User:Ambrosia10/Archive 2

Wellington meet-ups Reply

Hey there - thanks so much for dropping me a line about supporting our meet-ups. Sounds like you've had some interesting experiences you could share!

We haven't started organising regular meet-ups yet but we are running another training / editing day on 13 june. All dets on our website. Let me know if you're keen to take part/help put, it would be great to have you there. Auchmill (talk) 20:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Adding threat classificaitons

Hi there! I see you are working on adding DOC threat classification rankings. I have just started editing Wikipedia, focusing on native freshwater fishes. Tonight I discovered how to add IUCN rankings to the sidebar and have added a few, but now I see it is possible to do the DOC ones there instead. I want to know more about the comparison between IUCN and DOC rankings. I guess the DOC ranking is most identifiable and quoted in NZ? StellaMcQ (talk) 10:02, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Ways to improve Opacuincola dulcinella

Hi, I'm Musa Raza. Ambrosia10, thanks for creating Opacuincola dulcinella!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. I've added orphan tag.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Musa Talk  07:22, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for all of your work on women botanists, who are so, so often ignored. Keilana (talk) 18:31, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: New York Academy of Sciences Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a "phyisical" event during the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in science to participate. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over three weeks, new 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 the field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 10:48, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:07, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating

Thank you for your participation in the Women in Science Virtual Edit-a-thon, 8 to 29 November 2015, hosted by Women in Red together with Women scientists. It was held in parallel with a meet up at the New York Academy of Sciences on 22 November. In addition to improvements, we created well over 300 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated!

Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon from 5 to 15 December.--Ipigott (talk) 12:46, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elinor Francis Vallentin

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

On images and attribution in captions.

Hello! Thanks for your many contributions as well as your images uploaded to Commons. I've noticed you adding external links, as well as CC-licenses, to the captions of images you've added to Wikipedia. This is unwarranted, per WP:CREDITS, and WP:EL (and is also often unsightly and unnecessarily wordy: see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions). Full author, source, and license should of course be on the file description page, but captions should focus on largely subject (what is illustrated), not metadata. I notice you have Creative Commons Best practices for attribution linked on your Userpage, and may be striving to abide by such recommendations, but that is a separate Wiki, and as such is external, secondary, and largely irrelevant, to Wikipedia guidelines, policies, and best practices. Note also that images in infoboxes or taxoboxes should not be in thumbnail form: rather, the file name and caption (if needed), are entered separately in different fields. Lastly, purely descriptive text about an image (e.g. "a woman standing in a field") should not be in the caption, but can be included in Alternative text fields, e.g. to assist visually impaired readers that would not otherwise get the visual information. All the best! --Animalparty! (talk) 06:25, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Have you seen Ambrosia10's explanation, at for example Talk:Hyphalus wisei?-gadfium 07:59, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

This is the message I left in reply on User:Animalpartys talk page -

Thanks for your comment on my talk page. I appreciate the advice and the help. However having previously had difficulties with copyright and licenses on the Wikipedia I'm now so risk adverse that I'm ensuring I comply completely with any copyright licenses and follow the advice given to ensure compliance unless advised legally otherwise. I've researched the ideal attribution and am following exactly the advice given by the Creative Commons website, the organisation that created the original licenses. As I understand it, this is the ideal attribution and is correct. I recognise that it may not be elegant but I'm confident I'm legally complying with both copyright and the CC BY 4.0 license by attributing the images this way. I'm following this advice in the caption and have improved my citation techniques in line with advice from other Wikipedia editors. Obviously I'd be prepared to adapt my attribution techniques if given legal advice of the same by either Wikipedia or Creative Commons lawyers but until then will be following the exact advice given by the Creative Commons website as regards ideal attribution. As explained, I've been bitten by copyright infringement previously on Wikipedia and refuse to put myself into that situation again. I'd also like to point out the other reason why I attribute images as I do. Please read my message on Talk:Hyphalus wisei. However I do very much appreciate your point of view and your assistance. Ambrosia10 (talk) 08:09, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Very worthy, but I think it would be better to attempt to change the wikipedia policy/guideline on photo attribution, rather than adding such attributions - either all creative commons photos need to be attributed this way (as per creative commons guidelines?) or none (as per wikipedia guidelines). If creative commons, or media providers have a problem with the way wikipedia attributes images (at present attribution is on the image's individual wiki page), then that is a huge issue that needs to be addressed directly. --Tony Wills (talk) 09:24, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ella Orr Campbell

