Hello Harej, thanks for the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghana/New. I tried to join but the "Next" button doesn't work. There might be a problem. —M@sssly^✉ 14:32, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello Masssly, thank you for your report. I tested the form with different skins and with your JavaScript scripts enabled and it still seemed to work. How far in the process do you get before it stops working? Which browser do you use? Do you have any custom user scripts or extensions loaded in your browser that may be causing issues? Thank you, Harej (talk) 15:00, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

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How can I edit my member profile information? -- BullRangifer (talk) 14:57, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

BullRangifer, the profile is located at User:BullRangifer/WikiProjectCards/WikiProject Cannabis. Harej (talk) 14:59, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi James and @Keilana: Does WMDC have a subpage or other type of presence at Wikimania? I have heard that some chapters have their own Wikimania subpages with links to presentations by chapter members. If there's such a thing for WMDC, I'd like to add a link for the talk I'm presenting (with @Victuallers: skyped in) on Sunday morning, "Content gender gap: how to improve the coverage of women in Wikipedia".[1] Will WMDC have a meetup or something like that? Lots of questions as it's my first Wikimania. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:02, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Hey @Rosiestep:! I'm really excited to see you at Wikimania!!! :D We don't have a subpage because there are so few of us, but we will try to have an informal meetup. We'll let you know when that's happening! Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 00:04, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

I have to say, it's been a while coming, but the new general WikiProject design that you've rolled out for the pilot tests is pretty solid, with a lot of nice design features for keeping members engaged with one-another. Fingers crossed that it all succeeds in revitalizing projects to better aggregate our efforts! Snow ^{let's rap} 22:36, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

BTW, WP:WikiProject Dance might be another fruitful testbed for the new format. It gets sporadic involvement and has a small number of dedicated editors who have long discussed wanting to improve the overall coverage of dance topics on Wikipedia, but historically there has been a huge gap between needed work and number of available editors, and difficulty in organizing those few hands we have. Snow ^{let's rap} 00:00, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for working on this project @Harej:. I like that you are taking leadership to recruit and retain talent in the WikiProjects. Geraldshields11 (talk) 00:08, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

I reverted you addition to MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition; Additions of gadgets is normally subject for review, but this is especially the case for default gadgets. Your edit basically ammounts to adding code to Common.css, and adding CSS for select pages is heavily discouraged, no matter where it is loaded from. Had you added it as an opt-in gadget under the testing section, then it would be a different matter, but please discuss site-wide additions beforehand. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 20:55, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Edokter, I understand. I would appreciate your help in finding the appropriate places to discuss this. It's a very small addition of code and having it as a gadget means people can turn it off and not use it, as opposed to the Common.css approach. Where should I discuss this? Harej (talk) 14:08, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

There is MediaWiki talk:Common.css (for site CSS), Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals (for gadget discussion), or Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) for a more generic discussion. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 15:34, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Edokter, I started a discussion at Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Enable_wpxstyling_gadget_by_default. And per your advice I've re-added the gadget as opt-in under the testing section. Legoktm (talk) 15:40, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Merged your pull request. Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 23:45, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Sunday August 2, 1-7pm: WikNYC Picnic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck. Sunday August 2 WikNYC Picnic (RSVP) (also on meetup.com) 1pm–7pm - come by any time! @ Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance (Prospect Park West and 15th St), immediately on the lawn to your left as you walk through the lovely lotus columns. Subway: ​ to 15th Street – Prospect Park (IND Culver Line) We hope to see you there! --Pharos (talk) 03:32, 24 July 2015 (UTC) (Bonus event: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - Wednedsay, August 19)

