User talk:King of Hearts/Archive/2018/08

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a
  WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline
  . This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Hey King of Hearts,

I wanted to reach out to you regarding the deletion of our page (WP Engine) - Talk page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/WP_Engine_(2nd_nomination). You did mention on your talk page that deleted articles from over a year past could be re-submitted with a notification, however I wanted to talk to you prior to re-submitting our Wikipedia page.

Full disclosure (we want to comply with community guidelines), I'm the Sr. Online Marketing Manager at WP Engine and I'd like to be a point of contact here at our company to make sure that our company information is both accurate and impartial on Wikipedia. And, hopefully, that you agree we should be included in the Wikipedia Directory.

I took a look at our page and it was deleted as corporate spam/self promotion. I can say that Wikipedia is not a revenue driving model, nor a backlink source for us.

So why are we asking to be reincluded?

Firstly, we love Wikipedia, its mission and what you stand for. Wikipedia is the go to place for people to search for accurate and verified information - as exemplified by its prominence on Google (and how Google uses Wikipedia data). We want to support that cause and if your decision stands we do respect the choice of the moderators and would only resubmit (as is the case now) if we feel we have made significant strides towards notability.

Secondly, We want our listing to be informational and in keeping with Wikipedia's policies. We believe we have achieved notability, and want to make sure that when people search for us, they find accurate and verified information.

Why are we notable?

Here's a few things I think might answer that question.

We just raised $250 million in funding from the largest technology investment firm in the world, Silver Lake: (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-04/silver-lake-takes-250-million-stake-in-austin-startup-wp-engine). (I also noticed that the Silver Lake Wikipedia page hasn’t been updated with this, I attached some wiki markup below that you can use as you like if it would be helpful.)

We recently purchased StudioPress including Genesis (https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/wp-engine-acquires-studiopress--50a636e7) who created and operate the Genesis framework which powers 1.33% of the top 1,000,000 websites. (https://trends.builtwith.com/framework)

We have won multiple national and international awards: Stevie International Business Awards 2017 (Computer Services - Large) - http://stevieawards.com/iba/wp-engine-company-year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Awards) Fortune 100 Best Places to Work for Millenials 2017 - 79 - http://fortune.com/best-workplaces-millennials/wp-engine-79/ Fortune Best Small & Medium Businesses 2017 - 45- http://fortune.com/best-medium-workplaces/wp-engine-45/ Fortune Best Places to Work in Technology 2018 - 09 - http://fortune.com/2018/01/17/best-workplaces-tech-2018/ Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 (Central Texas Region) - Founder Jason Cohen and CEO Heather Brunner - http://www.ey.com/us/en/about-us/entrepreneurship/entrepreneur-of-the-year/ct_article_winners

We were recently named the No. 1 most well funded startup in Texas - https://www.cbinsights.com/research/well-funded-startups-us-map/

And lastly, we also strongly live by our Giveback core values where we support charities both local and international (I know this isn’t necessarily noteable, but our company beliefs extend beyond the dollar). Two of our core charities here in Austin are Movember (https://us.movember.com/team/2233337) and the Central Texas Food Bank (https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/news/5-ways-you-fed-it-forward-all-september-long), each of our local offices also participates in local and International charitable work.

If you are willing to consider relisting our company Wikipedia page I would be happy to create an outline for our company, inclusive of notable national media etcetera that you can use as a baseline free of any promotional language, and coded up in Wikipedia’s syntax.

Thank you for your time,

Oliver Whitham [email protected]

Here’s the code for the Silver Lake Partners page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners), feel free to use it however you would like!

|- |'''[[WP Engine]]''' |2018</td> |On 4 January 2018 Silver Lake announced a $250 million dollar investment in privately held Austin based technology company [[WP Engine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silverlake.com/Images/Uploads/docs/Silverlake04011808373522278.pdf/|title=WP Engine secures strategic growth investment from Silver Lake|date=4 January 2018}}</ref>. This investment will give Silverlake a majority stake in WP Engine<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-04/silver-lake-takes-250-million-stake-in-austin-startup-wp-engine/|title=Silver Lake Takes $250 Million Stake in Startup WP Engine|date=4 January 2018}}</ref>. The deal marks the second largest Austin technology investment in the last decade<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.512tech.com/technology/huge-investment-deal-austin-engine-raises-250m/jVZ8ImhfgaBQUwkPno8KlI/|title=Austin’s WP Engine raises $250M|date=4 January 2018}}</ref> |

17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Just a note that your /closecfd.js and /closerfd.js scripts still rely on the long deprecated global addOnloadHook and addPortalLink functions, and the scripts are actively in use by others, for instance User:Smuckola/vector.js. As these functions will soon start throwing errors, you might want to deal with that before they do. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:24, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Wednesday August 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday August 29 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 23:52, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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