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Speedy deletion declined: Too Cool to Care

Hello Bentogoa. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Too Cool to Care, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Criterion A3 explictly states that "redirects are not eligible for this criterion". Thank you. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 16:48, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Get a clue

U clearly dont read what you revert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.89.82 (talk) 16:57, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

U have two accounts.

I have only one account bentogoa Bento Fernandes 17:04, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

HI

The personal attack,was it bad?--MayhemMario (talk) 17:21, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Look here, it was against you (in edit summery) http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Sam_Mitchell_%28EastEnders%29&action=history Bento Fernandes 17:25, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Xagar lower jubba somalia

Hi. I've declined your speedy request as the article isn't 'nonsense' in the CSD sense. That's for stuff like 'dttryuvbuyfg ygyuyu' and totally incomprehensible gibberish. This is badly written, but can be understood. I'm going to check if it's any use, or already in somewhere else. By the way, nice catch on Harry arlington. Peridon (talk) 12:29, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Reviewer granted

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Speedy deletion declined: Deinonychus (album)

Hello Bentogoa. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Deinonychus (album), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: criterion A7 doesn't apply as this is an article about an album and not the band; A9 doesn't apply either, as the band has an article. Thank you. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 11:29, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Insomnia (Deinonychus album)

Hello Bentogoa. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Insomnia (Deinonychus album), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to music; and Deinonychus (band) have an article, so A9 does not apply either. May well fail WP:NALBUMS, but you'll have to consider AFD or PROD. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 12:07, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

speedy delete declined

I am declining speedy delete for Onetravel because for the spam speedy delete it has to be pure promotion that cannot be edited to make it an article. The same applies for Original Pub Company. Do not nominate articles like this for speedy deletion when they are not a pure spam. I would suggest that you read carefully the reasons for speedy delete at WP:CSD. Our mission here is to build an encyclopedia, not delete all the inadequate new stuff. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:14, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Goldsmith

How are those changes vandalism?205.206.8.197 (talk) 08:14, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

He likely made a mistake by selecting "Vandalism" as a criteria for reverting instead of "Unexplained Removal of Content" (assuming he was using an automated tool like Huggle). I know I used to do that all the time. Sellyme^Talk 08:17, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Just Started using igloo could not find "Unexplained Removal of Content" button in it, Now back to Huggle.Bentogoa (talk) 08:39, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Ridiculousness

Perhaps you should try actually checking for an explanation before you revert edits for being "unexplained." 63.104.174.146 (talk) 14:23, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Ok, Sorry about that, I overlooked Bentogoa (talk) 14:28, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks, Bentogoa, for all you do on Wikipedia—especially keeping my user page free of vandalism. Pinethicket (talk) 14:59, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the encouragement Bentogoa (talk) 15:20, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

ACC account

Requested an account on the ACC account creation interface Bentogoa (talk) 08:44, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Death to Smoochy

Hi. Please explain how my edit to Death to Smoochy was vandalism. Thanks. 72.37.244.28 (talk) 17:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I searched the name Elvis Stojko in all the refs could not find it. Bentogoa (talk) 17:45, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Then you didn't look hard enough. Watch the (entire) credits, his name is included (specifically as choreographing and skating as Robin Williams, presumably during the final scene). 72.37.244.28 (talk) 17:48, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I Don't have that movie to Watch it. Bentogoa (talk) 10:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Then you really shouldn't be reverting the edit, and certainly shouldn't be adding unwarranted vandalism tags to my talk page. In the future, if you can't properly check referenced material, leave it for someone else. 72.37.244.28 (talk) 16:50, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Comparison of webmail providers

Hi, Why did you undo my changes to Comparison_of_webmail_providers? Only because I was to stupid to add a description of the added info, as always?

I find it's a crucial information, that there are much more powerfull paid versions - but after reading about the managerial structure of wiki on SPON I should't even care about doing anything anymore.

Regards 93.128.10.227 (talk) 06:17, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

I have undid my revert, However the info you have added is not sourced, I even checked the the mail providers home page, there is no info of any charges. Please add a summery when you add or remove information.

I did not understand what you meant of SPON Bentogoa (talk) 08:56, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Here you go: http://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/g.fcgi/products/mail/compare

If you don't see the following, I can upload a screenshot when I figure out how:

GMXFreeMail 0,- Euro

GMXProMAIL 2,99 Euro

GMXTopMail 4,99 Euro

Just ignore my SPON comment. But if you really want to know my rhetorical comment you need to read this: GoogleTranslate (I hope it's readable.) 93.128.11.103 (talk) 18:26, 18 April 2011 (UTC) Bye.

Kimberly Kane

Why was my edit considered vandalism? I provided valid references. 58.106.63.43 (talk) 11:33, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

My Mistake, Reverted my revision to your & removed warning. Bentogoa (talk) 12:54, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Your request for deletion of User talk:Bentogoa/Cheatsheet

I have nominated the page for CSD per your request. WikiPuppies! (bark) 16:38, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Bentogoa (talk) 16:41, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. WikiPuppies! (bark) 17:03, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Deleting school articles

Hi, the practice here is that school articles are not subject to A7 speedy deletion. High school articles almost always will survive an AFD. Also you used db-web, this template applies to web content. You may wish to read WP:CSD to learn about speedy deleting. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:04, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for info Bentogoa (talk) 12:24, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Revert

Thank you for monitoring wikipedia edits for vandalism and such. I just wanted to question your reverting my edit here. The title you reverted it back to is very generic and does not do a very good job of summarizing the content in the article. I realize that you are reverting a large number of unproductive edits, but I would appreciate it if you would either self-revert that or participate in the discussion regarding it on the talk page. BelloWello (talk) 21:29, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Because you change section heading to "Masturbation based scandal in the early 1980's", I mostly lookout for such words Bentogoa (talk) 21:34, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

True, but, surprisingly, that is exactly what it was. The controversy started, if you read the article, when a faculty member made comments regarding masturbation, hence I think it is best to describe what happened in the title. If you disagree, I would appreciate if you would explain your logic on the talk page, otherwise, if you would kindly revert... BelloWello (talk) 21:36, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Have done that. Bentogoa (talk) 21:42, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

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Pantheon Piano Quintet

Hi there again, you have been pretty active nominating speedy delete again!. For Pantheon Piano Quintet you nominated this with an A9, however it was not a recording, but a band. I deleted it anyway using A7. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:29, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Will be careful in future Bentogoa (talk) 10:32, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello again, for Indian incometax department you said it did not expand on Central Board for Direct Taxes, however if you compared the articles it does indeeed have much more content on history. Unforunately it is a copyvio of http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/HISTORY/PRE-1922.ASP so I am going to delete it under G12. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:53, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

soul or meat

and if you are also non-believer in soul, or think that animals have no souls - so you also deserve to be butchered on slaughterhouse for meat and eaten by cannibal. Hope, christian Indians don't want to be butchered, so hope they do not support meat-eating and animal-butchering. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.94.60.98 (talk) 15:29, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

You edit was vandalism, therefor it was reverted. If you believe your edit was correct discuss why it was so. Bentogoa (talk) 16:19, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism

Many thanks! Ian Cairns (talk) 20:30, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Your welcome Bentogoa (talk) 20:30, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

2011 malta earthquake

In regard to your request for the speedy deletion of this page, where is the prior Articles for Deletion discussion? There needs to be one in order to justify speedy deletion as a repost. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:42, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Looks like i tag it wrong again, However this page has been deleted (by CSD) multiple times [1] [2]

Please reply

Please reply on my talk page or here before reverting. If you will continue to revert my edits witout explanation, I will request a 3rd opinion to help sort this out. Megamethamphetamine (talk) 15:20, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Done Have Replied on your Talk Page, and this be here so it will be archive. Bentogoa (talk) 16:05, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Orphan Coleophora

Hello there! Could I ask you not to put an orphan tag on Coleophora species articles I make just yet? I am going to make a list of species as soon as I am done making the species articles themselves, which should take another week or two. Thanks! Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:56, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Agree Ok, Fine Bentogoa (talk) 16:06, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Be careful with them en dashes

Your "cleanup" at Euler's pump and turbine equation changed to page number "page = 4-229" to an incorrect page range "pages = 4–229". This is the kind of mistake that is going to fuel the en dash paranoia that has emerged at WT:MOS in recent weeks. Check the linked source or leave it alone if it's not obvious. Dicklyon (talk) 14:48, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Not sure The cleanup was done using AWB, you can hardly see this change of dash. Bentogoa (talk) 16:16, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Question about the Slender Man article

Just wondering why you deleted all references to Tribe Twelve. Cougar Draven (talk) 22:56, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Looks like a mistake to me, bu it was reverted Thanks for informing Bentogoa (talk) 07:29, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

IRC cloak request

Request a IRC cloak request Bentogoa (talk) 13:30, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Requested an account on the ACC account creation interface

Requested an account on the ACC account creation interface Bentogoa (talk) 13:31, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Posted by User:83.85.168.145

How is it vandalism? It's the truth! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.85.168.145 (talk) 12:39, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Note: 19:04, 21 May 2011 (UTC) Here are your edits which can be considered to be vandalism [1] [2] [3] [4] Bentogoa (talk) 19:04, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks from User:Shounak donal

Hello Bentogoa. I just wanted to thank you for the belated welcome. ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shounak donal (talk • contribs) 16:08, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Politicians arrested and charges with corruption

You are invited for discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 June 1 and also Category talk:Politicians arrested and charges with corruption- . Shlok _{talk .} 18:05, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Samuel Aitken Vandalism revert

Just to let you know I restored the above page back to before your revert as there was another Ip that had vandalised before the one you reverted. Vrenator (talk) 15:07, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for info Bentogoa (talk) 15:09, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Vandal

He's vandalised Purple Pills and i've undone it. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:212.178.154.129 Can you get the block sorted or the next warning since i don't know how. Thanks Jenova20 13:49, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

a) I am not a Admin to block him, he was blocked by a admin for 1 week. Bentogoa (talk) 13:56, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm not a new editor but i'm still training so i didn't know how to go above 4 warnings and this guy is vandalising fast.

