Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Community/Archive 1

Above, I see mainly bot annoucements, and queries without any replies... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 11:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

With no replies for two weeks, I am marking this project as inactive :( --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I've been away for awhile but I'm back now. Should be a bit more active in the years to come. CharleyQuinton (talk) 03:12, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Tobey which concerns Aaron Tobey Richmond Airport 4th Amendment Naked Protest

..and proposals being discussed there for a potential merged or more general additional article on US civilian aiport security regulation issues and public reactions, perspectives on and by foreign travelers, sociology, law, cultural phenomenology, and international context. The later detection of Fukushima radiation at US airports, which is not yet mentioned in this article, is also being discussed as a subtopic to be added into a general article. Separately from the 'criiticms' subsection on the US Transportation Security Administration alone.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don't touch my junk is a second related AfD regarding another article which also presents a US airport bodily search protest.

A potential general article not only on protest but on efficacy, social context, and events which are of national and international note in these regards would also include breaking

"Of course the protection of the person coming off the plane is important in regards to any radiation and especially within their families," Daley said at an unrelated event." [more at] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Tobey [and in the original CBS article March 17, 2011]. - Pandelver (talk) 20:18, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I take it the issue is settled. CharleyQuinton (talk) 03:17, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Community an article tagged by this project is up for

• Portal:Society

I've nominated Portal:Society for featured portal candidacy, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Society. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 22:27, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello! I am a student at Rice university and am working to revise the current population mobility article. I'm updating the article to show how the ability to travel and relocate effects families and women in particular. Wikipedia currently lacks information on geographic mobility outside the US, and does not look at how the ability to travel can change the dynamic of a community. The current Population mobility article focuses only on demographic measures of population mobility and the technical definition of mobility in the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. Do you think this idea fits under population mobility, or does it work better in another article? Thanks! matt.9.johnson (talk) 22:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I'll have to study how the term is applied. The English language versions of many articles tend toward US-centricity which isn't cool at all. I agree that "the ability to travel can change the dynamic of a community" and needs coverage somewhere. If you and your colleagues at Rice can expand the

Population mobility article with sourced information that fits world-wide, please do so. If not, we should probably merge what little is there into Human migration. You may also have a look at Internally displaced person for some context and ideas. Thank you, Matt! CharleyQuinton (talk

) 04:01, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Charley, thank you for your feedback! I'm sorry I am responding to this so late- I didn't have my watchlist setup the way I thought I did and completely missed it. I was able to find a fair amount of information and expand the article substantially. There are a lot of good reports and journal articles on the subject (as well as two full books I am waiting on from the library). The source information out there comes from both economic researchers and more sociological ones, so the article has grown to have two distinct flavors between its main sections (about technical measurement and then social impacts). I have gotten a lot of feedback from my classmates, and will be making a fair number of changes to the article over the next week to incorporate their suggestions. Thank you for your help and for giving me links to those related articles! I'll link them into the See also section of population mobility as well. Let me know if you have any further suggestions or advice! matt.9.johnson (talk) 06:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

There is a discussion going on right now at WP:Categories for discussion that involves changing the category names for all cultures, from, for example, "Afghan society" to "Society of Afghanistan". I can see that next will be changing "German culture" to "Culture of Germany" and the like. This would be for all ethnicities, nationalities and cultures.
If you would like to weigh in, the conversation is occurring at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 27#Society by country. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:53, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

You are invited to participate in

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:

Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (talk) 12:41, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Today, STEM careers offer a wide range of jobs in diverse segments. Some of the most unique as well as powerful jobs in the world require a background in science, technology, engineering and math. Interest in STEM studies and careers has swelled more than 20 percent from the interest expressed by the graduating class of 2004. In 2012 there were more than 7.4 million workers in the fields of science and technology, and by 2018 there could be more than 8.6 million STEM workers, not counting self-employed people.

(Source; STEM connector)

Why STEM Centric Career Development?

Unemployment has skyrocketed, job security has evaporated, and compensation has declined for most all workers. Retail jobs make up for most of the new low wage jobs, and better jobs across all industries demand the application of creativity, innovativeness and complex thought. Routine and easily defined job face competition from automation and outsourcing. Middle class job loss is America’s most pressing economic problem. Yet foreign competition, cheaper labor and free trade are easily blamed for the decline of career opportunities. Beliefs about protecting jobs by keeping them at home or not hiring immigrant talent will not affect the realities of labor or globalization.

The U.S. faces fundamental challenges about its role in the global workplace and economic order. Unlike cyclical unemployment where layoffs come from temporary pauses in activity, the present structural changes have relocated jobs permanently. Creating new jobs is taking longer, workers are experiencing more stress and less satisfaction, and employers seeking to grow companies face greater credit risks. To achieve this, students and adults must face tough choices about how to invest in their future. Few workers can avoid the consequences of competing in a super-integrated world where all aspects of production have become commodities. All raw materials, design, manufacturing, distribution, and financing are accessible at anytime from anywhere, by anyone. As a result, assumptions about career development strategies for Main Street workers, college graduates, and outer space explorers need review. Embracing a STEM-Centric career development orientation is necessary if career development is to build bridges across the community and beyond.

What You Can Do:

Whether you’re a student, counselor, educator, or parent, you can get involved. You’re taking the first step by visiting this site. If you’re a student, push your school to teach STEM classes. Counselors, it’s your job to promote students to peruse a STEM. Educators, you should be teaching students the relevance of STEM in everyday life, and to you parents, push your children to do well in STEM.

