User talk:Ipigott

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Charlotte Hanmann

Thanks for making the corrections. I based the two articles entirely on google translation tool, hence the errors. Shall I post them as a double article DYK? I am not sure of the img.--Nvvchar. 01:47, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

@Nvvchar: Google translate is improving all the time but can still be misleading. You need to be particularly careful of the translations of names, e.g. Landesbank translated as Farmers Bank. If you go for DYK, I wouldn't include the image. It's not very good and may be a copyright violation. You've been doing some excellent work recently on all those biographies for WiR in addition to interesting articles on women and their crafts in India. Now you will have an opportunity to turn to Entertainers.--Ipigott (talk) 06:30, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks, Ipigott. Can you please give a suggestion for a hook combining both articles?Nvvchar. 06:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

@Nvvchar: ...that the enamelist Inger Hanmann and her daughter Charlotte, an artistic photographer, have both contributed significantly to Denmark's cultural heritage?--Ipigott (talk) 07:29, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks. I have enjoyed working on this project. I have contributed 100 articles so far under Women in Red project starting from the Red/Meetup/ 1 to 12 and most of them have been DYKsNvvchar. 07:39, 1 June 2016 (UTC).

I'm glad you have been submitting so much to DYK. It helps to promote the cause and also encourages more people to contribute. Unfortunately I find the process too complex and time consuming but am always happy to assist.--Ipigott (talk) 07:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks again. Posted on DYK here Template:Did you know nominations/Inger Hanmann, Charlotte Hanmann.Nvvchar. 08:47, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

• There is a hat tag on Charlotte Hanmann for adding secondary sources. I cannot find any more sources. You may please like to help with sources from the Danish media sources or books to resolve the issue. ThanksNvvchar. 16:07, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

@Nvvchar: I don't think the tag is justified. The sources quoted (Weilbach and Kvinfo in particular) are not "primary". But I'll look at it again tomorrow.--Ipigott (talk) 20:54, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

• Can you kindly suggest the replies to be provided in the talk page of the artcilex to to get the issue resolved abd tag removed.Nvvchar. 13:03, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

I'm afraid I have been up to my neck preparing data for Rosie today and yesterday. I think I'll have time for Charlotte tomorrow. I have not forgotten. I'll try to provide further refs from the newspapers but IMO it is already OK as it is.--Ipigott (talk) 13:07, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

• @Nvvchar: I think it's OK now.--Ipigott (talk) 07:41, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

• [[User:Nv.Nvvchar. 06:16, 10 June 2016 (UTC)vchar|Nv.Nvvchar. 06:16, 10 June 2016 (UTC)vchar]] Thanks.Nvvchar. 07:47, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

• In the DYK review it has been suggested that the articles may split into two. I am not conversant with the procedure. Can you help, pl? Thanks.Nvvchar. 06:16, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

@Nvvchar: I know nothing about DYK procedures but suppose it has simply been suggested that each article could be submitted to DYK separately. Maybe you can go forward on that basis or maybe it would be simpler to forget the whole thing. As Gerda Arendt is the one suggesting two nominations, maybe she can expl from ain exactly how you should go about it or better still handle it herself (if that is allowed). It's because of these complicated procedural problems that I avoid spending valuable time on DYK.--Ipigott (talk) 08:14, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks. I understand. Can some user from Sweden help finding sources to add here Template:Did you know nominations/Gerd Neggo? I am not able find any additional sources to add text for Gerd Neggo's 30 years of stay in Sweden.Nvvchar. 08:28, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

• take cour time and keep simple, - just next time make it two noms, - I will be off (pleasantly) until Tuesday, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:45, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

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Where do the Barnstars come from?

