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WP:CEN is now open!

To all interested parties: Now that it has a proper shortcut, the current events noticeboard has now officially opened for discussion!

WP:CEN came about as an idea I explored through a request for comment that closed last March. Recen research has re-opened the debate on Wikipedia's role in a changing faster-paced internet. Questions of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:Recentism are still floating around. That being said, there are still plenty of articles to write and hopefully this noticeboard can positively contribute to that critical process.

Thank you for your participation in the RFC, and I hope to see you at WP:CEN soon! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Abelmoschus Esculentus,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (June 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Evad37's MoveToDraft

MJL's textDisallow • Opencooper's talkCount • Guywan's List Entry Annotator

SD0001: DYK-helper • find-archived-section • draft-sort-burst • UnassessedArticleLinks • StubSorter

DannyS712: Subcategories • Examine edits • ExpandHistory • Global watchlist

DannyS712's DiscussionCloser

Open tasks

• FR30799386's mobileUndo (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at the village pump
• Interstellarity has requested help with forking Joshua Scott's pending changes script to add a feature

Miscellaneous

• After an MfD, DannyS712's MMS was deleted. It was originally created by Abelmoschus Esculentus. If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.

Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at Wikipedia:Scripts++. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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The June 2019 Signpost is out!

• Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

• News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

• In the media: The disinformation age

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

• Technology report: Actors and Bots

• Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

• Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

• Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

• From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

• Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

• In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

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• Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2019)

A soil profile depicting bedrock Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bedrock Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Legislator • Bookworm (insect) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 July 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #371

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
  • Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
  • State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
  • Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
  • Published in ArXiv:
    • DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
    • ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
  • Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
    • External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
    • External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
    • Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
  • Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
    • Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
  • Newest database reports: education by country

• Development
  • More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
  • Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
  • Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
  • Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
  • Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
  • Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
  • Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
  • Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
  • Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
  • Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Tech News: 2019-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [1]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [2]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [4]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:2018-19 Western Athletic Conference men's basketball season

Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "2018-19 Western Athletic Conference men's basketball season".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CptViraj (📧) 08:28, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:2018-19 Big Sky Conference men's basketball season

Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "2018-19 Big Sky Conference men's basketball season".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CptViraj (📧) 09:43, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:2018/19 Big South Conference men's basketball season

Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "19 Big South Conference men's basketball season".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CptViraj (📧) 03:57, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2019)

Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Sadomasochism Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Bedrock • Legislator Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 July 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #372

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
  • The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
  • Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
  • Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
  • You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
  • Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
  • Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
  • New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
    • External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
    • External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
  • Query examples:
    • 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
    • Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales (source)
    • Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
    • Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
    • World map of sign languages by country (source)
    • Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
    • Map of World Heritage places in Europe (source)
    • Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
  • Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

• Development
  • Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
  • Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
  • Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
  • Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
  • Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
  • Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
  • Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
  • Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [5]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [7]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [8]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [9]

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20:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

• Partnerships
• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2019)

Legal status of cannabis possession for non-medical use (2018)   Legal   Illegal but decriminalized   Illegal but often unenforced   Illegal See also countries that have legalized medical use of cannabis. Hello, Abelmoschus Esculentus. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Decriminalization of marijuana Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Sadomasochism • Bedrock Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 July 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2019-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [10]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Edit filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [11]

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15:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC)