User talk:PokestarFan

Be careful with Ada source code
Please do not change the double minus sign -- to a dash in Ada source code. You've repeatedly in a lot of pages turned correct Ada syntax into illegal code by these changes. The double minus starts a comment, the dash is an illegal character in Ada source code outside of comments. The Ada code is formatted by deliberation as is. So refrain from touching it - other than fixing real mistakes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:c7:83d7:a5b5:4551:29a3:6758:bbf (discuss • contribs) 17:50, 11 May 2018

Please stop closing RFDs
Please stop closing RFDs. Please make sure your talk page is no longer prematurely archived, making it much harder to see what was already discussed. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:53, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

I took care of preventing premature archiving by removing the MiszaBot declaration. I would be happy for the Wikibooks editors at large to prevent MiszaBot from operating anywhere. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:54, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata problems are here:
 * Wikidata:Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2017/06
 * Wikidata:Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2017/07

Commons copyvios are here:
 * Commons:User talk:PokestarFan/Archive 2

Wikibooks copyvios include Windows Command Prompt Commands/mkdir.

Wikiepedia block for W:User:PokestarFan is from 20 May 2017.

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 13:59, 5 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The short archive time on this page has made it difficult for others to know what has already been discussed. Demonstrably.  I anticipate there will be a different problem without the archiving, because bots deliver various subscriptions here relatively often. The matter of RFDs has been discussed.  The various concerns on other projects have been discussed.  Bot use has been discussed.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:16, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to see it forbidden for this user to subscribe to these news posts, exactly since bots delivering the subscriptions make the talk page hard to overview. This would be an alternative to a year-long block, in my view, to bring sanity to this user talk page. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:25, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The notifications of nominations posted below on this talk page by the user themselves suggest to me that they are using Wikibooks as a playground, a thing they were accussed of by the other Wikimedia projects. For instance, the user created Books with pages that contain manual categories/International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog on Nov 10, nominated it for speedy on Nov 10, and posted a notification on their own talk page on Nov 10. What do they need the notification for? Not here to write Wikibooks, IMHO; a month-long block would be a fairly small measure. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:31, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * When you look at contributions of this user from Nov 10, you can see that pages are being created at a rate of about 20 per minute, e.g. 02:05. That suggests to me the user account PokestarFan is used in a bot way for an unapproved and not obviously useful purpose; that alone would deserve a block of considerable length, IMHO; he now know that bots need to be approved, having his other bot account blocked. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:34, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It's pretty clearly bot-like usage, yes. I will remark that the purpose seems to be related to helping with adapting book pages to use BookCat, a task that PokestarFan has, in fact, been of some help with in the past.  I also admit that I dislike the wording of that &mdash; 'using the project as a playground' &mdash; as it trivializes the motivation for stuff that, frankly, appears to be well-meant.  Unfortunately, as I have remarked to PokestarFan before, while they seem to mean to be helpful in what they do, they have a tendency to act without due self-restraint, a failing I recall mentioning to them before; they have been warned not to use bots. It would make me very sad to apply a long block to PokestarFan.  I realize I'm sometimes too patient with users; but that doesn't keep me from feeling very sad.  It seems to me PokestarFan has earnestly tried to be helpful, and somehow it feels as if there ought to be a way for things to come out better than we appear to be headed for.  Granted, a block of limited length would not be as bad as things that have happened elsewhere.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:19, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I might add that their edits have been mostly infrastructure rather than a specific book; and that I agree the notifications seem excessive. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:20, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * (I feel I didn't give them enough credit for their non-infrastructure edits.) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:24, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I have removed these unnecessary self-notifications from this talk page. One more step toward sanity would be disabling the news postings; I don't know how to do it. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 20:45, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I have removed these news postings from this talk page without archiving. That should make the talk page sane, and can work in future as well until we find out how to disable these postings from arriving. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:12, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I believe the news postings are subscriptions that the user made. Only the user can stop them, as far as I know... Chazz (talk) 17:52, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ,, I think I found the place where the subscriptions come from (Meta). Do you want me to pull his subscriptions? Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 02:39, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I have no dog in this race, really; I was just commenting to highlight a fact. However, I think this user has left us, as I see no activity in considerable time apart from these bots. If it's possible to stop them, I can't see it as being a bad thing, and I don't think the user will complain. If I was coding things, though, I would make it impossible to start or stop a subscription unless you were logged in as the user whose subscription preferences you were changing, which might make it difficult for anyone other than the departed user, or an admin, to change them. Chazz (talk) 04:12, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I would be happy if you or anyone else stops these subscriptions. I do not see how the news posts can possibly serve any useful purpose, and by my lights, this is not an unjust interference into user rights. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 11:31, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Python Programming
I have deleted by redirecting the chapters that you redundantly introduced to existing chapters. Some of your "new" creations were copyvios of existing chapters: you copied content from an existing chapter to your new one, without attribution, and then marked the existing chapter for deletion. Please no longer do that.

The book has a flat chapter structure, of the form Python Programming/(Chapter). Please do not create chapters with deep structure. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:26, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Please stop creating RFDs
You just created RFD saying "The website for the module is down, and so the page is not needed", about pyformex. pyformex is in pypi, which you would have noticed if you had the first idea about Python and its packages. You have already wasted enough of people's time; please stop. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:40, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Learning Quarterly: November 2018
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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition
''Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!''


 * Community updates
 * Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
 * Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
 * Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
 * Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
 * Log for 4 October
 * Log for 1 November
 * Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat

Current:
 * Things to do / input and feedback requests
 * Help determine and propose properties on Wikidata for Commons
 * Review designs for structured licensing and copyright
 * Join the community focus group!

Since the last newsletter:
 * Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
 * "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
 * Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
 * Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
 * Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)


 * Presentations / Press / Events
 * Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
 * Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
 * Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.


 * Partners and allies
 * The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
 * We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
 * The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!


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Captions in January
The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)
My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:


 * 1) Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
 * 2) Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
 * 3) Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)
Hello Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
 * Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
 * Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
 * JSTOR – New applications now being taken again

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Taylor & Francis, Cairn, Annual Reviews and Bloomsbury. You can request new partnerships on our Suggestions page.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 17:40, 13 March 2019 (UTC)


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Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space
There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:


 * Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
 * Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)
Hello Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
 * Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
 * Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
 * RILM – Music encyclopedias

Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.

A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects! --The Wikipedia Library Team 09:49, 3 September 2020 (UTC)


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