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The Technical Barnstar

Thank you so much for leading the WikiProject X team in creating WikiProject XX/WiR in about 48 hours during Wikimania 2015 Mexico City. The project page is beautiful! I recognize how technically challenging this has been; and I know that there are lots of additional features we'll want as time goes on. But please know that your work is much appreciated by the the project's co-founders. Again, thank you. Rosiestep (talk) 17:04, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Harej. I can't update the Press section on the project page. I've made a list on the talk page which should be moved over. I'm sure all our teething problems will soon be over. Thanks for helping to get things off the ground.--Ipigott (talk) 08:01, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello Ipigott, some of the page features broke when the project page was renamed, but I have now fixed that throughout the project. The edit links should work again. Thank you for pointing out this issue. Harej (talk) 12:10, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry to alert you again but it has not been possible to edit Missing articles for the last 24 hours. There has also been a strong suggestion that there should been a section on New articles. I think these two matters are now top importance.--Ipigott (talk) 20:28, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

The link to join doesn't work... [2] How can I sign up? Montanabw^(talk) 23:54, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Montanabw, what happens when you try to join? Harej (talk) 04:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Nothing at all, that's the problem. I click on the link and nothing opens. I click "edit this page" and add my username and get a weird red link, no way to do whatever the template is that everyone else seems to be able to fill out. Montanabw^(talk) 23:44, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your report, Montanabw. The issue is being tracked here. I hope we find a solution soon. Harej (talk) 14:54, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I see you recently joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red. I've made a proposal to merge this project into Wikipedia:WikiProject Women at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red, so we can not only cover missing articles but focus on general quality of women's biographies. If interested please put your name down on the WP:Women page at the bottom.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:05, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Harej, Apologies for the interruption. I was reading through the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Technology page & noticed your comments beside the link to Tech LadyMafia. I would like to volunteer to make some improvements to the Article, and hopefully move it up from the current stub status. I am thinking that it would be good to have some information on the organisation's goals, methods, etc. And potentially an indication of the number of members. Would you have any sources that I should look at? I will, of course, do my own searching as well. - Ryk72 ^'c.s.n.s.' 00:58, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello Ryk72! Unfortunately I don't know of any good sources off the top of your head. Best of luck writing the article. Harej (talk) 18:27, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Did you know that this existed? I was unaware that there were assessment help scripts (been doing it manually for years, or with AWB). Sadads (talk) 13:25, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

If it was automatically paired with this gadget and deployed to all new users, with some information about WikiProjects, you would get an influx of people both able to participate, and aware of their existence :P Sadads (talk) 13:28, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

That exists along with a gadget User:Kaldari created. It is worth looking into creating a comprehensive WikiProject gadget for doing stuff. Harej (talk) 18:39, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Definitely within your scope :P Though thats another bit of work, isn't it :) Sadads (talk) 13:17, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

And yet another interesting tool User:LivingBot/ProjectSignup, Sadads (talk) 19:52, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

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Wednesday August 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday August 19 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 15:59, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

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I'm acting as the technical adviser to a local museum which is planning to hold an edit-a-thon and one of the organizers, who are both WP newcomers, had seen a reference that someone with your RW name had a way of tracking edits or articles created at a 'thon. Was that you and if so, what was it? Any help you can provide will be much appreciated. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 21:49, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

TransporterMan, I recommend creating a Google form to collect the usernames and then running the usernames through Herding Sheep. There is also a very powerful analytics tool called Wikimetrics though it is not all that user friendly. Harej (talk) 22:31, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Just a comment that I too am going to be working on an editathon at a local museum also! @TransporterMan: I think your museum and mine have a mutual interest in the artwork of C.M. Russell. We should talk. I can also access the C. M. Russell Museum Complex on a day trip... hmm. I smell a collaboration idea... Montanabw^(talk) 00:08, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

@Harej and Doc James:, as we discussed in Wikimania about wikiproject module for copyright violations, there is now infrastructure for getting the last suspected edits:

• using web API: http://tools.wmflabs.org/eranbot/plagiabot/api.py?action=suspected_diffs&project=wikipedia&lang=en&format=csv (format can be JSON or csv)
• using DB for tools running on WMF labs: s51306__copyright_p in enwiki.labsdb (databases with _p should be available with read rights for other tools). This is more powerful option, as you can join it with other relevant tables (categorylinks/templatelinks)

