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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Courcelles. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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I have read your message that says "I'm fully complaint with the policy on access to non-public data". Sorry I am not a native speaker of English. What do you mean ?? (complying ??) --Wisdood (talk) 08:56, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Wisdood was pointing out a typo in your statement. Complaint/Compliant. Claudia (talk) 14:09, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Weird issue

Hey, @Courcelles:, I saw you just blocked GoldenSamurai. I was having a weird issue with him/her just now - they were saying I couldn't clean up portal project updates from my talk page? Is that a sitewide rule? It was a confusing conversation. I'm not a frequent Wiki user so I was just trying to understand the rules governing your own talkpage. Let me know what's going on there, if you know. Thank you! Ganesha811 (talk) 16:33, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

  • They're a long-term abusive editor so nothing they said should be believed. Feel free to clean-up, archive, etc. your talk page as you see fit, so long as you don't edit the content of other's comments. (You can archive or remove other people's comments, you just can't change their contents to make it look like they said something they didn't say) Courcelles (talk) 16:36, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Sock?

Might [1] be a sock of [2] that you blocked? Doug Weller talk 16:53, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Evlekis/Archive for brownfingers  :) ——SerialNumber54129 17:10, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
    • Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
    • Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
    • Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.
  • Development
    • Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
    • Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
    • Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
    • More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

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RFPP

Just to leave my appreciation for cleaning up the entire pack in one go.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Denmark at the 1952 Winter Olympics

The article Denmark at the 1952 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Denmark at the 1952 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 16:21, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lebanon at the 1952 Winter Olympics

The article Lebanon at the 1952 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lebanon at the 1952 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 16:21, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Aruba at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The article Aruba at the 1996 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Aruba at the 1996 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 07:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mauritania at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The article Mauritania at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mauritania at the 2000 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 07:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sierra Leone at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The article Sierra Leone at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sierra Leone at the 2000 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 07:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

A question

Can it be pointed out what parts of the most recent attempt to edit the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts page were under copyright? I am just trying to give a fair representation of the College. Was the reason for the ECP because so much information was added at one time? Seeing as some of those involved with the removal of my additions (Ken Gallager) are also regular contributors to Thomas More's local competition North East Catholic College, to an outsider like me, this appears to be a conflict of interest. Especially because all of the text was written by myself, and nothing I posted was under any sort of copyright. Anything that was taken directly from the Thomas More site was either in quotations or reworked to avoid copyright.

Thank you for your time. Yours, Virgilisalive (talk)

  • Interesting. How does one avoid doing that? If the information is unbiased and well stated on a website, the only option is to rework the statement... I will see what I can do, but how do I know this take down war won't re-erupt once I try to make similar edits again. For example, the sections on the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture, the Press, the High School Programs, etc. were not on the website at all. Nevertheless, they were all removed in a foul swoop! Virgilisalive (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:41, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
    • Close paraphrasing is perhaps one of the hardest concepts on WP. And, without looking back at the exact wording, I can say that oftentimes, once one contribution to a page is found to be copyright problematic, the rest of that user's edits to that page may be removed preemptively on the assumption they are also problematic. Also, sign your posts in the future, please, by placing four tildes at the end of a comment: ~~~~. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 21:45, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

I just want to point out that I was not involved in the copyvio reverts, which is clear in the edit history. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:14, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tonga at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The article Tonga at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tonga at the 2000 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 16:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Comoros at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The article Comoros at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Comoros at the 2000 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 17:01, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics

On 2 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 1994 Winter Olympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom Run

I'm disappointed that you haven't answered any of my questions to you regarding your candidacy. I'm hoping it was just an oversight. The other candidates have some very helpful answers to my questions. --David Tornheim (talk) 20:43, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! --David Tornheim (talk) 23:13, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Done! At some point, I switched from answering top-down to answering bottom-up, and yours were just missed. Courcelles (talk) 05:58, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
Makes sense. Thanks for doing them all. You now have my endorsement and my vote. I deleted the redundant question--sorry about that. Best of luck getting on. --David Tornheim (talk) 10:09, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, and sorry for the screwup! Courcelles (talk) 17:45, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

SPI

What'd you do today? Drink too much coffee? You have more energy than a 2-year-old whose toys have been taken away from him.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:31, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #342

