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The Signpost: 17 December 2012

The Bugle: Issue LXXXI, December 2012

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Welcome back

Welcome back,where have you been from so long.Nice to see you around.---zeeyanketu talk to me 20:36, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll still be on-and-off, but hopefully I can come online at least once a week. MikeLynch (talk) 08:01, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

GOCE 2012 Annual Report

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

Moving Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi

Hi! I noticed that you participated in the discussion on the previous request for moving the page. I would really appreciate it if you could go through the reasons I have offered here. Thanks. Shobhit102 | talk  03:57, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

Wikipedia Ambassadors update

Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Wikipedia:Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

Please do these steps as soon as possible

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.

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After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

Communication and keeping up to date

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:

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  3. If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.
Ambassador training and resources

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 January 2013

Edit warring

The same IP (101.103.70.92) who vandalised the Melbourne article is now adding more unneeded images to the oversized Culture of Australia article, which already has 70 (!!!) images excluding the infobox montage. In an edit summary I told him to take it to the talk page, but he refused. What happens from here? - HappyWaldo (talk) 10:45, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

I would suggest you start a talk page discussion yourself, where you can elaborate a bit more on why you reverted the IP's edits. If the IP still doesn't want to talk, make a report at WP:ANEW if the IP edit wars, or make a semi protection request at WP:RFPP. You could write to me as well, but I'm not online very often these days, and the other channels are likely to be faster. MikeLynch (talk) 15:54, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Mahatma Gandhi

well I would like to know in your opinion is Mahatma Gandhi the most common name for roads and other institutions or Mohandas Karmanchand Gandhi? (I am writing it here as you said that we can discuss it on your talk page, I am not trying to be an uninvited guest on your talk page :-P )--sarvajna (talk) 17:15, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

You are most welcome to write here even without an invitation :) . My opinion is that while contemporary popular Indian usage gravitates towards "Mahatma Gandhi" (as you suggest), I do not think the same is necessarily true for scholarly usage over the times. The names of the articles on other encyclopedias are, I think, a reflection of this point. There may be a case for a move request to "Gandhi", but I am hesitant to lend my support to the current move request. While we certainly have to look at popular usage (roads, institutions, names on banknotes, etc.), scholarly usage counts too, and there doesn't seem to be a clear consensus among scholars either way; not enough to merit an exception to WP:HONORIFIC I feel. MikeLynch (talk) 17:42, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

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---zeeyanketu talk to me 18:42, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy Adminship from the Birthday Committee

Wishing MikeLynch/Archive 24 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

-- Pratyya (Hello!) 13:58, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

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