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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Anders Feder/ImproveIslamArticles

Thanks for closing this deletion discussion. A disagreement rose out of this discussion over whether or not a line about ululations should be kept in the essay (see here for more context). Anders said he would only remove it if the closing admin instructed him to, but you didn't comment on this issue in your closing. What's your verdict? Brustopher (talk) 10:47, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

I would recommend removing it under WP:LINKVIO and WP:YOUTUBE. The video's metadata doesn't appear to show valid copyright status. Nakon 19:41, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

@Anders Feder: pinging. Brustopher (talk) 23:43, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

The few seconds the video lasts should fall well within the limits of fair use. See e.g. [1].--Anders Feder (talk) 00:24, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Per WP:NFCCP, this only would apply to articles in the main namespace. Nakon 15:46, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

WP:NFCCP concerns non-free content used on Wikipedia. The non-free content in this case is only used on YouTube. The content used on Wikipedia, the literal link pointing to the video, is not copyrightable (see Ticketmaster Corp. v. Tickets.com, Inc.) and thus not non-free. Since no non-free content is used on Wikipedia, WP:NFCCP does not apply to this case.--Anders Feder (talk) 23:42, 3 August 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. [2]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [3] [4] [5] [6]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [7]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [8]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [9]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [10]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [11]

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)

Blocking an IP

Hiya firstly thank you for accepting my rollback rights. Using this is much easier keeping an eye on disruptive edits and vandalism. Secondly I need a help from you to block an IP. [12] this IP has been given many warning but still continues changes filmography of artists. Please help. Thanks. Daan0001 (talk) 06:53, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Please report the IP to AIV. Thanks, Nakon 19:07, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Daan0001 (talk) 21:50, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Article

Hi. People of similar backgrounds and expertise appear on wikipedia. Please explain how they can be listed and Nikk Seagren and Yolande Hobby cannot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by InspireTribe (talk • contribs) 01:47, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, please see our policy on notability of article subjects, as well as the criteria for speedy deletion (A7) under which the article was removed. If you would like to work on a draft of the article, you may do so and feel free to submit it for review. Thanks, Nakon 01:50, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Ellalan (monarch)

Hey there. Kwami closed a RfM ... and ignored the overwhelming OPPOSE and moved the page anyway. diff Do you understand what is going on? Ogress _smash! 05:20, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Howdy, it's entirely possible that I misunderstood this RM request. The page had initially been at Elara (monarch) up until the 5th of April, 2015. It's been moved back and forth since then, ultimately getting locked at Ellalan (monarch) on the 26th of July. The RM discussion was started on the same date, with the request to move the article to Elara (monarch). I think what confused me was the "malformed request" part, which was in both the closure statement and the oppose statement. I'll move the article back and lock it from moves as there's no consensus for the move. Thanks for letting me know! Nakon 14:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

User:Theeditorofallthingswikipedia

I see you had an interaction with User:Theeditorofallthingswikipedia. His editing approach continues to cause me concern with inappropriate warnings to other editors. I have given advice on his talk page which was instantly deleted. I am sure that he is well intentioned but totally lacking in experience and knowledge. I am trying to rack my brains about how he could be gently brought into line. Any thoughts ? Regards  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   21:56, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

I took notice to what you said and took it off because I do not appreciate clutter on my page. I should have responded to let you know it wasnt a bad act. Please look at more recent edits of mine. Im sorry you were upset about my handling of the COI issue but I agreed that I was mistaken in that case. Pleade talk this over with me if you continue to have issues not related to the COI. To Velella TheEditorOfAllThingsWikipedia (talk) 22:01, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

And after that, i read up more on COIs and decided to handle them differently. Go to the talk page of the user User talk:Newweird to see how I just handled one. Thanks TheEditorOfAllThingsWikipedia (talk) 22:10, 5 August 2015 (UTC) To: Velella

• I saw this conversation. You may be interested in this ANI thread on the same subject: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Help. -- Softlavender (talk) 19:59, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up on the ANI discussion. I came across it a bit too late, but I strongly support the editing restrictions presented there. Nakon 16:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

YGM

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Thank you again! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 18:06, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Not a problem, glad to help. Nakon 18:10, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