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
    • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
    • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
    • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
    • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
    • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

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Tech News: 2018-50

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  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

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  • New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [3][4]
  • When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [5]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The article British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The article Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The article Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Neutral buoyancy

Thanks for protecting Neutral buoyancy yesterday, which has resulted in extended discussion at Talk:Neutral buoyancy. I'm pretty certain that a good compromise has emerged. The other editor has now understood the issues we have with edit-warring and seems very unlikely to repeat that in future. If you have time, would you review that talk page and see if you feel it would now be appropriate to lift page protection from the article, please? There's no problem if you think it best to let the protection run its course: I'll just have to remember to incorporate the agreed text next week. Regards --RexxS (talk) 22:09, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Kudos on working it all out. Unprotected. Courcelles (talk) 22:55, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2018



Headlines
  • Albania report: Wiki Photo Walk Albania 2018; Wiki Loves Monuments Albania
  • Armenia report: Singing Wikipedia; Photographs by Vahan Kochar
  • Brazil report: Diverse milestones for the Brazilian community
  • Denmark report: Intercontinental digitisation efforts
  • Estonia report: Making contacts both internationally and in Estonia
  • Finland report: Art and edit-a-thons
  • France report: Bibliothèque publique d’information; 3D museum collections on Wikimedia Commons
  • Indonesia report: Conserving and digitizing texts in West Sumatra
  • Macedonia report: Wiki Training at National and University Library "St. Clement of Ohrid"
  • New Zealand report: Equity, Wikidata, and the New York Times
  • Norway report: Collaboration with The National Archives of Norway
  • Philippines report: Wiki Loves Art
  • Poland report: Archival image uploads, student collaborations and international projects
  • Serbia report: Photo finish of the WIR's
  • Sweden report: The Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Library data starts to take shape; Learning Wikipedia at the Archives; Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping
  • UK report: Sum of All Astrolabes
  • USA report: Wikidata Workshop at Pratt School of Information; Wikidata Presentation for the New York Technical Services Librarians; Wikipedia Asian Month; Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery Workshop
  • Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 31, October–November 2018
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Thanks

Hello, thanks for protecting Louisville Cardinals football. Can you do the same to Scott Satterfield and Appalachian State Mountaineers football for the same thing? Satterfield is supposedly a top candidate for UofL. Thanks, Corky 22:38, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi!

Hello! Would you mind looking at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mnair69 if possible? I am curious to see how the result of CheckUser comes up (though easily could be meatpuppeting as well instead of socking, but suspcicious actions are suspicious). Regards, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 15:14, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

Semi until March 2019? Considering the activity there recently, that seems a bit too long (in fact, the day it got protected, there was only one or two unconstructive edits). Could you maybe consider shortening it to say at most a week or two, or possibly even lowering it to PC? March seems overkill considering there have been more constructive edits than vandalism. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:20, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Narutolovehinata5, I don't think you understand why the article was set to protect for that long. If you check the protection log, it becomes very clear. The article has been vandalized in the past; it is likely for vandalism to continue now that your request has been approved. Each new protection period is set to last longer than the previous period; at least, that's according to my understanding of the protection policy. The protection period preceding this one was 2 weeks; what's the point of reprotection if it's not gonna last longer than that?
NLH, please don't give trolls an opportunity to strike; you just reopened the gate to that possibility. Sk8erPrince (talk) 17:02, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

I would have seen the point if there had been a string of unconstructive edits before the protection was applied, but it was only one or two edits, and most of the edits before then were good faith, not vandalism. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 19:41, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, I knew PC1 was gonna be ineffective. Take a look at the diff here - the article's under attack again. Please reinstate semi-protection for the article. Sk8erPrince (talk) 22:38, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Onebad edit no one saw is not proof of anything, if you can raw any conclusions at all, it is thatPC1 did its job. Courcelles (talk) 14:44, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

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Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

  • Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [6][7]
  • Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [8]
  • Advanced item The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

  • <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

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  • The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
  • Advanced item tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [10]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

GA Nomination: Lebanon national football team

Hi,

I have noticed that you have been active in nominating and reviewing football articles for GA nominations; would it be possible for you to take a look at my Lebanon national football team article nomination if you had time?