Exec. (Asst.) of Barnstar Delivery - StarBarn award

On the WomeninRed project there are lots of things that seem to magically happen. I wonder if you know who is seeing to all these things? Could you pass this on to him or her? In the interim this is for you. Thanks Ian (I see the photography project has gone well as well). I made this picture sometime ago but it seems apt that all those barnstars should come from a Star Barn. Best. Victuallers (talk) 12:55, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

@Victuallers: Thanks, Roger, for expressing your appreciation. I simply look for suitable barnstars on Commons -- so there's no magic in it at all. As I'm no good at combining images myself, that's the only course open to me. This time, I have only sent out thank-yous and barnstars to those who contributed to Women in Photography based on this but I was hoping someone would help out with the MEDA artists in which most of the same editors were involved. In particular, Big iron and Fouetté should receive barnstars for their efforts there. Maybe this one would do but it is not very "MEDA". I'll try to put something together unless you feel like taking it on yourself?--Ipigott (talk) 13:56, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

I can do that Ian, I think I have given all of these a "thx" on the resp. article talk pages, but lets give um a b'star too.... however I would like to be "PA to Exec (asst) for Barnstar Delivery" with my own plastic looking label for my computer desk (when I get one). Victuallers (talk) 16:59, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

@Victuallers: Thanks, that will give me more time to look into the other editathons for Rosie.--Ipigott (talk) 20:57, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for your strong focus

A barnstar for your many contributions 120 new articles were created
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@Rosiestep: As you can see from my reply to Roger above, I have not sent out thank-yous to those who contributed to the MEDA artists. Both there and on photography, most of the contributions came from WiR's most active participants.--Ipigott (talk) 14:01, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

First, thank you for distributing them. Let's see how Roger responds. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:12, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: I've also updated my overall listing of editathon participation. According to my calculations (which are pretty rough as it is difficult to identify those who have improved old articles rather than creating new ones), we have now had 250 participants in our main editathons. (I have not had time to include WiR/9, WiR/11 and WiR/13.) Over 40 have participated in more than one editathon and 17 have participated in at least four.--Ipigott (talk) 15:19, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

These are important statistics; thank you for compiling. Will there be time for you to update these stats to include WiR/9, WiR/11 and WiR/13 in the next 2 weeks; and would it be ok with you if I use the statistics in my Wikimania presentation on 25 June; and are you ok with me giving you attribution for the stats? --Rosiestep (talk) 19:31, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: Yes to all of these although WiR/9 on Women Scientists will require a considerable amount of work. Since you first created the editathon page in February, there have been many, many biographies on scientists (which I've noticed but not recorded). I'll now try to pick them up from the AlexBot archives. I know they're important and so I'll start working on it tomorrow but it will probably mean I won't be able to contribute much to Entertainment. Spies and MEDA are much easier. Let's see how it all goes.-- Ipigott (talk) 21:08, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

You should get a barnstar for being Mr. Wonderful. If collecting the scientist data gets to be too much, no worries. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:48, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: I've covered the Women Scientist articles from 6 February to the end of May. I have a total of 272: 44 in February, 71 in March, 78 in April and 76 in May. There may in fact be quite a few more as I see that many of those posted since the beginning of April were not picked up by AlexBot. Tomorrow I'll put together a list of participants. Keilana may be interested in this too.--Ipigott (talk) 11:31, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

This is good. I'm working on the presentation over the weekend and will be working in the stats. Sage Ross with WikiEdu is trying to automate May's overall metrics for us so if he can make that work, it'll be good as those metrics take hours to compile. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:11, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: I think you should be careful about how you present the "metrics" for each month in you paper. As I have pointed out on several occasions, a large proportion of the new articles on women each month consists of biographies of women in sport with little or nothing to do with the focus of our editathons. For example, the figure listed for April is 1,649 but there were only 489 as a result of our editathons (393 for Writers, 18 for Spies and 78 for Scientists). The total for March is listed as 2,342 but only 841 articles came out of the Art+Feminism editathon and some of these were improvements to existing articles. Similarly for February, the total listed is 2,320 but only 39 came from Black Women's History. It may well be true that more articles are being created on women as a result of WiR but I think it is misleading to pretend that they are all related to the project. Maybe you could include the editathon results side-by-side with the monthly totals. I think that would be a much more objective way of going about it.--Ipigott (talk) 15:21, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Yes, that is my plan. The overall metrics + the editathon metrics. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:14, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for helping us to fix the gender gap

A barnstar for your contributions 55 new articles were created including the List of Turkish women artists. It wasn't a competition but if it was then Big Iron won it.
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Thanks. I actually also contributed to a considerable number of the new articles; some of them needed quite a lot of attention. Have you created a list of participants for the MENA artists or should I try to put one together myself?--Ipigott (talk) 07:20, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Women in wine

Hi don't know if you have a list somewhere to add these to, perhaps a Women in Wine in the USA section of Business or something.

