of correcting a typographical error in the Multi-page system section. I didn't see any other errors.

I do, however, have some thoughts about the following sections for your consideration.

Express yourself

How about providing links to some examples of pages that show various types of creativity? Seeing several examples of well-done pages might inspire a person as he or she is creating his or her own page.  Done

Mix and match your colors and fonts

How does a person implement the use of various colors and fonts on a page? I wouldn't know how to apply them on my user page. Perhaps you could add some links to useful pages in this section. Done

Use images to get your point across

As with the section about colors and fonts, you might add links to pages with information about how to place images on user pages, especially with regard to position and size. You might also add something about use of Wikimedia Commons and the permissions that are needed for images that are used on Wikipedia (in case someone might have thoughts of using a copyrighted image on his or her page). One other thought: How about including something about user boxes? From time to time I see questions in the Tea House about user boxes, such as where to place them and how to align them.  Done

I hope that these suggestions are helpful. Obviously, you are free to use them or not as you see fit. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

@Teblick: Okay, all done. Let me know what you think. The Transhumanist 11:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it looks fine with those additions. (I took the liberty of correcting a typographical error in the link to the page about placing images). 21:01, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed that your WP:VPI thread, which I moved there from WP:VPR, has received no response after four days. Since I think VPI gets less attention, I feel somewhat responsible. Since the VPR/VPI distinction isn't widely understood and only rarely enforced, you could move back to VPR with my blessing. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:39, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Revised and reposted it here: Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 22#Intelligent Wikipedia that talks to you interactively. The Transhumanist 20:15, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using Saileshpat (talk) 19:07, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

RekishiEJ, what ever happened to this:

Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 18#Three added sections/topics for Community Portal - Help out

I look forward to your reply, The Transhumanist 04:53, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Has there been a change in our policy about hatnotes ....just wondering why your moving hatnote below nav headers over the norm of them being first?--Moxy (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Moxy, it's a guideline, and it states top of page or section. In this case, it seems that the hatnotes go better at the top of the content of the lead section, rather than being divided from it by the nav menu, the scope of which is beyond the scope of the page itself. The formatting of the pages in the set is less erratic and ties together better if the menu isn't jumping around. (Click each link in the help nav menu bar to see what I mean). If you feel that the guideline trumps formatting issues pertaining to a set of pages, then feel free to revert -- I trust your judgement in all matters pertaining to the help pages. At your service as always, The Transhumanist 20:18, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Didn't know about the effect on mobile views. Good catch. The Transhumanist 21:55, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

@Anomie, Nettrom, Rich Farmbrough, JoeHebda, and PrimeHunter:

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@Caeciliusinhorto, Jonesey95, RekishiEJ, Edgars2007, and Mandruss:

I thought you might be interested in the thread below...

Hey Transhumanist, I figured you'd be interested in this. I've organized the WikiBrain researchers to present at the monthly mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase. See mw:Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#April_2017 for the details of the talk that Shilad will be giving. He'll be demoing some of the cool spacial visualizations I was hinting at in another thread. The talk will be broadcast/recorded on Wednesday 4/19 at 1830 UTC. I'll be taking question and delivering them to the speaker (Shilad) from the #wikimedia-research ^connect chatroom. If you can join us, you'll find me in there as "halfak". --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 20:55, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

I forgot to say. Here's the streaming link that'll become active as soon as the talk starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Prf0Vb-k1I --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 20:57, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

EpochFail, thank you for the heads up. Two days from now? I've got to think of some questions! But I have no frame of reference. What is a "Wikipedia neighborhood"? And what do you mean by "visualize?" What is a "spatial visualization?" How is "spatial" being applied here? What is "spatial" about Wikipedia? Is a "neighborhood spatial, and if so, how? And I almost forgot. What are "advanced semi-automated open knowledge technologies?" What are the other main terms I should know? If I were to add these to a glossary, what would the subject in its title be? "Glossary of _______________." What goes in the blank? The Transhumanist 21:44, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

I think that Shilad will be answering your questions in the presentation about WikiBrain and the visualizations. :D

WRT "advanced semi-automated open knowledge technologies", I imagine the intersection of advanced technologies (like AIs, data mining, information retrieval) and social processes that allow Wikipedians to manage large knowledge resources. One obvious example is counter-vandalism practice and vandalism detection models, but there's a lot more potential there. E.g. User:SuggestBot uses information retrieval techniques to recommend articles to edit. User:Nettrom and I are working on Article Importance modeling. We're hoping to use that to help WikiProjects to direct their work and to find articles that they ought to tag, but haven't yet. Designing advanced algorithms that *fit into* a social process is really a place where we're ahead of the rest of the world and I think we should invest in that and lead. I'm putting my "free time" where my mouth is by working on these technologies. --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 17:42, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

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Your edits to this outline ended up leaving non-linked text just hanging in the middle of the outline. Why did you do this? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:34, 8 May 2017 (U

Thanks for asking. I expected them to have children items soon, which they now do. I found a number of topics to list under "Sports of Western Sahara", etc. The Transhumanist 22:35, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, At Wikipedia:Community bulletin board#General notices section, there is a huge gap after your signature on the Javascript announcement. I have tried many edits for about 1/2 hour now without any luck & unable to fix except by removing your signature. If you could please look into this & update, that would be great! Thanks, — JoeHebda • (talk) 14:32, 13 May 2017 (UTC)b

Joe, thank you for alerting me, though I don't see a gap (I use Firefox). Are you still seeing it? If so, I need more information. What browser (including version) are you seeing it in? Does the gap show up in all sizes of zoom? Have you tried any other browsers, and does it show up there too? I look forward to your responses, and hopefully we can fix the glitch. If need be, I can remove the notice (nobody has responded to it anyways). The Transhumanist 04:02, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it was the "Zoom" level of 125-percent causing this gap to appear. My browser is Chromium (a clone of Google Chrome). Even in IE-11 the gap appears at first Zoom level, only the gap is above your message...go figure! So this is really a "non-issue". Thanks for the help. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 07:46, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

But, apparently broken link for Convert software near the top of the 'Intro' tab. It appears that the author or someone associated with this product is perhaps redoing the site. SewerCat (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

SewerCat, I can't figure out what you are talking about, but it sounds interesting... The Transhumanist 04:20, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

@Transhumanist: Now that I've read my message over, I definitely see what you mean. (Maybe I should be excluded from editing wikipedia?) In any case, I refer to [9]. One of its links is to 'Convert' software and that link seems to be broken. Could be a possible item number 23,436 on your to-do list. SewerCat (talk) 18:22, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

SewerCat, dead link removed. Thank you for the heads up. The Transhumanist 18:43, 15 May 2017 (UTC)::

Hi Transhumanist,

I am actually quite fluent in JavaScript, but time restricts me from becoming a major code contributor to MediaWiki, extensions, widgets, or for that matter non-WM-related open-source projects. However, I might be interested in helping with small tasks or writing about JavaScript. Thanks also for linking to some interesting resources.