Job4Americans Initiative

Brought to you by Ideal Education – NJ not for profit organization, RenParikh.com and its Educational Affiliates, Job 4 Americans is an initiative designed to put Americans back to work, by directly connecting employment opportunities with employer driven training models. Bridging training and employment opportunities in the Medical, Information Technology, and Business Administration industries, Job 4 Americans works to connect Americans with an opportunity to obtain the necessary skills to transition from unemployment and underemployment, in to a hands-on work environment where there their existing skills can be developed and shaped in to the future of employment in the United States.

Job 4 Americans plans to realize this initiative through a two pronged process that serves the employer and the displaced worker. By creating customized training solutions for employers; helping them access government funding aimed at creating job growth; and facilitating training that upgrades the skills of their workforce, we can create an environment of economic growth, individual promotion, and create entry level opportunities for local businesses.

GLOBAL ACADEMIC ALLIANCE PROGRAM

What We Do?

Comprised of a group of educators, university administrators, and consultants, Global Academic Alliance Program assists students and academic institutions in meeting their educational goals efficiently and affordably.

We serve students through offering personalized academic and admissions support, assisting in articulating their educational objectives, and creating unique study pathways to accelerate and enhance their educational trajectories.

We partner with colleges and universities worldwide to create innovative study pathways in various disciplines, customized to the needs of specific student populations.

Finally, we support partner institutional offerings through establishing learning centers in the United States, India and Singapore. In coordination with our academic affiliates, our learning center teams conduct student recruitment, administer educational programs, and deliver supplemental services to facilitate student success.

Our Education Philosophy

Education is one of the most significant investments an individual will ever make; therefore, it is essential that academic programs be customized to the individual’s unique needs, desires, and circumstances.

Mediation between students and institutions is essential to fill in gaps in educational programs and to serve students who are not adequately prepared for their planned courses of study.

The student-teacher relationship is the core of a successful education; while distance learning technologies may enhance academic programs, the integrity and immediacy of the classroom experience must be preserved.

Our Process

Global Academic Alliance Program begins by analyzing the education needs of specific groups of students, both local and international. We focus on factors such as the student’s English language proficiency, cultural differences and financial circumstances, intensity of program courses, and individual scheduling flexibility.

Next, we collaborate with colleges and universities to formulate unique study pathways to address these needs. In developing our study plans, we mediate between institutions in the United States and abroad to provide advisement on differences in educational systems and to develop optimal modes of international program delivery.

Third, we work with academic institutions to implement these programs, whether at the university’s main campus, at one of Global Academic Alliance’s educational centers, or at a Global Academic Alliance host-partner institution in India or Singapore. Global Academic Alliance’s international staff offers logistical and operational support to deliver the programs effectively.

Finally, Global Academic Alliance ensures students’ successful curriculum completion through offering antecedent programs to fulfill pre-requisites and develop necessary core competencies for academic success.

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello! There are currently 2 job openings, and I thought someone here might be interested. Specifically:

• Community Liaison - this position will initially focus on working with the Flow team and also with the Editing (VisualEditor) team, mostly at non-English wikis; however, a lot of smaller or short-term tasks continually come up, so the WMF is particularly looking for someone who is adaptable, and with several diverse interests.
• Community Liaison (Part time contract) - this part-time position will primarily focus on working with the Mobile teams, as the link explains.

If you need further information, feel free to send an email to [email protected] (but do not use this address to apply). Please pass it along, if you know someone who might be interested or a good fit for the Community Engagement team. Thanks! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

There is a proposal to add a short paragraph to the

This is a notice about Category:Community articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 22:52, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I've created a new article on the Baltimore based nonprofit that delivers food to ill people --

Please feel free to help out or collaborate on improvements, at

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 03:25, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Archived old addressed threads.

Metric used was threads older than one year with zero new activity or responses, threads that were notifications to other discussions long since closed like closed deletion discussions from years ago, etc.

— Cirt (talk) 03:54, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Moveable Feast. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot

20:16, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

To opt out of RM notifications on this page, transclude {{bots|deny=RMCD bot}}, or set up Article alerts for this WikiProject.

Move discussion for Maryland community organization

Please see Talk:Moveable_Feast_(organization)#Requested_move_10_April_2016.

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 20:24, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

WP:ONEWAY

questions and case study

Hello: I'm curious to know if there's a precedent for dealing with the following issue:

Suppose some online community exists that is focused on some given theme. If both the community and the theme have wiki pages, and the community page links to the theme page, what sort of standard of notability (or otherwise) should be used to decide whether the theme page should link to the community page?

The practical version of this question is links from Masturbation to NoFap. This is discussed on the relevant talk page: Talk:Masturbation#MEDRS. Critics have suggested that NoFap is not notable and that it represents a "fringe" view. However, it has 200000 members at present and has been around since 2011, so to me it seems stable and significant enough to mention. There are plenty of articles in the popular press linking the topics, and some research articles as well. However, there is some disagreement on the issue, given that NoFap is not "mainstream". Please comment on the above-mentioned talk page if you have a chance. Thanks Arided (talk) 02:31, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the

Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the

WikiProject's talk page

.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:29, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of

Portal:Community

for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether

Portal:Community is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted

.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Community (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 page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:24, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject up and running

Hi. I would like to get this WikiProject up and running again. anyone else interested? feel free to let me know. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:53, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Utopian & intentional communities

Hi, I have been working my way through

WikiGnome

activities.

One thing that I have noticed is that

List of American Utopian communities, & Category:Utopian communities

all seem to have evolved with no connection to WikiProject Community. I am interested in working with others to rectify that & will probably contact other editors to discuss that here.

Peaceray (talk) 04:48, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

hi @Peaceray:. I just saw your note above. that sounds really excellent. I would like to get this WikiProject up and running again. anyone else interested? feel free to let me know. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:56, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Of interest: Mariani, Mike (2020-01-16). "The New Generation of Self-Created Utopias". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-01-17. Peaceray (talk) 06:09, 17 January 2020 (UTC)