What do you think of creating a wikiproject module with top 5 or top 10 edits referring to this page? We can consider to try it in WikiMed project as "Eating your own dog food". Eran (talk) 19:05, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Sure. Lets add it to WP:MED. We would like the 10 number. Would be nice to allow different WP to set the number differently. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:00, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Eran and Doc James, I am not entirely sure what you are asking for. Your link does not work—what does this API do? If it gives me a list of pages suspected to have copyright infringement, I could pair that with my own table pairing articles and WikiProjects. If you would like this service for WikiProject Medicine, I can work on it, though keep in mind I have a bunch of other things to work on at the moment. In any case, I am now tracking it as a feature request in Phabricator if you would like to follow along there. Harej (talk) 15:47, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi! As the project founder of Wikipedia:WikiProject Socialism, is there any change that Wikipedia:WikiProject X will come around and "save" it? .. A tip (even if you've probably discovered this out yourself), you should get bots to update the WP project pages (individual users won't...) .. Keep up the great work. --TIAYN (talk) 09:40, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello TIAYN! Sure, I can consider WikiProject Socialism for the next round of pilot tests. (And yes, much of my work has been focused on automated maintenance.) Harej (talk) 17:49, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi, re this edit and others: please don't (i) insert blank lines after {{DEFAULTSORT:}}; (ii) move <!--...--> comments away from the lines to which they relate. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:07, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Redrose64. Thank you for your report. The bot uses a pywikibot library for adding/removing categories. Disappointing to see that it messes up the formatting like that on certain pages. I will have to investigate. Harej (talk) 23:34, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

	Formal merge proposal
	There is currently a merge discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Formal merge proposal. As you are a member of WiR, this is a courtesy notification in case you want to join in the discussion. Thank you. Rosiestep (talk) 02:37, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Harej:. I really think you need to give us some feedback on the progress you are making on the automated approach to red links from other language wikis in connection with this project. I think your approach has great potential but it is likely to be swamped by merging with WP:Women unless you can provide a status report. How much longer will it take to provide usable results?--Ipigott (talk) 18:01, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello Ipigott! Here is the report for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists. Women in Red is next! Harej (talk) 05:43, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

@Harej: Thanks. This certainly seems to indicate substantial progress. As far as I can see, you have automated the listing of articles about women scientists from the Czech Republic. Do you intend to initiate a country-by-country development for Women in Red too? It sounds to be like an interesting approach.--Ipigott (talk) 06:21, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Ipigott, the Czech Republic wasn't targeted specifically; I had the report cut off after the first 100 entries and they happened to be predominantly Czech figures. (Wikidata entries are often created in batches, it seems.) I may want to randomize it so that we have some others represented as well. One idea I had (I will bring it up with the rest of the project) is to have individual lists for different specific WikiProjects (Women Scientists, Women Writers, etc.), and then have them all aggregated together through the Women in Red project. Would that be a useful approach? Harej (talk) 16:54, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

While I think they should all be included in the Women in Red project, I think there is something to be said for keeping the lists separate, unless you can use the Wikidata descriptions to identify the main field(s) of involvement of each individual. But you should ask for feedback from the project as a whole. In any case, I think we need to trial the system over a reasonable period to find the best way of presenting the results.--Ipigott (talk) 07:32, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

James, I like that. Aggregating them would be ideal. Lots of fun stuff to figure out I'm jazzed at the possibilities! --Rosiestep (talk) 14:30, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, Harej. You're invited to join WikiProject Today's articles for improvement, a project dedicated to significantly improving articles with collaborative editing in a week's time. Feel free to nominate an article for improvement at the project's Article nomination board. If interested in joining, please add your name to the list of members. Thanks for your consideration. North America1000 09:02, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

You are invited! → World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership ← Come and join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership Dates: 7 to 20 September 2015 The Virtual Edit-a-thon, hosted by Women in Red, will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Women in Leadership to participate. As it is a two-week event, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in leadership. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and find more details →here← --Ipigott (talk) 09:17, 30 August 2015 (UTC)