• Dr. Linda Bisson
• Milla Handley
• Karen Cakebread
• Lulu Peyraud (France)
• Joy Sterling
• Cristina Mantilla (Spain)
• Gina Gallo
• Sandrine Garbay (France)
• Alison Crowe
• Kris Curran
• Ashley Hepworth
• Joy Andersen (Washington)
• Patricia Green (wine) (Oregon)
• Lynn Penner Ash (Oregon)
• Susana Balbo (Argentina)
• Cecilia Torres (Chile)

♦ Dr. Blofeld 05:24, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: We have Women in Leadership. They should be added under the appropriate country, preferably with a useful source. At present we have Category:Winemakers but it would be useful to introduce Category:Women winemakers, possibly with subcategories for some countries. We could then put together a List of women winemakers. I've suggested an editathon in November on Women in food and drink.--Ipigott (talk) 07:14, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld and Ipigott: I'll add them to Women in Food and drink. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:23, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Mistaken tag?

Hi. I just noticed that you had tagged this article as having been "submitted as part of the Women in Music virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WikiProject Women in Red, 10-31 January 2016." Was this a mistake? If I am not wrong this seems to have been created independently of the event by a COI editor. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:47, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I've now tagged it as WiR Entertainment. It's often difficult to know whether articles have been created under our editathons or not but Music was certainly a mistake.--Ipigott (talk) 10:52, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, considering that the article was created in Jan 2016 with no substantial edits after that, I get a feeling this was not part of WiR Entertainment either or any WiR editathons for that matter. But if the author is indeed part of the editathon, please let me know. One suggestion I have is that in cases where it is not known if the article was created as part of the event, it is best not to tag it as such. To be clear, my intent here is not to deny credit or something, but just to clarify if the article is indeed part of the editathon. I was looking into a case of WP:FINANCIALCOI involved in this article (Joanna Dong), but the editathon tag suggested that it was created by one of the participants (and I don't want to mistakenly accuse an innocent good faith participant of COI). I went through the participant lists and was unable to find the author, hence my request above for clarification. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:34, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

@Lemongirl1942: On further examination, it looks to me as if the tagging was correct as I see that I edited the article in January when we were indeed running the music editathon. The tag reads "new or improved article". As I improved it, the tag was valid. I probably also assumed that the article had been created by a new editor attracted by the editathon. We have many newbies each time. When the article was tagged AfD I assumed it was new and has completely forgotten I had worked on it in January. As we deal with literally hundreds of new articles for WiR each month, it is impossible to remember everything. You may be right that this could be a case of COI but on the other had we might be dealing with a genuine new editor. In general, I try to assist newbies unless there is real evidence of misconduct.--Ipigott (talk) 13:01, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I thought the tag was solely about the article being created. No worries then. Yes, I agree with you about new editors, which I why I wanted to clarify before proceeding to ask the editor about COI. Thank you for your help! --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:23, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Hannah Chaplin has been nominated for Did You Know

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Celebrating Pride @ Women in Red

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Women in Red

So, here it is, three fascinating topics to choose from, and what image do I restore? Emmeline Pankhurst. I'm not always good at sticking to a topic. Still counting it as a WIR FP if it passes, though. =P Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:25, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Right! Bessie Smith (Bisexual entertainer) done. I'll do a quick detour to do Ivor Novello - Don't want to neglect LGBTQ men completely during pride month, but will be prioritising women - then a Joan of Arc movie poster, then we'll see. Ethel Waters? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:56, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Really not good at keeping on-topic... still! She deserves the exposure. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:02, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Hannah Chaplin

On 17 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hannah Chaplin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hannah Chaplin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hannah Chaplin), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 13:54, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Hall of Fame!

