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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

Traffic report: Ebola

Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

Tech News: 2014-33

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

Recent software changes

Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [1]
Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [2]

VisualEditor news

Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [3]

Future software changes

Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [4] [5] [6]
If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [7] [8]
You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [9] [10]
An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [11]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

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69	Baby Alive (talk)	Add sources
2,550	Bastille (band) (talk)	Add sources
112	Hungry Hungry Hippos (talk)	Add sources
1,282	Electronics (talk)	Add sources
174	Scattergories (talk)	Add sources
854	San Fernando Valley (talk)	Add sources
17	D-37C (talk)	Cleanup
56	FileServe (talk)	Cleanup
8	Malay Gamelan (talk)	Cleanup
5	Lake Palatinus (talk)	Expand
1,273	Indiana Jones (franchise) (talk)	Expand
30	Alameda High School (talk)	Expand
653	Longest words (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
350	MagicJack (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
17	East West (band) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
108	Nerf Blaster (talk)	Merge
1,110	Stretch marks (talk)	Merge
319	Primer (paint) (talk)	Merge
498	Transliteration (talk)	Wikify
157	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (talk)	Wikify
987	Colossus (comics) (talk)	Wikify
12	Synaptop (talk)	Orphan
2	Jessica Savona (talk)	Orphan
7	Outline of electronics (talk)	Orphan
41	FurReal Friends (talk)	Stub
8	Atlantic Boulevard (Los Angeles County) (talk)	Stub
10	Lirik (talk)	Stub
8	The Brakenhale School (talk)	Stub
51	Mystery Date (game) (talk)	Stub
119	Guess Who? (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective

Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week

Tech News: 2014-34

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

Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [12] [13] [14]
You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [15] [16]
You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [17]
You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [18]
After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [19]

Problems

There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [20] [21]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July drive and August blitz

Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the 40 people who signed up this drive, 22 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2400 articles to 2199 articles in July. This is a new month-end record low for the backlog. Nice work, everyone!

Blitz: The August blitz will run from August 24–30. The blitz will focus on articles from the GOCE's Requests page. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. The blitz will run from August 24–30. Sign up here!

Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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901	Tim Cahill (talk)	Add sources
169	Cinema of Germany (talk)	Add sources
20	El Toro Y (talk)	Add sources
85	Southern California freeways (talk)	Add sources
19	Sit 'n Spin (talk)	Add sources
623	Southern California (talk)	Add sources
282	Littlest Pet Shop (talk)	Cleanup
19	Downtown Long Beach (talk)	Cleanup
51	Downtown Kansas City (talk)	Cleanup
4,273	Mehdi Benatia (talk)	Expand
71	Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California) (talk)	Expand
137	Pound Puppies (talk)	Expand
113	Tomy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
95	Chinatowns in the United States (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,696	Google Drive (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
68	Shalivahana era (talk)	Merge
324	Golf club (talk)	Merge
372	Santa Clarita, California (talk)	Merge
292	Duel Masters (talk)	Wikify
13	Transportation in Arizona (talk)	Wikify
1,371	My Little Pony (talk)	Wikify
1	Masagaway District (talk)	Orphan
7	Giovanni Felice (talk)	Orphan
1	Herojale (talk)	Orphan
37	Bob Dishy (talk)	Stub
50	Muon neutrino (talk)	Stub
7	Lake (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)	Stub
6	Anna Thompson (netball player) (talk)	Stub
31	1988 Summer Paralympics (talk)	Stub
5	Downtown Pasadena, California (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

Tech News: 2014-35

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

VisualEditor news

There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [22]
You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [23]
If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [24] [25] [26]

Future software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [27]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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18	CirKis (talk)	Add sources
377	Tiffany Alvord (talk)	Add sources
264	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film) (talk)	Add sources
46	Stickle Bricks (talk)	Add sources
137	Beyblade (toy) (talk)	Add sources
35	Alternative versions of Beast (talk)	Cleanup
804	X-23 (talk)	Cleanup
248	Pictionary (talk)	Cleanup
101	Kre-O (talk)	Expand
3,823	The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (talk)	Expand
41	Mid-City, Los Angeles (talk)	Expand
40	Comparison of Axis & Allies games (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
153	Red Line (Los Angeles Metro) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
73	Woodlands, Singapore (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
747	Heat transfer coefficient (talk)	Merge
2,680	Blood pressure (talk)	Merge
31	Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center (talk)	Merge
36	James Irvine (landowner) (talk)	Wikify
1,440	Professor X (talk)	Wikify
2,653	Sanskrit (talk)	Wikify
10	In a Pickle (card game) (talk)	Orphan
5	Bull's-Eye Ball (talk)	Orphan
3	Galaangale (talk)	Orphan
10	Long Beach Boulevard (talk)	Stub
7	Ryan Cordell (talk)	Stub
20	Gator Golf (talk)	Stub
22	Middle Shebelle (talk)	Stub
7	Aviation Boulevard (talk)	Stub
9	Luke McGrath (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news

News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster

Traffic report: Viral

Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!

WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

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Tech News: 2014-36

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

Recent software changes

You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [28] [29]
You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [30] [31]
A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [32] [33]
If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [34]

VisualEditor news

You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [35]
We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [36] [37] [38]
VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [39]
We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [40]
You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [41]

Future software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [42]
You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [43]
You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [44]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
1,024	Long Beach, California (talk)	Add sources
120	Catch Phrase (game) (talk)	Add sources
42	Metro Rapid (talk)	Add sources
31	Girl Talk (board game) (talk)	Add sources
45	Upwords (talk)	Add sources
368	Santa Ana, California (talk)	Add sources
1,155	Cyclops (comics) (talk)	Cleanup
360	Decimation (comics) (talk)	Cleanup
147	Tabitha Smith (talk)	Cleanup
16	Kirch Group (talk)	Expand
99	Free Java implementations (talk)	Expand
92	Alara block (talk)	Expand
31	Jewelry District (Los Angeles) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
52	Secondary mutation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
809	Fresno, California (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24	Colotomy (talk)	Merge
67	Clustering illusion (talk)	Merge
34	Gambang (talk)	Merge
136	Catenaccio (talk)	Wikify
609	Age of Apocalypse (talk)	Wikify
6	Steven Staryk (talk)	Wikify
4	Location OC (talk)	Orphan
1	Gulane (talk)	Orphan
2	Hansholey (talk)	Orphan
50	Lars Mortimer (talk)	Stub
3	Canadian Health Network (talk)	Stub
23	Downtown Long Beach (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)	Stub
5	San Pedro Street (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)	Stub
31	Hi Ho! Cherry-O (talk)	Stub
297	Igor Vetokele (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 03 September 2014

Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended

Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more

Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial

Traffic report: Holding Pattern

WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies

Tech News: 2014-37

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

VisualEditor news

From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [45] [46] [47]

Future software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [48]
You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [49]

Problems

There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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615	Williamsburg, Brooklyn (talk)	Add sources
76	Figueroa Street (talk)	Add sources
121	Wilshire Boulevard (talk)	Add sources
586	Bunny Man (talk)	Add sources
43	Glo Worm (talk)	Add sources
38	Metro Local (talk)	Add sources
149	Mouse Trap (game) (talk)	Cleanup
352	Orange juice (talk)	Cleanup
1,932	Ouija (talk)	Cleanup
694	Foursquare (talk)	Expand
3,608	Nintendo (talk)	Expand
372	Tone (linguistics) (talk)	Expand
245	You aren't gonna need it (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
7,421	California (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
32	Musical expression (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
313	Series A round (talk)	Merge
44	Staccatissimo (talk)	Merge
1,295	Looney Tunes (talk)	Merge
278	Pyro (comics) (talk)	Wikify
216	Cannonball (comics) (talk)	Wikify
977	SCSI (talk)	Wikify
3	Gashanle (talk)	Orphan
1	Balanbaal (talk)	Orphan
0	Qurajome (talk)	Orphan
1,318	Anna Wood (actress) (talk)	Stub
4	Lincoln-Villa, Pasadena, California (talk)	Stub
13	Norwalk (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)	Stub
204	Joey Bragg (talk)	Stub
15	Qoryoley (talk)	Stub
1	Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution (Album 2012) (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready

Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue

WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right

Tech News: 2014-38

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 software changes

You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [50] [51]
There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [52] [53] [54]
New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [55]

Problems

There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [56]

VisualEditor news

If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [57]
The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [58] [59]
You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [60]

Future software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
These changes are coming with the new version:
- If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [61] [62] [63]

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics

WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland

News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third

Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

Featured content: Which is not like the others?

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
811	San Fernando Valley (talk)	Add sources
2,316	Bastille (band) (talk)	Add sources
1,570	Orange County, California (talk)	Add sources
585	Code (talk)	Add sources
68	Baby Alive (talk)	Add sources
123	Nerf Blaster (talk)	Add sources
362	Magik (comics) (talk)	Cleanup
13	D-37C (talk)	Cleanup
59	Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles (talk)	Cleanup
642	Riverside, California (talk)	Expand
65	2014–15 Turkish Cup (talk)	Expand
3	Lake Palatinus (talk)	Expand
16	Woodbridge, Irvine, California (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
196	Murrieta, California (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
593	Longest words (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
35	Post (comics) (talk)	Merge
34	Implementation of bus rapid transit by country (talk)	Merge
1,220	Stretch marks (talk)	Merge
580	Transliteration (talk)	Wikify
164	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (talk)	Wikify
22	Ben Maller (talk)	Wikify
3	Jessica Savona (talk)	Orphan
15	Synaptop (talk)	Orphan
9	Outline of electronics (talk)	Orphan
11	Lirik (talk)	Stub
17	Designer's World (talk)	Stub
84	Koosh ball (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2014-39

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Recent software changes

You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [64]

Problems

There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [65] [66]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[67] [68]
In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [69] [70]
The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [71]
The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [72]
There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for ~~strikethrough~~. [73] [74]
In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [75]

Future site changes

You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [76]

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