Cheers, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 17:11, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

I see you are making many "history" redirects, including things like "History of Neil MacGonigill" This seems like massive overkill to me. Please stop for now while this can be discussed. Fram (talk) 09:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

For starters, even if we need this (which in most cases I doubt), you should check your capitalization: "History of Neighborhoods of Omaha, Nebraska" should be "History of neighborhoods of Omaha, Nebraska" instead. But most of these seem like highly unlikely redirects and not the thing which should be indiscriminately mass created. Fram (talk) 09:07, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I'll go back through the list and get the capitalization I missed. Then I'll discuss with you adequate selection criteria for the remainder of the list. The Transhumanist 09:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Please wait. It's no use correcting the capitalization if we don't know yet whether these redirects are wanted in the first place. First discuss the basics, then correct the capitalization on those that will be kept. Thanks for the offer though. Fram (talk) 09:25, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) (can we keep the discussion here? I don't like two-page discussions). You seem to create a redirect for every page that has a "history" section, no matter if that redirect is in any way a likely search term or not (in many, perhaps most, cases it's not). You do so in a seemingly automated method (hence the capitalisation problems presumably) creating hundreds (thousands?) of such redirects. We have had a cases already recently of people cretaqing way too many redirectswithout much thought or care, and this is usually frowned upon by many editors. We may already need a serious cleanup effort of what you have created so far, so at least getting you to stop for now instead of creating more problematic redirects in this vein is a good start. Fram (talk) 09:24, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Your creations fall under WP:MASSCREATION. You have created 1000s of redirects in a very short time which wouldn't be allowed without prio consensus even if they all were unproblematic. Coupled with the errors (capitalization, in many cases you would add a "the" somewhere to get "history of the [article title]" instead of what you did here, and perhaps most importantly many of these are highly unlikely search terms anyway) you should not have started this without prior approval, and you should certainly not restart it without such approval. Fram (talk) 09:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram, I was not aware that masscreation covered redirects (it mentions articles and categories). I'm available to cleanup whatever is necessary. What kind of cleanup do you suggest? The Transhumanist 09:38, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Well, as far as I am concerned, the cleanup would involve thousands of deletions (the longer I look at this, the more massive the numbre of creations becomes, 5000 creations since 05.31 this morning brings me back to still "history of N"), with the remainder checked for capitalization and addition of "the" where needed. Simply deleting them all and then, after approval, creating the necsssary and correct ones only sems like the most sensible solution. Fram (talk) 09:51, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram, so that this isn't a totally wasted effort, would you be okay with leaving the redirects for administrative regions in place (History of cities, counties, etc.)? The Transhumanist 09:58, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Even those are often useless. History of Naubatpur is a redirect to indeed a history section, which has no history at all. In general, these ones are less problematic than the others, so keeping them will be less of a problem, but even so they will need a thorough checking afterwards (and please, no more mass creations of them!). Fram (talk) 10:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram, since I cannot delete pages, to aid in the cleanup, I can prepare a list of the links without the administrative regions. The Transhumanist 10:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

That would be great! Fram (talk) 10:11, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram, I'm on it. By the way, don't people often leave the "the" out of their search queries? I've never thought of a missing "the" as making an invalid redirect. I think it falls under "likely misspellings" (for terms/topics) at WP:POFR. What are your thoughts? The Transhumanist 10:24, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

One can make dozens of potential variations on what might look for one day. Most of these will never be used. History of Needlegun seems much more unlikely to me than History of the needlegun. In any case, when searching for something like that, the search box will normally return the right target even without such a redirect, so they don't really help much. When I search for History of ballistics, the search returns Ballistics as the first result. Searching History of Tour de France or History of the Tour de France both give Tour de France as the first result. So these aren't needed, at the "right" or at the wrong spelling. Fram (talk) 10:28, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram, what about from Google? The Transhumanist 10:34, 24 May 2017 (UTC) (P.S.: I'm working on the list).

Checked at Google, again gives me the relevant Wikipedia article as first result (both for balisstics and for Tour de France). Fram (talk) 10:38, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

You can see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SSTbot 3 for a discussion about a similar though much, much smaller (only 600 or so!) batch creation of redirects, and the agreement that this needs prior approval. In this case, where you had some 7,000 creations to get from "N" to "Nev" (or realistically way more than 100,000 redirects at the end of the task), prior approval is definitely needed, and doing this with a bot (using the bot flag) to filter them out from "recent changes" would be necessary as well probably. Fram (talk) 10:36, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram Makes sense. I'll refine my approach and will run it by them when I'm ready. In the meantime, I'll get you that list. I'll ping you when it is done. The Transhumanist 10:42, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram I've compiled a partial list of links for deletion at User:The Transhumanist/sandbox. The rest of the list, minus the administrative divisions I've culled so far, is at User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox26. I'll keep culling the administrative divisions, and will keep you apprised of my progress. The Transhumanist 11:23, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Fram, after toiling at the culling task for awhile, it became clear that would take days. Therefore, I've posted the entire list of links for deletion at User:The Transhumanist/sandbox. Let me how you wish to proceed. The Transhumanist 12:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I'll start deleting them, thanks. Fram (talk) 12:45, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:53, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello again. I see that you have contributed to the bulletin board. I thank you for that. However, seems that we're losing its regulars. Mind if I post a notification at WP:Village pump (miscellaneous) and then WT:Community portal for recruitments? --George Ho (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Dear George,

The CBB is like a regular bulletin board, for anyone who needs to post a notice or bulletin about their events, projects, activities, and so on. It is for announcers who have something to announce. It's not a news gathering service, and therefore recruiting volunteers or journalists to post news items goes way beyond the purpose of that department. It's just a spot for everyone in the neighborhood to post stuff when they feel the need to.

Like regular bulletin boards, activity on the CBB ebbs and flows. Having volunteers to post notices doesn't generally help, because they would have to know what to post. You never know where the announcements are going to come from (people with unusual projects, etc.), or when. It's announcer-driven.

It's normal for the CBB to slow down during late spring, and summer vacation months. It'll pick back up again in the fall. The main reason it is there is to provide an unrestricted place for posting notices to the general community, as needed. For example, when the new redesign of the Main Page was ready to vote on it was posted there, and it had the biggest turn out ever! All the other notice venues have limitations in scope, or require lead time, etc. But you can always be sure to be able to post a notice at the CBB - it's always available, and is unrestricted.

The important thing is that the CBB is there ready and waiting.

Thank you for your interest. The Transhumanist 21:19, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

With pleasure. I'm new to the bulletin board, though I've recently edited "centralized discussion" template. I don't know whether to announce having more participants at WP:FFD, WP:RFD, and/or WP:TFD. Though others can search for those processes themselves, would posting such notification be fine? --George Ho (talk) 21:47, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

No, that's not needed: the deletion departments have their own notification system. Good brainstorming though. Remember, bulletin boards just sit there until someone needs to post something. There is no need to advertise the CBB. It is on the community's most trafficked page. People know it is there. I just posted another notice, in case you are interested. Check it out. The Transhumanist 23:37, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Cool... Well, already participated in that one, but thanks anyway. George Ho (talk) 23:50, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Template:Announcements has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

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And that leads to my question -- does the mere fact that the Hermitage accepted a donation of a person's work of art render that person "notable" under WP:NARTIST? By rough analogy, I wouldn't consider an American author to be notable simply because some of their books were held by the Library of Congress. Nor would I consider a British author to be notable merely on the basis of seeing some of their books in the British Library. And so, I'm left to wonder whether the same conclusion applies here.