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Charlotte Hanmann again

Charlotte Hanmann, "mostly capturing the urban environment with processed photographs", can you please tell me were "urban environment" appears in Danish, where "processed photographs", and how that "mostly" is sourced. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Update: fixed for DYK by Montanabw, - just teach me a bit Danish if you have the time, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:13, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Google translate, LOL! Montanabw^(talk) 19:30, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Sorry Gerda Arendt, I did not get back to you sooner. My internet connection here is Denmark has been down for two days and has just been fixed. Glad to see everything has finally worked out. Vive Google translate!--Ipigott (talk) 09:29, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Inger Hanmann

On 27 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Inger Hanmann, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport, her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Inger Hanmann), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Charlotte Hanmann

On 27 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charlotte Hanmann, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport, her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Charlotte Hanmann), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:50, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Swiss women red links

You didn't start the page in your sub directory, but in article space. I've moved it to Draft:Swiss women red links. Bgwhite (talk) 05:41, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight has been nominated for Did You Know

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Thank you with a barnstar

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DYK for Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

On 11 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Wikipedian of the Year Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight has cited cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead as an influence on her writing? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Sibelius

Please read User_talk:Tim_riley#Sibelius. You can reply here or in my discussion (let's not bother Tim again ;) ). Triplecaña (talk) 14:10, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

commons:User:Adam Cuerden/10wikicommonsdays

Little project I got into, inspired by Vassia's 100wikidays. A bit shorter, but I don't think I could have gone much longer, honestly. There'll be another. All of them are WIR-appropriate. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:53, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

@Adam Cuerden: Thanks for the info but I think I'll stick to content editing. When I was younger (back in the late 50s and early 60s) I was a keen photographer, doing my own darkroom processing of both black and white and colour and managing to do quite well in a number of competitions. Unfortunately, I have not been able to keep up with the digital revolution but am pleased to see we have a bunch of experts like you who are able to maintain momentum on Wikipedia and Commons.--Ipigott (talk) 14:35, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Help with French source

I found it, but cannot read it except for the few bits of French I can pick up from Latin. I think it says name of Pooja Dhingra's Swiss School was Cesar Ritz Colleges and also that she published a book. [www.culinaryartsswitzerland.com/media/swiss_education_group/document/0/cesar-ritz-alumni-international-recruitment-forum.pdf] Can you help? SusunW (talk) 16:17, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

@SusunW: I suppose you are referring to this. There's quite a bit of detailed info I can work into the article but I'm pretty tied up with visitors at the moment. I'll do what I can as time permits. I didn't realize you were a Latin scholar. I also learnt Latin at school. In those days it was considered a basic requirement for entrance to Oxford and Cambridge, even for science students. It has served me well as a basis for the modern Romance languages.--Ipigott (talk) 13:38, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

I was a chemistry student, thus science. It helped a lot that the girl who became my matron of honor was great at it. She became a Latin teacher. I think I was not so much a Latin scholar, as to have learned only enough to be dangerous. ;) There is no rush in putting the info in Dhingra's article. We saved her already, but she could clearly benefit from your attention. SusunW (talk) 14:45, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Images

Could you let me know if you find anything likely while working on articles? I have a list, but I always welcome more suggestions.

Besides the current topics, I suspect Polar Women will be hard for me to contribute to, since the collections that have pictures of them aren't likely to be any of my standard ones; any hints towards image sources you have for me on those I'd especially appreciate. Mind you, I thought Halls of Fame was one I'd not be able to get into at all; you've probably noticed I was very wrong there. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:47, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

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Digital Anthropology research

Hello Ipigott, My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Wikipedia users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Wikipedia pages. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 4. How would you describe your gender? 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to! Sincerely, Stelba90 (talk) 01:10, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