Good new that he's blocked though, thumbs up.

Thanks Jenova20 14:15, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

after 4 warnings if the vandal continues he/she should be reported to AIV [[5]] Bentogoa (talk)

Useful to know! Thanks Bentogoa Jenova20 14:35, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

for the help on my talk page. :) Wikipelli ^Talk 18:25, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Happy to help Bentogoa (talk) 18:27, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm trying to get him

I'm trying to get him to stay out of trouble but hes not so thats why i'm trying to keep him from being suspended by Wikipedia which means the account is deleted and he needs to stop it or his account can be disabled by MediaWiki and if hes suspended from the whole entire MediaWiki site including here and other sites, he can't log in to the site and he will not be allowed to create accounts permanetly. Thats why he needs to stop vandalizing the pictures because they are small size and they are fair use so he needs to stop vandalizing the tags so that he doesn't get in trouble and suspended. But it seems to me Skier Dude2 needs to be blocked from editing for good so he can stop it and he will have to find another site to contribute there so he can't mark whatever for deletion so he needs to be delt with anyways so you need to report Skier Dude2 to Wikipedia so Wikipedia can take action about that.--HappyLogolover2011 (talk) 18:51, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I dont know anything about Skier Dude2 or Skier Dude, If he is going against Wikipedia policies you can solve it at the reverent Noticeboard.

Telling a user to go away from wiki[[6]] is not the way Bentogoa (talk) 11:52, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism

You're welcome - keep up the good work!! Denisarona (talk) 12:56, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

IP 59.95.15.0

I have posted your request at Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies/Unblock. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:11, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Bentogoa (talk) 16:04, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

meany

yes, mean — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.19.250 (talk) 08:13, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

? Bentogoa (talk) 08:51, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Regarding removal content "2G spectrum..." from article "Subrata Roy"

Since the concerned matter is sub-judice, i.e. pending before court of law, any vexatious or biased comment or accusation causing damage to the image and reputation of an individual in lieu of any court verdict against the said individual, amounts to a criminal offence of Defamation under section 499 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. All persons who draft, publish, or aid and assist in drafting or publishing any such defamatory content are liable to be prosecuted in the court of law.

08:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)~~--115.113.103.104 (talk) 08:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

The IP address posting the above has now been blocked for making legal threats. In addition, it has been pointed out that the "Indian Penal Code" is likely of no relevance to editors who are not located in India, nor to Wikipedia itself (since Wikipedia is not hosted in India). --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:21, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for info Bentogoa (talk)

Also I am from India Bentogoa (talk) 14:41, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah, in that case I will just say, firstly, most legal threats are silly. Secondly, some parts of point (1.) made in this reply may be of interest. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:58, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Resilient Barnstar
	For your contributions! Fewq567 (talk) 07:47, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

A question for Bantogoa.

Do you own a convenience store? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.112.182 (talk) 15:41, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Why do u ask Bentogoa (talk) 15:43, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Cuz' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.112.182 (talk) 15:45, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

.....

Why did u delete my page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cammo33 (talk • contribs) 16:43, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I am NOT an admin to delete a page, I must have tagged a page to deletion under CSD Bentogoa (talk)

Thanks

Many thanks for reverting vandalism on my talk page = I really appreciate it. Denisarona (talk) 12:27, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Your Welcome, Keep up the good work of reverting vandalism Bentogoa (talk) 12:28, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks, guardian angel! Fleet Command (talk) 13:00, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the coffee Bentogoa (talk) 20:38, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

IP edits

Hey Bentogoa, I'd advise you to let that IP (178.84.115.106) be--nothing good can come out of continued interaction. I've given them a final warning (they may remove warnings from the talk page, just like you). Let's not stoke that fire anymore. Happy editing, Drmies (talk) 18:10, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

I have not reverted his removal of warning from his talk page, I had reverted his warning , which were posted on a User page (Not talk page) [7] [8] [9] and told him to post it on user talk page [10] it reverted my message saying vandal [11] Bentogoa (talk) 18:14, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Non-admin tagging

Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Administrators instructions. Non-admins should not be tagging IP addresses. They get re-used. Crude Connection (talk) 18:18, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Looks like [User:IronDuke] is NOT a Admin Bentogoa (talk) 18:19, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Ideally, all of his tags would be removed, but some of them are probably accurate. In any case he's pursuing a personal grudge, and not working to help the project. Crude Connection (talk) 18:21, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

I have asked an admin and he has confirm that a non-admin can add SPI tag to ip/ accounts Bentogoa (talk) 06:09, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

justify yourself

Does not labeling 'vandalizm' contradict the Wikipedia philosophy. Who are you to sat what is vandalized and what is not? Plz clarify? You seem to want to play God with Wikipedia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.96.106.74 (talk) 20:14, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Read This Bentogoa (talk) 20:18, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

What if you interpret what someone says as vandalizm, when really it's a more accurate phrase than the pre-edit text? What's to stop you abusing this Power? After all you can't be an expert in everything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.96.100.5 (talk) 20:22, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

This edits are Vandalism / pov [12] [13] [14] [15] , That for anyone to see. Bentogoa (talk) 20:28, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Sure, but I was meaning in general. I assume you have no qualifications that pertain to vandalism and thus how can we be assured you don't have an underlying agenda... apart from your say so? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.96.100.5 (talk) 20:39, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Enough, this is going nowhere, your attempt to provoke me has failed, if you have any problem with my reverts take it to [16] Bentogoa (talk) 20:43, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm not attempting to provoke, merely trying to determine if you are employed by/or have a vested interest in the company whose entry I was editing. That is the point I was getting at. I appreciate that you did not revert these posts also. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.128.35 (talk) 21:08, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

link on Tim Bowness page

I placed a link to my website detailing my current musical activities. The link is via my name (Ian Simpson) which is mentioned as a past collaborator with Tim. It's been refused and I wondered why this has happened ? regards Ian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.5.42.99 (talk) 11:58, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Read This Bentogoa (talk) 12:01, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Surname nadars

refer 2 list of nadars u wil get the source — Preceding unsigned comment added by KARTYZZZ (talk • contribs) 12:22, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Where is the list ? Please provide the link Bentogoa (talk) 13:22, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

kernel

The article is about the "Linux" operating system but the numbering is only for the kernel . Alaukikyo (talk) 08:55, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Amended speedy delete reason

Hi. I amended the speedy delete reason on The Old Vic Tunnels from a1 (as the context was actually there, even if the article was short!) to a7. Cheers, Nik thestoned 16:29, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Bentogoa (talk) 16:30, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Toronto Argonauts

The last edit was mot vandalism. I said they were sad, well they are. They fumbled the ball on the ALs 1 yard line and gave a TD to Chip Cox. Go ALS!!! And they are led be a Lemon....Cleo Lemon. All accurate and verifyable as per Wkipedia rules — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.51.31.85 (talk) 17:45, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Inserting an image

Sir

How to insert an image in an article  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arjun2014 (talk • contribs) 17:49, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

1) upload the image to commons or wikipedia [17] 2) Put [Image:{name of image }] insert this in the Article where you Want to place the image.

To upload Image it should be free image Bentogoa (talk) 17:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For your anti-vandalism efforts (and thanks for the rv. on my talk page). That Ole Cheesy Dude ^{(Talk to the hand!)} 20:16, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Bentogoa (talk) 20:18, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Hosanna Music page

Hello.

I am Robbie Shears. i work as a producer for Integrity's Hosanna! Music. i am trying to clear up some issues and misinformation on the page. Would you please keep me up to date on any changes you make. Please email me at rshears@casonpros.com Thanks!69.247.177.67 (talk) 08:39, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

thank you and God bless — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.177.67 (talk) 08:36, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

You need to read WP:COI Bentogoa (talk) 08:41, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Dr. Drew

Hello Dr. Drew did fail a RFA at en.wiki, why did you undo my edits? 69.175.77.42 (talk) 07:15, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

That is not encyclopedic information . Read WP:Wikipedia_is_an_encyclopedia Bentogoa (talk) 07:18, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination

I see that you nominated Gold sol for speedy deletion as vandalism. The article is lacking in various ways, but the information in it is correct. I don't know how much checking you did before deciding that it was vandalism, but you should be very careful using Huggle, and not mark something as vandalism unless you are sure that it is. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:42, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for info Bentogoa (talk) 14:55, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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I am sorry to bug you but hy did you flag my article undercooked egss? i gave it all my knoledge that i have of it. if it is that i did not put any references please tell me now.

This Article has been deleted under CSD G3 Bentogoa (talk) 20:17, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

The Barrow GRoup

I was just adding new links to The Barrow GRoup entry because there was a post that said it needed more references. I am new to wikipedia and thought I was doing it correctly, but all of the sudden the page has been deleted. Please advise.72.224.40.79 (talk) 20:12, 10 September 2011 (UTC) Robert (email is rserrell@aol.com)

I do't Know what you are talking of ! Your Contributions shows this is your first Edit. Bentogoa (talk) 20:18, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

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isent he cute???

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sonia gandu

I do not see the attack on this page, it was just a redirect. Is the name itself in someway an attack in a foreign language? Gaijin42 (talk) 19:51, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the page was re-direct to Sonia Gandhi , I could not think of other CSD for it.

: But in what way is that an attack? Gaijin42 (talk) 19:55, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

gandu Hindi word for arsehole.

Ah. I see. Then the CSD likely does apply. I removed it but will put it back. Gaijin42 (talk) 20:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

George Grant article

I have repeatedly reported the abusive vandalizing of the article "George Grant" by user EducationResource. He or she continually inserts false and/or irrelevant editorial comments based on a particular ideological perspective and/or personal antagonism. Please do something to stop this abuse before restoring the article. It would be better to have no article at all than to have a false and/or antagonistic one posted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mniearl (talk • contribs) 03:10, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Re this revert

Thanks. Now Wikipedia is God. Keep up the good work. Sven Manguard Wha? 09:12, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Ha ha, Thanks Bentogoa (talk) 09:13, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for the clarification

I have already made the necessary changes. The deletion was caused by a typo I made. My regrets for any inconvenience it may have caused. Kaitheloner (talk) 09:22, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Blazetrak repair

Bentogoa,

thank you so much for reverting my revision! I was trying to blank out a draft page in my subpages and somehow accidentally blanked out the Blazetrak entry! Huge slip-up on my part!

Thanks again! WizardlyWho (talk) 18:01, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

No Problem Bentogoa (talk) 18:01, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

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Television episode and season articles badly needed

Based on your userbox display, I thought you might be interested in the lists at Wikipedia:Television_episodes#Episodes.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Bentogoa,

The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.

But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.

As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.

We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

Timestamp for Archive Bentogoa (talk) 17:41, 11 Oct 2011 (UTC)

I won't vandalize again.

Okay sorry for vandalizing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OMGWTFLOLROTFLLMFAO (talk • contribs) 05:51, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

That's Good to know Bentogoa (talk) 17:39, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

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Source

Can you tell us what source is used to update the article above ? --DBig Xray 20:50, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

The Source for the titles are the Videos of the Episodes itself (the title are mention in the video).

Bentogoa (talk) 21:05, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Please see WP:V, a reliable source will be needed as a reference to keep the article. --DBig Xray 21:17, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

List of supporting characters in C.I.D. (TV series) listed at Redirects for discussion

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Joseph M. Papp

My understanding is that Joseph M. Papp has been forced to take legal action against cyclngnews.com and their publisher, Future Publishing - or at least formally threaten it - over the repeated dissemination of defamatory, libelous claims through their website this weeks - so the wikipedia page for him may be subject to more vandalism that I will attempt to thwart as well, to allow only for the editing of the article with sourced, factual material. Azx2 (talk) 20:50, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

I should note that these information is based on what I read at cyclingnews.com but the particular discussion is deleted. These is where the claims of defamatory libel and harassment were made. 98.236.51.204 (talk) 22:29, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Fireball (liqueur)

Hello!

We are the brand owners of Fireball - which is NOT a liqueur, but a cinnamon-flavored Canadian whisky. While we would actually prefer to have the "Fireball (liqueur)" page removed altogether, that does not appear to be possible, which is why we simply replaced the copy with "See Fireball Cinnamon Whisky." The information contained on the "Fireball (liqueur)" page was not accurate; the information on the new Fireball Cinnamon Whisky page is. Please RETURN the copy "See Fireball Cinnamon Whisky" to the "Fireball (liqueur)" page. Many thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccharters (talk • contribs) 17:21, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

I have requested an account on the ACC account creation interface

I have requested an account on the ACC account creation interface Bentogoa (talk) 17:01, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

FYI: The ACC tool requires all users to be identified to the WMF. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:09, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for info Bentogoa (talk) 08:55, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Ichabod's Plaza

Hello Bentogoa. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ichabod's Plaza, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: seems a reasonable redirect to me. Thank you. Ged UK 12:23, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

oops, thought that redirect was to self , miss the 'h' difference Bentogoa (talk) 12:25, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Mahanama College Rugby Wing

Hi. Your input on Talk:Mahanama College Rugby Wing would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Sam 🎤 08:41, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Huggle

Careful there where you are sending those warnings, lol. IronGargoyle (talk) 13:25, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of List of C.I.D. episodes for deletion

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Oh look, another mini-mod. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GVoid (talk • contribs) 08:59, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

E!

Why delete it? they are bunch of US of A'holes & you know it....theyve made everyone outside America mad & they dont care to respond or repair the issue. You are just a trouble maker...I mean do you spend your days deleting & editing? 21:25, 17 June 2014 (UTC)~ (or whatever it is you wanted to see at the end of my comment.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.185.193.159 (talk)

Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer

Michael73072 (talk) 00:11, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Ok , It was my mistake, have reverted it back to your edit. Bentogoa (talk) 05:54, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Bank note

The picture in the 20 Rupees bank note is Kovalam Beach. Not Port Blair. [18] 117.216.25.236 (talk) 06:01, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

its port Blair, I have a Rs 20 note in front of me, Read This [19] Bentogoa (talk) 06:05, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Yeah. I also have a 20 Rupees note in front of me :). Now Observe carefully with the image given by me. The beach in the note is a Crescent shaped beach unlike the picture you given. There is also a small land formation into the sea which is also clearly visible in the picture I given. Also the source you given is not credible. 117.216.25.236 (talk) 06:11, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

You can also observe that the light house is far from the seashore in the port Blair picture, while the light house is exactly the same distance from the shore in Kovalam picture as in the Bank note. 117.216.25.236 (talk) 06:14, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

There seems to be discussion all over internet over which one it is, But there is not a single RS, RBI does not mention which one it is, The one of Kovalam Beach looks more like it Bentogoa (talk) 06:25, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Why is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled on the list of games notable for negative reception

It's clear just by looking at the section the person had very little idea what s/he where doing. Even in what s/he posted on the site says that the game received mixed reviews. Just look at the scores posted with the entry, IGN 5.9/10, GameZone 7/10, Metacritic 55/100 (PS3) 60/100 (X360). Does any of this sound like a game notable for negative reception. And just so everyone is clear, I have never play this game, I have no attachment to it, the only reason I want it off is because it doesn't belong hear.

Your revert at Buccaneer Is Unwarranted

I provided a link to the author of a controversial statement whic clearly has many references. The statement does not belong there in reality. It is an attempt at revisionist history to promote radical viewpoints so I will completely remove it now. Please remember before reverting it is your responsibility to investigate thoroughly. The log shows that the time between my edit and your revert may indicate a lack of due diligence on your part. The goal is not how many edits but how one improves the project. Please seek consensus on the talk page before performing fast revert so as not to be construed as edit warring. Thanks 172.56.11.89 (talk) 11:49, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

yellowtube notice/vote

HI there, I replied to your flag, although I msut confess, I am nto sure If I did or correctly.. Did you receive it? If so, please provide me with some detail? If not, please ket me know so I can take it up here.

Thanks Louis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Louisvantonder (talk • contribs) 13:53, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

hi

I am concerned by the fact that thee deems thy corrections not noteworthy when they are purely facts and recent changes, however I apologize for you misunderstanding, send your apology soon please. 11tobinn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 11tobinn (talk • contribs) 15:10, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Antidepressants

I died in the seventh century. Thanks to cloning that was done in Calgary much later, I was resurrected. May it happen to Jesus in your heart. Bohgosity BumaskiL 75.156.178.30 (talk) 11:39, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Radicality

Despite how my email address appears, I am actually against notability requirements on wikipedia. Lots of space is here for advertizing, although you may find it hard to link it up inside of wikipedia. If you would volunteer to flesh out out a fictional biography, then I can help you rewrite your article, here, on your talk page, or on a user page / that you create. It would help me to decide whether I really want to do that, if you were to either contribute with expansion, or undo your own reversion. In keeping with Jimmy Wale's principle that anyone can edit wikipedia, I do not like bias against IP#s. 75.156.178.30 (talk) 12:08, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

I note that you program in PHP. If you hav any ideas for my fractal gallery, then feel free to make your pitch and offer rates. Of relevance to wikipedia is my Imajinary Guide to Orijinal Research on Wikipedia. Strictly subversive, I understand. In opposition, I want a clear standard for speculation. I will not get it in astrophysics. 75.156.178.30 (talk) 17:49, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

A ship for administrators (AdminShip)

Apparently, a boat trains doctors in arts of lying about when they are on vacation (traditionally, any day of the week is compulsory for preventing workaholism). Computer off, get sun, go for run; not seven days a week, though. I do not recommend travelling on this boat, because it also seems to make them fail to believe in what they are reading, unless it is fiction. I feel like failing a doctor in English comprehension, statistics, and convicting him of attacking his own children before they are born. Daman Hongren (talk) 15:36, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Stay away from my Talk page, I am aware that u are User 75.156.178.30, Your posts make no sense to me, I reverted your edit because of this "Investigate the safety of such polypharmacy with a drug interactions tool if you please. " and more comments Bentogoa (talk) 15:55, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Sorry

Hello, I recently edited the Australian super centenarians page, but you reverted it with huggle (though it wasn't vandalism, and I believe my edits were indeed constructive). I just wanted to apologize for my rude edit description and also thank you for your understanding. Thank you for reviewing my edits and allowing them to stay. :) Regards and all the best, 99.102.179.242 (talk) 21:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

WHO ARE YOU TO DECIDE?

WHO ARE YOU TO DECIDE? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FrancesClarification (talk • contribs) 14:35, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Please Read This Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources --Bentogoa (talk) 14:39, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Right.

Right. And what are your sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FrancesClarification (talk • contribs) 14:40, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Davey Richards

Hey I just saw your message and the information that I added was correct. I'm new to this so I didn't know how to add my sources. All of that information came from Davey's DVD's (The Kevin Steen Show with Davey Richards, Versus Series Davey Richards & Kevin Steen and Davey Richards Hunt For Glory. So its from his own ommission. If you want to watch those dvds they are availible at highspots.co.uk or highspots.com depending where you live. The mention of Brutus also came from a converstion I had with Davey's fiance on twitter.

Finally as he says on the Kevin Steen Show he is a fully trained firefighter now and actually works for the fire department in St Louis when he's not wrestling for TNA. He also said that he actually had to qualify as an EMT first before being allowed to go through training as a firefighter.

That's all I wanted to say...so if you want to update this page with that information then feel free to do so if not its your decision. I always make sure my information is correct before I edit. Have a nice day

JeffAJPunkGirl (talk) 14:43, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Lg g2 mini

Dear sir or madam

First of all, thanks for writing technical specifications of Lg G2 mini on Wikipedia web page.

On that Wikipedia web page it was told that rear camera of Lg G2 mini has optical image stabilization feature. However, I've realized that rear camera of Lg G2 mini doesn't have optical image stabilization feature.

Therefore, could you modify that Wikipedia web page according to thing mentioned below, please?