YGM again

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again. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Nakon 01:34, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for taking care of it! Much appreciated! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I've added the page in question to my watchlist and have semiprotected it for 3 months. Please let me know if any further disruption occurs. If I'm not online, oversight can take care of it as well. Thanks, Nakon 01:38, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm under the impression that OS is only for extreme cases like doxing. Can they deal with this stuff too? EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

If an edit doesn't fall under the criteria for oversight, the oversight admin processing the request can still delete it under a regular revdel criteria. I would only use WP:OS for severe violations of the BLP. You may get a faster response, however, by pinging another admin that is online at the time. Nakon 01:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Sounds good! Thanks! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:55, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Reason for reversing RfC closure at Talk:Ellalan (monarch)

Hi Nakon,

Could you explain your reasoning for the reversal of the closure at Ellalan (monarch)? Thanks, Wugapodes (talk) 20:50, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I reversed the closure as there was no apparent consensus to perform the move. The close rationale did not reflect the discussion, and most of the comments were against an immediate move. If the editors can't come to a consensus, I would recommend listing it at WP:RM for outside opinions. Thanks, Nakon 15:25, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Rollback Request

Hello, I noticed you declined my request on rollbacking, but why? I can still edit pages and I have not been blocked for edit warring, for a different reason. RMS52 (talk) 16:45, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Netherless, I am happy to wait a month or so. Until the block would not be concidered recent. RMS52 (talk) 16:47, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Battle of the Boyne

I suspect that the semi-protection that you have imposed is because of the repeated intervention of the non-named user who keeps, without a stated reason, reverting my reasoned edit that the religions of William and James were more relevant in the context of the Battle, rather than the Countries where they were born. Unfortunately you have intervened when his version is in the article.

I have not come across semi-protection before, but on looking it up it seems likely that we would still both be able to edit this article, the criteria being very mild.

I don't feel very strongly about this, but I do find his/her anonymous and unreasoned edits annoying. What would you suggest please?

Mark126 18:54, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

The semiprotection will prevent the IP editor from making any further edits to the article until the protection expires. Please feel free to remove the IP's version. Nakon 17:02, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Right. Thank you. Mark126 18:47, 10 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. [13]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [14]
• 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. [15]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [16]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [17]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [18] [19]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [20] [21]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [22]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [23]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [24]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [25]

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. [26]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [27]

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. [28]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Template Editor

I have rescinded my template editor request. I misinterpreted the guidelines, not making distinction between sandbox type. Sorry. Spartan7W § 16:50, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

No worries, please feel free to apply again once you've met the criteria. Thanks, Nakon 20:37, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Unblock request on hold

There is an unblock request at User talk:Mugshots. I am inclined to unblock, but I should be grateful if you would let me know if you have any opinion on the matter. The following are my thoughts:

1. The user page edits for which you blocked appear to have been mistaken placings of messages there instead of on the corresponding talk page, rather than vandalism. The particular message posted (an immediate level 4 warning) was also probably not appropriate, but misjudging the level of warning to give is a very different thing from vandalism.
2. Even if you do for some reason think the edits were vandalism, an indefinite block for two fairly mild vandalism edits is surprising.
3. A "vandalism only" block for two "vandalism" edits from an editor with dozens of non-vandalism edits must surely have been a mistake. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I've unblocked the account and have apologized to the editor. I reviewed the edits and they were clearly not vandalism. I must have gotten mixed up between the bulk removal of sourced vs. unsourced content. Thanks for understanding, Nakon 20:02, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Autopatrolled criteria thoughts

Hi, Nakon! As the other main "regular" WP:PERM Admin (along with Swarm) these days, I thought I'd ask you your thoughts on my proposal at WT:Autopatrolled. (I've followed up with this proposal at VPP, but so far it's getting no feedback...) Anyway, as one of the main "user rights" granters these days, I thought it's important to get your feedback about the proposal. Thanks in advance. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:06, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of MPCon

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MPCon

I don't believe consensus was reached there. The deletion discussion should have been closed and the notice removed under no consensus. The arguments made by the two Delete votes were discussed and disputed with relevant evidence. Sepharo (talk) 23:47, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, there was a clear consensus that the article did not have significant coverage in reliable secondary sources. If you disagree with the close, please feel free to list the discussion at deletion review. Thanks, Nakon 14:28, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

He's done so. —Cryptic 22:35, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Dear Nakon

Many thanks for unblocking my account. I have requested for username change also I had an issue that is my IP Address was blocked which I think is still blocked, could you please help me in this regard.

