User talk:The Interior/Archive 8

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 05:32, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!

• Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!

• What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
• ....and if a pilot report wasn't enough, the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too! Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia.
• Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement

• 409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.
• Two weeks after participating, 33% of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia, as opposed to 11% of a similar control group.
• New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles, make 7x more global edits, and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group.

• Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
• New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve, scale, and sustain the project. Opportunities for future work include:

• Automating or semi-automating systems such as invites, metrics and archiving
• Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse
• Building out the social and peer-to-peer aspects further, including exploring ways to make answering questions easier, creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other's efforts
• Growing volunteer capacity, continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible, and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone.

• Want to know how you can lend a hand at the Teahouse? Become a host! Learn more about what makes the Teahouse different than other help spaces on Wikipedia and see how you can help new editors by visiting
  here
  .
• Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is really encouraging to new Wikipedians.

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• Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through

Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.

If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at [email protected]. Cheers! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 17:34, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Good to meet you, sir! I now realize you were saying "Athabasca"—the bar was quite loud! Glad to have met you; perhaps we will cross paths again. Maybe at a New Pornographers concert in Van? Also: Happy birthday! Pongr (talk) 04:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

And you, good sir! DC was much more hospitable than I had assumed. Don't know why, but I thought it would be very dull and political. Re: Athabasca - I'm sure the slurring didn't help, what did you think I was saying? Re: Les Pornomakers Nouvelles, Sept. 2? The Interior (Talk) 01:44, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks so much for your message, I am very very excited to join the online ambassador team. I was wondering if courses for Fall 2012 are out yet, or if we need to wait a little. If we need to wait, will all of us get a notification, or is there a page I should watchlist? Thanks again for your help. Best, Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 17:12, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Great to have you on board, Keilana! As far as I know, we haven't posted the list of Fall courses yet, but the US courses will be listed here:

Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Present, and the Canadian ones will be listed here: Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Present

. The Education pages are a bit of a mess right now (too many of them), and hopefully we will be able to streamline them soon. The Ed. program is sort of in transition right now.

I found the most rewarding experience is to choose courses on topics which personally interest me. If you want to get cracking right away, you could ping one of the OA's for the summer courses in the US program and ask if they need help with anything. Best, The Interior (Talk) 17:32, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Gotcha, I'll watchlist this page. I wonder if any courses from my university will show up? That would be a trip. Thanks again for your help! Best, Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 17:35, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

You never know. You could approach any profs at your uni you think might be interested, and Jami Mathewson from the WMF (User:JMathewson (WMF)) would be able to give them info about how to get started. The Interior (Talk) 17:53, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

I probably will, I'd love to make that happen. I know there's a teacher at my former high school who did a project last year, but it kinda flopped (mostly because no one could figure out to edit), so he asked me to teach him some of the ropes. I'm definitely going to hook him up with the program also! Thanks again. Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 18:01, 23 July 2012 (UTC)==Page Curation newsletter==

Hey The Interior. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:59, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteers who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
• More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
• Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
• New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
• Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at
  Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch
  was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

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Thanks for the barnstar! However, contrary to your comment, I would like to hope that I am replaceable... Cheers... --Orlady (talk) 16:11, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Oh, I'd hope so too, but in reality, your combo of smarts and dedication would make for a very short shortlist of candidates. The Interior (Talk) 16:25, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Pat!

I hope the great fires of Canada are treating you well. :) I'm not sure if you're still planning to support any classes as an OA this semester, since you'll be pretty busy with Working Group stuff, but if you are, please add your name to this census. Once the new class list is available, I will notify you guys so you can sign up for a class (or two) that interests you. Hope you're available! Thanks! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:33, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Done Jami, got a few days off. Jumping in as many lakes as I can find. The Interior (Talk) 04:17, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello, The Interior. You have new messages at Keilana's talk page.
Message added 04:37, 8 August 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 04:37, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 08:03, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Orlady (talk) 16:02, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

The information I added about the blood vinyl release of The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is taken from http://headyfwends.com, a website set up by the band to sell this version, and from the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/waynecoyne), where he posted links to photos of people who he has personally delivered copies of the blood vinyl release to holding their copies (often with Wayne in the photo), plus one of him trading a copy for two copies of the Jack White single. There are your sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eyevocal (talk • contribs) 04:01, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse serves over 700 new editors in six months on Wikipedia! Since February 27, 741 new editors have participated at the Teahouse. The Q&A board and the guest intro pages are more active than ever.