Thanks, Nehme1499 (talk) 15:04, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

December 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

December 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

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Welcome back

Hi Courcelles. Congratulations on your success in the elections and welcome to the 2019 Arbitration Committee. Sorry to be a pain, but we'll need to go through the formalities.

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Blocking a sock puppet?

Hi Courcelles. Thanks for handling the YoungDylan sock puppet case. I noticed you blocked one of the IPs, but not all of them. One of them (188.99.194.61) is still editing. Did you mean to block all of them? If not, what is the next appropriate step? Sportsfan77777 (talk) 08:24, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Merry

Happy Christmas!
Hello Courcelles,
Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that

Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"

My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 18:37, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #343

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
  • Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
  • Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
  • Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
  • Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
  • Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
  • Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
  • Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
  • More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

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


Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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January 2019 at Women in Red

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Birmingham protection

You protected Birmingham a few weeks ago, but I think February was maybe a little much. It could be unprotected and if the vandalism happens again, it can be reinstated. IWI (chat) 17:46, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Hibernian F.C. in European football/GA1

Courcelles, it looks like there's been a reply to your review here; can you please stop by and see where the review stands? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:03, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Wishing you and your family a joyful and festive holiday season and a prosperous 2019! MWright96 (talk) 20:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Austral season's greetings
Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:44, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

International Bangladesh Hope School

Hi - a few weeks ago you kindly protected International Bangladesh Hope School. For reasons I don't understand, User:DumbBOT subsequently removed the page protection. Today there was a further attempt from an ip address to remove the information on Nibras Islam. This forms a pattern of those connected to the school, with or without declared COIs, seeking to remove the information as they think it has a negative impact on the school's image. I wonder if you'd be kind enough to reinstate the protection. Many thanks and Happy Christmas. KJP1 (talk) 10:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy 2019!

Hello Courcelles: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Hhkohh (talk) 14:37, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message
Hope you will have a nice holiday and a happy 2019 in both ArbCom and editing Hhkohh (talk) 14:37, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #344

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
    • Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
    • Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
    • Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
    • Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

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


Request for article restore

Kindly restore article which probably you have closed afd, see this Discussion Thanks JogiAsad  Talk 03:57, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

I agree that, due in part to a well-received film based on her life, Nazo Dharejo should be considered notable. I did not take part in the earlier discussion, but I hope you can restore the article so that I can work on it and improve it based on RS such as The Guardian, the Express Tribune, and the BBC. Thanks! HouseOfChange (talk) 16:40, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Courcelles!

Happy New Year!

Courcelles,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 06:51, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
  1. At least 8 characters in length
  2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
  3. Different from their username
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
  • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
  • Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
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Wikidata weekly summary #345

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.

FXCM is back

Please see User_talk:Formilds. Their "suggestions" are being added to the FXCM article by User:CNMall41 who just reverts anything that I add, with comments reminiscent of 1.5 years ago, e.g. that I am assuming bad faith. User:Spintendo had earlier declined to insert the suggestions.

This relates to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gouyoku/Archive where Lenticularphoto, Aglassofprosecco, and Lqdr (a declared paid editor) were blocked by you indefinitely as socks or meatpuppets. Goukoyu was not blocked. An anon 199.248.199.110 which traces back to the company was added too late (I guess) for any action. I haven't run into this situation before, but if one declared paid editor is blocked as a meatpuppet, don't other declared paid editors for the same company have the same meat-master?

I hope that Formilds is blocked as a meatpuppet, but would not be against them applying to AN to remove the block, provided that they promise not to remove (or even suggest removing) material in the article about the company's "fraudulent misrepresentation" to their customers.

I'll post something on this at WP:COIN and inform the parties. Smallbones(smalltalk) 17:40, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, Smallbones. You really should look closer at the recent history and Spintendo declined the edits, but not because there was an issue in communication with the COI editor. You were asked to AGF as you made an accusation of whitewashing - against me - for removing two sentences of the article that are basically synth and are not about the company. There is also a discussion on the talk page and you were told that there is discussion - recent discussion - on the talk page. So far you haven't said anything there so I am wondering if this is a COI issue you are concerned with or a content dispute? --CNMall41 (talk) 18:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
If you want to accuse me of something take it to ANI or Arbcom. Smallbones(smalltalk) 18:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

January 13: Wikimedia NYC invites you to Wikipedia Day 2019

Sunday January 13: Wikipedia Day 2019 in NYC

You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day 2019, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 18th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event features keynote presentations, panels, lightning talks, and, of course, open space sessions.

