User talk:Mifter/Archive 8

1. Treasury Note (1890–91)
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2. Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
3. WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

• Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving
  through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
• Natalia Kills discography
  .
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on

Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 22:16, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Mifter,

      I would love to be nominated for an administrator position on this awesome website. I chose you to nominate me for an administrator position because you seemed so much better than the other people who were willing to view my pages. I hope you will nominate me for administrator position 

From bryant.claireBryant.claire (talk) 20:02, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You're about 5,994 edits short, and since 4 of those 6 were obvious vandalism, you're more like 15,994 edits short. See you in a few years DP 21:01, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Extend PC time for UFC 170, drought, List of VeggieTales characters and Henri Rousseau? --George Ho (talk) 21:18, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on

I am sending you this message because you listed yourself on meta:Huggle/Members as a beta tester. We desperately need attention of testers, because since we resolved all release blockers, we are ready to release first official version of huggle 3! Before that happens, it would be nice if you could test it so that we can make sure there are no issues with it. You can download it packaged for your operating system (see Wikipedia:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta) or you can of course build it yourself, see https://github.com/huggle/huggle3-qt-lx for that. Don't forget to use always latest version, there is no auto-update message for beta versions!

Should you find any issue, please report it to wikimedia bugzilla, that is a central place for huggle bugs, where we look at them. That is i mportant, if you find a bug and won't report it, we can't fix it. Thank you for your work on this, if you have any questions, please send me a message on my talk page, I won't be looking for responses here. Thanks, Petrb (talk) 15:14, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's

Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic

You would have to post it under our

fair use policy with limited uses in line with copyright law. Let me know if you have any questions. Best, Mifter (talk

) 21:30, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I agree with your petition for speedy deletion of ShimronElitBrandImage.jpg because it was duplicated by mistake by me while trying to insert BrandImage.jpg, which has valid copyright, into my page. ShimronElitBrandImage.jpg is redundant and can be deleted immediately. Thanks for noticing. Shimron Elit — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shimron (talk • contribs) 21:19, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Not a problem, just remember to always add a license tag to your images, if you need one deleted you can use {{

db-self}} to tag it. Best, Mifter (talk

) 21:31, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

I have uploaded an image to my Wikipedia page and am having a problem trying to locate exactly where to place the copyright tag. I proceeded to repeat the process by uploading the same image file and adding the proper copyright tag under 'Comments', but it still said the image has a copyright issue. Where exactly do I place the tag? Please let me know what needs to be done to fix this issue. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrianne Calvo (talk • contribs) 21:31, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Hello, you added a correct license tag to the image, however as the image was taken from a website without a free-use copyright policy you need permission of the original rights-holder to use the file. That is why it was tagged the second time. To use the image, the original rights holder would have to email

OTRS to verify their willingness to release it under a free license. Best, Mifter (talk) 21:43, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Moving on to what is relevant Article: I think Kuñall a workshop here [[2]] please if you can help me in what {you appreciate the many, please if you do not mind. If you could replace the above improvement by this. This is if you are concerned.

Please one thing, the common name is Fernando Errazuriz Aldunate and not as the article says, you can name countless history books where it is shown above.

Thank you

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estimated Lord This is the Sandbox [| Workshop Historian] created by Kuñall, I develop it, please if you could assist I would appreciate so as to improve the article thanks you --

Hello, I'm sorry its taken me so long to reply, I've unfortunately been busy these past few days. I'd be happy to take a look at the sandbox when I get a moment. Let me know if you need anything else. Best, Mifter (talk) 21:22, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy Adminship Anniversary

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Dear Mifter

Please if you can review the article that believeth; I did what I could but, please if you see something wrong please tell me to fix it. Thank you very much for your reply.

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I'll take a look. Best, Mifter (talk) 21:28, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks you and Happy Adminship Anniversary

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After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi,

Your bot is messing with my time and efforts. If it can not provide specific, clear and precise details regarding a concern it has about a file I have uploaded then it should not be used. The automated threat to take down a free-use photo on an article I am completing has forced me to spend 2 hours trying to figure out what problem there is in my upload or attributions. I see none. I have uploaded a half dozen other files for this article with no problems. If there is a problem with this instance it appears to be solely in regard to a poorly constructed bot randomly barging into my work.

