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Page move

You have just moved a page to Charitable dispensaries in Manchester. That might be a bit unfortunate because they are rarely referred to as charitable dispensaries and in fact generally were subscription-based. Many became provident dispensaries and some, such as that at Ancoats, became hospitals. I've got a lot more to add to that and related articles but wonder if it might be best to stick to the original title. The period when these thing were formed is generally referred to as the "dispensary movement". - Sitush (talk) 14:43, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. You're right, Charitable dispensaries in Manchester is wrong for this. I've renamed the article to Dispensary movement in Manchester, which I hope is clearer than "dispensaries in Manchester", which might be taken as referring to present-day hospital dispensaries. -- The Anome (talk) 13:36, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Yup, that makes sense. Thanks. I'll try to catch up with the writing soon - I've become a bit burned out (singed?) with events elsewhere. - Sitush (talk) 16:39, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Maintenance template dating issue

Please see this; my error, compounded by your bot. Is that something you can check for? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:51, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Invention

Hello, The Anome. You are invited to join WikiProject Invention, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of inventions and invention-related topics. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 09:24, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		Don't know what prompted the creation of Catacomb saints, but what a great idea! I'll see what I can add to it - I seem to recall a particularly good story about such a "relic" being toured through nothern France during the 30 Years' War to boost morale among Catholic troops. Anyway, keep up the good work! Stalwart111 11:53, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Ha ha, mutual barnstars! Thanks! I thought it might make for a good DYK candidate but couldn't think of a hook. Thoughts? Stalwart111 13:39, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

I've acknowledged it needs a better hook but I've nominated it at Template:Did you know nominations/Catacomb saints anyway. Stalwart111 06:56, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Excellent. -- The Anome (talk) 08:29, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

re: Is there a scientific definition of "shake well"?

I was wasn't as careful about the way I phrased that sentence as I thought. So on second reading I did modify it here specifying shaking " ...the container". I was trying to avoid this. Tsk Tsk! - 220 of ^Borg 16:50, 13 September 2013 (UTC).

DYK for Catacomb saints

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Teahouse Invitation

Hello! The Anome, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. The Teahouse is an awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us!

Tariqmudallal (talk) 15:32, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

A question about Amplituhedron

Hey bro. If you have any interest in the matter or know any Wikipedian who could help out, a question about Amplituhedron here (http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Physics#Amplituhedron.2C_Scattering_amplitude.2C_Scattering_patterns).

Thanks - 186.221.170.80 (talk) 20:31, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

India coords

Hi. I know it's been a long time, but I thought I'd mention it in case it might be a bigger problem...

With this edit, The Anomebot2 added coords to Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh. Unfortunately, there is also a Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh and it is the co-ordinates for that district that were added instead. I don't know what the source data looked like, but if it did not include the adm1 division in which an adm2 is supposed to lie, it would be good to look for possible dups like this. There is at least one more such duplicate district (Hamirpur district), but it did not get the wrong coords (diff times, sources, etc. though). Anyway, FYI. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:00, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. This shouldn't happen: I'll take a look at the data and see if there's a way that this particular case could have been detected and prevented. Of course, if the source data is wrong, the GIGO principle applies and all bets are off. -- The Anome (talk) 14:32, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

AfD closure

Regarding this - AfD closure templates are, in fact, subst'd; your un-subst-ing it broke the page in a way that meant the system thought it was a still-active AfD. I've reclosed it, but please bear that in mind in the future, thanks. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 10:55, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

User:70.186.222.63

Hi. Could you look at this case in WP:AN/I please? Thanks is advance, Raamin (talk) 03:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

I've blocked the IP for one month, and notified them of the AN/I discussion. By the way, I think I should mention that when you mention another user of WP:AN/I, you're supposed to notify them that you're doing so. It's easy to do: you can put {{subst:ANI-notice}} on their talk page to do so, and it will auto-expand into a message.-- The Anome (talk) 10:27, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