Sincerely

92.44.58.89 (talk) 08:42, 18 August 2014 (UTC) Baris Turkkorkmaz

Valparai content removed

Hi, I have seen, you have removed the content from https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Valparai. If you watch the same video or read the content, you will find the initiative from NGO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcdMjv41ho#t=14. I have nothing to do with that organisation, but I have heard about elephant attack in different region of India, and this was good initiative taken by NGO. People can watch and replicate the same solution in elephant affected zone. Request you to activate the same content for the mass benefit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcdMjv41ho#t=14 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemantjha (talk • contribs) 05:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Declined speedy

I've declined the speedy for Umbrella Man (Occupy Central Movement, Hong Kong) as there is an assertion of notability for this (it's been specifically mentioned in the news) and as such doesn't qualify for a speedy deletion. However that said, I'd probably recommend proposing merging this into the main article and redirecting there. There is quite a bit of coverage out there, but it's predominantly about the protest and at this point, it's just slightly premature to have an article. I don't think that we'd really benefit from deleting the article altogether since there is the potential for it to receive enough coverage to merit an article separate from the main protest one, so a merge proposal would be my recommendation for the next course of action. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:08, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Why do people hate Obamaa

People hate Obam because they think he is giving all our jobs to china and talking all our money but that is wrong. No body really knows were everything us going.

alright mate--Billymanjoe (talk) 13:34, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

King Size Dick

I do not know why but something went wrong, Wikipedia switched from sectioin edit to page edit mode automatically. I also noticed that, and repaired it. If you like, please double check that everything is good now. -- 46.115.6.192 (talk) 14:03, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015

Hi. Thank you for your help with the vital work of patrolling new pages. I noticed that you are not marking some of the pages you've reviewed as patrolled. Please do remember to click the 'mark this page as patrolled' link at the bottom of the new page if you have performed the standard patrolling tasks. Where appropriate, doing so saves time and work by informing fellow patrollers of your review of the page, so that they do not duplicate efforts. Thanks again for volunteering your time at the new pages patrol project. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 14:33, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Will do that from now onwards Bentogoa (talk) 14:35, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Rovi Corp

I see that you removed my post about Rovi Corp. Do you work for them? I also see that you are a fellow brother in Christ. I am just trying to keep people from being harmed. Thanks for your attention. I pray that I did not greive the Holy Spirit. I strive to serve Him (Jesus) with all my heart. Mwfrancis (talk) 14:57, 15 January 2015 (UTC) Mike

Justin Vivian Bond revert looks irresponsible

Hi, Bentogoa. Your sweeping reversions (-713?) to an article I've been working on for a couple weeks look like edit warring to me. I don't understand your motivations because you never contacted me or made an effort to explain yourself, although you had plenty of time. You also reverted some edits I had made only a few seconds before, which raises the question of how much thought you put into all this, how familiar with the secondary sources, how knowledgeable on the life of this person and transgender issues in general and the points raised on the talk page? I checked and you do not belong to either of the wiki groups interested in this article. Not knowing your motivations, your actions appear irresponsible and destructive of the wiki community, not to mention this particular article. If you are going to be careless and thoughtless in your actions then you are going to cause harm. Certainly, my feelings were hurt by your actions. The guidelines state that reversion exists to undo vandalism and should be used only when edits are clearly damaging to an article and no element of the edit is an improvement, in order to avoid driving editors away from wikipedia. This clearly was not the case with my edits, which I was not even allowed to complete. A lot remains to be done to bring this article up to date, and I would like to continue working on it with other editors of good will. Since you advise that we are free to revert any edits of yours, I will do so in this case unless I hear back from you, and I hope that in the future you will extend me the same courtesy and think twice before acting recklessly. Extrachessy (talk) 04:50, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

looks like I made a mistake, I have reverted myself, it happens when the words "Gay" is added to a page. I will try to be more careful in future Bentogoa (talk) 07:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Ailanthus altissima

Hi,

Please stop reverting without reading, I am not vandalizing in any way (and if the concern is about sources, I did put one, even if it is in French - I translated the corresponding passage). Bu180 (talk) 07:22, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

References added to Leela Samson edits

Hi, I noticed that you reverted my previous edit to Leela Samson because I had not cited references. Actually, I intended to do that in the second subsequent edit. Anyway, now I have again made a big edit that considerably expands and improves the article (including fixing typos, etc) and have cited 5 new newspaper reports (from 2010 to 2015) as references. Thanks. 14.139.38.10 (talk) 08:10, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Untitled

Hello, I'm Rizky. Firstly I didn't know about include a citation and I just see from List of American Muslims, it said about convert thing so, I edited that article. But thanks for your noticing very quick about that.Rizqts (talk) 13:26, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Grubman

I changed the intro sentence on this article, because the crime is the only reason she has a wikipedia page at all. She has no other significance that warrants any notoriety. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:7E00:9F4:216:CBFF:FE3A:135C (talk) 13:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015

Hello, you asked me about the reason for my removal of content about the Yellow badge without explanation with this edit. I didn't remove the content without explanation. However, my explanation seems not to have been fully complete or saved properly.

The reason for the removal was that the Yellow badge article is specifically about Jews being forced to wear the Yellow badge. The article is even part of a series on antisemitism. As a result, I fail to see the relevance of an article about Jews being forced to wear yellow badges to Hindus being forced to wear it during the Taliban rule of Afghanistan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enigmie (talk • contribs) 18:04, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Reviews

Hello dear i want to tell you i just want to add reviews of Baby as it will release tomarrow.But the reviews are out.So kindly let me add some reviews of notable websites.

Regards Being Human — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaib.rose1 (talk • contribs) 14:32, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

did you read or just bot-edit

this article is a lie, the sources are bogus, they are actually youtube scammers - please respond — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.247.126.9 (talk) 14:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

READ don't just bot

thank God you were here to protect the integrity of pages made by con artists to advertise their "services" - you think you're "helping" with the armies of bots you're running, really you are just part of the problem with this website reverting EVERY edit that isnt sourced automatically via bot? be more of a control-freak please - how many thousands of well-meaning contributors have been silenced by your knee-jerk stupidity? - get a life — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.247.126.9 (talk) 15:05, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

hey

hey the torture part was wrong , it had no truths so i had to take it off .

please don't let this lies be here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.79.233.247 (talk) 15:10, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

3RR notice

User:Down Kitty has made a page protection request here. The only reason I could not block them at this moment, because to do that I had to block you too, as both of you have violated WP:3RR. Please do not make any more revert there. Contact me if you need help. --Tito Dutta (talk) 16:36, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Will be careful in future, Thanks for pointing it out Bentogoa (talk) 18:25, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Edit to Bart Simpson article

You just left a message on my talk page informing me "that [you] undid one of [my] recent contributions —the one [I] made with this edit to Bart Simpson— because it didn’t appear constructive to [you]." You then say, "If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page." So that's what I am doing. I have no idea whether you made a mistake in reverting me or not, because you didn't even bother providing an explanation in the edit summary. So I definitely have a question--why did you revert my edit? Junky One Nine (talk) 13:46, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

You Rejected Something Unrighteously

YOU ARE BAD

NoleyPoley99 (talk) 17:42, 23 January 2015 (UTC) NoleyPoley99

First off, be civil; calling someone "bad" isn't. Secondly, regarding this edit, adding yourself goes against the notability guidelines (even though the notability guidelines generally don't apply to article content, there's an exception to that exception for lists) and even if notable, it would go in the notable people section. Esquivalience ^t 17:46, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

List of terrorist incidents, 1982

Hi, I just noticed your revert of my edits to this page. I am, quite frankly, removing tons of crap from this whole series of articles, and will probably merge them afterwards. I agree with you that the New York Post is an acceptable source for the one incident it was being used to support, and so is Newsday. However, I've had a lot of trouble verifying the existence of articles by those news sources cited in our articles. Both seem to have moved things around multiple times on their websites since the original URLs were added here. I have no issue - none - with properly supported material in the articles I'm editing at the moment. However, because I'm having to remove so much unacceptable material, I really need a source that is verifiable. At present, I can't verify bare URL citations to the NY Post or Newsday. If you can find those articles, or another proper source, I'd absolutely be in favor of returning that one item to the article. 209.211.131.181 (talk) 18:22, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

You Making Mistake This is one of the Biggest Revelination at Oscar

On Occasion of 87th Annual Academy Awards Launched ALePh For Great Debate On Win & Loss. ALePh is On Going Debate with 87th Academy Awards & also with many other Internation Sports & other Future Related Events ....

I am Julian Assange With Google CEO Eric Schmidt @ Google Home Shop Scotland .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.202.241.242 (talk) 11:30, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Veershetty kushnoor

I've declined your A7 because he passes notability WP:POLITICIAN. MLA is a pass there, just like election to US state legislatures, Scottish Parliament etc are. Peridon (talk) 13:39, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

CSD again under G11 , the page is copy of http://www.kushnoor.in/Shri-Veershetty-Kushnoor-Biography/

Dear BENTOGOA- who are you?

Its a pity that u hide behind anonymity and delete almost anything critical of anybody! That's not Journalism- who are you, Mr BENTOGOA? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaykuru (talk • contribs) 14:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

You Making Mistake This is one of the Biggest Revelination at Oscar

I am Julian Assange With Google CEO Eric Schmidt @ Google Home Shop Scotland .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.202.241.242 (talk) 11:30, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Veershetty kushnoor

CSD again under G11 , the page is copy of http://www.kushnoor.in/Shri-Veershetty-Kushnoor-Biography/

Dear BENTOGOA- who are you?

letter4u

Hello,

My recent edit in Letter4u was a modification of the picture which was put by someone else. I just resize the big image. Other change I made was adding the letter. I think my latter act seemed a bit partial to you. But picture modification is a neutral act. Can you return these part of my changes?

thanks!