Thanks & Regards Srishti — Preceding unsigned comment added by Journal of Creating Value (talk • contribs) 04:56, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Page Unblock Request

Dear Nakon

Many thanks for your help in unblocking my page, but I still have a query if my IP address has also been unblocked? Could you please help me in this regard.

Thanks & Regards Srishti — Preceding unsigned comment added by Journal of Creating Value (talk • contribs) 04:58, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

E-mail

Nakon, could you e-mail me so I can forward you the above user's e-mail to the utrs-admins mailing list? Thanks. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 04:01, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done Nakon 22:05, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 00:32, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review for MPCon

An editor has asked for a deletion review of MPCon. 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. Sepharo (talk) 22:35, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Talk:List_of_oldest_living_people#Break

What does Talk:List_of_oldest_living_people#Break have to do with the ANI discussion? Those edits were made prior to the edit warring, reverted by this edit, protected and a request was made. I'm not arguing about wrong versions, just wanted the edit done pursuant to the discussion. The ANI discussion started off on the issue how the project page should list the results of the RSN, there hasn't been a dispute about the RSN conclusion, just people who think that the WOP project shouldn't say it and just ignore it. Whether or not the project guidelines say what RSN concludes isn't the basis for how pages should be edited. I only proposed removing the section (which also has BLP concerns about poorly sourced names and birth dates for people), not the re-merger done here which is what all the fighting is about. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:22, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

The ANI discussion has concluded. Will you reconsider or should I file a new request? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:43, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Forgot it. Protection expired I see. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:45, 16 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. [29] [30] [31]
• 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. [32]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [33] [34]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [35]

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. [36]

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)

Jesse Gonzalez

Can you unprotect the title Jesse Gonzalez and move the article Jesse Gonzalez (soccer)? He made his professional debut for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds about a week ago so he now meets WP:NFOOTBALL. See here. – Michael (talk) 17:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks, Nakon 13:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Template editor request

Hi Nakon. I want to begin by thanking you for all the work you do on Wikipedia. Your username often pops up on my watchlist for your many positive contributions to the encyclopedia. I also want to thank you for taking the time to review my request for template editor privileges. I understand why I wasn't granted the privilege, and am not here to contest that. I am however disappointed with your comment stating that I should "propose the edits to the templates on their talk pages". The reason this bothers me is that, if you had read my request thoroughly you would have known that I was volunteering to edit the 500+ language templates to add the "lit." parameter that had already been discussed and implemented on a small number of templates but was then forgotten about. I don't think you could have possibly put in the time to carefully read what I had written since you're suggestion for me to edit over 500 talk pages was unreasonable. I'd like to remind you that your job as an admin is not to mark things as "finished," but to improve the encyclopedia and offer constructive support to users. I feel like in this case you did not do either of those things. Again, I am not arguing that I should have been given the permission, I'm only suggesting that you be more careful in future interactions with users, even if it means getting a little less done. Thanks for your time, Ry's the Guy ^{(talk|contribs)} 07:20, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Your request was visible on the RFP page for nearly 24 hours. Another editor (L235 (talk · contribs)) with the "templateeditor" permission commented that you had not "worked on, well, any protected edit requests or sandboxes". Per the requirements on the Template Editor page, administrators are discouraged from granting permissions unless specific criteria are met. WP:TPEGRANT defers the final disposition to an administrator, and I have determined that you do not currently meet the criteria for this user right. You are welcome to disagree, in which you should appeal to ANI and gain a consensus at that noticeboard. Thanks, Nakon 07:29, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I am absolutely astonished by this response. You have just proved that you are not carefully reading what other people write to you. I wrote twice above that I was not disputing your decision, but rather suggesting that you are more careful in your correspondence with other users. Ry's the Guy ^{(talk|contribs)} 07:39, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I've thoroughly reviewed your request, and I disagree that being BOLD is a good use of the template editor permission. You should suggest the edits on a few of the template-protected templates first. I will not grant this right to an editor that does not meet the minimum criteria. As I previously indicated, you are welcome to disagree with my decision by appealing to the adminisrators' noticeboard. Thanks, Nakon 07:47, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Once again I'm not saying that you should have granted me the permission, only that your comments indicated that you weren't taking the time to read a proposal and respond in a constructive manner. If you had written "Declined, does not fulfill the criteria" I would not have had a problem. It's the fact that you suggested I edit 500 talk pages, indicating that you were not aware of what was being asked in the first place that bothered me. I think that admins need to be more careful than the average user and not rush to complete tasks for the sake of completing them. Your later suggestion that I edit the sandbox then ping you to apply the change was very reasonable and constructive and I will be doing that. Thank you, Ry's the Guy ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I do apologize that I did not indicate that I fully reviewed your contribution. I thoroughly review every submission at WP:RFR, even if I do not leave a detailed message describing my decision. I review at least seven different criteria before making a decision on granting or declining user rights.