ANI

Could you tack a {{resolved}} or whatever it is to WP:ANI#Disruptive IP range please? Chris is trying to start shit up with me again.—Ryulong (琉竜) 18:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for unblocking the range while this gets sorted out. I think the editor is well-meaning, but unaware of the situation. Also, I am not "trying to start shit up" as Ryulong claims, but he did make a report that the editor was a vandal and no action was taken, and that was only yesterday.[1] I'm not sure what the issue is but the editor from the Philippines doesn't seem to be bad faith and the edits throughout the history seem to be correct, locally speaking - because they are not released in North America. Dare I say it... but throughout the history I see lots of useful information being removed and it is more than just the names. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 20:46, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

I never said that they were being done in bad faith. The only thing this editor has done is change spellings and add the word "the" before every single robot's name. I have made multiple requests for him to stop changing the spellings and stop adding the word "the" before every robot's name but he never responds because he just switches IPs again. I thought that maybe I could get another respite but no. Now I have to deal with this shit again today. And you know you are trying to start shit up, Chris, because now I can't do anything on WP:ANI without you chiming in against me.—Ryulong (琉竜) 00:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

You need to stop being dramatic, Ryulong. I mentioned your interaction with the user at User_talk:Ryulong#Rollback_and_BITE at 23:42, 26 October 2013. You made the ANI report at 09:33, 27 October 2013. My concern about your AIV post with the editor preceded your ANI report. It appears that because your AIV did not lead to a block so you made one at ANI. I'm not "starting shit", but I believe it is reasonable to be concerned and detail what I stated at your talk page. Let's not forget that some usage of English is also different for special cases the usage is more or less correct depending the reading.[2] As the use of definite article or its omission is inconsistent, but if it is such a problem, you know where requests for page protection is. It will at least require registration and likely a clear direction to talk pages if they lack competence. There are better ways to go about what you did without resorting to labeling their edits as "vandalism". Now I believe we have disturbed The Anome's talk page quite enough. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 01:46, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

The fact AIV did not lead to the block is irrelevant. I have been dealing with this problematic editor for longer than you and I have been in dispute, and the last time I went to request protection they put the page on pending revisions which honestly does jack shit other than prevent the edit from being made live, which isn't the problem here. Also, when dealing with proper nouns for which there are no other such entities, the definite article seems redundant.—Ryulong (琉竜) 02:39, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can see, this is a content dispute with a side order of non-communication, and not a matter for AN/I. Both Ryulong and the IP editor appear to be acting in good faith in the belief that the edits they are making are improving the article, and both of them have some justification for their point of view, as the two issues here, Layda vs. Rayda, and definite article vs. no definite article, are arguable either way. I agree with the posters at AN/I who suggested the use of edit summaries and inline comments to try to establish communication with the other editor. Give it a try, and come back if there's no resolution after a month or so. -- The Anome (talk) 10:23, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Last I checked, dealing with non-responsive editors was exactly a matter for WP:ANI.—Ryulong (琉竜) 15:06, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Signpost/Gattaca

Hi The Anome. I am Go Phightins!, and am currently writing a piece for The Signpost on the Rand Paul/Gattaca debacle, which I am sure you have heard about. In 2002, you created the page on Gattaca, so I thought I would offer you the chance to comment for the story ... any comment you'd like to make on either the article, the alleged plagiarism, or plagiarizing Wikipedia in general? Up to you - thanks! Go Phightins! 19:55, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Oh, good grief. I hadn't heard about this until now. Thanks for letting me know. I'll go take a look. -- The Anome (talk) 20:01, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks; if you could let me know in the next few hours if you wish to comment, that would be terrific. Go Phightins! 23:09, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry -- I haven't really got anything to say on the subject. -- The Anome (talk) 20:15, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks anyway! Go Phightins! 03:22, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	For creating Gattaca yet not making a big deal of it. Bearian (talk) 16:42, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

coord-missing oddity

This edit flagged a North American organization for coordinates in Israel. DMacks (talk) 15:13, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

