User talk:Malinaccier

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[edit] Tagged articles

I had a little trouble spelling your name in the search bar. :P Well, here you go:

• ‎Lauren Duda {{db-bio}} Y
• Athens Park Boys {{db-bio}} Y
• Catastrophic (band)‎ {{db-empty}} Y

--RyRy5 (talk) 21:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

RyRy, let's do this at User:Malinaccier/Temporary taggings So that I can transclude it on Steve's talk page. Malinaccier (talk) 21:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay. But I tagged an article earlier, and I believe it was deleted. Do you think you can try to find it in my deleted edits so I can put it at that page? Thanks, RyRy5 (talk) 00:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Malinaccier (talk) 01:08, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Yup, that's the one. Thanks. -- RyRy5 (talk) 01:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about Jessica gaude. What do you think? -- RyRy5 (talk) 01:57, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Google does mention her everywhere. It's probably just a lack ofnotability per WP:BIO.--RyRy5 (talk) 02:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I noticed that also. Well, I'll just continou tagging. Just one more until I reach 15. I should tell Steve when I'm done.--RyRy5 (talk) 02:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback granted

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[edit] I (heart) Malinaccier

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I realise it's no more monumentous than installing Twinkle, but thanks so much for the rollback rights! You have no idea how long it has been and how much time I have spent trying to get rid of all those pesky bits of vandalism. You know the kind, the ones with "conflicting intermediate edits" that mean that you have to go way back in the history and copy and paste... well, those days are gone thanks to you! Anyway, congrats on becoming admin, I was away when you got "promoted", and haven't seen you around since! I may come back to you regarding further clarification of when I can and can't rollback - until then, keep on Wiki-ing! -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 10:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin

Thank you for taking the time to check me out on the requests for administration list. However, you said that I should be editing articles for content not just patrolling recent changes. I have been writing articles, from scratch. You can see articles that I have finished (someone else may have edited since) on this list. Deadwood Bonsai Techniques, Uaru, John Kiggins, National Bonsai Foundation. And articles I'm working on. Species of Bamboo, Ningen. There is also a list of articles I plan on starting soon on my user page. Thank you. Remilo (talk) 11:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Rollback

Thank you very much, how kind of you. Many thanks, yours. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 16:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request

You were highly recommended to me. As an especially wiki-capable individual.

I'll be co-coordinating a major collaboration, the "Around the World Competition", at the WP:AWC July 15th.

The problem is, I don't have any co-coordinators yet, and time is rapidly running out. I'm looking for a couple skilled and dedicated Wikipedians.

It will entail 1) preparing for the event, and 2) overseeing the actual event.

The competition may run for several months, or even longer. There's no need for you to commit to the whole thing, I can find others later after it's started if you should get pulled away or burnt out.

But I need some help getting this up and running, through mid-August at least.

The competition, a fun way to frame a collaboration, will focus on the development of a set of 200+ pages to be transferred to article space when they are completed (some of them are complete enough that they are in article space already, and those are included in this project too). It would take a single individual years working full time to complete these by himself, so it is necessary to seek the community's help. And we might as well make it fun, to attract as many people as possible.

Each contestant will be using advanced tools like AWB and Linky to improve a single information item at a time across the entire set.

That will allow the building of skill with respect to tracking down and presenting each data type, which should improve the overall efficiency and quality of the project. And it's a novel approach which presents the World itself as a sort of race track for the contestants to compete on.

This is going to be a blast.

When completed, each page will be a profile/outline/(web)site-map of a country of the World. The set will be a valuable reference aid and a showpiece of Wikipedia.

Once it begins, co-coordinators will need to be on hand to help answer participants' questions on the talk page, and to dole out the assignments. Also, I'll be dividing the responsibility of presenting the awards, amongst the co-coordinators. One per award type.

This project is the largest wiki-collaboration I've ever attempted. Bigger than the main page redesign, bigger than the Tip of the day project, and even bigger than the help system overhaul.

I'm in the process of writing up the instructions for the contest, and I've been working with graphics designers to create the awards that will be given away. And I've been working on the pages themselves, because there needs to be enough quality content there for participants to easily envision what they will be working to complete. The AWC's newsletter is being used to promote the event, but the event also needs to be promoted far and wide on Wikipedia itself (on relevant pages) when the time comes (after the awards are ready). I've contacted the editor-in-chief of The Signpost, but have not received a reply, so I'll probably have to start visiting their newsroom on a regular basis.

As you can see, I have my hands full, and I could sure use some help.

Please think it over.

I look forward to your reply.

The Transhumanist    22:15, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My Rfa

Thanks, Malinaccier, for participating in my recent RfA, which recently passed with 81 support and 1 neutral !votes. I appreciate all the support and constructive criticism offered in my RfA and I thank you for taking the time to !vote in my nomination. I feel so honoured to be trusted by so many of you and please, if you have any advice, comments or complaints about my actions as an administrator, leave a note on my talk page. I would also like to thank Acalamari, Rlevse and Nishkid64, for their nomination statements. Thank you again. AngelOfSadness talk 23:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for volunteering

No, it's not about portals.

It's about outlines.

Check these out: Albania • Argentina • Australia • Canada • Ecuador • Egypt • France • Germany • Iceland • India • Indonesia • Iraq • Ireland • Italy • Isle of Man • Israel • Japan • Macau • Mexico • Russia • Taiwan • United Kingdom • United States

The page titles leave something to be desired, yes, but I'm working on that. ;)

The above are the most developed pages so far, and even these are far from being finished. They're missing images, the standard design these are based on is still under development (and these all get changed when the design changes, receiving new standard links, being rearranged, etc.), some are missing maps, and so on.

Once they are refined, they will be even more impressive than they are now. But they're useful in their present states, so I moved them to article space so users can benefit from them.

Imagine if we had one for every single country.  :)

Well, we do!

But the rest are in much rougher shape than the above. See the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics. Notice the region section and government section are in error on many of them, because they utilize temporary standard links (generated by template) to provide a starting point for editing (not all countries have parliaments, for example).

Each standard item must be checked on every list, and if you make a pass with AWB on all 200 lists for the hundreds of items that are currently on the lists (and there will be more), you can see this would take a single person many months.

Which makes this perfect for a collaboration.

But there are certain sections I think should be completed before the competition begins, to give the participants a sense of what these will become, and to avoid confusion. The intros need to be completed (lead paragraph, location map, flag, and coat of arms). Then the administrative division section, and the government branches sections - these have the most customized information and I'm not sure if they can easily be doled out one item at a time to participants. Besides, the coordinators need to be familiar with making passes on these with AWB and/or Linky, to be able to help others with their questions, and to provide tips on how to do it effectively (there are many tricks and shortcuts).

Also, I'm not sure yet how the collaboration on the history section will be handled either.

But we'll figure something out.

By the way, it's already been announced that the the competition will be held at the AWC, but we can run it on a subpage.

One of my strategies is to boost the subscribership of the AWC newsletter as much as possible, and use that to announce updates to this event. I've already arranged this with Sharkface and have his complete cooperation and permission. The competition will need to be promoted before and during, to help keep the excitement and enthusiasm level up up up.

By the time the competition starts, I hope to have the AWC's newsletter subscribership up to over 200. So far it's at 57.

Since you are on the project now, could you post the following notice somewhere on your user or talk page so more people can see it?

Coming July 15th to the Awards Center: The Around the World Competition. Three types of awards will be presented, including a World Champion Trophy! Hone your advanced tools skills, 'cuz you'll need them! If you'd like to be kept up to date on this and other happenings at the AWC, sign up to receive the AWC Newsletter here.

Well, I'm done blabbering for now.

I look forward to your thoughts, ideas, comments, suggestions, questions, etc.

The Transhumanist    10:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plans / task list

Here's a better organized list of what I'm trying to get accomplished:

• Get approval for changing the names of all the pages in the set (and the superset they belong to) - pending
• Produce the awards (at least 3)
  • Design the concept for each award (their general look) - Y Done
  • Find graphics designers to help with creating the images for the awards - ongoing, until they are complete. In communication with five currently.
  • Assign the image for each award to a graphics designer to create/complete
    • Globe - requested submissions, one more element (a globe stand) is needed for compositing
    • Medal - requested submissions, main submission nearing completion
    • Trophy - requested submissions
  • Create the awards (design and compose the template for each), displaying their corresponding images in them
    • Globe
    • Medal
    • Trophy
• Find two co-coordinators to help prepare for and run the event - one found, one to go
• Assign prep tasks amongst co-coordinators
• Promote the event
  • Promote the AWC and AWC's newsletter
    • Post a new notice on the WP:CBB weekly - first one done, 6 more to go
    • Ask all our co-coordinators and graphics designers to post a notice on their user pages / talk pages
    • Ask in the newsletter itself for subscribers to post a notice on their user pages / talk pages
  • Promote the event on the AWC page and through the AWC's newsletter
    • Post notices at the top of the AWC (weekly) - first one done, 6 more to go
    • Post newsletter fortnightly - first one done, 3 more to go
  • Promote the event on relevant pages throughout the Wikipedia namespace
    • As soon as the awards are ready
  • To/through The Signpost
    • Contact them ASAP to inquire how coverage of such events should be initiated
• Prepare the pages in the set:
  • Complete the pages in the article namespace to match the current standard design (which will continue to be refined), to provide examples and motivation - the higher quality these are before the collaboration begins, the better
  • Complete certain sections in all the pages in the set:
    • Intro section
      • Lead section (copy first paragraph from corresponding articles)
      • Location map (fix image link) Y Done
      • Flag (fix image link)
      • Coat of arms (fix image link)
      • Adjust height of Flag and Coat of arms to match
    • Problem sections:
      • Administrative division section
      • Government branches sections
        • Executive branch
        • Legislative branch
        • Judicial branch
        • (Some countries have more)
• Build a task list ("challenge queue") of tasks to be delegated in the competition (the rest of what needs to be done to the pages in the set) - in progress, and ongoing
• Create a sign up page for participants in the competition
• Prepare the competition page
  • Write introduction and instructions for the competition - in progress
  • Assignments section
  • Results section
• Assign responsibilities amongst co-coordinators
• Co-coordinate the event
  • Man the talk page (to answer questions, address problems, etc.)
  • Assign challenges to participants (randomize who gets each task), but assign tasks from the top of the page design, down
  • Check results (each and every page)
  • Present awards
  • Post updates in the newsletter
  • Report results to the Signpost
  • Refine the set's standard design (the template) based on ideas, suggestions, and feedback generated during the competition, and add corresponding challenges to the queue (note that the template won't actually be used, it just happens to be where the standard design is, by virtue of being designed there initially. The template was used to create the pages, and update them before customized info was added to them.)