I recognize that your interest in ceramics might not extend to Russian ceramics. But if it does, I would greatly appreciate any insights that you can provide. NewYorkActuary (talk) 19:56, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

NewYorkActuary, she is featured in 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture St. Petersburg: 1744-1994. That states she was a porcelain painter and worked there 1945-1987. Forty-two years is enough time to become well-established as a master, so the likelihood is high that her works have been displayed prominently somewhere. According to the guideline WP:ARTIST, an artist is notable if "the person's work has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition." So, what you need are news sources that identify her work on display in an exhibition. One significant exhibition would do. Another option is to see an antiques or museum piece dealer -- they might know where to look the individual pieces up, to see where they are currently. I checked the Met's collection, and it came up with nil. Checking the collections of every museum would be tedious and time-consuming. Art dealers may know of a shortcut. By the way, if the article passes notability, it would also be interesting to find out if any of her pieces have been auctioned off, and for how much. The Transhumanist 04:11, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the great response. My apologies for the delay in getting back to you. Although I saw your response not too long after you posted it, I wanted to mull over the information before responding.

There's no doubt that Gregoryeva had a long association with the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory. There's also no doubt that the factory itself has a notable place in the history of ceramics. But I'm left wondering whether those two facts alone are sufficient to justify an article. I note that the text you point to does indeed contain photographs of five of the artist's works. But the prose portion of the text doesn't mention her at all, and those five photographs are sharing space in the text with a much larger number of other works (I estimate at least 400 other photographs). And so I think you are quite correct in noting that the draft's creator needs to demonstrate that Gregoryeva's work has been the subject of significant exhibitions. And the draft falls far short of making this demonstration, providing only an unsourced list of cities in which exhibitions have taken place (without even specifying dates!). And even if those exhibitions do become properly sourced, will they be exhibitions of Gregoryeva's works, or exhibitions of Lomonosov works of which Gregoryeva might be represented by only two or three pieces? Of course, neither one of us knows the answer to this. But the fact that the draft's creator is leaving such basic questions unanswered leads me to believe that more documentation will be needed here.

Later today, I'll communicate my concerns to the draft's creator on the Talk page of the draft. Any comments you care to leave there will be welcome.

Thanks again for the response. NewYorkActuary (talk) 21:10, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Anytime. See ya around! The Transhumanist 02:01, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

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Also nominated in the same nomination are Portal:Health and fitness/Selected nutrition article and Portal:Health and fitness/Selected biochemistry article. By the way, I did not realize that you were still an active editor when I nominated these pages, since the pages were created from a different account. Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:20, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi. You contributed in a previous part of the discussion, so this is just a reminder to you (and any interested talkpagewatchers), that it's the second week of our Movement Strategy Cycle 3 discussion. There's a new topic each week in July, and this week's is: How could we capture the sum of all knowledge when much of it cannot be verified in traditional ways? You can see more details, and suggest solutions or respond to other people's thoughts (from this week and last week) at Wikipedia:Wikimedia Strategy 2017. You can also read a summary of discussions that took place in the past week. Cheers. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 03:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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The move was premature. This draft is a long way from being ready for article space. The Transhumanist 17:05, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Please don't accept or reject any of the outlines until you have read Wikipedia:Outlines. Outlines make up one of Wikipedia's navigation systems. They map out the coverage of subjects on Wikipedia. If one is moved to article space too early, someone might delete it because it is too rough. If they are deleted, that puts us a step backward, as they will just need to be created again later, to fill the gap in this navigation system, the goal of which is to cover all substantial subjects. Thank you. The Transhumanist 17:20, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello, The Transhumanist,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Outline of JavaScript should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of JavaScript .

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:12, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

It shouldn't have been moved to article space in the first place, as it was not ready. It is still a draft. The Transhumanist 17:08, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello, The Transhumanist. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Outline of fungi".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 00:17, 26 August 2017 (UT

Thanks for the heads up. The article now resides in the main namespace. The Transhumanist 17:09, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Galaxy instead.

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Hello! The Transhumanist,I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:14, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Greetings The Transhumanist - Today User:Barbara (WVS) asked me here to help her as an advisor for a grant proposal to MetaWiki. This is way beyond my Wikipedia experience so I was wondering if you might be able to lend a hand. Or if you know of another editor who could contribute that would be great. Cheers, — JoeHebda • (talk) 18:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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Would it be possible for you to email me, please? Thank you, Cote d'Azur (talk) 09:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

You don't do the email thing and I don't write on talk pages, so how can we communicate? —Cote d'Azur (talk) 10:31, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

I see. In this case I cannot help because I really do not write on talk pages, I apologise. —Cote d'Azur (talk) 11:09, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

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Well you've got me curious! What's the hobby? ohmyerica (talk) 18:29, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:43, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Dear Headbomb, I didn't submit this to Articles for Creation. The above message, and the AfC banner posted on the article's talk page are in error. Please direct me to the edit which submitted this to Articles for creation. Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

It was a draft, I edited it, brought it to a state I considered it good enough for mainspace, and I moved it there with the AFC script since it was simpler to categories, tag with banners etc. I debated unticking the 'notify creator', but I'd figure you'd want to know it's been moved to mainspace. The notice may not have been the best, but it feel it was good enough. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:04, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Adapting a tool. Resourceful. Thanks for clearing up my confusion, and for improving the outline. Cheers. The Transhumanist 02:07, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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Ok back to your query at my talk - I would say that the effectiveness of the separating the watch list into sections is not effective over 15k on the list - my watchlist being much larger it has no positive aspect at all - but it does do the task - and doesnt take long... JarrahTree 10:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

It's rarely a good idea to mess around with someone else's WP:indenting. You may disagree with their choice, but their may be a reason they addressed their response at a specific level. Worst case, you can substantially change a post's mentioning, e.g. if someone replied to post A and you make it so it's indented as a reply to post B, people may think the points there apply to post B when they are directed at post B. If you really feel a mistake was made that needs to be corrected, it's generally better to ask first. This is a particularly good example of the mess you can create as you made a post posted before appear as if were a reply to one that was made after [10]. Nil Einne (talk) 08:17, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up.    The Transhumanist 08:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hi The Transhumanist,

Thank you for your interest in using our tool. Sorry about the wait. We've been working on improving our tool in the past several weeks, and we will send recommendations to you very soon. Stay tuned. Thank you!

Also, I noticed that you signed up for other projects including JavaScript, Outlines, and Indexes. For now, we can only make recommendations to topical projects, so Outlines and Indexes are not yet included, sorry.. I am having problem retrieving data for WikiProject JavaScript. I will try to make it happen! Bobo.03 (talk) 23:16, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi The Transhumanist,

Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message.

We'd appreciate it if you could fill the survey to let us know what you think about our recommendations so we can improve our system.

Please let me know below if you have any general feedback about our recommendations. Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 05:24, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi The Transhumanist,

Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message.

We'd appreciate it if you could fill the survey to let us know what you think about our recommendations so we can improve our system.

Please let me know below if you have any general feedback about our recommendations. Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 05:42, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

At what point should a draft outline be moved to mainspace? It seems that there are people opposed to incomplete outlines so I would prefer to avoid an attack of knee-jerk deletionism by getting Draft:Outline of underwater diving to an easily defensible condition before making the move. On the other hand, I do not want to delay unnecessarily, as the outline will be useful to WP:SCUBA and anyone interested in underwater diving.