Please explain, and more importantly please tell me what the specific problem is with the copyright of this file Indian_women_building_airfield_WWII.jpg

cheers Robert Brukner --Brukner (talk) 02:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Mifter, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ #huggle ^connect!

Major changes:

• Multisite support - you can now log in to unlimited number of wikis in 1 huggle session and get a huge queue of all edits made to these wikis. This is good for smaller projects which gets overlooked often.
• Ranged diffs - you can select multiple revisions and get a huge diff that display all changes done to them.
• Fixes of most of bug reports we had so far

In case you found a bug, please report it to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Huggle&list_id=147663 thank you! Petrb (talk) 10:12, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

I don't understand how it can be considered "evil" showing a very interesting probably never seen before photo of MY town. MY TOWN!!! It's interesting to the people researching the town, and you baffle on about licence! Fine, if you think your clever, YOU put a licence on it, and show everyone how good you are! I re-inserted the photo. Let's see if you'll take it off AGAIN.

Woodywyatt (talk) 20:26, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello and

helpdesk. Best, Mifter (talk

) 23:08, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Woodywyatt (talk) 23:33, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
2. Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
3. Czar (submissions
   ) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
4. Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
6. 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
7. Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
8. Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Your Bot is broken. It seems to put a no copyright and license tag warning on every photo that I upload even though they all have that information. Please fix it, as this is getting annoying. Sf46 (talk) 22:04, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I apologize for the briefness of this message, I am currently travelling and typing on my smartphone. I took a look at the images my bot tagged and it appears to be functioning normally. The reason it is tagging your images is because they do not have an image copyright template on them. As your images appear to be public domain due to age, simply adding {{

pd-old}} should be enough as the image policy requires license tags on all images (which is what my Bot checks for). If you have any questions please don't hesitate to let me know. Best, Mifter Public (talk) 22:56, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

MifterBot incorrectly identified this file as having no copyright tag. Jstuby (talk) 17:57, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello, my bot did not make a mistake with your image. According to the version of the image that my bot saw, the image did not have a copyright tag when it was tagged. You added one to the image when you removed the tag. Best, Mifter Public (talk) 19:16, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi, The bot tagged File:Woolwich Central Tesco.jpg with F4 - I'm not sure why, when the page clearly shows CC-BY-SA-2.0. Maybe it does not recognise that Geograph template used by the uploader? Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 10:37, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello, you are exactly correct. MifterBot determines if an image has a license tag based off any templates on the image page are in the Image Copyright Tag Category. Because the Geograph tag was not in the category my Bot didn't recognize the license. I've since added the template to the category and this should not occur again. Best, Mifter Public (talk) 19:18, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 15:07, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

http://images.politico.com/global/2013/10/07/al-libi-ap-328.jpgJogershok (talk) 21:03, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Source for the image of File:Al-libi-ap-328.jpg was AP Photo/FBI.

I do not see how I can add this.

Jogershok (talk) 21:24, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Not done: this is the

talk page for communicating with the user Mifter (talk · contribs). Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. --Redrose64 (talk

) 22:32, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

The copyright holder gave me permissions to use the images on his Wiki If its not right please help me to correct it. I'm trying to create a wiki for Hersh Davis-Nitzberg. Thank you for any help you have to offer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zar07 (talk • contribs) 04:18, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer

historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

• Godot13 (submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
• Casliber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
• Czar (submissions
  ) wins the prize for fourth place
• Sturmvogel 66 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• 12george1 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• ChrisGualtieri (submissions) wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
• Caponer (submissions
  ) wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
• Sven Manguard (submissions
  ) wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
• Figureskatingfan (submissions) wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

• We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
• In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
• The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.

Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on

Hey Mifter! You are receiving this message because you are subscribed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers

I have recently launched a new downloads for beta testers that contains nightly builds of huggle, eg. versions that are built every day from our master branch and contains latest huggle. These builds are currently provided only for Windows and Ubuntu. You can find them here: http://huggle.wmflabs.org/builds/

Please keep in mind that these don't have any automatic updates and if you download and start using nightly build, you will need to update it yourself! So don't get yourself to running old version, it's possible to install both stable and nightly huggle, which is what I suggest.

Keep the bug reports coming to phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=Huggle Many thanks! Petrb (talk) 10:00, 28 January 2015 (UTC)