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Women and Bio~physics can be more useful to Africa than Women in Politics:

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All theorems, lemmas and propositions with simple provements. How about new wiki — WikiProves?

Hello!

I am the creator of a wiki site — wikiproves.ru — the free encyclopedia of provements for all theorems, lemmas and other propositions from all fields of study.

There are lots of different propositions. You can find them in books, in scholl (university), in Wikipedia. Everywhere. And I think that is the main reason why we should pick them up in one place.

The important thing is that there have to be a provement for most of propositions. But the problem is that sometimes they are big, difficult, inarticulate or missing at all! It would be really cool to give simple (or at least understandable) provements to such propositions.

WikiProves mission — arrange all theorems, lemmas and propositions with simple and evident provements

The site already has more than 90 provements.

I would like to listen your opinions about this idea. Please, leave your Support/Against opinions on proposal project discussion page.

I am a student. I really like to share knowledge with others and explain things in plain language. When my university life stated I did not have time to make movies for my educational YouTube channel and there was no way for me to share my knowledge (yes, sharing with others is like a habit). I had to study a lot of math wich is full of different propositions. At first, I started to write provements in my notebook. But I thought it is old and not really effective. And then I suddenly came up with an idea of a project which is now called WikiProves.

P.S.: I apologise for my English. I am from Russia.

Why don't you accept user pages for IP addresses?

Hello. I'm Connor and I'm new here. I created a user page for myself and it was speedy deleted a couple minutes later. Why don't you accept user pages for IP addresses?--100.36.171.168 17:15, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

See first line of Musings_about_unregistered_contributors#What_is_an_anonymous_contributor. If you want a stable identity, such as a userpage, by definition you want registration. Nemo 17:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: And why do we accept (so-called?) "subpages" of IP user pages (i.e. User:Pathoschild/2015 invalid user pages#Subpages)? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:27, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

For usage by other people, apparently. Nemo 13:49, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

German to English translation needed - issue about open proxies

Hello. Is there a German speaker who can help me understand a user's issue by translating to English? Please see Talk:No_open_proxies#.22total_lock.22. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:49, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

WikiObject project propousal

Hi, how about a wikipedia about objects? Instead of generic articles of , for example, "Ballpoint pen" or "Bic cristal" it would be "Green Ballpoint pen Bic cristal 2014" Doing these for millions of objects would allow people to have an open, free, universal and central place to refer specific objects.

General info about project is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiObject and more technical and wikidata related info at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Objects

Qupro (talk) 08:34, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

salut

je parle pas très bien l'anglais quelqu'un peut m'aidé cordialement200.113.234.89 07:18, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Qu’est-ce que vous voulez faire ?—Odysseus1479 (talk) 18:32, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Open Access and Wikipedia

Hi,

Here are some thoughts about scientific literature.

I thought of all the published but pay-walled content. I designed an alternative protocol for scholarly writing, reviewing and publishing. But it's limited to future productions. We also need access to previous work. So I'm thinking about using wikipedian mass readership to put pressure on non-liberated articles. In a few words, it would consist in adding a script with citation templates inviting and helping wikipedian readers to mail the authors of pay-walled sources and ask these authors to send their work to open archives. I believe it may well complete the circle of past and future research.

BR

--RP87 (talk) 07:48, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Sure, you can support this idea: Talk:The Wikipedia Library#Poke authors via Dissemin. Nemo 05:26, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

On the situation in the Azerbaijani part of Wikipedia? - now there's a meta-fraud for us!!!

Dear Colleagues! You do not want to solve this problem? We've given you the facts. But you're not going to do anything ?! We now understand your position: fraud, - now there's a meta-fraud for us!!! - --Aydin Mammadof (talk) 20:47, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Here in English: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/On_the_situation_in_the_Azerbaijani_part_of_Wikipedia

We received the following reply:

I’d like to thank you again for providing your insights on the recent situation on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia. This email is sent in BCC to all users responded to my questionnaire sent in early March.

After a thorough investigation by the support and safety team at the Wikimedia Foundation, we understand that the current major issues on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia are as follows :

User concerns of admin rights abuse by a few admins, most notably by User:Sefer_azeri.

Lack of local community policies that regulate admins’ work, or admins’ decision appeal process.

We understand the need for a harmonious, peaceful community in order to create a productive editing environment. However for both legal and ethical reasons the WMF strives to limit office actions to cases of obvious harm to an individual user's personal safety or where we're legally required to intervene.

As the above prescribed issues do not rise to the level that WMF can take office actions, we urge the Azerbaijani community to come together in order to resolve those issues internally and with the help of the global community on meta.

Meanwhile, we recommend the following prioritization as a guideline to what needs to be done as a resolution roadmap :

1.Desysop of rights-abusive admins, most notably User:Sefer_azeri if judged appropriate

If you believe that a user's rights need to be removed, this should probably happen first to allow for a clean slate. Requests to remove user’s rights can be made on meta. To request the removal of another user's permissions, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. When there is community consensus that the user's access should be removed, a trusted user from that wiki should provide a link to the discussion on the steward's request page, a brief explanation of the reason for the request, and a summary of the results of discussion.

In order to create consensus, we recommend starting a specific topic on the local village square on Azerbaijani Wikipedia. The discussion should include links that demonstrate the admin rights abuse. The topic should be opened for discussion and vote for a few days before submitting the request to the steward page on meta.

2.Set-up policies to regulate admins’ work

3.Activate the ArbCom and/or draft and put major policies into effect

In order to simplify the process, we will be happy to provide ideas based on existing policies or the experiences of other communities on steps 2 & 3 once the community is done with dealing with step 1 or decides not to pursue that action. We believe that this is a complex issue, and looking at the resolution systematically as a step-by-step process is an essential element to make progress.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Haitham Shammaa

Senior Strategist

Wikimedia Foundation

We agreed. But they did not give us a chance.

In the end, Haitham ran and hid. Maggie Dennis advised us to do so:

You need to demonstrate issues to the community at Meta. I am not able to assist directly.

If possible, please help us:

How and where to write a complaint letter. Aydin Mammadof (talk) 16:34, 4 August 2016 (UTC)