And there will be cake.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

9:30AM - 6:00PM at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan

We especially encourage folks to add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 20:34, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #346

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
    • Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
    • Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
    • Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

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


Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

  • RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [11]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [12]
  • Advanced item codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [13]
  • Advanced item On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

  • Advanced item In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [14]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2018



Headlines
  • Armenia report: Cooperation with Yerevan Drama Theatre Named After Hrachia Ghaplanian; Singing Wikipedia (continuation); Photographs by Vahan Kochar (continuation)
  • Australia report: 2019 Australia's Year of the Public Domain
  • Belgium report: Writing weeks German-speaking Community; End of year drink; Wiki Loves Heritage photo contest
  • Brazil report: Google Art and GLAM initiatives in Brazil
  • India report: Collaboration with RJVD Municipal Public Library
  • Italy report: Challenges and alliances with libraries, WLM and more
  • Macedonia report: Exhibition:"Poland through photographs" & Wikipedia lectures with children in social risk
  • Malaysia report: Technology Talk and Update on Wikipedia @ National Library of Malaysia
  • Portugal report: Glam Days '18 at the National Library of Portugal
  • Sweden report: Hats 🎩🧢👒🎓
  • UK report: Oxford
  • USA report: Holiday gatherings and visit to Internet Archive
  • Wikidata report: Wikidata reports
  • WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: pilot projects and multilingual captions
  • Calendar: January's GLAM events
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SockPuppet Investigation

Good Morning, I had a question about the sockpuppet investigation about me that you reviewed. You mentioned "Their UA, a common one, is identical, though" I was curious what that meant. I honestly have no idea who is operating the MarkAGuinn account (though I also recognize me just saying that isn't a good argument from your perspective), but I don't know enough about the review to make a coherent defense. Aside from your concern on the investigation, the accusation rests primarily on MarkAGuinn having used a less sophisticated variant of my argument and Orientls dislike of that as an argument. I wanted to check with you to better understand what other reasoning led to the block. Anything you could offer would be appreciated. Squatch347 (talk) 14:19, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #347

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
    • The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
    • New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
    • Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
  • Development
    • Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
    • Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
    • Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
    • Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
    • Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
    • Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
    • More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

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


Tech News: 2019-03

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 can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [15][16]
  • You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
  • Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [17][18]
  • Advanced item Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [19]

Problems

  • When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [20]

Changes later this week

  • You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
  • Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [21]
  • Advanced item The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

File:British Railways Eastern Region timetable for Summer 1963.jpg

It was recently noticed by myself and others that the British Rail items were subject to Crown Copyright, which lasts 50 years. In 2013, this file entered public domain File:British Railways Eastern Region timetable for Summer 1963.jpg. It was uploaded with a higher resolution but shrunk due to copyright. User:Ww2censor told me an administrator could restore the old file prior to the reduction in resolution.--The Navigators (talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 20:11, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

And perhaps also tag it as {{move to commons}}. ww2censor (talk) 22:25, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Deletion review for Nazo Dharejo

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Nazo Dharejo. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Zanhe (talk) 20:13, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Do Gang Stalking & Gang stalking still need WP:GOLDLOCK?

Almost 9 years ago now, you put these pages full protection. I only noticed this today. After watching this video I searched "Gang Stalking" into the search bar, and was redirected to Stalking#Stalking by groups. I read up on the history behind the redirect. Ideally, this redirect (and Gang stalking) would lead to Stalking#False claims of stalking, "gang stalking" and delusions of persecution as that makes a bit more sense. Regardless, WP:GOLDLOCK seems a bit excessive now. ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖ 04:17, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
    • Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
    • Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
    • Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
    • Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
    • Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
    • Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
    • Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
    • Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
    • Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
    • Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

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


Tech News: 2019-04

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

Tech News

  • Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [22]

Recent changes

  • The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
  • https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

  • When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [23]
  • MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [24][25]
  • Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [26]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [27]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

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