I did not mean for you to edit 500+ talk pages for the template to be updated. A few of the highly-transcluded templates' talk pages would be more than enough to review your template edit/submission history once the edit was approved. If you have any additional concerns, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks, Nakon 08:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay thank you for clarifying. I'll begin the task and post the links to the sandbox edits below. Ry's the Guy ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:53, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Sandbox changes for lang- templates

As per our previous discussion, here are the first batch of sandbox edits to the language templates.

1. Template:Lang-et/sandbox
2. Template:Lang-az/sandbox
3. Template:Lang-be/sandbox
4. Template:Lang-bg/sandbox
5. Template:Lang-bn/sandbox
6. Template:Lang-br/sandbox
7. Template:Lang-ca/sandbox
8. Template:Lang-cs/sandbox
9. Template:Lang-cy/sandbox
10. Template:Lang-da/sandbox
11. Template:Lang-ko/sandbox
12. Template:Lang-fa/sandbox
13. Template:Lang-fry/sandbox
14. Template:Lang-ga/sandbox
15. Template:Lang-gd/sandbox
16. Template:Lang-gv/sandbox
17. Template:Lang-hi/sandbox
18. Template:Lang-hr/sandbox
19. Template:Lang-hu/sandbox
20. Template:Lang-hy/sandbox

Number 12 required a more substantial edit. It seems like the original template was never updated with the "language with name" template when the others were. As it is now the template documentation is incorrect, as pointed out on the talk page. My edit would fix this and replace the left-to-right marker with the appropriate parameter in the Language with name template to increase functionality and be consistent with the other templates.

Thank you for your help with this, it is very much appreciated. Ry's the Guy ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:57, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I apologize for the delay in responding to your message. I've been away from the wiki for the week due to the start of classes. I'll be able to get to this in the next few days. Nakon 04:22, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

No problem, take your time. Ry's the Guy ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:54, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

@Rystheguy: I apologize, but I am not going to have the time to submit these edits. I'm sorry for the lengthy delay, but I am not able to give the time to make these template edits. If you can submit that you meet the criteria for the Template Editor permissions, I can grant you access. Otherwise, I would defer you to he article's talk page for edit requests. Nakon 05:42, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Maybe I'll try applying for the user right again now that I have more template template edits under my belt. Thanks again for your time, Ry's the Guy ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

IP sock

Since your already involved in this case, could I get a block for this? Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:13, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I've blocked the range as an open proxy. Thanks, Nakon 04:24, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

cyprian nyakundi article

user:erigits hallo admin.I would like to create an article Cyprian Nyakundi.I find that you deleted an article with the same title.what were the reasons? can I go on and create my different version ? (Erigits (talk) 08:43, 22 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. [37]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [38]

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)

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. [39][40]
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [41]
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [42]
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [43]

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. [44]

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Mail

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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. [45]
• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [46]
• You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [47]

Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [48]
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [49][50]

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. [51]
• 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. [52][53]

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. [54]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [55][56]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal ^talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

YGM

Hello, Nakon. 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 at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.— DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 20:53, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review

Hello there! Per #1 of Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Instructions I'm getting back to you regarding John R. Schindler, given you were the closing admin. I'd like to shed light on this new source on the National Review. Given the nature of the deletion discussion and this new source, I'd like to hear your opinion regarding the viability of this article's undeletion. Regards, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 14:56, 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. [57]
• 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. [58]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [59][60]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [61]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [62]

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. [63]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [64]

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Randy D. Funk under notification

I just realized the article on Randy D. Funk was deleted with next to no participation. I think the point that 6 months before the discussion had closed keep should have at least caused pause until people were notified. The arguments for deletion were false based on Cavarrone's false view that any source created by a Latter-day Saint is related to all other Latter-day Saints. The writing of LSD shows either ignporance or malice or both on the part of the writer. Him and Purple backpack have consistently engaged in an attempt to delete as many articles related to Latter-day Saints as possible. In this case they seem to have sought to avoid any notification of people involved. I request a reversal so that the issue can be more fully discussed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:08, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Restoring Abdul Kadar Khatri Page

