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• Archive 1 - 2005
• Archive 2 - 2006 (January through March)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Bot?

I've noticed that you've been making a lot of consecutive edits in a very short period of time. What tool are you using to make these edits, or are you currently operating a bot? AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Grand Forks, North Dakota

I've nominated the Grand Forks article as a good article, it's less stringent than what's needed for a Featured Article. Considering the response from the previous peer review lead to substantial positive change in the article, I think there's a good shot of getting Good Article status, or at least some more feedback on how to develop the page. --AlexWCovington (talk) 21:14, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

NDSU

I did not link spam on the NDSU wiki page. The page is as valid as any other page that is listed and no it is not my personal page. I would appreicate you not going through a deleting stuff that you have not done adequate research on. Why dont you do adequate research on the website.

If you have any further questions etc. send an email to ndstate-06@yahoo.com

Anon- How bout you cite your sources for your links, and make an arguement as to why your link is valid. Looks like the definition of a link repo to me.

eat it-

(Opes 22:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC))

Image:Downtown Grand Forks, ND (circa 1946).jpg

Your work on Grand Forks articles is very much appreciated, you've obviously done a lot of good work on them. This particular picture though seems to be copyrighted to the Grand Forks Herald, and being from 1946 it seems highly unlikely that the copyright will have expired. It also doesn't seem to be fair use. Can you do anything to confirm the picture's copyright status? TheGrappler 16:49, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for getting back to me - if you have any pre-1923 postcards they'd be great! You can get the image erased from wikipedia by putting {{db-author}} in the image page. Happy wikying, TheGrappler 17:19, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

"stub"

It seems to me that one thing one might think about in deciding whether to label an article a "stub" is this: Warsaw, North Dakota is not the sort of place about which one would expect the article to become very long. The one that's there does not seem unsatisfactorily short even if it could be made better by making it much longer. Michael Hardy 23:48, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Sabbatical

I have been on a type of Sabbatical leave I guess. From time to time I would come in and fix something here and there. But since the semester ended I have done nothing but work. =/

 I'll get back into it again soon, have no fear.

(Opes 22:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC))

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Blue Collar Comedy

Template:Blue Collar Comedy has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Jesuschex 02:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:CurrentNorthDakotaPlate.jpg

Someone's trying to delete the North Dakota licence plate sample image at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 June 29 --AlexWCovington (talk) 16:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

commons

Please, see hier, thanks. Koehne 11:46, 1 July 2006 (UTC)