Idris, the wise (talk) 10:34, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

I can't revert partly Bentogoa (talk) 10:42, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Here, have this Barnstar for conflicting my rollback of vandalism. Rider ranger47 ^Talk 17:02, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Kottarakara

Jonmathew14 (talk) 12:07, 26 January 2015 (UTC) I have removed some contents from Kottarakara as I found some people misused the page for portraying themselves. I am born and brought up in Kottarakara, still living there and I know each and every corner of it. There were/are several notable persons in Kottarakara, some of them are listed on Wikipedia page but someone edited it and simply added their own names/family names too beneath. When I removed it, some of them re-entered their family story and changed the heading from Notable persons to Notable Areas (?). When that also removed, some came with some new families. That I have removed today. Any inconvenience regretted.

I did not revert because of that, you had also removed the References list. Bentogoa (talk) 12:16, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Mark as patrolled

Hi!
When you tag a newly created page for speedy deletion, could you also mark it as patrolled? If you leave it unmarked, other New Page patrollers have to spend time patrolling it. Kolbasz (talk) 14:29, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I use Huggle or Tw to tag, it should automatically mark it patrolled Bentogoa (talk) 14:31, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Maybe they should, but it's not happening here. See for example Young League Pakistan, which is still not marked as patrolled. Cheers. Kolbasz (talk) 14:35, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I tagged that one using huggle Bentogoa (talk) 14:36, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

That may be the case, but the pages are still not being marked as patrolled. So please take the time to click the "Mark this page as patrolled" link manually. Kolbasz (talk) 22:57, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I wiil be tagging all CSD with Twinkle, which marks the page as patrolled automatically Bentogoa (talk) 12:21, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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Page deletion

Hi. I created a page that to be my musician page but you deleted it, I do not know what I can do to prove it. Please my dear! Help me to create it by yourself, please. Name of the page: Clement Soj. Create it send me "username and password" through email: clementsoj3@gmail.com or talk page. God bless you! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clement Soj (talk • contribs) 22:53, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Reply to your message

Hey its TannerKennedy I'm replying to your message I did not mean to edit that page it was a mistake I'm sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by TannerKennedy (talk • contribs) 13:40, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Replying to your message

I really don't know what I'm doing so please forgive me if I made a mistake I did not mean to edit that article thanks TannerKennedy (talk) 13:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)TannerKennedy

August 2014

Don't know why you removed Seri's Star Kitchen with U-Kiss (세리의 스타키친) [a show that was on KBS in 2012] from the list of Shows they have done, when they did appear on the show for 10 episodes. Kevin Eli and AJ were the main guests and all of U-Kiss appeared on the show for 2 episodes while filming their music video Forbidden Love. To say that their appearance on the show is not relevant to the page is in correct as it is relevant in that it concerns them and a show they did! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Somberofsilence (talk • contribs) 15:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Reply

Considering the fact that Pearl's legal name is now Pearl, and she came out as a trans woman and has been medically transitioned for quite some time now, I think it's extremely constructive to put correct information up on the website. http://craigjparker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/note-from-porl.html

You'll probably also want an up-to-date photograph, given that her looks have changed drastically.

Or you can be transphobic and completely ignore me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.29.70.102 (talk) 14:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I am the director of communications at college of St. Joseph. someone is vandalizing our page, as I know you have seen.

Though you have flagged it and I have repeatedly removed their comments, they continue to add them again. is there any way to stop this?

Best, Collegeeditor22 (talk) 18:35, 27 January 2015 (UTC) James Lambert

Autopatrolled

Hi Bentogoa, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right 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! – Gilliam (talk) 20:58, 27 January 2015 (UTC) – Gilliam (talk) 20:58, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Bentogoa (talk) 06:09, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Huggle message

Hey bentogoa! You are receiving this message because you are subscribed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers

I have recently launched a new downloads for beta testers that contains nightly builds of huggle, eg. versions that are built every day from our master branch and contains latest huggle. These builds are currently provided only for Windows and Ubuntu. You can find them here: http://huggle.wmflabs.org/builds/

Please keep in mind that these don't have any automatic updates and if you download and start using nightly build, you will need to update it yourself! So don't get yourself to running old version, it's possible to install both stable and nightly huggle, which is what I suggest.

Keep the bug reports coming to phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=Huggle Many thanks! Petrb (talk) 09:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Recaptcha Security

Bentogoa I was the guy that made a new introduction about McRaptil when he bypassed the ReCAPTCHA, At that time I was a member of crackingforum.com and when he did it all the guys were saying that it was impossible and fake, so he gave us image proofs and even with that images they accused and called him of been a PaintMaster, fake, noob etc...

And that´s when he did the impossible, in a Skype video conference with me included and he did it in real time, using an advanced brute-force tool named Sentry he made his own OCR configurations to ReCAPTCHA which he said that with just one word and other a proximity of the real one, it works... He did it in the Depositfiles website at the time which just after a while he had hits of real accounts been brute-forced after he bypassed the ReCAPTCHA... And to confirm even more after 3 days the ReCaptcha from Google has changed to some images..

It was a few years ago but even now if you go to, for example, Crackingforum.com or Freebie-Nation.org or others, I bet that still are some guys that will confirm all of this because they had seen it too... Just a few guys had the configuration made by McRaptil, most of them are Masters in security, but a lot of other guys knew it too because he was the first guy doing it and it was Amazing and Incredible has you could imagine....

At the time he said he sent an email to google explaining it and they never even gave him a response, they just acted like nothing happened and close their mouths about it.

That´s why I didn´t know what to put in references but I am sure that you could find it and increment this valuable information at your own and with your own writing ability..

I liked very much to read you´re ReCAPTCHA article even without this information...

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.22.18.40 (talk) 12:09, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Race and crime in the United Kingdom -

Dear Sir or Madam,

Regarding edits I recently made to this page, which is clearly unbalanced towards a certain racist anti-black viewpoint, why will you not allow changes?

Wikipedia clearly states:

'This article may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints. Please improve the article by adding information on neglected viewpoints, or discuss the issue on the talk page. (November 2010)'.

I look forward to your reply.

Regards

Jamieson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.144.167 (talk) 06:27, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

changing all the words from "Black" to "white" will not do that Bentogoa (talk) 06:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

This article makes it seems as though the only people who commit crime in the UK are black, whereas official statistics, of which this page has many incorrectly stated, clearly show the majority of crime committed in the UK is committed by white people. Since this is the case, please delete this page which is a clear attempt at defamation of the Black British community, and as such makes it liable to legal action under the UK Race Relations Act: http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/prosecution/rrpbcrbook.html#a07. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.144.167 (talk) 06:43, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Bentogoa. jaduan

Bentogoa. i edit the page of jaudan and i am sure i described my changes and if your unsatisfied by my changes please do see the references .i removed the whole content of the page because it was too much mess to be edited properly most of teh facts provided was wrong and no history and true facts and story of jadaun people was not provided and i do beileve if you will see through my references then u will agree with watever changes i have made to your page. conatct on vikram17.singh@Gmail.com with regards vikram — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.203.76.107 (talk) 15:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Mahensingha

Mahensingha my edit to the page of jadaun was not an act of vandalisation if you happens to think that please see all the references and facts i have placed and check that all of them are true. the previous page from which i edited all the contect was bit harsh but trust me page was bit of mess most of the facts was incorrect and anything about the history or events of jaduan class was given in the page . even the classification of the caste was wrongfully put as mali and ahir mali are agricultural peoplle and ahir are pastoral class where as it is clearly known jadaun are chandravanshi rajputs a warrior or ruling class people lord krishna n pandavas were jadaun thakurs according to vedas and many other facts kaurali distirct was ruled by jadauns as kings of karauli even jaisalmer aligarh and mathura . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.203.76.107 (talk) 15:17, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:SELFPROMOTE

Please undo your recent Talk page comments here. My edits were constructive. They pointed to non-existing anchors and I fixed them. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 09:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Reverted myself and removed warnings Bentogoa (talk) 09:23, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 09:23, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Mihaela radulescu

Would you like to add this picture to her wikipedia ? http://i.imgur.com/B0KQYl0.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by VladutP1998 (talk • contribs) 12:14, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Premier of Ontario

Although many would agree that Fish Filet would be a better Premier!--NotWillyWonka (talk) 18:17, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, the change made to the page "Digital India" was requested by the Ministry of Communications and IT as a private sector initiative for bringingfree internet, which is a key agenda of the entire project. Please oblige to the change.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Govtofindiachanges (talk • contribs) 08:06, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-06

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

Problems

There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [24]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [25]
You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [26] [27]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hello, My page was set for speedy deletion as I was violating your rules by creating a page about my company. I understand and apologize, however my intent was driven by existing pages of other companies, i.e. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/HootSuite. Pleas, explain the difference.

Thank you.

Pavel seo (talk) 06:16, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Read section G11 Bentogoa (talk) 06:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi sir, I am surprised and curious why do you want to remove my Article https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Aayush_Rimal,_Satim_Adhikari_,_Prizam_Koirala — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josepmangai (talk • contribs) 15:54, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-07

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 software changes

You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }} to transclude a section with its title. [28]

Problems

MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [29]
UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [30]
All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [31]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [32] [33] [34]
You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [35] [36]
It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [37]
You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [38]
In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [39]

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16:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

qifang edit

Hello, below are the links and citation:

http://www.bnet.com.cn/2011/0518/2036429.shtml (BNET Business Talent Web interviewed Qifang CEO Mr. Tingbin Tang ) http://news.sina.com.cn/green/2010-11-26/151821539293.shtml (At Nov. 24th, 2010, Qifang COO Mr. Tingbin Tang gave a speech at GSLF Global Sustainable Leaders Forum hosted by United Nation)

Though the articles was in Chinese but you can use Google translate to read them.