Hello Nakon, I want your help for restoring Abdul Kadar Khatri Article. It was deleted by you. It was my brother's mistake, he didn't knew how to use wikipedia he mistakenly did that. May you please Restore this Article. (It is a Important Article!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matin78692 (talk • contribs) 04:23, 20 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. [65][66]
• 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. [67][68][69][70]
• 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. [71]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [72]

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. [73]
• 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. [74][75]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [76]

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. [77]
• 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. [78]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [79]

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)

I think new WARx2 Wikipedia page was deleted earlier today without following proper Wikipedia rules and guidelines Katymall (talk) 20:09, 25 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. [80]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [81]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [82]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [83]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [84]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [85]
• 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. [86]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [87][88]

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. [89]
• 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. [90]

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [91]
• 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)

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. [92]
• The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [93]

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. [94]
• UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [95]
• A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [96]

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. [97]

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. [98]
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [99]

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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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

You've got mail!

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Tech News: 2015-43

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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). [100]

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [101]
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [102]
• 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. [103]

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [104]
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [105][106][107][108]

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)

...

so......y did u delete the boob nazi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.11.170 (talk) 21:36, 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. [109]
• 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. [110][111]
• When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [112][113]
• Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [114]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Second Battle of Lang Son

Dear Nakon, you previously closed the discussion for the deletion of this page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Second Battle of Lang Son. User:Dino nam has reinstated the page, I'm not sure how to compare it to the previous deleted page, but it contains minimal detail. I have tried discussing this with User:Dino nam by posting on both the article talk page and his/her talk page: User talk:Dino nam#Second Battle of Lang Son but have received no response. Are you able to delete the page? If not can you please advise how I should proceed as my attempt at relisting this page for deletion takes me back to the closed discussion related to the earlier deletion. Kind regards Mztourist (talk) 06:25, 1 November 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. [115]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [116]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [117]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [118]

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. [119]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [120]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Baada Aal Bal

Hello Nakon,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Baada Aal Bal for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Officialjjones (talk) 15:50, 4 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. [121]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [122]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [123]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [124]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [125]
• 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. [126]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [127]

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17:18, 9 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. [128]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [129]
• 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. [130]
• 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. [131][132]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Request: Indefinite Full Protection for Furry Fandom article/template

• Furry Fandom (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Create indefinite full protection: Nakon, request staff that template/article is considered high-risk, make it full protection whatsoever, change from indefinite semi-protection to full-protection. 112.209.86.65 (talk) 06:09, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Already declined. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 06:28, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Second Malaysia Plan

I have nominated Second Malaysia Plan for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKay (talk) 15:57, 22 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) 13:38, 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. [133]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Request to protect Ubiquiti Networks

Some IP editor(s) are persistently removing the "Security" section of the Ubiquiti Networks article. I've tried speaking to one, but I haven't got a response. Since you've protected this article in the past for similar reasons, would you please be able to protect it again? `Orthogonal1 (talk) 06:51, 24 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. [134]
• 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. [135]

Changes this week

• Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [136][137]
• 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. [138]
• 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. [139]

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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. [140]

Problems

• Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [141]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [142]
• IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [143]
• 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. [144]
• It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [145]
• You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [146]
• UploadWizard will look a bit different. [147]
• 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. [148]

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. [149]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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Changes this week

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [150]
• 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. [151]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [152]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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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)

Happy New Year, Nakon!

Happy New Year!

Nakon,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:02, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Request for unprotection

I realize that you are possibly inactive, but there is a standing request to unprotect one of pages you recently protected [153]. I think it should be unprotected right now, since an agreement how to proceed has been achieved on article talk page. Thanks, My very best wishes (talk) 14:49, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

It appears that the page is now unprotected. Thanks, Nakon 05:35, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Elk River High School

Did you really mean to classify 45% of the students at Elk River High School as "disgusting hicks"? lol. Happy editing! Jacona (talk) 15:24, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing out the additional vandalism on the article. Nakon 01:15, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Autoconfirmed