I am making use of the recently created experimental short descriptions as annotations on WP:SCUBA articles, so will have annotations for most if not all of the links already in the list, however there are hundreds more article which will go into other sections, many of which do not yet have a short description. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 09:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Replied on poster's talk page.    The Transhumanist 10:29, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Could you help me create a team of translators and editors so as to translate more and more pages from the English Wikipedia to the Others ?Let's form a team to add more and more features to other wikis and this wiki as well.My concerns are most on the Bengali Wiki and the Dutch Wiki. I see the later very poor ... And lacks active editors . Bengali wiki is lacking various scientific informations. I am a resident of the Bengals and I felt the problems of the local students who lacks the knowledge of the English Language .Editing in Bengali in a great time taking task for its large number of characters. Inspite of being my mother tongue I would require a team. And for the Dutch language , I am still novice and I am forced to use the "Google translate " frequently.Another concern is that , many pages are protected and I am restricted from editing those. Access to the source code could help me to create a new article or section more easily and faster.So could you grant me the required permissions? Arka (talk) 11:50, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Dear Dr. Sroy, the technology of machine translation is advancing so rapidly via the Law of Accelerating Returns, that creating a team may be pointless. It would take a team of thousands to make a noticeable dent, and by the time you did build a team of that size, effective translation software may likely have been developed which could do the same amount of work in a small fraction of the time.

Concerning permissions, most editing permissions are granted automatically once you reach a certain number of edits. See Wikipedia:User access levels.    The Transhumanist 12:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi The Transhumanist,

Here is a new list of recommendations for project Health and fitness. Sorry that I introduced some bugs in the previous version as I mentioned, but everything has been fixed. I might be sending one or two more new lists to you in the coming Mondays, and hope you'll find great new members!

Please let me know below if you have any general feedback about our recommendations. Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Here is the list for WikiProject JavaScript

Bobo.03 (talk) 16:47, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Bobo.03 (talk) 16:48, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

I also create recommendations for project Outlines and Indexes. Please let me know how do they look to you. Thank you!

Bobo.03 (talk) 16:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

You asked on the Community bulletin board for volunteers to test some search engine enhacements.

OK, I'll try this: I'm a very ordinary editor with no particular expertise in this field, but it may be useful to have some such editors among your testers: Noyster (talk), 19:33, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

In your recent edits of many outline articles, you removed navigation templates and categories, examples below.

• Was this on your own initiative?
• Was this pursuant to some directive somewhere that implies that these templates and categories don't belong?
• Was this pursuant to a discussion somewhere?
• Other?

Examples:

• Outline of Harvard University removed [[:Category:Harvard University]] and others
• Outline of James Bond removed {{James Bond}} and others
• Outline of the Catholic Church removed {{Catholicism}} and others
• Outline of the United Kingdom removed {{United Kingdom topics}}
• Outline of Wisconsin removed {{Wisconsin}}

As it happens, I came to explore your edits after I went to Outline of Mexico and saw that you had removed {{Mexico topics}}. So, what's going on? —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:01, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. Matter resolved.     — The Transhumanist   16:55, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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Over the past 6 months or so, I have spent a bit of time here and there, updating the Outline of marketing by adding relevant links, providing brief explanations of core concepts and organising the plethora of links into logical groupings with relevant headings and sub-headings. This has been an ongoing project and is far from complete. However, I only work on it, when I have some spare time.

I notice that you recently added a tag which stated, amongst other things, that "further improvements are on the way." I was wondering whether you have some specific plans in relation to updating or improving the Outline? If so, I will desist with my present plans and leave it to you. My feeling is that any page, such as this outline, will have the best possible outcome, if there is just one single vision for its overall structure and organisation.

One of the biggest challenges that I have encountered in the construction of this outline is the level of duplication of articles in the marketing area - i.e. articles with the identical/ similar content, but with different article titles. I have posted elsewhere including the marketing project page (with a long list of duplications), and on individual talk pages in relation to this level of duplication. However, as I search for relevant links to add to the Outline of marketing, more and more duplication becomes apparent. Just last week, for example, I found an article for Six Segment Analysis which is an inferior version of PEST analysis. Such is the culture at Wikipedia that there is a great deal of resistance to article mergers or article deletions, that any substantial reduction in the level of duplication is unlikely in the forseeable future. Therefore a key challenge is how to include duplicated articles, within a coherent and meaningful structure. BronHiggs (talk) 01:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

That's a standard notice, to inform unfamiliar editors what outlines are, in case they have a knee jerk reaction and the impulse to nominate it for speedy deletion or something. More detailed answer on user's talk page.     — The Transhumanist    01:50, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply and additional comments. Wow! Who knew that underwater diving was such a complex and diverse topic? Best wishes BronHiggs (talk) 02:54, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

What's the point of adding a "geography" header and demoting the "climate" header to subheader. You are lengthening the TOC on countless pages for no obvious good reason. has this been discussed and some consensus for this reached? Fram (talk) 08:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

I've been doing it in batches, as the first step in restructuring the articles, consolidatiing subtopics under parent topics -- geography is the parent of more than just climat, in most cases. I'm about to go in an finish up on the latest batch. Check back in a few minutes and see if you approve.     — The Transhumanist    08:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Seems weird to have "main sights" under geography, it usually belongs under culture (or history) or as its own heading. I would personally never look for the main sights of a city under "geography". Fram (talk) 09:29, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Geography includes areas and places. How about "Places of interest"? See Galway.     — The Transhumanist    09:43, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

The articles are about places to start with anyway. Keeping natural aspects under geography (climate, topography, ...) feels natural; including cultural elements is not helpful IMO. The changes also make at least some articles look worse, e.g. Tivoli, Lazio had a better layout before your changes. In Galway as well there are layout aspects you don't seem to have taken into account during your restructuring. I would urge you to slow down and perhaps discuss this at the cities project to see whether most people think your changes in general are better or worse (or some of both). Fram (talk) 09:55, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

I missed the pics on Tivoli. They're location is fixed now. Thank you for pointing that out. On Galway, there was a TOC template in there that shortened the toc when I structured it. I've removed that so it balances out the infobox like it did before.     — The Transhumanist    10:19, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

We have Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure. Putting "climate" under "geography" is allowed under that page, however if that is the only section under geography, it is an unnecessary extra line in the TOC and on the page with no actual benefit. Other changes you make go against that page though, e.g. "notable people" do not belong under "culture", and the main sights (attractions, museums, ...) should either have their own section or be included under culture, but not under geography. Sport is considered a separate section (nota part of culture), media is a separate section (not part of economy). Please stop making your changes and discuss this first at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure or (perhaps better) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities. Fram (talk) 10:11, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

The link you provided led to these:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities#Structure guidelines
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippine-related articles#Places
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities#Basic India conventions

Wow. Different heading arrangements for different parts of the world. Didn't expect that. Will read up before continuing. Thanks.     — The Transhumanist    10:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

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Recommending new editors to WikiProject JavaScript

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Recommending new editors to WikiProject Outlines

Recommending new editors to WikiProject Health and fitness

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Thought this m ight be pleasing. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:15, 16 March 2018 (UTC).

@Rich Farmbrough: Long time, no see. I am glad you are still going strong on Wikipedia. It wouldn't be the same without you.

