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Trophy

I, Pi zero, hereby award William S. Saturn this Wikinews Trophy for original reporting in 2020.

Hi, many thanks for helping! Happy New Year. --Gryllida (talk) 20:48, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you all and Happy New Year! I have many new ideas for OR in 2021.--William S. Saturn (talk) 20:52, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Re: 'welcome a bit' notifications

Hi William S. Saturn!

I've added you for the 'welcome a bit' notifications for review-ready articles for any topic. These notifications will be delivered to your email via Special:EmailUser; if you don't have a valid email set, please do it now. Thank you for signing up!

As new articles appear, I personally encourage you to follow these steps immediately, as soon as the notification is received and you have a few free minutes:

1. Approach their author at the article talk page (if they're experienced) or at their personal talk page (this is more suitable for newcomers, as this is where they notice new messages the soonest). Tell them two-three most important things they can do to improve the article, and offering your assistance. It helps to give them tips from content guide, style guide, and/or some important questions about the news event that they're reporting. Remind them to edit quickly to get it published within 2-3 days after the event, leaving some time for review to occur.
2. Edit a copy of the article in your personal sandbox. Aim to improve as many things as you can.
3. If no response is received within six to twelve hours, then I would recommend to edit the article to completion and submit it for review. (If response or edits are received, then your revision would need to be merged into theirs.) Leave the author a note about what you have done, outlining the main two-three changes that have been made.

This should hopefully help authors and the news readers. There is no commitment; I prefer to do these steps with articles in my topics of interest (my country and my topic, i.e. science and technology).

If you need any assistance, or find a bug in how the notifications are delivered, please let me know.

Many thanks. --Gryllida (talk) 00:36, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Is it working? Gryllida (talk) 09:57, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Yes. Sorry for the delayed response. --William S. Saturn (talk) 21:24, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

unsubscribed?

Hello! I unsubscribed everyone from 'welcome a bit', as I am not sure who is still interested. If you would like to continue receiving notifications, please visit Special:EmailUser/Gryllida and write "Re-subscribe for 'welcome a bit'" in the message body. Thanks!. -Gryllida (talk) 03:48, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

??

Haven't seen you around much lately.....you OK??-Bddpaux (talk) 17:13, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Yes. I'm not as active online as I used to be. Maybe that will change.--William S. Saturn (talk) 20:40, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

I hope so! We've had a bit of a revival around these parts!--Bddpaux (talk) 21:35, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom 2021

Hi William S. Saturn. I was wondering if you'd be willing to stand for ArbCom this year? If you don't wish to nominate yourself, I would be happy to nominate you.
•–• 07:50, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes. Thank you.--William S. Saturn (talk) 21:21, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Award of Journalistic Magnificence

The Award of Journalistic Magnificence is given to writers who complete a substantive body of work or series of articles, primarily focused on matters of national and/or political significance for any given nation. This very overdue award is being given for the immensely interesting and well-written On the campaign trail series, which you’ve been contributing since 2008. Think you very much for this sustained effort and may you continue to do so well into the future. [₂₄Cr][talk] 14:41, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. --William S. Saturn (talk) 19:26, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Temporary change to article length

Hello. As a reviewer, this note is just to let you know we are implementing a trial from February 1 to April 30 to encourage more articles to be published per the outcome of a current proposal. The minimum requirements for article length will be one paragraph of at least a hundred words. At the end of the trial the requirements will return to normal (3 paragraphs etc) and there will be an evaluation discussion about the trial. Happy reviewing! [₂₄Cr][talk] 23:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Temporary change to freshness

Hello. As a reviewer, this note is just to let you know we are implementing a trial from July 4 to October 4 to enable more articles to be reviewed per the outcome of a current proposal. The freshness window is being extended to about five to seven days. At the end of the trial the window will continue to be at 5-7 days while we discuss whether to adopt the change permanently or not. Happy reviewing! [₂₄Cr][talk] 17:32, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

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Haven't seen you around much in recent days. You still with us?--Bddpaux (talk) 21:16, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm still around. For some reason I didn't receive any notification of messages here.--William S. Saturn (talk) 22:19, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

I think you disabled talk page notifications in the Preferences settings. George Ho (talk) 07:21, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Your (in)activity as a reviewer

Hello again. As I see, your last review log was October 2016, almost seven years ago. Per WN:PEP, your lack of reviewer activity for two or more years would lead you to loss of your reviewer permission rights. Of course, you could've used the Easy Peer Review tool, whose actions aren't recorded in the Review log, within the past two years. If you also haven't used the gadget tool within the time frame, then a request that you no longer be a reviewer may more likely be possible. George Ho (talk) 11:25, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Hey again. This is the (belated perhaps) second notice. As I see, you've still not yet reviewed at least one article since I notified you almost one year ago. I may wanna request removal of your reviewer tools at the soonest time if you don't review an article by then. —George Ho (talk) 03:54, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

What exactly are you hoping to accomplish with all this? Do you contribute at all to the main space?--William S. Saturn (talk) 22:31, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrator

You have voted on a few things this year.....but that's about it. Are you still interested in working as an Admin here?--Bddpaux (talk) 22:14, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

social media (cross-posted to all members of reviewer group)

Hi, Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#social_media_for_reviewers_and_authors_and_developers may be of interest to you as a reviewer, thanks and regards, Gryllida (talk) 05:54, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Requesting a review

Hi @William S. Saturn, you are one of the few remaining reviewers / administrators on Wikinews and I was wondering if you could help review my first article here: World Athletics Indoor Championships concludes in Glasgow with new world records and significant wins. I'd really appreciate a review, even if you are rusty, because there have been no new Wikinews articles in over two months. If you're not available, I was wondering if you could vote on or approve Asheiou's RfP here to increase the number of reviewers.