Hello, User:Nakon, I just wanted to let you know that I am now auto-confirmed, so you can remove my request on WP:PERM/C. Thanks. Boomer Vial (talk) 16:07, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. I see that the request has now been cleared. Nakon 01:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Indef of EEng?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm a little confused as to why you saw the need to indef EEng for NOTHERE, revoke talk page and e-mail access, and blank his user talk and user pages. I don't really know EEng, but apart from some civility stuff, I don't really get the block rationale or need to revoke talk page access immediately. Was this block in error? —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 04:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment on this block. I've restored the talk page and email access. I feel that the indefinite block is necessary, however. Thanks, Nakon 05:04, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I really don't get it, even from a cursory look at his contribs over the last couple months he definitely seems well-engaged in the encyclopedia building process. Again, maybe there's some evidence I'm not in possession of, but I don't think I've ever seen a NOTHERE block that's confused me more. In any event, thanks for taking the time to look at this! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 05:09, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

I blocked the account for abusive comments, especially this one: [154]. Nakon 05:16, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

EEng is known for his off-beat humour. Indeffing him without warning and blanking his talkpage strikes me as an extremely severe action. I think block needs review at a suitable noticeboard. Dr. K. 05:35, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Um, yeah. That is not an abusive comment by any stretch of the imagination and I'd strongly suggest you undo this block immediately, as it's a very, very bad block. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:37, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

I've got to agree with this. EEng made a bit of an oddball comment, which is not unusual to my understanding. Even if a block were warranted, ratcheting it up immediately to an indef strikes me as extreme. Even if we take it as an abusive comment, I think an indef would be unwarranted. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 05:58, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

• "I feel an indefinite block is necessary" - your feelings are not a valid reason for blocking anyone on wikipedia. Unblock, or provide a reason with an actual basis in policy.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 05:50, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
• Yeah, I'm about 100% confident that EEng's comments in that diff were meant in jest. Suggest unblocking. At the least, consult with Drmies about this before proceeding. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 05:56, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

You also didn't block him for civility reasons. You blocked for WP:NOTHERE -- and, at least as far as I see, didn't substantiate it except after the fact with the single diff which shows, at worst, inappropriate joking around. A quick glance at his edit history renders the generalized WP:NOTHERE pretty baseless.

Pinging Drmies, who was the target of the comment, in case he wants to jump in. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 05:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

In your "especially this one" example I don't see any basis for such draconian measures, even basis for a mild rebuke. Clearly a severe overreaction. "Not here to build an encyclopedia"?? Very much the contrary! This is one of our most able, prolific and dedicated editors!! Please check EEng's long-term record of contributions. What kind of discouraging message does your action send to the rest of us? There must be a total misunderstanding involved. Please reconsider and reverse this absurd and unjust block. Hertz1888 (talk) 06:09, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Only nine days in, and we already have the winning candidate for "worst block of the year". Dude, try reading WP:NOTNOTHERE, which applies in this case. 107.10.236.42 (talk) 06:15, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

• This is a courtesy note to state that I've overturned your block of EEng, which was unjustified. Indefinite blocks for abuse should be used for egregious statements - I note that you didn't even feel it was necessary to revdel let alone request oversight of the edit. With no outside discussion before or after the block, no warning, no evidence of a pattern of abuse and a weak block summary - this was a poor block and AN consensus was emerging to confirm that. Worm^TT(talk) 09:48, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm on my stupid phone, and can't see what I'm typing. Haven't had coffee yet either. I haven't seen what EEng said but I doubt iit would warrant an index block. Drmies (talk) 14:01, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Concerns

