Wikipedia talk:Kindness Campaign

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be kind —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.38.112 (talk) 17:21, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I moved all the comments on the page to either:

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evrik 16:41, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 13:55, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Also available: A list of all Wikipedia:WikiProject pages and A list of all Portal: pages if those help ya any. ~Kylu (u|t) 22:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Random Smiley Award Project

For the last two weeks, I've been doling out Random Smileys - a variation on the Random Acts of Kindness philosophy, except in the form of those yellow "Have A Nice Day" smileys. I've received many kind thanks and well-wishes, and was referred to this group by one editor.

If anyone is willing to help take part in the project, please go to User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward and scroll down to see the list of variant templates which you can place on User or User:Talk pages. In the works are several upcoming models, including a new Chocolate Chip Cookie Smiley - with chocolate chips forming the familiar face, this time on a cookie. This would work especially well for those who are allergic to the "Have A Nice Day" concept as a result of overexposure during the 1970s.

Thus far I've been doling them out to randomly-picked editors, usually by starting with one user and then picking one of the recent people who have edited that person's talk page, then repeating the process. Any other random or pseudorandom method would work.

If several volunteers each add 5 - 10 Smileys per day, before long Wikipedia will be teaming with the bright yellow faces. It will be a happier, sunnier place in which to work.

The template codes for the various current types of Smileys are as follows (pick one):

  • {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward1}}
  • {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward2}}
  • {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward3}}
  • {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward4}}

Heartfelt thanks to those who are willing to help out. Pedia-I 21:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How to become a member?

How to become a member of the Kindness Campaign? Kkrystian 18:30 (UTC+1) 22 Dec 2006

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I think that this is a good idea. If you are able to start it I would be happy to support it:) God bless you all :) --James, La gloria è a dio 22:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kindness Campaign userboxes

I noticed that there currently exists a redundancy in the userboxes for the Kindness Campaign. Template:User KC and Template:User wikipedia/Kindness Campaign are nearly identical and both are in widespread use. Wikipedia: Kindness Campaign states that the official userbox is {{user KC}}, but {{user wikipedia/Kindness Campaign}} was created earlier. It would be very easy to integrate the code into a single template, but I'm not sure which to propose for deletion. Any thoughts? +A.Ou 05:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Yuser31415 has redirected Template:User wikipedia/Kindness Campaign to Template:User KC. +A.Ou 22:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia's triple crown

I've started a new set of user awards to thank editors for outstanding contributions to the project. See User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle. In particular I hope Kindness Campaign volunteers spread word about the valiant return triple crown. For several months now I've had a standing offer to award the Resilient Barnstar to any editor who starts a new article that gets highlighted at Template:Did you know after receiving an arbitration sanction. I'm expanding that barnstar offer to include any editor who accomplishes that after making a legitimate return from a siteban and have devoted a special edition triple crown for editors who come back from the brink. DurovaCharge! 04:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiAmbassador Award

When someone joins, many times spend long time until feeling comfortable or welcome. The Welcoming Committee is a good think and the patrollers also, however there are Wikipedians who distinguish themselves for their kind and helpful approach to newcomers transmitting a spirit of really wanting to help others and the Wikipedia Project, getting involved.

I know that there are many awards to give to who is kind and so, but I wonder if exists or can be created a nice looking, laureate looking award called Goodwill WikiAmbassador or Kindness WikiAmbassador or Welcoming WikiAmbassador (in that order of preference). Those individuals are who make others want to join and want to establish a kindness interrelation environment, they are the key to many good things inside Wikipedia as well and should be recognized as such. The title Ambassador will reflect a lot about what they are and what they do. I propose and introduce this but need someone for creating it because I lack the skills. Please let me know. Daoken 10:47, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] When the situation heats up

I wanted to propose these for eventual use:

When a person gets involved in an argument and doesn't know how to step down:

I propose you to leave our debate for now and we both take a breath. We are both too engaged. Lets agree to leave this argument at least one day in the icebox, then we start with a smile, better ideas and better attitude, deal?


Propose friendly resolution to others by adding {{subst:TakeAbreath}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

When you see an argument which is turning bad:

Hi, strong positions don't need hard attitudes, the best solutions are sometimes meeting half way or giving chance to the other to understand your point. What about taking a day or so to think how better make your point ?

Propose friendly resolution to others by adding {{subst:TruceAndTalk}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Daoken 19:30, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Fine with me. --evrik (talk) 15:47, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
personally, I don't use templates except on trolls. I don;t even use form notes of my own, but write it out each time, and write it in such a way to make clear it's not a copy and paste. But the most effective phrase i know is simply, it's getting late, lets continue this tomorrow. Because he one thing that always works (if anything will) is to stop the cave-man feelings of always fighting back by simply waiting a day or two. Generally, in a day or two something equally urgent has come up and the discussion can be seen in more perspective. Another think I like to say is "let's compromise if we want to get anywhere" -- it's sort of a screening device--if the answer is no, it's time for some other line of approach. The best thing I know then is informal third opinion, just asking someone else to join. DGG (talk) 04:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harlem Academy

This is a new user who I think needs some help. I believe it is a teacher and her students. They're asking me questions that I don't feel like I can answer. I placed a welcome tag on there page and recommended the adopt-a-user program. Can anyone extend a helping hand to this user?--Endless Dan 20:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lightweight thanking mechanism in article histories

If you are interested in Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Lightweight thanking mechanism in article histories, please comment. Melchoir (talk) 20:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiApology

I have come up with this template for apologising to some one. Aswell as a return handshake - to see it go through the link.

Nice, but some of the wording reads wrong, suggest correcting. BTW, I noticed someone got a plate of cookies for their welcome message. That's liable to make some folks jealous.  ;) --THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 19:36, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I think this template just got messed up. :\ --THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 13:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Bam123456789 (talk) has offered to shake your hand! This user is sorry for what they have done and is offering a WikiApology. If you are forgive them, reply by sending a return handshake.
You can offer to shake other people's hand by adding {{User:Bam123456789/Templates/WikiLove/WikiHandshake}} to WikiApologise to someone else.

[edit] Admin thanks

I just wanted some opinions on the below template I created for thanking admins. Pretty much all admins deserve this, but let's not get too carried away. The code is {{Admin thanks}}--RyRy5 (talk) 10:35, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Kindness Campaign, for being a very trustworthy administrator. Have a great day! Regards, RyRy5 (talk) 10:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)