How many co-coordinators do you think we'll need?  :)

The Transhumanist    04:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First task

I guess it's time to get your feet wet.  :)

The outlines each need a flag and coat of arms.

I used standard file names to generate links for them, but that only matched some of them.

I need you to fix the red links, so that the flag and coat of arms display on each page.

Linky can be used for this, as can AWB.

An effective approach for isolating the pages with redlinks would be to place a list of all the outlines in a sandbox, and then use search/replace to convert those file names to the standard name used for the flag links. The links that don't work will turn up red, showing you which pages need its flag link to be replaced. Remove the blue links from the list, and then convert the links back to the outline names, and there is your working list. Repeat the process in another sandbox for the coat of arms links. Make sense?

The flag and coat of arms are displayed on the article for each country.

Good luck.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

By the way, the graphics design is going well (if you are curious about what's happening on that front, see my talk page, and Penubag's talk page). Feel free to make suggestions.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    20:21, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

You're going to have to give me awhile to see if I can download AWB (I have some compatibility problems). Sorry, Malinaccier (talk) 01:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, since the task is visually intensive, you'll find Linky more effective. But it requires Firefox.

Once Linky is installed, you can select (holding down the left mouse button) an area of your screen, and then hit the right mouse button to get your pull-down menu. Linky will be on there. Click linky and load the highlighted links on your screen into tabs (it can handle 99 tabs at a time). Switch between tabs with Ctrl-tab. Once you are done working on a country in a tab, press Ctrl-W, and that will instantly close the current tab and display the next one with the next country in it. It's lightning fast once the tabs are loaded initially. For this type of editing, it dances circles around AWB. (AWB is great for searching and replacing; Linky is great for hands-on editing of multiple pages where you need to see what you are doing, viewing, previewing, etc.).

I just finished repairing the location map links using Linky to preload and display the pages. And now I'm using Linky to preload the pages so I can easily insert lead paragraphs into them.

Interiot swears by tabs, and says if you aren't hitting Ctrl-tab or Ctrl-W a lot (referring to the Firefox keys), then you just aren't going fast enough.

It's hard to grasp it until you actually try it. I didn't get it either until I experienced it. Linky + tabs rock. The Transhumanist    21:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Just in case you didn't know, you have to be listed on the AutoWikiBrowser's Checkpage on Wikipedia before AWB will work. Admins can add and delete users from the checkpage. The Transhumanist    21:15, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Some scripts appear to conflict with AWB. If you have mysterious problems, blanking your monobook.js page might help. The Transhumanist    21:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

CAUTION: If you use AWB on the set, be sure to have "Auto tag", "Apply general fixes", and "Unicodify whole article" disabled. The pages don't need tags (we already know they're drafts), and the general fixes have some bugs (it ruins "main" links with pipes in them) - also, these pages are works in progress and utilize non-standard syntax to guide editors in their development (they remove or upgrade the temp syntax as they do their fixes). Things like empty links that are there to be filled in, temporary pipes that are there as place holders to be replaced by the actual pipe, etc. AWB's auto features wipe all that out, so be careful. The Transhumanist    21:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Using the find and replace option on Microsoft Word (I'm still having troubles with AWB and I don't use Firefox. For now this is a good substitute.), I came up with this list for the flags. I guess I'll get to work! Malinaccier (talk) 23:26, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for taking the time to comment :). There's no need to apologise, and i'll hopefully see you in 4-6 months when i reapply. Best of luck until then. Ironholds 21:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

Thank you for providing me with this tool! It won't be misused. tabor 00:23, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