It's nice to know outlines were being noticed in 2010. Are they being noticed in 2018? The last time it worked, your pagestats program showed that outlines together were getting over 9 million views per year. My guess is that it is more nowadays (as the outlines have improved, and there are more of them). Unfortunately, your pagestats program doesn't work anymore, as the page it checks is no longer updated. Do you have something similar to take its place?

By the way, something has happened since the last time you visited. I've got a program up and running called SearchSuite.js. It adds menu item functionality to Wikipedia's search results, to put a bit more control in the user's hands. Let me know what you think of it.

It's been good to see you again. Stop by anytime, and have yourself a cup of virtual tea. :)     — The Transhumanist    07:36, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Transhumanist,

Was doing a bit of tidying at Outline of birds. I was thinking of increasing the ToC limit to 3, and wanted some style guidance for that; a brief Preview of it looked fine to me. But before committing, I searched around at the Portal for anything like a Manual of Style like some projects have (e.g., MOS:BIO, MOS:JAPAN, MOS:MATH, MOS:ORGANISMS) to see what the recommendation was for ToC limit, but I couldn't find one.

If there already is something like a style guide for outlines, basically a "everything you always wanted to know about properly formatting an Outline page but were afraid to ask", then please just create and redirect MOS:OUTLINE to it, and stick a {{shortcut}} up on the Portal page somewhere. And if there isn't a MOS for Outline, can you create one?

I can see two useful entries for it already:

• Toc limit
• Factoring out upper-level header terms by piping, and alphabetization

Regarding the second: I see for example, that at Outline of birds#Bird behavior we have

• *[[Mobbing (animal behavior)#In birds|Mobbing]]
• *[[Bird nest|Nest]]

alpabetized in the M's' and N's respectively, which I think is correct. But we also had

• *[[Avian intelligence]]

mixed in with I's, which seems half-right, and Bird vocalization was in there twice, once piped to Vocalization and in the V's, and once unpiped, and in the B's. (I've fixed these.)

If it were up to me, I'd say pipe everything that has the upper level term (or equivalent adjective) in it to remove it (just like bottom-matter Nav templates generally do), so, recommend: [[Bird nest|Nest]] and [[Avian intelligence|Intelligence]] when those are entries one level under Bird (or Birds).

I think for toc limit, I'd do it case-by-case: if it looks horrible and too long to go past 2, then 2. But I Previewed {{Toc limit|limit=3}} on Outline of birds and Outline of Catalonia and the ToC seems more informative and not at all obtrusive at that level.

But whether you agree/disagree with my choices isn't so much the issue; I'm sure by this point, you have a vast storehouse of wisdom and convention about how to do these pages correctly, and probably do it as a matter of habit without even thinking about it. But for those of less involved or new to the project, it's less obvious. It would be a good idea to get it written down. There's so much precedent out there already, it's just dispersed and not collected and summarized clearly in one place, and if it were, 99% of the time people would just follow it, and probably save you a ton of minor tweaks. (Tip: if you like the idea, first thing to do is create Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Outlines and stick one sentence in there, maybe topped with {{Under construction}}; then create MOS:OUTLINE and #REDIRECT it to the first; then you're good to go and can develop your MOS in peace.) HTH, Mathglot (talk) 23:30, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tip of the day (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. wumbolo ^^^ 11:56, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

I just thought I would ask, why is your userpage a redirect to a .js page instead of to your actual user talk page (the one I am commenting on right now)? Master of Time (talk) 06:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

That .js talk page is the workshop for the script. It is my focus right now. It's what defines me, more than anything else, at the current time. I need to improve it, and I need feedback on it. Have you tried it?

I redirected to the page, rather than transcluded the page, for convenience, though I may transclude at some point.

Also, I chose the workshop as my user page placeholder while I redesign my actual user page, which had gotten a bit dated. Meanwhile, my signature leads to my talk page. So, there's no need for my user page to redirect to there.

I hope that helps. I was sort of thinking sideways at the time. And I like to experiment.    — The Transhumanist   06:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

No, I haven't tried it. I'll give it a look, though! And thanks for enlightening me on my question. Master of Time (talk) 07:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

You are most welcome.    — The Transhumanist   07:04, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

@Master of Time: In case you are interested, I've restarted my user page. It is just a stub for now, but it will grow.    — The Transhumanist   00:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

• What is the reason of such edits as [11] [12] and many similar edits made by you in the last months? "Outline of mining" is not a main article for Category:Mining. Only Mining is a main article for this category. Articles like "Outline of X", "List of X" should be sorted with asterisk. Read WP:SORTKEY:
• WP:SORTKEY: The main article/s of a category, if existent, should get sorted with a space as key so that it/they appear at the very top of the category. Example: [[Category:Example| ]] Those articles are typically homonymous or at least synonymous to their category. Furthermore other general articles that are highly relevant to the category should be sorted with an asterisk as key so that they also appear at the top of a category but beneath the main article/s. Example: [[Category:Example|*]] Those articles are typically called "History of example", "Types of example", "List of example" or similar.
• So, restore back the correct sortkeys (asterisk) for outline articles. 46.211.156.45 (talk) 02:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Check the creation entry for Outline of mining, and you will see that it was categorized and sorted at the root level, since its very beginning. "Outline of" in the title only indicates the format of the page, not its subject, which is identical with the root article's title, and synonymous with the category.

You obviously have more than an absolute beginner's familiarity with the guidelines, which makes me wonder why you are contacting me with a brand new IP address account, where your post to my talk page is its very first edit. That indicates that you aren't talking to me with your regular account. If this was in error, I understand. Simply make further posts under your regular account name and I'll be happy to reply. If you refuse or fail to do so, then I must conclude that you are purposely violating WP:SOCK.    — The Transhumanist   06:51, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Don't try to do the WP:Personal attacks instead of assuming the good faiths. I am a very experienced IP user (with dynamic IP) and I have done a lot of categorization work without any regular accounts and "socks", if you want to know. Discuss the problem, not users. Your edits were very-very wrong. It doesn't matter, what was with the articles many years ago. The articles typically called "History of X" ("Types of X", "List of X", "Outline of X") or similar are not main for WP:EPON eponymous categories and should be categorized with asterisk per WP:SORTKEY. Only one topic article such as Mining is a main article for category typically. So, see my ask above, do you refuse to restore the correct categorization with asterics? Based on what arguments? 46.211.101.254 (talk) 11:13, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Concerning your IP, fair enough, but you also need to assume good faith that I'm not just making things up. Concerning the issue at hand: the edits are fine. The title isn't the article. The article is the contents on the page. That is, the subject. The subject of an outline is eponymous with its category. You are applying eponymous to the outline's title rather than to its subject. With "History of mining", "History of" is part of the subject. With "Outline of mining", "Outline of" is not part of the subject. The article is not about an outline, it is about mining. But the "History of" article is about history, and therefore is not eponymous.

Outlines cover subjects even more thoroughly than root articles do. Outlines are topic lists, rather than item lists, making them about the subject, rather than instances of the subject. A distinction would be that a list of sharks presents types of sharks and thus is "highly relevant", while an outline of sharks is about sharks in general in the same way the root article is, except that the outline is in hierarchical tree structure format. Its focus is the subject, rather than a related topic or subtopic. Root-level articles, including outlines and indices, get sorted with a space.

