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Welcome

Hello, Life in General, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. SMasters Happy editing! S Masters (talk) 04:31, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: II (April 2010)

Sociology Project • News • April 2010

The Sociology WikiProject is conducting a roll call (or min-census, if you prefer). More then five years down the road, we have over 50 members, but we don't know how many of them are still active in the sociology area. If you are or want to become once again an active contributor to the sociology content on Wikipedia, please move your name from the inactive to the active list on our roll call.

In other news, we have reactivated the newsletter :) At least, for this announcement. We also have a new, automated to do listing, an active tag and assess project (which has identified about 1,800 sociology articles on Wikipedia, and assessed about 1,3000 of them), and three new userboxes for your self-identification pleasure :) On a final note, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a participant at WikiProject Sociology. • signed Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

South African Wikimedia Chapter update and mailing list

Hi there. Local Wikipedians have set up a mailing list where we will be discussing the formation of a local Wikimedia Chapter in South Africa. Please join the mailing list at this url https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza. There is also a page set up on Meta where you can add your name if you're interested to take this idea forward. Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa. Thanks Kaydee 68 (talk) 09:18, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Photo request

Are you in proximity to OR Tambo Airport? South African Airways needs a photo of its head office. This Google Maps View shows where the building is and what it looks like. Would you mind photographing the building? Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 12:24, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

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RE: Translation of Die Suid-Afrikaan's story on the Purple Rain Protest

Thanks for the late translation, I guess online translation is a generational thing? You now have the credit for being the first to actually translate the piece into English. Well done, and good luck. We need more anarchists on wikipedia.Ethnopunk (talk) 13:30, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Minor notification

Just letting you know that I swapped out a crucifix for an icon symbolizing the three monotheisms in your "separation of Church and state" userboxes. In the previous form, they could well have become subject to allegations that they were anti-Christian and therefore were at risk of being tagged for deletion. -RadicalOne•Contact Me•Chase My Tail 23:30, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Use of categories in user sandbox

Hi Life in General, I recently noticed your sandbox page User:Life in General/Sandbox/Johannesburg, which contained categories. Guidelines have it that categories should not be added to user sandboxes; I removed only one as I was involved in cleaning up that category. You might want to remove all of them. Best, ANGCHENRUI Talk♨ 15:02, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: III (December 2010)

Sociology Project • News • December 2010
Spreading the meme since August 2006

The Sociology WikiProject third newsletter is out!

According to our April mini-census, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004.

On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Research and wiki-research-l listerv.

Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors are teaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and some really useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that!

And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too?

In other news: the a automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an active tag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400).

We now have a listing of most popular sociology-related pages. It is updated on the 1st of every month, starting with August, and reports which of our sociology-tagged articles are most frequently read. Of course, GIGO holds true, so after looking at it right now and trying to determine what is our most popular article, my first action was to shake my head and remove Criminal Minds (which, perhaps not too surprisingly, outranks all sociology articles in period tested). Second item I noticed it this month's Industrial Revolution, beating Criminal Minds, that moved from close to 30th position in August/September, to 9th in October and 2nd in November. If you'd like to discuss this or any other trends, please visit WT:SOCIOLOGY!

Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our own here. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more.

Our first task force (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force) was created (1 June 2010).

If you have basic or better graphic skills, our projects needs a dedicated barnstar (award) (currently the closest we can get is the Society Barnstar.

As always, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.

Authored by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 04:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Members

Thank you for the interest in the project. You may want to move your signature from the inactive section :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:38, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for linking my "adverb" userbox

As you say yourself in your header that we wouldn't get along (actually, religious people tend to examine their lives and question their beliefs a great deal), it is good that there are some things that can unite even people who think most different. :-) Mzk1 (talk) 19:15, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Template:University of the Witwatersrand

After your edits "Template:University of the Witwatersrand" is pointing to a disambiguation page for "Transvaal University College". It is unclear to me what you want with that link. Can you correct this link so that it points to the article you want it to point at? Thanks in advance. Night of the Big Wind talk 20:09, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Faculty of ...