Thanks, please approve the edit for Qifang. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.189.180.188 (talk) 23:13, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Hancock edit

I believe you made a mistake to undo my edit. I very recently watched the movie, I also watched the movie for reference to the edit. Calling Hancock a "psycho" makes no sense, but calling him an "asshole" does, because throughout the film it is shown that it is his trigger word. Also, he doesn't smile at the police, he turns around from the police and smiles at the criminal because he is planning on beating him up.

signbot on holiday ? time stamping so this auto archive Bentogoa (talk) 15:51, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought it would be a good promotion but did not know it was not possible. apologize. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buydrproperty (talk • contribs) 12:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

where do you see the use of Buk

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/January_2013_Rif_Dimashq_airstrike

?? = On 29 January 2013, the Israeli Air Force launched an airstrike on a convoy in Syria believed to have SA-17 BUK-M2E missiles bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Syrian government denied that a shipment of weapons had taken place (An official certificate use of Buk not testify).[136]

Syria denies Israel does not confirm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.104.198.114 (talk) 15:49, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-08

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

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [40] [41] [42]
You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [43]
In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [44]
The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first. [45]

Meetings

The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [46]
You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [47]
You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [48]

Future changes

You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Warwick Moss

For your information, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive217#Warwick moss. --220 of ^Borg 10:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for infomation Bentogoa (talk)

Urgent help needed on the article Kumhar

Respected User, A huge traffic of i.p. users is continuously tempering with the sourced contents of the page. Their intention is merely caste promotion to which they actually belong, and it can be well verified by their conversation on the talk page of this article. They are continuously adding the self opinion based, unsourced contents removing the sourced contents. The article is continuously being de-shaped. Immediate attention and needful action is needed to protect the page. Who can understand better than you that it takes a lot of efforts to build a fully sourced article and it is not good when it becomes victim of disruptive editing just for the sake of advertising or promoting caste based ideas. Please interfere, i humbly reques-- Mahensingha _{(Talk) "Thanx n Regards"} 14:44, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-09

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 software changes

All new accounts are now global. [49]
Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [50] [51] [52]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [53]
It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [54]
Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [55]
Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [56]

Meetings

You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [57]

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16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Hey!

Hey!!

Why have you removed it again? I have provided a source and citation. ref: Schrodingers cat - The AVB interpretation

Source: www.fliposophy.blogspot.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.201.196.140 (talk) 12:32, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

I have not removed it again, 2nd the blog is not Reliable Source see WP:RS someone else must have reverted Bentogoa (talk) 14:28, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Change descriptions

Hi, Bentogoa. I have been contracted by Strategy& to edit update their online content following the rebrand they went through last year. I believe I have been describing each change within the edit summary, however I apologize if this is not the case (this is my first time making edits on Wikipedia). I am only making minor edits so I hope it isn't too much of an issue.

Thanks, Luke

Response to: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Lrees4 Lrees4 (talk) 16:51, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Bentogoa, I am only making very technical changes to the links and the brand name. I am will not be rewriting any of the text.

Regards, Luke

Lrees4 (talk) 17:22, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Bentogoa. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Disagree with your changes to Wikipedia English - Curam Software entry

This note is to politely disagree with your changes to the Curam Software entry.

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/C%C3%BAram_Software.

The description is no longer accurate. We at IBM attempted to correct this twice by reverting to an earlier version of Curam Software entry which is accurate. You un-reverted it (twice) to the incorrect version which appears there now/today. We will revert once again, and kindly ask to talk about it prior to any further changes by you.

Shahinazc (talk) 20:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)Respectfully, shahinazcShahinazc (talk) 20:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

50 Shades of bullcrap

Why keep removing an edit to the piracy section of that film that simply is current accurate info? And if current, accurate info is removed regarding piracy, why have a piracy section at all?

just curious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.166.69.66 (talk) 16:01, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

As a lurker to the article; wikipedia should not be in the business of disseminating information that will encourage people to break the law. Posting this note will encourage some people to seek to find this torrent. In reality, there is a torrent for just about any contemporary movie. We do not go advertising that fact on each movie article. Trackinfo (talk) 19:34, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Creation of that template was a mistake.I was trying to delete that template.But I didn't know how to do.You deleted it.Thanks.I'm sorry that I am making mistakes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by သီရိလင္း (talk • contribs) 07:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-10

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 software changes

A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [58]
You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [59] [60]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [61] [62] [63] [64]
The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [65]
The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [66]

Meetings

You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [67]

Future changes

You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [68]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Aam Aadmi Party

Would this be clearer if it was part of the RFC discussion above, rather than the infobox discussion? NebY (talk) 11:57, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

thanks for pointing out, moved to correct section Bentogoa (talk) 12:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Raheja Developers

Hello Sir, Sorry for the late response. Here I want to say that you wrote on my wall that I removed the content from the page without explanation. But according to my knowledge I mentioned the reason for edit. If that was not enough then please guide me how I can edit the page if I want to?Aarvig (talk) 07:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-11

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

You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [69] [70]
VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [71] [72] [73]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [74] [75]
The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [76] [77]
You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [78] [79]
You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [80] [81]
If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [82]

Future changes

You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [83]
You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [84]

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15:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Isobel wylie Hutchison

I am making changes to the original English version by adding new quotations /citations. It would appear that these are automatically being translated and put on your (Spanish?) version. Please do not delete them but add them to your version as YOUR deletion has cancelled the new edits on MY version. I will try and revert to the original version. Thank you Peter DC (talk) 15:33, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

My Mistake, Have reverted myself Bentogoa (talk) 15:39, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [85]
You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [86]
It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [87] [88]

Problems

Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [89] [90]
You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [91] [92]

Meetings

You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [93] [94]
You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [95]
The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [96]

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15:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [97]
VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [98] [99] [100]
When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [101]

Meetings

You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [102]

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15:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

speedily deleted

Hi Bentogoa I saw that my acc is on nomination to be speedily deleted I wanted to ask why?? If you can help me beacasue I think only that I have the username "Arsenal" is the problem if it is can you tell me why?? Thank you Arsenal29 (talk) 18:53, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Julia Davis Adams

Well I had to take the BLP prod off as its not a BLP, I knew something was not right when I saw it say 1990 and graduated in 1922 so I did some research and found something! Wgolf (talk) 16:30, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

ok Bentogoa (talk) 16:31, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Delete?

Do you want me to delete this redirect Wikipedia talk:Ashish Verma? --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:05, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

yes Bentogoa (talk) 19:30, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Done. --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:34, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

The MfD is still open,[103] but he moved the page to wikipedia space, what should be done here ? Bentogoa (talk) 19:37, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

The closer script is not working in my account, someone will close it. it may be NAC-ed too. --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:46, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Ok Bentogoa (talk) 05:17, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Stephen Clarke (writer ) edit

Hello

That was the first time I have edited anything on Wikipaedia and, although I read through a number of "Help" or "what to do "pages, was/am not aware of protocol.

I looked up this author as , having read a couple of his books, I was curious. When I saw the heading on his page that said the current information read like a press-release, I thought it would be acceptable to replace hyperbole such as "ground-breaking" with more accurate "trite and derivative".

Are there any pages that show what you expect from reviews ? Now I have , hopefully, explained my reasoning, will my review be re-inseted

Thanks in advance10:25, 27 March 2015 (UTC)10:25, 27 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DRichardHale (talk • contribs)

Tech News: 2015-14

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

You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [104]
You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [105] [106] [107]
All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [108]
You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [109]
VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [110]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [111]
You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [112]
You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [113]
You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [114]
VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [115] [116] [117] [118]

Meetings

You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [119]
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

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

You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [120]
You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [121] [122]
The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [123]
You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [124]

Problems

The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [125]
Labs was broken several times this week. [126] [127] [128] [129]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [130]
Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [131] [132]
You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [133]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [134]

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15:41, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-16

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

You can read the latest news about VisualEditor.
You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [135]
The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [136] [137]

Problems

Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [138] [139]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [140] [141]
All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [142]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-17

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

There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [143]
VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [144]
You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [145]
If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [146]

Problems

There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [147]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [148] [149] [150]
If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [151]
You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [152]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [153] [154]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-18

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

All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [155] [156]
You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [157]
There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [158]
You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [159]

Problems

Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [160]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [161]
You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [162]
You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [163]
You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [164]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-19

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

You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [165]
There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [166] [167]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [168]

Meetings

You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [169]
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [170]

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15:06, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-20

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

You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [171] [172] [173]
You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [174]
The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [175] [176]

Problems

There was a problem that caused slow editing. [177]
Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [178]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [179] [180]
You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [181]
When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [182]
When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [183]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:38, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-21

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

You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [184]
You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [185]
The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [186]
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [187] [188]
UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [189]
A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [190]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:19, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

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

Problems

VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [191]
Some Labs tools had issues last week. [192] [193]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [194]

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16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

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

Problems

Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [195]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [196]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [197] [198]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [199]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:35, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [200] [201]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [202]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [203]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [204]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [205]

Future changes

If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [206]

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15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Mark as patrolled

Once again I ask you: could you please mark a page as patrolled after tagging it for speedy deletion? Thanks. Kolbasz (talk) 12:34, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

I have Bentogoa (talk) 12:36, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Abhishek santosh chaudhary, Shivam Sahu. Both tagged for CSD A7 by you, neither marked as patrolled by you. Kolbasz (talk) 12:46, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-25

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

Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [207]
Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [208]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [209]

Future changes

Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [210]
If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [211] [212] [213]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Right to Dream

Hello, I am making edits to references, which you reverted. I am pretty sure it is not against any COI, or spam or advertisement. Please let me know why you reverted it.41.189.167.58 (talk) 17:37, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I meant to revert your single edit, as the date you had put in ref was of future Bentogoa (talk) 17:44, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.189.167.58 (talk) 17:48, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

The Cordish Company page - https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Cordish_Company

Hello,

I'm new to making Wikipedia updates, but I received notification that you removed my updates to The Cordish Company page because it wasn't neutral enough. Can you please explain?