@Stelba90: Hi Stephanie. Thanks for contacting me in connection with your interesting research. I must first tell you that I'm male, full name Ian Pigott, as are several of the more active editors working towards the improvement of the coverage of women on Wikipedia. I see you have contacted a significant number of women editors who should be able to answer your questions more directly. If it's of any interest to you, I have been trying to support the involvement of women in Wikipedia for a number of years. I spend a fair amount of time helping new editors, especially those whose early articles are listed for deletion or who run into trouble by not following Wikipedia procedures in their early days. It is my impression that articles about women, many of which are created by women editors, are more often subject to deletion than those about men. Women's biographies translated or adapted from versions of Wikipedia in other languages are often targeted as English-language editors are unable to find (or understand) valid sources in other languages. As for conflicts, I have never experienced any serious upsets myself although I have followed many in which women editors have been involved. Generally speaking though, women editors seem to be far more skilled at avoiding conflicts. Indeed, many seem to join WikiProjects such as Women, Women in Red, Women Scientists, Women Writers and Women Artists simply because of their highly cooperative editing environment. I hope this helps and I hope you will share your findings with us. As you are a new Wikipedia editor yourself, you might like to join one of these projects in order to gain practical experience of the editing environment. May I suggest you look at Women in Red and perhaps join one of our editathons.--Ipigott (talk) 08:09, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Deleted articles

Haven't been following WIR recently. Did you create a list for deleted articles afterwards? An increasingly amount of content seems to be deleted without properly checking to see if they're actually notable or not.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:08, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: This is Montanabw's hobby horse. S/he seems to be relying on the lists of alerts on WP Women. If anyone can improve on this, it would help us along.--Ipigott (talk) 13:11, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

I would suggest that a page is set up to list AFDs and articles which were deleted in whch people can look at. A sort of noticeboard.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:41, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

One can start here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women/Article_alerts. Some of the AfDs are truly cruft (a lot of state beauty pageant winners in the Aug 1 batch) but I've also seen some quite notable people get tagged. The problem is that I am not sure if this also pulls in the "child" projects (WP Women writers, WP women scientists, etc...) Montanabw^(talk) 18:08, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

I don't think it does. Maybe Dr. Blofeld himself can suggest how these lists can be merged. If this proves to be too difficult, we could just provide links to the various lists on WP Women. Or perhaps other members of WiR such as Megalibrarygirl could help to pick out the ones which really deserve attention and compile a list of deleted article red links, possibly for WiR?--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

The West Country Challenge

This is just a reminder that Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge kicks off today, with the first subject being Bristol. Please remember to post entries under your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge/Bristol. You are receiving this message because you are listed as a participant in the challenge.

Happy editing! --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:46, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

The first leg is Bristol. Names are to be added at the bottom of the Bristol page and articles listed. Please also make sure that you add entries you improve/start to the main list on the main page. There will be £10 to win each day for the most points accumulated and then the winner of the county crowned after three days. The overall winner will be decided from the points accumulated from each county round. If you're not interested in winning anything and want to contribute anything you want from the West Country this is fine too though. Best of luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I'll try to chip in from time to time but certainly not every day.--Ipigott (talk) 13:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

offer

Ian, #wikiwomeninred twitter page gets a new banner every day. I could add it to project pages and it should also change to a different women (usually one born on that day) every. Refusal will not offend but I thought I Id make the offer. One niggle is that when I look at the project pages I cannot tell if Ive got the right one till I scroll down. Can I unreserved thank you on behalf of the project for the co-ordination you do. Roger

@Victuallers: That's a great offer, Roger. Anything you can do to liven up our pages would be greatly appreciated. In regard to the project pages, maybe it would be good to have a clear heading right at the top of each editathon page. Why not try it out? Btw, have you noticed any improvement in page views on the articles you tweet? I'm afraid I'm not very involved in the social networks myself but they seem to be increasingly popular. For many users, Facebook seems to have become the first port of call. If you have any other suggestions for improvements to our pages, please just go ahead with them - unless you think they should first be discussed on the WiR talk page.--Ipigott (talk) 05:17, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists

You are invited...
	Women in Nursing editathon & Women Labor Activists editathon Hosted by Women in Red - September 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Always amazes me how committed you are to Women in Red long term. You never seem to tire or lose interest. Keep up the great work you do! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:09, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Many thanks. But it takes a team to keep things moving. I just try to keep the works well oiled.--Ipigott (talk) 06:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:39, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Master of Fogdö for deletion

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Wikidata entries?