It may be better to have pages like Faculty of Science (University of the Witwatersrand) instead of Science (University of the Witwatersrand). Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 23:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi, Life in General, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies!

We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and intersex people. LGBT Studies covers people, culture, history, and related subjects concerning sexual identity and gender identity - this covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated! Some points that may be helpful:

  • Our main aim is to help improve articles, so if someone seeks help, please try to assist if you are able. Likewise feel free to ask for help, advice or clarification.
  • Many important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
  • If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign LGBT topics.
  • The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, peer review and a project-wide article collaboration, all of which you are welcome to take part in. We also have a unique program to improve our lower quality articles, Jumpaclass, so please consider signing up there.
  • If you're going to stay awhile, please create a square in our project quilt! You can put anything you want in it.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you.

And once again - Welcome!

-- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 19:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Life in General. You have new messages at Malik Shabazz's talk page.
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Center of lateral resistance

I needed the definition to link to from another article. It is an important concept for sailboats. I could not believe it was not on wikipedia. I have added additional material. I believe the material meets the criterion of encyclopedia per the link you sent me to, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skimaniac (talk • contribs) 02:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

o need to apologize. Just keeping it realSkimaniac (talk) 03:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hi there. I was wondering if you could/would review this article for GA nomination. Please let me know if you are interested. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 06:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Local Coordination Committees of Syria

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Inviting you to WikiAfrica Incubator!

Hey ELife in General,

WikiAfrica invites you to support the Africa Incubator

WikiAfrica is pleased to invite you as a self-declared African Wikipedian to evaluate the Africa Incubator. WikiAfrica has created the Africa Incubator to support and assist new authors, as they create their first articles and learn the ins and outs of contributing to Wikipedia.

The Africa Incubator is a ‘soft landing’ for new authors to develop articles that relate to Africa. It assists them in becoming compliant and knowledgeable of Wikipedia principles and rules. Based within the Wikipedia framework, the Africa Incubator is fully interactive and enables feedback, assistance and forums.

This is where we need your help! For the Africa Incubator to be successful, it needs the intervention, interaction and experience of Incubator Mentors. We are looking for a pool of active experienced Wikipedians to consistently participate in ’owning’ the Africa Incubator. Incubator Mentors will assist new comers through the editing process. They will also help test and expand the Africa Incubator, and will play a vital role in encouraging newcomers to be Wikipedians for life

Please visit WikiAfrica Incubator to give us your honest feedback and evaluation. WikiAfrica is a ground-breaking project that is designed to Africanise Wikipedia by generating and expanding 30,000 articles over two years. Find out more about this project here WikiAfrica. To get involved, contact Francis [wikipedian@wikiafrica.net] Twitter: twitter.com/#!/wikiafrica Facebook: www.facebook.com/WikiAfrica --Awinda 07:35, 8 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awinda (talk • contribs)

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Userboxes

Hi, just to let you know, I used the codes and stuff from your userspace to learn how to make edit userboxes. Hope you don't mind.

This user uses a language.

Brad7777 (talk) 14:15, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves Monuments in South Africa

Dear WikiProject South Africa Wikipedians

This is an urgent call from Wikimedia South Africa. We are currently working hard on the South African side of the exciting international photographic competition, Wiki Loves Monuments [1]. We have been planning to make this national competition really take off, but to do so, we need your help! The competition starts on the 1st September, and we need your help now! If you are interested in being part of or can help the Wiki Loves Monuments national organising team, then please join here [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_South_Africa]. If you have limited time, but want to help out at an upload marathon at a heritage site near you, please then contact either Lourie [louriepieterse@yahoo.com] or Isla [islahf@africacentre.net]. We look forward to hearing from you!"

Kind regards, Lourie

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Wiki Loves Pride 2014

Hi LiG. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! --Another Believer (Talk) 18:01, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of User:Life in General/Userprojects/The Wits Project/Nav Box

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