Heya. Told you I'd be here asking questions! Is it within my rights under the rollback group to revert edits like the ones this guy has made to his UT page? [1] I imagine that it'll be sorted out by the time you get back to me (man there are some speedy blockers around here at the moment!), but for future reference? Thanks muchly -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 10:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, so the page in question has actually been deleted... but you admins have a way around that, right? Just telling you in case deleted edits don't show up automatically. -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 10:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Based on the nature of the comments (extreme and or/racist vulgarity), I don't think anyone would have a problem you using rollback in that case - though RFPP would've been a better way to resolve the situation. xenocidic (talk) 10:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, both of you. I'll keep these tips in mind the next time I see this kind of thing! -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 02:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CHU

You've made a few mistakes in your recent clerking of CHU; I've already removed one such application, where the note was not relevant to the request. An 'Autocap' clerknote would only be used if the username was "Example → example" with the reason being "I want a smaller case username". Rudget (Help?) 16:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I trust you will retract your second use of the template. Rudget (Help?) 16:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Of course--it was undone before I saw your second message. Thanks for the notice! Malinaccier (talk) 16:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem. If you ever need any other advice, I'd probably suggest you ask Qst (talk · contribs), because, although he doesn't clerk now, he has a comprehensive knowledge of what/when templates should be used. Rudget (Help?) 16:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My RFB

Thank you for your comments in my RFB. Since it was only at 64%, it was a shoo-in to be unsuccessful, so I withdrew. I didn't want it to run until its scheduled close time because my intent in standing for RFB was to help the bureaucrats with their workload, not give them one more RfX to close. Through the course of my RFB, I received some very valuable feedback, some of it was contradictary, but other points were well agreed upon. I have ceased my admin coaching for now to give me time to revamp my method. I don't want to give up coaching completely, but I'm going to find a different angle from which to approach it. As for my RFA Standards, I am going to do some deep intraspection. I wrote those standards six months ago and I will slowly retool them. This will take some time for me to really dig down and express what I want in an admin candidate. If, after some serious time of deep thought, I don't find anything to change in them, I'll leave them the way they are. I'm not going to change them just because of some community disagreement as to what they should be. Will I stand for RFB again in the future? I don't know. Perhaps some time down the road, when my tenure as an administrator is greater than one year, if there is a pressing need for more active bureaucrats, maybe. If there no pressing need, then maybe not. Useight (talk) 02:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

Thank you for giving me rollback. It will be helpful when I watch the Edit log. BuickCenturyDriver (talk) 00:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First task (nearly) complete

I have completed the first task of placing a flag and coat of arms picture on every needing article. The only problem is that the Coat of Arms for these two countries is missing. I'm not sure how to proceed because I think you need permission to use the COA of a country. What do we do? Malinaccier (talk) 20:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Nice job. Those pages are already starting to look good.

There were a few coats of arms that were missing or suffered from some glitch. I've fixed the ones I could. I couldn't find one for:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic Greenland topics - the coat of arms was deleted from commons today for lack of a license tag. We should contact the admin over there and request he undelete it, and offer to apply the appropriate tag.

A bot came by and removed the coat of arms image from:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic Cocos (Keeling) Islands topics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic South Africa topics

Fair use applies - the articles are about those countries, their governments, their symbols, etc. Note that the coat of arms identifies a country (in the same way a logo identifies a company; e.g., see IBM), and can be used when covering that country. We need to find what workaround allows the main articles and templates for those countries to display the coat of arms without the bot coming along and removing them, and use the same workaround.

For those that are missing, they can probably be found on each country's website. When uploading the images, be sure to include a fair use rationale tag.

The Transhumanist    01:08, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Second task

Take a look at the pairs of flags and coats of arms displayed on these pages (speed tip: use Linky, then cycle through them with Ctrl-W):

Countries: Albania • Argentina • Australia • Canada • Ecuador • Egypt • France • Germany • Iceland • India • Indonesia • Iraq • Ireland • Italy • Isle of Man • Israel • Japan • Macau • Mexico • Russia • Taiwan • United Kingdom • United States

Note how the heights the members of each pair match.

The same thing needs to be done for the rest of the pages in the set. Try not to make them too big (you can increase the size of one, or decrease the size of the other, or both, to make them match). Go for the general size range that the completed pairs are at.

In the meantime, I'm in the process of adding lead paragraphs to the set.

The Transhumanist    01:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

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What is this? The Transhumanist    01:38, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Approval for the Account Creation Toolserver interface. Malinaccier (talk) 01:40, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

My magical admin parser function was b0rked. I think I fixed it :P --FastLizard4 (Talk•Index•Sign) 06:01, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Thanks for letting me know, please do not use bold text with me. I am terribally sensetive. Sincerely, Hellboy2hell (talk) 05:26, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

It's all right and If there is anything I can help you with, let me know. Sincerely, Hellboy2hell (talk) 05:33, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

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