I am completely confused how I create a Wikidata entry for 1917 Bath Riots and mark it as a women's event. Can you help? SusunW (talk) 23:51, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

I am also confused why labor activists category now defaults to trade unionists. These women weren't trade unionists, but they were protesting a policy that effected their ability to work. That isn't unionized labor IMO. Do you have a better category idea. SusunW (talk) 23:54, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi Susun. I think the problem with labor activists vs. trade unionists comes from Wikipedia itself, see here. It's usually quite difficult to make changes to established categories but Montanabw and Missvain may be able to offer some advice. Missvain may also be able to help with the Wikidata end of these issues.--Ipigott (talk) 13:23, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia16

Bonsoir Ian. J'avoue ne pas avoir tout à fait compris le problème avec James (Blofeld) et ne pas trop savoir quoi faire en ce moment. Ce qui est certain est que cela fait plusieurs années (je pèse mes mots) qu'un wikipédien ne m'avait pas autant gonflé. Quand à Shola, il a décidé de l'ignorer. Et je ne peux guère lui reprocher à la vue de l'historique des conversations publiques et privées des deux dernières semaines. Bon enfin bref. Et quand je pense que je suis surtout sensée m'occuper de la partie francophone :)
La partie Côte d'Ivoire et Cameroun est faite en français. Voici la page d'accueil en français: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wiki_Loves_Women. Les équipes de ces deux pays parlent franchement un anglais médiocre et les équipes anglophones du Ghana et du Nigéria ne parlent pas du tout français donc il est difficile d'avoir beaucoup d'interactions. C'est dommage.
Du côte français, on a un projet naissant inspiré de WiR, les Sans Pages. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs. L'approche est, je crois, beaucoup plus féministe que sur la version anglophone.
De mon côté, actuellement je m'occupe surtout de faire du nettoyage de catégories sur la thématique "Afrique/Femmes". Par exemple, j'ai remis d'aplomb et essayé de compléter la catégorie https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Condition_féminine_par_pays cette semaine. C'est pas mal le bazar et disons qu'il y a beaucoup d'éléments manquants. Je ne suis pas très bonne rédactrice, mais j'aime bien que les choses soient bien rangées, bien ordonnées :)
Nous avons aussi quelques participants des 100wikidays, qui consacrent régulièrement des articles aux femmes africaines dans le cadre de WLW.
En fait, j'aimerais beaucoup qu'il y ait un "push" de traduction d'articles EN vers FR ou FR vers EN, ou tout autre language. Mais qui concentrerait l'effort vers la traduction d'articles de fond ou de bio de qualité (alors qu'en général, les traductions se font souvent sur de petits articles) et qui viserait à traduire un article donné dans le plus grand nombre de langue possible. Par exemple, (un peu pris au hasard...), regarde l'article Malicounda Bambara. Ou These Girls Are Missing. Ce ne sont pas de très bons articles, mais peut-être peuvent ils être améliorés ? Ensuite, par exemple pour le premier, il n'existe qu'un seul article dans une autre langue (français) mais nettement plus médiocre. Et il n'existe dans aucune autre langue.
Et si... on identifiait collectivement cet automne... disons 16 articles vraiment intéressants et relativement bien traités (mais n'existant pas dans d'autres langues, ou stubs). On les peaufine pendant quelques temps. Et puis... par exemple pour célébrer Wikipedia16 (mi janvier prochain), on lance un petit concours, proposant de traduire ces 16 articles dans le plus grand nombre de langues possibles. Concours symbolique dont les gagnants sont des articles ! Bon, à titre personnel, j'aimerais bien que ces 16 articles soient en rapport avec les femmes et l'Afrique. Mais l'idée est là. Si ça t'intéresse... n'hésite pas ! Anthere (talk) 17:05, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

@Anthere: Bonjour Florence et un grand merci. Je n'étais pas du tout au courant de tous ces développements sur le wiki fr. Je suis ravi de voir que vous avez adopté l'approche WiR pour votre projet "Les sans pagEs". (Pourquoi cet E majuscule?) La démarche commence vraiment à porter ses fruits. D'ici une semaine ou deux, j'essairai d'y consacrer quelques heures pour mieux en examaner le détail. Je crois bien que les anglophones et les francophones (pour ne pas exclure les germanophones) pourraient tous profiter d'une collaboration plus étroite. Pour ce qui concerne les déroulements au Nigéria, après mes échanges avec Shola je crois que nous sommes maintenant sur la bonne voie. J'ai l'impression que J. voulait vraiment vous donner un coup de main. (C'est grâce à lui que j'ai découvert les préparations du concours - même avant l'annonce officielle.) Mais il a beaucoup de tempérament et réagit souvent sans trop y penser. Quoi qu'il en soit, il a énormément contribué à Wikipédia. A bientôt.--Ipigott (talk) 11:46, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Oui, beaucoup de contributions et d'excellente qualité apparemment.

