Village pump

Welcome to the Outreach Wiki's village pump. This page has two functions: This is where general outreach-related discussions can be held. Click here to open up a new topic. You can also use this page to request administrator assistance with vandalism or other incidents needing action. Please be as specific as possible, including the name of the user or IP causing problems, the page name, and your signature. You may also find an administrator in #wikimedia-outreach connect at freenode. You can access the chat by clicking the "connect" link and entering a nickname and CAPTCHA, or you can access it from your IRC client by joining #wikimedia-outreach.
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The Outreach Wiki is relatively small, so let's try and keep administrative tasks to a minimum, by keeping as many questions as possible on this page. (Suggested "rule": unless we have more than 15 cases in a short while, we can do without any extra tools such as administrative pages.)

Deletion of Outreach team

I noticed that the page Outreach team was recently deleted, as outdated. However, there are two individuals who added their names to the list within the last month, and others last fall. While I agree that there was little clarity about the purpose of the page, it seems that deletion without seeking to engage the people who have signed up may be premature. I am interested in knowing others who are interested in Wikimedia outreach, and I suspect others on the list are as well.

Any problem if I restore the page, perhaps with a note at the top about its history? -Pete (talk) 18:52, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Surely it should be restored and made into a redirect to whatever replaced it, right? Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:12, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

I've restored, any help in making sense of the page would be most welcome. -Pete (talk) 09:27, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Deleting unhelpful pages.

Hi,

• Is there live on Mars? is not really helping outreach. Perhaps it should be deleted?
• Ditto for Santa fe indian school, which appears to be copy&pasted from here.

I realise this is a small wikipedia - we'd rather keep it lean, instead of creating complex processes for deletion &c. Bobrayner (talk) 15:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

The first page was nonsense and the second was a copy of an English Wikipedia page. I deleted them both. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Groovy; thanks. Bobrayner (talk) 16:52, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

The easy come easy go nature of this wiki makes me love it even more --Guerillero 17:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Fixing double redirects with Thehelpfulbot

Hi all,

I'm planning to run Thehelpfulbot here to run on a crontab to fix double redirects, see Special:Contributions/Thehelpfulbot for what it does - it's trusted pywikipedia code and the bot has been running on the English Wikipedia for years.

Thanks, The Helpful One 15:02, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

A crat needs to flag it as a bot. Mono (talk) 00:14, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Flagged. The Helpful One 00:18, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Best practices

Hello. I noticed that the Best practices page was declared historical as of this week. The tag suggests to go here for discussion, but it seems that no discussion took place. I would like to restore this page to active. While it hasn't had a substantial number of edits in recent months, I believe that recent discussions regarding a space to organize general how-tos and best practices (often compared to how things are set up in GLAM) points to the need for this page to remain. In fact, we have a promising guide that should be added there now. Thanks. HstryQT (talk) 01:41, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Despite its significant value and importance to anyone organizing an event, no resources have been funneled into the project from volunteers or the WMF for a long time. I also noted that most, if not all, of the content was relocated to Meta. The lack of activity on Outreach Wiki does not disqualify its usefulness, but it is simply not being given any attention. I am open to reviving it because I feel it is valuable, but it should be decided whether its home is here or on Meta. --Mono (talk) 15:24, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Translate

Can you please install Translate and Narayam extension in outreach wiki ? This will help bookshelf documents to be translated very easily -- Naveenpf (talk) 14:55, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Unhelpful page deletion

Page List of topics hasn't been edited since it's creation and it has no real reason I can see on outreach. I would also suggest moving the page to a different title.Shaun9876 (talk) 18:29, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I deleted the page. It had one non-substantial edit. Feel free to create a new page with whatever different title you like and with whatever content you think would be useful. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

What do I do?

What is this place.--Deathlaser (talk) 19:29, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

This is the village pump, where you may ask questions or make comments about anything related to Wikimedia projects. If you have a question about Wikimedia outreach we can discuss it here; for other Wikimedia concerns someone would direct you to whatever forum is appropriate. Thanks for visiting. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:40, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Account Creation Improvement Project - inactive but still creating accounts

I recently clicked a New user page through Outreach:ACIP link and when I got to Account Creation Improvement Project it indicated the project was inactive and retained for historical purposes. How is an inactive project still creating new accounts? Rather confusing... Monty845 (talk) 03:42, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Good question. I see that this project is listed in the sidebar under "Projects". The discussion page is closed and it says to redirect all queries to the village pump. The project is inactive and it has the inactive template on it, but I cannot find a historical record of how it ended and whether any of its tasks have been assumed by another project. It is not immediately obvious what its tasks were.

I confirm that it is confusing as you say and I am not sure what to do about it. I would like to think that the project creators should wrap it up with some conclusive statement but I am not sure that I want to get involved in this. What are your ideas? Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:49, 15 May 2012 (UTC)