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[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2
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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."
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| 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. |
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| 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! |
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- 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.
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A plea from the editor...
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| 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. |
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Please stop reverting my neutrality disputes. Ardenn 04:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I reverted all of your reverts. I will take it to their talk pages though. Ardenn 04:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
See discussion on User talk:Ardenn and Talk:University of British Columbia for context. Andrewjuren(talk) 06:35, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: reverting edits & notability
Hey.... Um nah the article is not about me.... i was scouring the net whilst bored one day and found that there was a james robinson surfing.. i then went and saw him compete in several competitions and have now published an article in surfing magazine tracks..... the name is just a coincidence
yo.... i dont have any internet links for the articles as i have written however i have the raw data.... the name has no link to me apart from being purely coincidentle —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Robbo james (talk • contribs).
[edit] Random comments
Hello —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.93.21.66 (talk • contribs).
[edit] Straw polls?
How do they work? Just edit? --N5UWY/9 - plaws 20:43, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Canada / Referendums
In the description of my change of April 18, 2006 to the Canada page, where I changed "referenda" to "referendums", I referred to my explanation in the talk page.
This can be found in the section Plural of "Referendum" to use in section on Quebec seperatist movement. --thirty-seven 19:01, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
[edit] The Pain of Signatures
They've been too much of a trouble and I've almost given up on them by now. I entered that dreadful code back into "My Preferences," and yet it spewed out a raw code, yet again, insulting me with "invalid HTML tags"...so this is what I get:
<b><i><font style="background:black" color=silver>The Ninth Bright Shine</font><font style="background:black" color=silver>r</font></i></b> <sup>talk</sup>
Thanks for taking an interest in my fruitless attempt at a weird goal. I still don't see how everybody else does it...--The Ninth Bright Shiner 22:58, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry bout the late reply but i shall get to work on the page straight away... i will keeep u up 2 date of all changes made.... talk to u soon... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Robbo james (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Thanks!
[[|frame|center|thumb|In thanks for finally figuring out the signature after days of wandering around, I, Orannis, give you the Fonzie Award! You're as cool as The Fonz! Thanks again! --The Ninth Bright Shiner talk 20:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)]]
[edit] First Addition Done
Thnks for setting that up im starting to add in information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robinson_%28surfer%29 Here is the link. Please feel free to make changes, the page still looks a little clunky —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Robbo james (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Help PLz
Replies left at Robbo james's talk page
sorry to be a nuisance with this but i am a complete noowb..... i need to cite the work i have put in except i am unsure how to do it.... the information has been taken straight from an article out of tracks (a surfing magazine) if that help... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Robbo james (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Flowchart for the manufacture of DDT
Hello sir, I am an undergraduate student in Nigeria and i've been given the flowchart for the manufacture of DDT as my mid-semester assignment.I will be very greatful if you can help me out. Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.165.154.38 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3
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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.
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Stressbusters
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| The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! |
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Note from the editor
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| 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! |
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- 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.
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[edit] thank you
i just want to say thank you for the response you gave to my request. i was in a jam and you came to my rescue. Andrew, whoever you are i will never forget this good deed you have done for me, a total stranger. once again thank you and may God bless you.
Imaobong
[edit] 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)
[edit] Vancouver Wikipedians Meetup
Greetings, you're getting this spam (courtesy of Tawkerbot) because you were listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vancouver. In short, we're trying to have a meetup and we'd appreciate it if you'd join our Yahoo Group setup to figure out a time/place that would work. You can find the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vancouver_wikipedians/. If you have any questions feel free to make a post there or on the WikiProject page.
Happy Editing!
[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter
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| The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! |
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What's New?
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| In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. |
| To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. |
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. |
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- In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!
- The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
- Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created.
- Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
- Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
- There is a page for discussing the front page redesign.
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Signed...
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| Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. |
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[edit] WikiProject Amateur radio
Hello. I see that you have listed yourself as a licensed Amateur radio operator. Please consider taking a look at a proposal to setup a WikiProject Amatateur radio. Thank you. --StuffOfInterest 19:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] September Esperanza Newsletter
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| Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. 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 unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! |
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What's New?
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| September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! |
| Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! |
| The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. |
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. |
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- The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
- Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
- The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
- The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
- TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
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| Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. |
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[edit] WikiProject Vancouver
This is an important message being sent out too all participants. We are currently recalling our list of participants. Any one who is inactive in the project will be moved to the "inactive" list respectively. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vancouver#ROLL_CALL_-_All_Read|the project talk page for more details]] -- Selmo (talk) 20:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