Thanks! Dana — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanaWelsch (talk • contribs) 17:32, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Please Read neutral point of view Bentogoa (talk) 17:35, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Can I edit what I had already put in or do I have to start over completely? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanaWelsch (talk • contribs) 17:38, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Its best if you start from over, the contain you had added was too much promotional Bentogoa (talk) 17:42, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I prefer to edit what I already had written. Will make it less promotional. Any way you can please send that content? I don't have it saved anywhere and it took me a long time to write.

its here [214] Bentogoa (talk) 17:51, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Ronald sullivan's wikipedia

This is his biography from harvard law schools page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.112.10.30 (talk) 14:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26

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

Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [215] [216]
You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [217]

Problems

On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [218] [219] [220]
On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [221] [222] [223]
Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [224] [225] [226]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

IP edits to Southern Poverty Law Center

They are not just unsourced. They are biased and incorrect, saying the SPLC is responsible for hatred against "white people and minorities alike". That's utter nonsense. Dustin (talk) 16:36, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

ok Bentogoa (talk) 16:37, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Ledgewood Estate

See my comments at talk:Ledgewood Estate. You recently moved the article from user space for user:L4Harrington - maybe it was meant as a sandbox? Generic1139 (talk) 23:07, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

No, did not move it from User space, it was in wikipedia space ie. wikipedia:Ledgewood Estate , please check the history carefully next time Bentogoa (talk) 05:51, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-27

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

Long lines in code blocks now look better. [227]
You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [228]
When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [229]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [230] [231] [232]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [233]

Problems

JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [234]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [235]
When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [236]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [237]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [238]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [239]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28

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

On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [240]

Problems

The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [241]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [242] [243]
You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [244]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-29

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

You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [245]

Problems

There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [246]
There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [247]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [248]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [249]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [250]

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03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31

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

You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [251]
You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [252]
You can change your options to see bigger images. [253]
You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [254]
You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [255]

Problems

There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [256]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [257]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-32

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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
- You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [258]
- Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [259] [260] [261] [262]
The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [263]
MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [264]
Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [265]

Problems

There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [266]
We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [267]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-33

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

MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [268]
The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [269]
You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [270]
You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [271]
It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [272]
JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [273] [274]
- You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [275] [276]
The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [277]

Problems

More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [278]
Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [279]
Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [280]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [281]
You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [282]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [283]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [284] [285] [286]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [287]

Problems

Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [288] [289]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [290]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [291]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [292]

Problems

There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [293]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Energy#Quantum_mechanics

"Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did to Energy with this edit, you may be blocked from editing."

If you have a problem with something please indicate where the problem is. Refrain from writing mails such as above because you don't understand something. What exactly is your problem?

On this page: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Energy#Quantum_mechanics

The following was to be seen:

"In results can be considered as a definition of measurement of energy in quantum mechanics"

And since this is not correct English, I added the comment:

(this needs correcting).

And in response you made the empty claim quoted above - why?

kk (talk) 21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Wrong way to put comments . see [[294]]

Tech News: 2015-36

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

VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [295][296]
The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [297]
VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [298]
Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [299]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [300]

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Potential admin

Hi, I notice you're on Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls. Wikipedia would benefit from more admins. If you have been editing for more than 12 months (preferably 24+ months), and have been editing fairly consistently for the past 6 months (preferably 12+ months) with at least 100 edits a month (this tool will help) - or an explanation for any gaps, and haven't been blocked in the past three years - or a good explanation for a recent block, don't have a recent history of edit warring or arguing with other editors, feel you can explain why you wish to be an admin, can demonstrate some understanding of Wikipedia's procedures and processes, or know where to go for guidance, and are confident enough to go through a RfA, please get in touch with me. We can talk about it some more, and if all looks OK, I'll nominate you. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 09:20, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't have 100 edits per month , someday Bentogoa (talk) 05:38, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

If you do become more active, get in touch with me and we can talk some more. Regards SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 10:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Bentogoa (talk) 10:52, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

About the speedy deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because as it is a new and informative website in the field of multimedia and recently it came into existence. Moreover I am a new user so instead of deleting the page you can edit the page and make the changes which you think follows the wikipedia policies and also guide me in the same. I request you to look into the page and edit it instead of deleting the wiki page.Userwiki0308 (talk) 07:55, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Stop changing it

Stop Theman526464 (talk) 16:22, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

My Savision page

Hi bentogoa can you please confirm why my article on savision has been deleted already? prefix:User talk:Bentogoa/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattcarr71 (talk • contribs) 13:45, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-37

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

You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [301]
A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [302]
You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [303]

Problems

There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [304]
The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [305][306]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [307]
The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [308][309]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [310]
Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [311][312]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

RahulRaj Mall

Dear, Myself Ashish & I am the marketing manager of RahulRaj mall. we have the 4,50,000 sq. ft. shopping mall which is located in Surat dumas road, Piplod area in Surat District in Gujarat State in India. Please consider my article about RahulRaj mall as actual I have posted there is no wrong or manipulated information posted their. It is a very much well known place of the Surat City where in we are hitting the 12000-15000 weekdays footfalls & on the weekends we are getting the 35000-50000 of footfalls so please do not remove this article. We only posted it for the information purpose. People have the right to get the information about our very popular Shopping Mall — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nastologic (talk • contribs) 11:13, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38

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

You can now use the Wikidata query service. [313]
Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [314]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [315][316]

Problems

There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [317]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [318]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [319]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [320]

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Elnu Abenaki Tribe

Hi there, although I agree that Elnu Abenaki Tribe is likely a candidate for speedy deletion, I did want to draw to your attention that tagging an article only a couple minutes after creation is a bit bitey and doesn't really assume good faith. This, of course, doesn't apply to things like adverts or attack pages, but generally giving a new user 10+ minutes is a good rule of thumb. --Non-Dropframe _talk 14:02, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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

There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [321][322]
Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [323][324][325][326]
More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [327]
The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [328]

Problems

Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [329]
Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [330][331]
UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [332]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [333]
You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [334]
Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [335]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Edit https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Monaca_(mobile_application_development_tool)

HI Bentogoa,

Thank you very much for the check of the article about Monaca Software (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Monaca_(mobile_application_development_tool)). Can you please check again and let me know if the latest version requires additional edits and if so, which parts need to be changed.

Thank you very much, Una — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unaso (talk • contribs) 18:00, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

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

In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [336]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [337]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [338]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [339]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [340]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [341]
MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [342]

Problems

Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [343][344]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [345]
The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [346]

Meetings

You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [347]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

List of programs broadcast by CBS revert

Why did you revert my alphabetizing of the list? You had less than a minute to check it out. This was not vandalism. Titles that begin with "A" and "The" don't count those words. So "A League of Their Own" is alphabetized under "L" not "A". And symbols and numbers go before letters. Also, in Drama series there were two sequences of alphabetized shows. I merged them. I have undone your revert. Please actually read it before automatically changing it. 76.254.23.101 (talk) 18:14, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Tagging of Brynn hemphill

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Brynn hemphill. I do not think that Brynn hemphill fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because Tagged too quickly. Please see Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#cite_note-Hasty-6. I request that you consider not re-tagging Brynn hemphill for speedy deletion until the drafter has had a reasonable chance to fill it in. DES ^(talk) 17:13, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [348]
The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [349]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [350]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [351]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [352]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42

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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [353]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [354]
Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [355]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-43

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

Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [356]

Problems

A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [357]
Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [358]
The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [359]

Changes this week

Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [360]
Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [361][362][363][364]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [365]
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [366][367]
When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [368][369]
Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [370]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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

You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [371]
If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [372]
Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [373]

Problems

On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [374]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [375]
Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [376]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

Superprotect has been removed. [377]
You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [378]
JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [379]

Problems

Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [380]

Changes this week

Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [381]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [382]
The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [383]

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Apologise

I am really sorry for those nonsenses that i wrote. It was my friends who were playing some silly jokes on my computer. I hope you will understand.18:41, 16 November 2015 (UTC)~

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [384]
Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [385]
The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [386]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [387][388]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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) 17:29, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48

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

A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [389]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [390]
Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [391]

Changes this week

Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [392][393]
There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [394]
Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [395]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [396]

Problems

Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [397]

Changes this week

You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [398]
IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [399]
You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [400]
It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [401]
You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [402]
UploadWizard will look a bit different. [403]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [404]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [405]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [406]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [407]

Future changes

A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [408]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02

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

Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [409]
You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [410]

Problems

Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [411]

Changes this week

The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [412]
New file uploads will now be patrollable. [413]
Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [414][415]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [416]
The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [417][418]
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [419][420]
The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, in Space selfie, I was using Lupin's anti-vandal tool, and inadvertently reverted your edit. It was an accident. Thank you for understanding.--LL221W (talk) 12:21, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

ok, just be careful you dont revert a revert Bentogoa (talk) 12:29, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Changes to Christopher-lee dos Santos page

I believe important to keep Mr. dos Santos' page up to date with relevant links to his work for particular clients. The links I added to his page were all viable links showcasing his film work for said clients as well as trailers for the films he has directed.

I am going to re add them and hopefully you will see that the addition of said links is only to help educate those on the work done by Mr. dos Santos.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.0.153.120 (talk) 12:09, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Stop video links for all his videos Bentogoa (talk) 12:12, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

I understand. Thank you. Have a good day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.0.153.120 (talk) 12:30, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Changes made on page

Dear sir, regarding the message you sent me and the changes I made on the Mar Roxas page, this was not a mistake and I was about to insert my explanation before the changes suddenly changed by itself. Please allow me to revert the changes again with my explanation this time. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squiogue (talk • contribs) 13:21, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

you removed sourced contain and added unsourced contain , i stand by my revert Bentogoa (talk) 13:45, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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

You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [421]
Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [422]

Changes this week

The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [423]
MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [424]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

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

You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [425][426]
Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [427]

Changes this week

You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [428]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [429]
The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [430]
Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [431]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

Problems

Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [432]
Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [433][434]
Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [435]

Changes this week

The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [436]
Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [437][438]
The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [439]
The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [440][441][442]
The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [443][444]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [445]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06

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

Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [446]
When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [447]
RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [448]

Changes this week

Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [449][450]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [451][452]
Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [453][454][455]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-07

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

You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [456]
You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [457]

Problems

A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [458][459]

Changes this week

There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [460][461]
Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [462]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [463]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-08

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

Phabricator has been upgraded. [464][465]

Problems

There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [466][467]

Changes this week

After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [468]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Prostitution in India

Come on, the source is right there. ⁓ Hello 71 17:37, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

You made a big mistake go back to the kitchen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:468:CC0:1:C634:6BFF:FE64:9FA (talk) 18:23, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-09

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

Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [469][470]
The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [471][472]

Changes this week

On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [473]
Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [474]
Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [475]

Meetings

Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [476]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-10

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

Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [477]
Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [478]
The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [479]
It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [480]
Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [481]

Problems

Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [482]
The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [483]
The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [484]
You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [485]
Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [486]

Changes this week

Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [487]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [488]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [489]
The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [490]

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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-11

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 interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [491]
The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [492]

Changes this week

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [493]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [494]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are backlog and thumb API. The meeting will be on 16 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-12

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

Problems

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [495]

Changes this week

It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [496]
You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [497]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [498]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-13

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

MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [499] [500]

Problems

Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [501]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [502]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.