I hope you find that explanation to your satisfaction.    — The Transhumanist   12:28, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for correct explanation finally. Now I understand the reasons of your edits, but your logic is absolutely wrong. It's a very bad situation when "Outline of X" is located above the main "X" article in the related category (see Category:Wine for example, Outline of wine is located above Wine). Readers want to see the main article first, not "outline" of something, so space as a sortkey should be used for only one main article (in most cases). I will start a discussion on related forum to ask what the other editors think about your version of sortkeys for outlines. 46.211.2.10 (talk) 14:14, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

No need. Thank you for sharing your opinions. Your wine example convinced me. I agree with you that all other links should fall after the key article. I hadn't considered whether or not "Index" and "Outline" should appear ahead of the root article. It's not hard picking the root article out from them. But, from library classification and publishing points of view, that would be presenting the table of contents and the index before the subject itself, which does seem awkward, when you think about it. To ensure that they fall below the bare subject, per WP:SORTKEY #10, I'll start correcting outlines' placement with my next maintenance pass, or sooner, if I can figure out how to use WP:AWB to do it. And I've added "Outline of" and "Index of" to the appropriate place in WP:SORTKEY (#10). Thank you for your persistence. I'll try to be more open minded in future discussions, with whomever they happen to be with. Keep up the good work. We're lucky to have you here.    — The Transhumanist   12:04, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done Adjusted sort key for those outlines that appeared before key article in the root article's category, per WP:SORTKEY #10.    — The Transhumanist   12:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Did you want to make any further comments or discussion on the old 2017 Talk:Technological_singularity#Merger_proposal before I put in a request to close? Rolf H Nelson (talk) 06:27, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for joining the Portals WikiProject.

Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it...

Reboot

The WikiProject reboot has been a success: the new re-envisioned project is up and running, with new members, ongoing discussions about automation, design, and upkeep; maintained task queques; and updates to members, like this, the very first one!

Nice catch. Thanks.    — The Transhumanist   23:48, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

The RfC

As you know, there's a proposal to delete all portals. It started out looking pretty dismal for portals, with primarily posts supporting their demise. It turned out that the proposer didn't post a deletion notice on the very pages being nominated for deletion (a requirement for all deletion discussions). Once that was done, a flood of opposition came in and has apparently turned the tide.

RfCs generally run for 30 days. It started April 8th, and so it has about 14 more days to run its course.

The more work we can do during that time on the portals, the stronger the reasons for keeping them will be. And the more prepared we will be for any MfDs that follow the closing of the RfC.

AWB?

You may be wondering why we asked for AWB experience in the member-sign-up list.

We are gearing up to do maintenance runs on the entire set of portals, and the more people we have who can use AWB, the better.

But we're not quite ready to start this yet.

To be able to use AWB on the portals, we first need to know what the end result needs to be. Like on the news sections, do we comment out the out-of-date ones, or do we place the code to activate the newsbot on those pages? That would require an assessment of WikiNews and its news generating performance (areas covered, volume in each area), etc.

You can help us figure this out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about news sections.

Another area we're gearing up for, to do passes with AWB, are upgrades to the intro sections of portals. Many of these have static (copied/pasted) excerpts that go stale over time.

We're trying to figure out how to make self-updating excerpts to replace the existing static excerpts that are on many portals, and once this is done, AWB will be used to place the new code. See the discussion on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about selective transclusion in intros.

"What can I do?"

There are 3 major areas of activity right now:

Update the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals

There are a few hundred existing portals that are missing from this list.

The list of missing entries, and instructions on what to do, can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

We need everybody's help on this. It's a big chore for one persons. But, many hands make light work. Please help chip away at this chore as much as you can. A little each day, form all of us, will get this done pretty quick.

Familiarize yourself with the portal system

In addition to browsing the portals in the 2 lists mentioned in the section above, you should take a look at the portal name space itself and what is in it.

That can be done at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Watchlist.

Join in on the discussions

There are discussions on many aspects of the WikiProject's operations, with more to come.

Such as about the purposes and functions of portals, design discussions, and so on.

There's even a automated design discussion over at Village Pump Technical, on selective transclusion.

I hope to see you on the talk page.

What's coming?

In addition to the automation efforts mentioned above, we will be looking into how to automate the selection and display of alternating excerpts, and alternating pictures, for the various portal sections.

Watch for these discussions on the Wikiproject's talk page.

Summing up...

Get ready, get set, go!    — The Transhumanist   22:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Your AWB runs are making a mess, sending you this in hopes it stops flags you in AWB. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, typos. Fortunately, there were only 30 items in those 2 runs. Got it the 3rd time. I've been staring at the screen too long, I think. ;)    — The Transhumanist   14:24, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

You'll have to go back and re-re-edit all of those pages, because with no user prefix it didn't subst. Primefac (talk) 23:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for spotting that for me.    — The Transhumanist   14:25, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Good night man, great you actually take up the glove to revive the Portals.Basically I have these 3 points:

1. - how can we get this automated function (for highlighted articles, pictures and DYKs combines) implemented for every (interesting) portal, like a blueprint
2. - update the this "you can work on" page (maybe take it automatically from the related WikiProject)
3. - get a list of interesting articles/pictures/DYKs in a queue to list for the automated function

If there can be a "blueprint" for that, it doesn't seem so hard to implement it Portal-wide... Content-wise I can add my cents (and hopefully sense), but it's the automation part that is important, imho. Tisquesusa (talk) 01:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

You are welcome. In answer to your questions: software. Either Lua, JavaScript, or PhP. Number #3 would be most interesting if the software could make the list itself.    — The Transhumanist   08:13, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

+1 thx. already running automated sources = de:Portal:Waffen/Charts // de:P:WFA // de:Portal:Waffen/Neue Artikel/Botauswertung. Cheers --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 20:31, 24 April 2018 (UTC) P.S. the last is used to update the mainpage permanently

• very nice you like de:WP develoments :-) may give a technical hint? It was 2010 when exactly this edit moved a srollbar of this subpage on the side. Since 8 years some minor edits had to be done for improvements. At the right position of the page it was easy to implement by:

<div class="inhalt" style="height:30em; overflow: auto;">{{Portal:Schifffahrt/Fokus}}</div>

the only problem was to find the solution ;-) Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 05:24, 25 April 2018 (UTC) P.S, Did I forget to mention it? Of course the subpage has an daily update by Bot-Service.

Your activity here [13] is canvassing and your attempt to close my MfDs are inapproproate. Please Reverse your actions or I will take you to ANi for a discussion. Legacypac (talk) 13:18, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

You do realize you said please and threatened me in the same sentence. What kind of diplomacy is that?

You are incorrect, as displaying deletion alerts are standard on WikiProjects. So much so, that they are usually automated. The portal wikiproject simply hasn't automated that function yet. The admins at ANI will confirm that.

For some examples, see:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia#Current discussions
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Article alerts
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums#Article alerts

I hope that clarifies things for you.

By the way, I've changed the wording on WikiProject Portals to the standard lingo "Article alerts". "Alerts" is much more attention grabbing than "monitor", and more familiar to editors. Thank you for your concern about the term "monitor".    — The Transhumanist   14:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Alps (subject portal). Since you had some involvement with the Alps (subject portal) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Legacypac (talk) 17:31, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Whenever you post something on a talk page, the colors in your signature keep going all the way to the bottom of the page, could you please fix your signature?