Pourquoi le E.... et bien je n'étais pas là lors de la décision sur le nom. Il est une conséquence des discussions pendant Wikimania mais fait suite à une série d'actions en Suisse en 2015-2016 (fr:Projet:Suisse/Biographies des femmes en Suisse). Le projet est en particulier porté par NattesAChat. Le sujet a été beaucoup évoqué pendant la m:WikiConvention francophone/2016/fr d'août. Donc oui, les choses bougent pas mal...

Je pense que le E est un clin d'oeil à l'écriture épicène. L'usage du E, comme dans motivéEs est pas mal utilisé par les utilisateurs du language non sexiste. Bon... moi j'avoue ne pas me classer dans la catégorie féministe... et j'écris motivées.... mais j'admet que le clint d'oeil est sympa et donne un joli nom de projet au final. Anthere (talk)

Wiki Loves Women- Monthly Contest

	Wiki Loves Women- Monthly Contest (September)!
	Hello, this is to notify you about a monthly article writing contest organized by Wikimedia User Group Nigeria in collaboration with Wiki Loves Women to increase the coverage of Nigerian women on Wikipedia! The theme for the month of September is Women in Entertainment. See the contest page here. Thank you. Delivered: ~~~~~

Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 17:36, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

@Olaniyan Olushola:Thanks very much for this. With some minor edits, I'll post it on the WiR main page.--Ipigott (talk) 07:43, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Ellen Broe

If you are interested and have time, could you look over Ellen Johanne Broe to make sure I didn't make too many mistakes with the Danish? I am also quite puzzled that I cannot find a VIAF or ISNI number for her? She has a worldcat presence [1], is listed in Sudoc [2] and has a Library of Congress number [3] but authority control won't take any of that? I hate technical stuff that doesn't work. Hope all is well. SusunW (talk) 22:13, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

@SusunW: It's a good article. As usual, you have correctly interpreted the Danish sources. I've made one or two very minor edits and added her two books under publications. She is generally known as Ellen Broe and I think I'll move the article to that name. It might also help with authority control. Overall I think authority control works very efficiently and reveals lots of useful background. But you cannot expect all these tools to work 100%.--Ipigott (talk) 09:36, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Ian. Appreciate the help. SusunW (talk) 13:20, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Editor of the Week [17 September 2016]

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for your vast, multilingual promoted content additions. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:SusunW submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Ipigott (talk · contribs · count · logs) to be Editor of the Week for his tireless efforts to improve WP. Ian speaks multiple languages (English Danish, French, German, Spanish, as well as having a working knowledge of Dutch, other Scandinavian and romance languages) and is an amazing resource for other editors in helping with translations and sourcing. He has been extremely active [3] in creating articles focused on Scandinavia, Luxembourg, music, art, architecture, literature and women. Truly a Renaissance man, his expertise in many areas is staggering and his contributions to GA have included over 20 entries, not the least of which were creation of Malouma, the improvement of Jean Sibelius for his 150th anniversary and improvement of Carl Nielsen which he later promoted to FA. Besides creating over 6,000 pages and bringing over 200 articles to DYK, he is a tireless behind the scenes editor, sending invitations and thank yous for editathons, helping source newly created articles, creating lists to eliminate orphaned articles, adding categories, and in general encouraging and supporting other editors. Ipigott is reliable, authentic, bright, and articulate. If he says he's going to do something, he does it. A polyglot, his translation assistance is invaluable. A champion of the Women in Red project.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

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Thanks again for your efforts! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 17:57, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

I just want to quickly note, outside of the award template, that this nomination was "seconded" by Rosiestep, Montanabw, Maile66, John Carter, and Buster7 – more than any other I can remember. Congratulations, you've definitely earned this one!! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 17:57, 17 September 2016 (UTC)