Dealt with by statement at AN
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Hi Nakon. I've looked over the situation a few times since I've made the unblock this morning. Looking into your history, I don't see a pattern of problematic behaviour, this really does seem like a one-off. But there have been a few actions that you took that are not up to par. You say above that you "blocked the account for abusive comments, especially this one: [155]." But context of that comment shows it to not be abusive. When I was an arbitrator, I saw real abuse - that wasn't. Even assuming it wasn't good natured (which the context showed it was), it wasn't abusive. So from the outset, we've got a block which is not great. The block length of indefinite made little or no sense, unless you believe the edit to be so egregious that he should not return, but you didn't take any action to hide that edit, which makes me doubt you felt it was that egregious. Your block log entry was a link to WP:NOTHERE, which is an essay and doesn't apply in this situation as the editor you blocked has 25k edits, with the largest proportion to article space. I think you'd struggle to convince the community that EEng was not here to build an encyclopedia. You removed talk page access and email access, despite zero further edits being made. You removed this upon request, but shutting down avenues of appeal like this is very concerning. You rolled back an edit at WP:Deletion process which EEng had made. This wasn't vandalism, and did not meet the criteria for rollback. Again, this is of significant concern, if you were not an admin, you would likely lose the rollback user-right for an edit like that. Like I say, there's no real need for this to go further, there's no pattern of problematic edits here. I would, however, appreciate acknowledgement that there were issues here on the understanding they won't happen again. WormTT(talk) 15:50, 9 January 2016 (UTC) Nakon, we really need to hear from you at the AN thread--you owe that to EEng, and to your fellow admins. FWIW, I think I've always been very happy with you as a colleague, and I have to say I appreciate the willingness to make a harsh block--but not in this case, obviously. We have to be accountable, and making a public statement is much better than giving everyone free rein to speculate. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 16:20, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Need a revdel

Hi Nakon! I'm requesting a revedel on this edit (and my reversion) at Stan Kroenke. Thanks. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 05:04, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

The edit has been redacted. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Nakon 05:06, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Courtesy notice for EEng's block review at AN

This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Dr. K. 06:13, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

{{User talk before you block}} --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 9 January 2016 (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. [156]
• You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [157]

Problems

• Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [158]

Changes this week

• The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [159]
• New file uploads will now be patrollable. [160]
• 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. [161][162]

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. [163]
• 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. [164][165]
• 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. [166][167]
• 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)

Help decide the future of Wikimania

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 23:46, 12 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. [168]
• 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. [169]

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. [170]
• 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. [171]
• 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)

Deletion review of PureScript

I've read the Wikipedia:Deletion review but am unsure how to proceed recreating the PureScript page deleted last April? I've begun gathering new sources on its wiki. Would you kindly offer guidance? I know credibility isn't comparable between pages but PureScript has gained popularity on Github equivalent to its nearest "competitor." Dnalot (talk) 14:55, 19 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. [172][173]
• 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. [174]

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. [175]
• 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. [176]
• 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. [177]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [178]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-popupsb.js

Hi Nakon. If nobody is using the page linked above, would you mind deleting it? I'd like to reduce the sheer number of different forks of gadgets. Thanks. --Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:29, 30 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. [179]
• 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. [180][181]
• 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. [182]

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. [183]
• 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. [184][185]
• 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. [186]
• 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. [187][188][189]
• 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. [190][191]
• 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. [192]

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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. [193]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [194]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [195]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [196][197]
• 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. [198][199]
• 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. [200][201][202]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Towards a New Wikimania results

Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Biscayne Wall

A tag has been placed on Biscayne Wall requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

No context. Article lacks context to identify the subject of the article

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 1305cj (talk) 21:37, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Biscayne Wall listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Biscayne Wall. Since you had some involvement with the Biscayne Wall redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. 1305cj (talk) 19:13, 10 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. [203]
• You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [204]

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. [205][206]

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. [207][208]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [209]
• 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. [210]

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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. [211][212]

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. [213][214]

Changes this week

• After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [215]

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)

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. [216][217]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [218][219]

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. [220]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [221]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [222]

Meetings

• Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [223]
• 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. [224]
• Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [225]
• 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. [226]
• It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [227]
• 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. [228]

Problems

• Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [229]
• The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [230]
• The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [231]
• 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. [232]
• 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. [233]

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. [234]
• 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. [235]

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. [236]
• 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. [237]

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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. [238]
• The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [239]

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. [240]
• 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. [241]

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)

Neil Volz

Can you please userfy plus talk page to my space? Valoem ^{talk contrib} 08:17, 17 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. [242]

Changes this week

• It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [243]
• You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [244]
• 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. [245]

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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. [246] [247]

Problems

• Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [248]

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. [249]

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. [250]
• 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. [251]
• Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [252]

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. [253][254]
• 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. [255][256]
• ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [257]
• The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [258]

Problems

• There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [259]

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. [260]

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. [261]

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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. [262][263]
• You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [264]
• MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [265]

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. [266]
• 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)

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. [267]
• 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. [268]

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. [269]
• It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [270]
• 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. [271]

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21:02, 25 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. [272]

Problems

• There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [273]

Changes this week

• You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [274]
• 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. [275]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)