That's weird, there are no colors in my sig. I'll go check it. The code on the preferences page is {{SUBST:nowrap|   — ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]''   }}

I'll sign here, so I can look at how it renders.    — The Transhumanist   09:20, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

It comes out looking like this: <span class="nowrap">   — ''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]]''   </span> 09:20, 25 April 2018 (UTC) Which is normal, with no colors specified in it.

@Terrariola: Thank you for the heads up. Please point me to the page where it is affecting colors.    — The Transhumanist   09:25, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for accepting some assistance in this section, greatly appreciate the offer to join in the effort to reboot the section and make it better.

Again, I appreciate the invite.

Birdymckee (talk)Birdymckee, 1356 hrs., 25 April 2018

You are most welcome.    — The Transhumanist   21:53, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you.

Dear Brian_Everlasting,

Those were invitations to the Portals WikiProject. That's not canvassing. That's recruiting! Perfectly acceptable for WikiProjects to do. Thank you for your concern.    — The Transhumanist   05:37, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: In case others are wondering what we are referring to, here's a copy of the post:

Hello, from the Portals WikiProject...

You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system...

The Portals WikiProject was rebooted 9 days ago, and is going strong. Fifty-two editors have joined so far, with more joining daily.

We're having a blast, and excitement is high...

Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals.

In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished one so far, with more to come.

Discussions are underway about how to upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be.

There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too) on the WikiProject page.

With more to come.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   03:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello The Transhumanist , your wish list is a very good Idea. Do you collect response?

1. + from me: [14] Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 08:28, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
2. + from me: [15] Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 09:15, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
3. + from me: [16] Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 11:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Transhumanist, sorry I wasn't suggesting Portal:Crawley might be deleted just because it wasn't supported by WikiProject Sussex. The portal is a deletion candidate par excellence. It is dreadful, not even half-finished, with an incomplete introduction, red links and a host non-existent sub-pages. It was started in July last year but no work has been done since and the editor concerned hasn't done anything on Wikipedia since either. And I'm concerned that the subject is insufficiently notable for its own portal. Crawley is a boring, industrial, otherwise nondescript town next to Gatwick Airport. It's not a tourist destination and has little of historical or cultural note. So what I was implying is that unless the relevant WikiProject takes an interest, it's just going to sit there as a great example for the deletionists. Bermicourt (talk) 06:23, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

That's a relief. You are smarter than I look. :)    — The Transhumanist   09:06, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, this is the first Portal which was made dynamic with the {{Transclude random excerpt}} template by Certes. This is very great news for the wikiproject because we now do not need subpages to make a Portal dynamic. I improved this static Portal with the template and made it into a dynamic one within minutes. I want to thank you and Certes for making the next generation of Portals.--Broter (talk) 17:33, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

I've raise your automated spamming of portal pages as AN [17] Legacypac (talk) 03:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

It may be an idea for you to participate in the discussion. I have proposed removing your awb access for misuse. Spartaz ^Humbug! 06:33, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

For those interested in the topic of discussion above, here is the latest version of the on-topic notice in question, including links to pertinent discussions and resources that affect the portals:

Status report from the Portals WikiProject

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018.

Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, and design the portals of the future.

As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for each component of portals.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject.    — The Transhumanist   03:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Can you please delete all the notices on all the portals that there is an active discussion? I closed the discussion as either no consensus or SNOW oppose, but either way the portals will not all be deleted. Thank you for your great contributions to Wikipedia! Brian Everlasting (talk) 05:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

I reverted your closing...

According to Wikipedia:Closing discussions#Closure procedure, "Any uninvolved editor may close most discussions, not just admins."

It takes a disinterested 3rd-party to close it, and such individuals have already been requested at WP:AN:

A request/arrangement was made for admins to close it. That happened over ten days ago at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals. When 30 days has gone by, they will adjudicate the discussion.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   06:21, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

		The Portal Barnstar
		The Portal Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions to topic portals. Awarded to Transhumanist for his overly enthusiastic efforts regarding the portal system and WikiProject Portals. – Lionel(talk) 11:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Transhumanist, thank you for your extraordinary efforts on behalf of portals. It reminds me of the time when a series of attacks on scientific bibliographies led to the formation of WikiProject Bibliographies. I don't understand why your detractors are so passionate about deleting portals, but your actions have been a model for how to deal with an attack constructively. RockMagnetist(talk) 16:10, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations, it appears your relentless targeted advertising of the RFC, your beating the RFC Supporters with a stick by posting countless times there, your dishonest insistence that Current Events was on the chopping block, and your obstruction of clean up efforts at MfD are paying dividends. Have fun playing with Portal space where no one will read your work. I'm sure someone will eventually clean up the mess when your interest wanes. Cheers. Legacypac (talk) 02:02, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I accept your congratulations on behalf of Wikiproject Portals and the portal-loving community – it was a team effort. In addition, I'd like to clarify some things about your claims above...

1. Each page nominated for deletion must have a notice at the top of its page, per the deletion guideline. Not to have one there, would be unfair to those who use such pages, and would constitute a secret deletion tribunal. We don't do things that way on Wikipedia.
2. As new facts became available (e.g., a motivated and thriving WikiProject to support the portals, new building blocks, etc.), it was appropriate to post the developments to the RfC, to support informed decision making.
3. Proposals are literal, not figurative. The proposal specified "all portals". All means all.
4. The fact is, the rebooted WikiProject is cleaning up the mess, rather rapidly. By updating and upgrading the portals, rather than getting rid of them.
5. I think I'll be hanging around for awhile, but the project is more than likely to achieve critical mass and may outlive us all, due in part to the development of tools to assist editors in building, upgrading, and maintaining portals that are fully dynamic and self-updating.

Portals are more fun to work with than ever. Thank you for your role in making this happen. You made us try even harder, and inspired us to pull together as a team. You'll have a warm place in our hearts, forever.    — The Transhumanist   02:49, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I noticed on Portal talk:Zoos and aquariums your info about that Portals will be rebooted and completely overhauled and invitation to join the Portals WikiProject. I agree that Portals are positive, if maintained, and want to express my gratitude for your work in this regard. I joined the project, will try to improve the Zoo Portal. Dan Koehl (talk) 11:19, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Transhumanist. Just seen your latest note on the portal talk pages. Well done for leading the charge! I'm busying myself bringing the 30 or so portals I 'manage' up to scratch, but also chucking in ideas about better portal visibility and management, some from German Wikipedia which I am tracking in this area too. Anyway keep up the good work. Bermicourt (talk) 14:27, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

@Bermicourt: Thank you. And I like the portal rating system you have been working on. I can hardly wait to see it when it is complete and ready to implement on the {{WikiProject Portals}} banner.    — The Transhumanist   23:11, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I think you are wasting your time, and that of many others. Trying to revive a patient that has been on life-support for years is futile. Please try to move on and stop wasting your efforts. As they say, put the stick down and walk away from the horse. Morphenniel (talk) 22:51, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I think the opposite is true: the problem was that portals weren't receiving adequate life support. They are like plants in a garden that need tending. Now that they are getting water and fertilizer, watch them flourish.

Have you stopped by the WikiProject? Much progress has been made, with more on the way. We could hardly call that futile, as profound results are being achieved rapidly.