• Automatic invites are doing the trick: 50% more new editors visiting each week. Ever since HostBot's automated invite trial phase began we've seen a boost in new editor participation. Automating a baseline set of invitations also allows Teahouse hosts to focus on serving hot cups of help to guests, instead of spending countless hours inviting.
• Guests to the Teahouse continue to edit more & interact more with other community members than non-Teahouse guests according to six month metrics. Teahouse guests make more than twice the article edits and edit more talk pages than other new editors.
• New host process implemented which encourages anyone to get started as a Teahouse host in a few easy steps. Stop by the hosts page and become a Teahouse host today!
• Host lounge renovations nearing completion. Working closely with Teahouse hosts, we've made some major renovations to the Teahouse Host Lounge - the main hangout and resource space for hosts. Learn more about the improvements here.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

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Hi! You signed up to be a helper at the Highbeam project page. As The Wikipedia Library expands, I am seeking some assistants who can collaborate on project administration by spending a few hours now and then working on a variety of tasks.

Right now I am looking for help on the Questia round 1 signups, reviewing editors' applications to check for edit count (1000), account history (1 year), and current blocks. Note, there is no subjective judgment required, just a factual criteria-check. Here's what you can do:

1. Sign up for a section of 50 applications at this page
2. The first check involves using
   Popups (enabled in Special:Preferences
   -> click "Gadgets", check the box to enable Popups, then click save).
3. By hovering over a username on the applications list, Popups will show the edit count, age of account, and whether the editor is blocked on English Wikipedia
4. If an editor is blocked, list their name at this page
5. If an editor does not meet the 1-year/1000 editor check using Popups, open their user talk page in a new tab in your browser.
6. Then, you then need to check if the editor meets the criteria on another Wikipedia language project.
7. To check global contributions use the Global Contributions surveyor] on toolserver.
8. Toolserver is a bit slow so I find it helpful to have 3 tabs running simultaneously.
9. Scroll down to the bottom of the toolserver results to see if 1000 edits or 1-year age of accounted are met at another project. You can also see if the editor is blocked on another project.
10. If neither Popups nor the Global Contribution Surveyor met the criteria, then list their name at [less than 1000 edits, or less than 1 year old account|this page]
11. Mark your section {{done}} at this page

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks so much! -- User:Ocaasi 19:50, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in

Would you like to nominate it, or should I? —hike395 (talk) 05:27, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Go for it. Got a hook in mind? The article still needs a bit of polish, but it's pretty good. I'll help out. While we're talking, thanks for all your image work on mountain topics round here. The Interior (Talk) 05:36, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

...that Treasure Mountain (Colorado) was named after an ill-fated French mining expedition?

I added an inline citation to an RS for the hook. But, I am out of time for creating the DYK nomination this morning: I'll try to do it this evening. If I cannot get to it this evening, feel free to do it instead.

Thanks for the thanks! —hike395 (talk) 13:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Looks like Mike nominated the article, and it was passed already! That was pretty quick for DYK. Mike went with a Lincoln-based hook, it works. I found the whole Bonaparte-ordered expedition more interesting, but hey, Lincoln's a big draw. The Interior (Talk) 01:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Posted a review. Nicely done! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:09, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Had fun with this one, actually got to hike to the nose of it a couple weeks ago. I've driven through Glacier Park dozens of times without having an inkling any of the fairly interesting history if the area. User:The Interior/Glacier House is supposed to be a companion piece, but I'm still waiting for a source on interlibrary loan. The Interior (Talk) 21:16, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Fabulous country. Good trip. You didn't go by rail by any chance? Keep up the good work. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:30, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, passenger travel is not a priority for CP, or for Canadians. There is

VIA Rail, but they're pricey. (And they don't stop in Glacier anymore because of the tunnels). I drove, and probably contributed to the shrinkage even more :( The Interior (Talk)

21:36, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Pity. That being said, I like to use an additional footnote format, like in this article Elvis' Greatest Shit. I've got to believe that there is some tidbit that would help the article, but is in some ways a digression. Just a thought and a format suggestion. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:52, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Oh my lord, that Elvis article is hilarious. I'd like to get my hands on some of those tunes. As for the add. footnotes, feel free to add some to the article where you think appropriate. There is actually quite a wealth of info to do with this topic (compared to most BC topics), mostly due to the hotel and the many people it brought to the glacier. The Interior (Talk) 23:01, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

You don't want that music. Nevertheless, there are links in the article that will take you where you want to go, and play a lot of it, if you take the time to winnow through it all. They had to be put in subtly for reasons that I'm sure you understand. If you give me a morsel and a citation, I will create the footnote. Since I've done it a lot, it will take me little time. I was really surprised that you requested a GA review NOW. Nice boldness. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 23:06, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Might be a bit hasty, but I figure I still have a few weeks to tinker before we get a review. I'll think about juicy but tangential anecdotes. Thanks for the new para on the Vauxes; I have a feeling they were a pretty cool family. The Interior (Talk) 23:16, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

FYI, there is no wikilink to British Columbia and Canada in the article. I assume that is deliberate‽ 7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:58, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

An article on that would not be hard to do. And you should be able to get a double