Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2014/August

Hello, hello? Is this mic on?
In response to the message asking me to introduce myself: Elizabeth Penrose. I've had a few of my [SF/Fantasy/Genre] poems published, and you can find some of them on the web. Although I've made factual edits to Wikipedia (I like poetry & Pittsburgh history), most of my marks revise article grammar. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 22:54, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm Phil Torrance, 1990 BA Math with software engineering. I google as "americium dream". Wikipaddn (discuss • contribs) 03:37, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi. this computer science graduate student's M.O. seems to be to proofread while studying, so we also have a motive as to why I so smack SPSS around :-) With hopes to give Java EE its turn. I'm Gherson on wikipedia proper, but it's ok because notice I smile when I say that :-)))  Regards, Gherson2 (discuss • contribs) 17:03, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions
The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.
 * Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
 * Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Process ideas for software development


Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

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Featured books advertisement
Please remove that featured books advertisement appearing at the top of pages. It has been here for quite a lot of time, it is unproductive (just like the featured books process itself), and it gets increasingly annoying. I must have hidden it multiple times, and it still keeps appearing. From some computers, it is even impossible to hide, for whatever technical reasons. -- Your Wikibooks contributor, Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes. --Good afternoon (discuss • contribs) 02:38, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


 * As I recall, the original plan was to set up a sitenotice like en.wn has most of the time, where there's a set of several community reminders/invitations, and the sitenotice selects one of them randomly. We hoped to have several here, too, but hadn't gotten to more than just that one.


 * Would a rotating message like that be equally obnoxious to you? (I don't recall every hearing a complaint about it over there, so I wonder if the difference could have to do with the pshychology of the rotating message, which doesn't hit one thing nearly as hard as featured books is being hit here.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:25, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm very interested in understanding this, because I'd been hoping (one of these days, in my copious free time) to put together a rotating set of messages such as en.wn has. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:29, 25 August 2014 (UTC)