The most exciting thing coming out of the project these days is automation. Ways to make portals update themselves. Like transcluded excerpts that always match the source material. Auto random selection has also been made easier. And we're working on a way for portals to pull in new material by themselves, without the need for an editor to copy and paste it.

Relax, and have a cup of tea. We'll tend to the garden.    — The Transhumanist   23:50, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

Thank you for taking the time to compile this summary (and for the glowing references to the new templates!) I found it very interesting but I'm aware that some editors seem sensitive about spam. I'm wondering whether it might be better next time just to send everyone a summary paragraph with a link to the full newsletter. Or even just ask them to add that page to their watchlists, so they'll get alerted whenever a new edition appears. Thanks again, Certes (talk) 10:16, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Dear Certes, you are most welcome, and thank you for your concern. It is definitely not spam, as it is sent on an opt-in basis, and members who have opted in can opt-out anytime they like. On the WikiProject page, in the section where members sign-up, is the following message:

"If you'd like to receive task requests and project-related updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also, please indicate if you are a user of AWB or JWB, and if you know Lua. Follow your name with an asterisk if you do not wish to receive project-wide updates. Those marked with 2 asterisks have not been confirmed as wishing updates."

Only one member indicated they didn't want the updates. The 2 asterisks signifies those who were on the list before the reboot, and who I've been unable to contact.

I've sent out 3 updates so far, with zero complaints, and for each issue I've been receiving several thank yous on the notice system (there's one for this issue already). For those who would rather not receive updates, we have a newsletter section on the WikiProject page where each issue gets posted, though usually a couple of days or so after the main run.

I hope I've addressed your concerns about spam. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   12:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate the effort you put into the update and I found it interesting, but could you perhaps post it as a collapsed nav-frame next time? Or some other shortening method? I'm worried about my talkpage becoming the next Domesday book. Thanks, Cesdeva (talk) 23:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

thank you for your efforts in portals. i replaced some sub-pages in portals. can we add an alignment option to pictures for example Portal:Medicine after replacing intro subpage the image appears on the right rather than left. regards--مصعب (talk) 18:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@مصعب: Good idea. I copied your request to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Picture alignment?    — The Transhumanist   22:43, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I have added WikiProject tags all over the world, at least 10,000 and more. Did over 400 for Jersey, a small island I am visiting in June. Cheers!--Dthomsen8 (talk) 23:10, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@Dthomsen8: Can I come?    — The Transhumanist   23:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@Dthomsen8: When I was there about ten years ago, Poplars Tea room was a great place to have lunch. Kind regards, Cesdeva ^(talk) 16:45, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

I have removed all subpages from this Portal. Please look at the Portal and delete the subpages. You can see the subpages still in the page history.--Broter (talk) 11:06, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Broter: I'll take a look. Thanks.    — The Transhumanist   23:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

I discovered this: {{Random quotation}} – this template was used in the Portal:LDS Church to eleminate the need for subpages for quotes.--Broter (talk) 12:43, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Broter: That looks useful. Now we just need to figure out a way to fill it in automatically. :)    — The Transhumanist   23:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure the RfC is actually uncontentiously closed yet. The closer acted unilaterally and wasn't part of the multi-editor team that was highly expected to close it. Cesdeva ^(talk) 19:55, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

If the closing statement is stricken and replaced, or supplemented, I'll report it as a new news item on the WikiProject page. Thank you for the heads up.    — The Transhumanist   20:41, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Cheers. Cesdeva ^(talk) 21:03, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello! I would like to ask you a few questions about WikiProject Portals for the WikiProject Report in the upcoming issue of the Signpost. The questions can be found here. Feel free to leave feedback or further information! Zarasophos (talk) 16:11, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

FYI, the May issue will be published in 4 days. If you want your answers to the interview questions to be included, please post them until then! Zarasophos (talk) 09:46, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Please can you help me with the portal Portal:Peter Paul Rubens? I have started with some basic work, but it needs a bit more. --Mozart834428196 (talk) 18:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

But you aren't done with Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Here's my reply to you, copied from Nick Moyes' talk page:

@Mozart834428196: as Nick conveyed above, things have changed quite a lot, and are continuing to change pretty fast. So, don't worry too much about being a portal maintainer, but by all means be a portal builder! Once you have the portal set up fully, it will almost run completely on its own, and whoever else is around after that could easily maintain it. Once we (the WikiProject) are done developing tools for portals, portals will be fully automated after their initial build, and will be contained almost fully on a single page. For now though, some subpages are needed (like for pictures).

Check out the portal now. I've given you a more developed starting point, using some of our new coding (much easier). To stick in your colors, go to Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/box-header. There are also notes in most of the sections on how to complete them. Though, for the picture section, click on the redlink, and insert a file in the new page that opens up. Keep doing that until no more redlinks come up. That will give you a selection of 5 pictures that the portal will randomly show.

Feel free to change anything you want. Don't worry about making errors, as everything is fixable. Also feel free to ask further questions. And, above all, have fun.

Portals use templates extensively, so it would help you to read up on those. The template used for the "selected" sections is Template:Transclude random excerpt.

By the way, what other portals are you interested in building?    — The Transhumanist   07:55, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

It would be quite good if we could make a Georgian Era portal. I advise the title Portal:Georgian Era. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mozart834428196 (talk • contribs) 12:26, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Also, in that portal, you could have a "selected Georgian satirical cartoon". --Mozart834428196 (talk) 12:30, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

@Mozart834428196: The Mozart portal is still not completed. Are you going to work on it?    — The Transhumanist   21:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I humbly request that you revert your changes. We are mid-way through an RfC on proposed changes. Significantly changing the guidelines during the middle of a discussion process on that exact matter is a breach of etiquette to say the least. Cesdeva ^(talk) 22:44, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Dear Cesdeva, there is no need to worry. I was trying for a practical interim solution. I removed out-of-date statements and instructions, and wrote a temporary lead, which in no way affect the adoption of a new set of guidelines. This is so that new portal makers will not be misguided while we wait for the new standards. If you still do not agree, you can revert, though it will be at the cost of new portal makers following the erroneous directions that were there before. I leave the choice up to you.    — The Transhumanist   17:39, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Your change altered the comparison between the current guidelines and the proposed draft. The proposal statement 'in-situ guidelines' was invalidated, evidenced by the fact you had to edit that part of the proposal to link to an old revision. The RfC has been withdrawn and a new draft is being made, taking into account the discussion points. I hopefully won't have to revert, as with any luck the revised draft will be adopted soon and this won't matter. I know you made the edits in good faith but please seek community consensus next time when making changes to policy, it affects us all. What you consider trivial or 'out-of-date' may not be seen that way by others. Kind regards, Cesdeva ^(talk) 18:17, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Just thinking about new portal makers looking for guidance, who would not be able to discern or consider the out-of-date status of the material, but rather would be caught off-guard and misled by it. In the meantime, if you believe the changes cause problems rather than solve them, then by all means revert. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   18:28, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm sure the changes are net positive, I made a similar edit in my sandbox when dissecting the existing guidelines. Above I was primarily concerned with protecting the sanctity of the discussion process. You are more than welcome to drop by the draft sandbox and its associated talk page. It would be nice to get your input. Cesdeva ^(talk) 19:00, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I look forward to working with you on that. I'll pop in as time allows.    — The Transhumanist   19:19, 24 May 2018 (UTC)