I'll send you an email ping as well because you mentioned above you weren't getting notifications from this talk page. Thank you, --Habst (talk) 18:47, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Review

I have an OR article lingering in the News room..... any chance you could look at it, please--Bddpaux (talk) 15:21, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

You contributing

Any chance you will be able to write here more often? BigKrow (talk) 05:51, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

I'll try to. William S. Saturn (talk) 06:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good. BigKrow (talk) 13:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

If the article I posted isn't reviewed before July then I won't be coming back. There really isn't any point in putting in the effort for nothing. --William S. Saturn (talk) 06:02, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

"There really isn't any point in putting in the effort for nothing" - Don't leave. You are still a reviewer, while you can't publish your own articles, you can publish others and hopefully get this place a bit more active. I honestly think that 2 really active reviewers could revive this place. @William S. Saturn Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 10:37, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Report

Hello, please check this IP for vandalism/spam: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/64.237.181.78. Thank you. Ternera (talk) 16:39, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't know what you want me to do. --William S. Saturn (talk) 05:49, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Presumably @Ternera wanted you to block the IP Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 00:08, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm guessing they wanted a Checkuser done to see if there are other accounts (I've checked and not found any). [₂₄Cr][talk] 14:50, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

But there not a CU @Cromium Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 09:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

On the campaign trail in the USA, May 2024

Done. Sorry it took a while, but let me know for the next one. [₂₄Cr][talk] 23:29, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I will do so. William S. Saturn (talk) 00:21, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Closing a vote

Dear William,

We need someone to make a formal closure of Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy#Conclusion_and_implementation_of_upgrade_to_cc-by-4.0 and I think it should be done by an admin or a bureaucrat.

Is there any chance you could make the closure and conclude if Wikidata should change the license and if yes when?

If other wikis should have a chance to make a change of license the same date they need to know the date some time before the change.

If you are not willing to close the vote thats okay but in that case could you please say no so we can find another solution?

Thank you. --MGA73 (talk) 17:06, 27 July 2024‎ (UTC)

I asked Cromium earlier but then I noticed that Cromium was inactive. So I decided also to ask you too. Cromium is now back and will have a look at it in the next couple of days per User_talk:Cromium#Closing a vote. --MGA73 (talk) 18:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Sadly it seems that Cromium is not active anyway. So if you can close the vote it would be appriciated. --MGA73 (talk) 18:04, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm not going to close it.--William S. Saturn (talk) 07:00, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Okay. Thank you. --MGA73 (talk) 15:55, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Is there something you are looking for that you don't see, or something you see which is affecting your decision? Or do you simply prefer not to step in? I'm not pushing for action—just trying to figure out how to restore forward momentum on the license update project. Thanks, Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:00, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't even know what it's about.--William S. Saturn (talk) 18:25, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Do you know if we're required to have an admin close a vote? If not, then we can handle at least that much. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 20:21, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

I have requested the removal of your reviewer permission

You can find the request at the requests for reviewer removal page. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 13:26, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi

Hi

(I am messaging all reviewers)

Hope you are doing well.

[I am still trying who can review your June article; this may take several days.]

Would you like to get notified of new drafts submitted for review? If so, please tell me which topics (or any topic) and where (email, wiki messages, push notification on smart phone, notification in wiki Notifications, or somewhere else).

Would you find a WN:RNA page for reviewers useful, it would be similar to WN:AAA but intended for reviewers to discuss reviewing and related software.

Would you be interested other communications off-wiki to create audio or video contact with other reviewers? I think this online gathering could be an essential part to deduce how to make article authoring and review easier. It could be just 30 minutes a month, and you don't have to participate every time. I would write a meeting minutes note after each session and publish it on-wiki if desired.

Thanks!

Regards, Gryllida (talk) 11:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Re: Campaign Trail

Hi William S. Saturn

Could you please check your wn-reporters personal email ( wssaturn@)? I've left you a message.

Regards, Gryllida (talk) 01:02, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Holy Macaroni!!!

That has GOT TO BE a record for source articles! We need an award for that! I am horribly sad that it appears to've gone stale, and some good work was pumped into that one.--Bddpaux (talk) 15:39, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

I am disappointed and looking back I think it is necessary to be a bit less scared of publishing article which is not 100% verified. The approach kills 95% of articles submitted by anyone. The other 5% is silly stuff like event missing or a month old in the first place. I am now working on changing how I review to prioritize publishing quickly -- if it is fresh -- over having 100% accuracy. 🤔 Gryllida (talk) 09:30, 9 October 2024 (UTC)