Future changes

Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [503]
Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-14

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

You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [504]
Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [505]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-15

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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [506][507]
Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [508][509]
ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [510]
The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [511]

Problems

There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [512]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [513]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [514]

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20:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-16

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

You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [515][516]
You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [517]
MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [518]

Changes this week

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [519]
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Website Link

Hello, I put a website link in the content, and it was removed. For more information on the program in case somebody is interested, i don't see why it wouldn't be okay to add a website link. Thanks for any help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinstriper2 (talk • contribs) 22:05, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

journalist trying to get in touch

Hi Bentogoa,

I'm a reporter with Fusion (fusion.net), trying to reach you about the Rachel Roy wikipedia page and what happens when you get a deluge of people editing at once as happened this morning. Any chance you could send me an email? I'm at ethan.chiel@fusion.net

thanks, Ethan Chiel — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.240.185 (talk) 14:45, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-17

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

Problems

Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [520]
When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [521]

Changes this week

Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [522]
It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [523]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [524]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Read the AFD

The AFD for the REactions article was redirected to the Death of Prince. Thus, the Death of Prince is a keep. This is not my decision. You cannot have a redirect to a deleted article as both AFDs were submitted at the same time. Whiskeymouth (talk) 06:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)\

you added fake keep result to the AFD with some-else name Bentogoa (talk) 06:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Look again. I added my username. The other username was so that the reader could see the original AFD decider. Whiskeymouth (talk) 06:48, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Let a admin close it, you are also the Article creator Bentogoa (talk) 06:50, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-18

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 visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [525]

Problems

There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [526]

Changes this week

You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [527]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [528]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Reverted my edit

Hi, I reverted an vandalism edit on the page for Nebula (with my edit comment clearly indicating the purpose of my edit), and for some reason you reverted my edit because it "wasn't constructive"? I don't really get it. 104.151.156.163 (talk) 14:23, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

You reverted to vandalized copy, read before reverting Bentogoa (talk) 15:00, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-19

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

Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [529]
You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [530]
Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [531][532]
You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [533]
Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [534]
The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [535]
Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [536]
Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [537]

Problems

MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [538]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).

Future changes

Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [539]

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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-20

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

Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [540]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [541]

Changes this week

Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [542]
Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [543]
A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [544]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [545]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

You now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [546]

Problems

Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [547]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [548]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your patrol.

Thanks for patrolling the websites!

After your email, I've patrolled a bit myself after your message and I've discovered that we've got some virtual vandalism going on at our school. This is a shared IP, so every change appears as ours regardless.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.33.152.14 (talk) 11:08, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-22

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

There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [549]

Problems

A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [550][551]
CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [552]

Changes this week

When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [553]
The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [554]
A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [555][556]
Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [557]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.

Survey, (hosted by Qualtrics)

Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-23

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

MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [558][559]

Changes this week

The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [560]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

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

Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [561]
Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [562][563][564][565]

Changes this week

You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [566]
It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [567]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-25

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

Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [568]

Changes this week

The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [569][570]
Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [571]
When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [572]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-26

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 ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [573]
The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [574]
A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [575]

Problems

The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [576][577]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [578]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [579]
An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [580]
The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [581][582][583]
From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [584]
Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [585]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-27

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

A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [586]

Changes this week

The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [587]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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

A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [588][589][590]
Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [591][592][593]
Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [594][595][596]

Problems

On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [597]
Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:14, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [598]
Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [599]
In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [600]

Problems

On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [601][602]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
Special:Log now has a help link. [603]
The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [604]

Future changes

User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [605][606]
Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [607]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
Last week's rollback is now documented. [608]

Problems

Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [609]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [610]
Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [611]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [612]

Future changes

The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [613]
Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [614]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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

A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [615]
The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [616]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-32

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

In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [617]

Problems

If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [618]

Changes this week

Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [619]
On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [620]
When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [621]
The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [622]
When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [623]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [624]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

My Aunt Glad, Gladys Lanphere/Gladys Benjamin aka Gladys Gale

You have wrong information posted regarding one of my family members. Gladys Grace Benjamin aka Gladys Gale had NO children of her own. She died from cancer and not mysteriously.. This is hollywood fiction fodder. Please leave my comments in the document. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.231.74.108 (talk) 14:32, 14 August 2016 (UTC) 73.231.74.108 (talk) 14:33, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

My Aunt Gladys Gale wrong information

I will ask you again to please edit your inclusion of children who my Aunt did not birth. She had NO children. She also died in a motel room with cancer. I am asking you to correct this document to reflect the truth. I'm sure you would want this to be accurate and I am a relative. She has three living direct relatives. Myself, my brother and my cousin. Winnifred Landphere who became Koehler was her sister and my grandmother. I know the history of Gladys Gale as she is a family member. And I do appreciate you making a page for her. Thank you, she deserves it. Adrienne Lee Clement aka ADDIE LEE https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Gladys_Gale — Preceding unsigned comment added by Queenigirl (talk • contribs) 15:19, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Haidakhan Babaji was Murdered

Priyanka Sahi (talk) 15:43, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Haidakhan Babaji was murdered and all the Evidences and Proof is finally Gathered from Police, Media and Authorities- It was brought to fore by Journalist Priyanka Sahi- Do not Re Edit and Unpublish the Truth. It is Religious Fight as the Hindu Spiritual Guru was murdered by Catholic church by Poisoning him.

I have included the Sources- the documentary and even the New Gospel in which was mentioned name of the Murderer. Pl check your Wiki Email, you are not paying attention to the Citing Sources and contiguously asking me to include them, I paste the Link below for you

[Mahavatar babaji's new Gospel]

[Haidakhan Exposed movie] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Priyanka Sahi (talk • contribs) 15:36, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

You are not Preventing Vandalism from happening but you are preventing Truth from being Presented - Pl check the Soures provided and allow me to edit the Wrong information of Death. His death certificate was fake and the Testimony has been recorded. Haidakhan baba did not die of Heart Attack but was slow Poisoned. The Entire Information is provided in 4 Books and a Documentary =- In my Edit i will cite the sources with Link.

Fire of Transformation by Gaura Devi

Mahant Baba's DivyaKathamrit

Mahavatar babaji's New Gospel

and

Documentary Haidakhan Exposed

Priyanka Sahi (talk) 15:55, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

I am a Journalist who worked on the Case of Haidakhan Babaji in Gathering proofs and Evidence, I would appreciate if you approve my improvements and edits with the information gathered, I would like to add an image and few links as well. I will provide all the sources and create separate section for his DEATH. i also request the reason for Death which comes in Google as Congestive Heart Failure should be replaced with MURDER. Many Thanks

Priyanka Sahi (talk) 16:52, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

The sources you are providing are OR , and do not meet RS. Bentogoa (talk) 17:10, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Please read the link provided and stop spamming the same message on my talk page again and again Bentogoa (talk) 17:12, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Haidakhan Babaji was Murdered

Thanks for Replying, I have included the Links of the Book and the Documentary movie made recently exposing the Murder of Haidakhan Babaji, I will be happy to provide the Quote from the Books if that is deemed verifiable, I will be happy to provide the details of quote and the Page number, Pl let me know if that should work?

Priyanka Sahi (talk) 17:15, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

the book does not meet RS Bentogoa (talk) 17:27, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Incarceration in the United States

The page compares incarceration rates in the US with incarceration rates in the USSR during the Stalin era. Such a comparison is misleading if you don't mention that millions people were executed in the Soviet Union during Stalin. You should either remove such a comparison or add a clarification saying that millions of people were executed. Similarly, you cannot compare the incarceration rates in the US with the incarceration rates during the Holocaust without mentioning how many people perished during the Holocaust. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Princetonian~ruwiki (talk • contribs) 06:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Waris Dirie

You reverted my edits on Waris Dirie because they "did not appear constructive"?? This woman had her son´s genitals mutilated, yet she received many honours for her "work against FGM"??! That´s hypocrisy to the extreme, please explain that! Martin Drucker (talk) 06:29, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
So you were very quick in reverting my edits, but not in answering why! I am so happy that I didn´t donate to Wikipedia, because people like you have destroyed it! Martin Drucker (talk) 06:40, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
And let me point out, that the german version of this article IS containing the quote I postet, it didn´t "appear to be not constructive" there. But people like you won´t ever answer... Martin Drucker (talk) 07:05, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Charles Dunne

Hello. Got your message about editing the page on Charles Dunne. Apologies, I am relatively new to editing and did not include explanatory comments. I see from the page revision history (https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Charles_Dunne&action=history) that you reverted my changes so presume you understood why I had made them. In future I will be clearer on leaving comments (and may set up an account too). Regards 193.128.202.131 (talk) 08:35, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Dick Advocaat is the new Fenerbahce manager so I don't know what's wrong with my contribution. nos.nl/artikel/2125783-advocaat-naar-fenerbahce-snap-dat-blind-boos-is.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.205.89.178 (talk) 11:27, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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Boom

I have provided as many as three citations in Boom (2003 film) and almost every sentence is supported by a citation. What exactly is your objection? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.182.141.123 (talk) 08:35, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Klaus Rainer Röhl

You reverted my edit to Klaus Rainer Röhl due to "Failure to cite a reliable source"? Please explain why the source I cited, (John Christian Schmeidel, Stasi: Shield and Sword of the Party (Routledge, 2007), p. 145. ISBN 1134213751.) is not a reliable source.71.178.53.242 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:45, 17 August 2016 (UTC)