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Policy change proposal: More quotes per episode
[edit]I’ve been trying to add more quotes to the pages for Family Guy's eighth and ninth seasons, but people kept preaching to me that there should only be two quotes per half-hour episode, or else they will get a copyright claim. Anonymous user 100.8.243.246 said to me on UDScott’s talk page that the event it never happens is “unlikely”, but cannot disagree with him more. The page for Season 18 for example has 14 quotes for the episode The Movement, and not a single copyright claim has happened to that. I also added the entire story of Debbie Grund’s death to King of the Hill’s fourth season, and guess what people did about it? Nothing! Besides, why would anyone copyright claim this website anyway, when there are so many other quote websites that are just left alone?
So I’m coming up with a new proposal to raise the maximum number of quotes per episode, since not a single copyright claim has happened to Family Guy Season 18 or King of the Hill Season 4. The maximum number of quotes should be: five quotes for a show less than a half-hour long; 15 quotes for a half-hour; 20 quotes for an hour; 25 quotes for an hour and a half; 30 quotes for two hours; and 40 quotes for 3 hours. Because since no one is copyright claiming those pages, then why should we even care?
P.S. I expect a satisfactory response as soon as possible. I don’t like it when people ignore my words. Playland1998 (talk) 02:33, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- A slight increase might be OK but fifteen quotes per half hour seems much too high. HouseOfChange (talk) 03:16, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- How about ten? Playland1998 (talk) 16:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- It would be more convincing if most tv show articles were attempts at offering quotable lines instead of just recording dialogue. GMGtalk 16:48, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Wikiquote doesn't have all that many active users, but this is an issue people might realistically vote on in mass, given how much activity on this website concerns television shows. This is just my assessment, but we seem to favor movies over TV, and video games and comic books are largely dismissed despite modern video games being comparable in length to novels in their word count and a large portion of the movies coming out being based on comics. If you think we can normally interest a group of twelve people for a vote on anything than you are sorely mistaken, but raising this issue might actually accomplish that. CensoredScribe (talk) 23:39, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- It may not have that many active users, but my complaint is that whatever users are active only focus on those two specific Family Guy pages, while leaving everything else I edited unchanged. Either ALL pages follow these quote limit rules or none of them do, and I am definitely in favor of the latter option. Playland1998 (talk) 17:58, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- There’s nothing wrong with providing context. Just don’t post the entire script. Playland1998 (talk) 22:02, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- Wikiquote doesn't have all that many active users, but this is an issue people might realistically vote on in mass, given how much activity on this website concerns television shows. This is just my assessment, but we seem to favor movies over TV, and video games and comic books are largely dismissed despite modern video games being comparable in length to novels in their word count and a large portion of the movies coming out being based on comics. If you think we can normally interest a group of twelve people for a vote on anything than you are sorely mistaken, but raising this issue might actually accomplish that. CensoredScribe (talk) 23:39, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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Getting started
[edit]Hi. I've been editing the English Wikipedia for a while now and decided to check out Wikiquote. Is there anything like the Task Center where I can find things to do? Thanks. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 08:02, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Welcome to Wikiquote. We are a small project, without a Task Center as far as I know. Most people work on pages about things/people where they already have some knowledge and some interest. Another source of inspiration can be news stories that contain quotable quotes from notable people. I hope you will find areas you enjoy working on and decide to stay. HouseOfChange (talk) 17:57, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
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Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta
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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
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Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
Movement Charter ratification vote
Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.
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Notable Wikipedia people and research on Wikipedia usage
[edit]I noticed that the category Wikipedia people only has only four people in it: Sue Gardner, Andrew Lih, Steven Pruitt and Jimmy Wales. Is that it, or are there other Wikipedia people that would meet the standards of notability and quotability for inclusion on Wikiquote? I very rarely see Wikipedia editors give interviews and when they do it seems to be more often than not to be attributed to their username, with the editor citing concerns for their safety should they lose their anonymity. I was hoping one of the Wikipedia editors who has done interviews might have gone into detail about why they have those safety concerns, because if Wikipedia is truly as dangerous as some of the editors make it sound, than it's bizarre that that it's accessed by so many school age children and no one seems to care they could be in danger were they to become editors. The Surgeon General didn't specifically mention Wikipedia when discussing the health effects of childhood social media usage, but it is still a form of social media, so I'm wondering what research is there concerning Wikipedia in particular in connection to issues like cyberbullying or addictive behavior. My hypothesis is that the well-known Wikipedia gender gap might have something to do with a casual acceptance of cyberbullying, or alternatively that there is for some reason a pervasive false impression of dangerousness that scares away many potential new editors, seeing as there is much less of a gender difference in either academia or in publishing. Other more popular social media websites do not seem to have this problem, Youtube doesn't have a noticeable gender difference and you have much less privacy being on camera than writing, and people post photos of themselves and discuss politically sensitive topics on Facebook but they don't have a noticeable gender difference. CensoredScribe (talk) 15:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Responding to your first sentence, there are lots of notable people who have no WQ article. I created the WQ article for Steven Pruitt after I stumbled on some interesting quotes by him. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:22, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
- It seems all of the Wikipedia people with pages go by their real names; introductory text is hard to write for anonymous pseudonyms, take the page for Banksy for example. CensoredScribe (talk) 00:25, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote
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The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.
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