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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	Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Sponsor: Art+Feminism 1 to 31 March 2016

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--Ipigott (talk) 08:33, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

		Smithsonian Institution Archives Barnstar
		Thrilled you could join us in-person at Saturday's Color History with the Smithsonian! It was a lot of fun and I heard from a lot of new editors that they really enjoyed the day. I appreciate you helping out the new ones! With appreciation, --Digitaleffie (talk) 15:03, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to our April event

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	Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Women writers April 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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April Fools? Nope! Welcome to the Women Scientists worldwide online edit-a-thon during Year of Science

Join us!
	Women Scientists - worldwide online edit-a-thon - a Year of Science initiative Hosts: Women in Red, Women Scientists Sponsor: WikiEdu April-December 2016 #wikiwomeninred #yearofscience #contentgap

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"Women are everywhere"

Hi Ambrosia10. I'm an editor (not very active till now) of the Italian Wikipedia, where the gender gap is a real issue. I'm trying to participate to an IEG with the project "Women are everywhere". You will find the draft at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere It would be great if you could have a look at it. I need any kind of suggestion or advice to improve it. Support or endorsement would be fantastic. Many thanks, --Kenzia (talk) 17:43, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Shhh! Invitation to Women in Espionage

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	Women in Espionage worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Supporting: University of Edinburgh - Women in Espionage and Spy Fiction 13-20 April 2016

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Autopatrolled granted

Hi Ambrosia10, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Widr (talk) 20:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

NZ Species Edit-a-thon

Hi Ambrosia10! Thanks for dropping me a line about the edit-a-thon. If I have any questions I'll let you know.

ParquetParquet (talk) 21:06, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Photography

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	Women in Photography worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red May 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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Women artists of Middle East / North Africa... a WiR & Guggenheim collaboration

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	Women artists of Middle East / North Africa worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum May 2016 #wikiwomeninred #guggathon

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Thanks for participating

Thank you for your contributions Almost 400 new articles were created
	Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Women writers April 2016 (check out our next event Women in Photography worldwide online edit-a-thon)

--Ipigott (talk) 13:46, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

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Spotlight on women entertainers!

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	Women in Entertainment worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red June 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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Another barnstar for you

		The Instructor's Barnstar
		This Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have performed stellar work in the area of instruction & help for other editors. Thank you so much for all your hard work on the #NZspecies Edit-a-thon; your tireless promotion, tutoring of people on the day, and especially all the work you put into compiling a 10-page guide to stub creation that became the structure and reference for the whole day. Well done. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 03:34, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Celebrating Pride @ Women in Red

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	LGBTQ worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Wiki Loves Pride 2016 16 to 30 June 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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Linking to an author of a citation

Hi, please note that the value of author parameters in a cite/citation template should never contain a wikilink (it pollutes the hidden data that can be extracted by various reference tools). Instead use the "author link" parameters. See Template:Citation#Authors. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:08, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Hall of Fame!

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	Women in Halls of Fame worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red July 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project

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	Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project A Women in Red worldwide, online editathon - 12 July till 12 August 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Indigenous women & Polar women editathons

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	Indigenous women editathon & Polar women editathon Hosted by Women in Red - August 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists

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	Women in Nursing editathon & Women Labor Activists editathon Hosted by Women in Red - September 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons

October 2016
	Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons Faciliated by Women in Red

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An invitation to November's events

November 2016
	Announcing two exciting online editathons Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with Wikipedia Asian Month Faciliated by Women in Red

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Ambrosia10. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

December 2016 at Women in Red

December 2016
	Two new topics for our online editathons Women in Aviation and Women in the Military Our geographical topic of the month is Caribbean Women During the period of 21 Nov - 8 Dec, we are also supporting BBC 100 Women Women in Red

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