It's because the article was listed in Category:High schools in Israel, and the bot interpreted it as being just that, and thus a locatable place in Israel. -- The Anome (talk) 15:19, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense actually. Thanks for the quick diagnosis! DMacks (talk) 16:19, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Memory erasure

The article Memory erasure has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Probably student essay that would require complete rewrite to be encyclopedic. One reference is link dead and the other two are primary sources. Most of the article is entirely unsupported by the references. Not even close to Wikipedia:MEDRS.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:09, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Go for it. The topic deserves an article, but it's not this, which verges too near to being a medical article without sufficient rigor. There is certainly an article about memory erasure as a fictional trope to be had here, but otherwise, it needs rewriting from scratch to conform with WP:MEDRS, if it is to be taken seriously as a sci/med article. -- The Anome (talk) 23:46, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Coords not needed

Hi, this is a railway service, running along a route which is over fifty miles long. I don't think that coordinates are appropriate. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:36, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Images missing by place

Hi,

It strikes me that we could reuse the logic you used in applying {{Coord missing}}, and add articles with coordinates, but no image, to a series of Category: Articles without images in [foo place]. People visiting or living in a county or city could then look at the local category to see what images are needed nearby. Someone could write an app for mobile users to do the same, based no the coordinates themselves and Wikipedia's "nearby" function. Would you be interested in that? I'll assist with grunt work. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:23, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I would. The coord tagging has got a bit dull lately as the bot is running out of low-hanging fruit to tag, and I'm looking for more challenges. Certainly, almost anywhere coord-worthy is also image-worthy, with some obvious exceptions (historical events, subterranean geological features and crash sites come to mind, for example. Rather than create a new in-article template, I think we should use the existing {{image requested}} mechanism on talk pages to do this. There's a fair bit of infrastructure to create to make this happen: I will need to create:

• a classification of which types of articles are clearly image-worthy, using a whitelist, as opposed to a blacklist, approach
• a reliable way of detecting pages that are missing pictures (as opposed to maps, or icons such as flagicons or stub notice icons)
• a way of detecting the correct place to put an {{image requested}} tag on a talk page
• a way of working out what "in" parameter I should be using in the tag to bring it to the attention of relevant WikiProjects

There are also other projects we can liase with, to make it, for example, easier for volunteers to find nearby sites to photograph or hunt down public domain images.

I'll think about this some more, then get back to you.

-- The Anome (talk) 14:38, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

OK, that all sounds good. Please ping me when you're ready to move. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:39, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Stalking you ;-) I saw User:The Anome/types of features eligible for photographs. How can I help? Why wouldn't it be easier to come up with a list of "things with coordinates not eligible for photographs"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Given the number of articles that are eligible for images, I'd much rather take the cautious approach than be on the receiving end of hundreds of complaints for mis-tagging. Hence the use of a large whitelist of known good features, instead of a blacklist.

For an example of other kinds of things that need to be taken into account, see the Edray, West Virginia article that I found at random by clicking "random article" a few times until I found an eligible article. By looking at the output of http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Edray,_West_Virginia&action=render , you can see that it contains four images: two maps, a flag, and a dot. We need to be able to ascertain that none of these is a photograph before we decide to request one for the article. Now, we can try to do this by a number of different methods: analyzing the wikitext and template parameters, analyzing the HTML, looking at categories, looking at filenames, or by looking at the images themselves. In this case, for example, file analysis would show that two of the images are too small to be photos, and the other two are low-colour PNG images. However, just looking at the filenames of all four images in this particular would show them to be derived from original SVG images, making it unnecessary to look at the images at all. But that might not be true of other images; for example, some article might have a full colour image saved as a PNG or a GIF, and the only way to detect that would be to analyze its colour histogram. Or another article might use an image that is a full-colour JPEG photograph, but only use it as a tiny icon. Or an SVG might embed a bitmap image of a photograph. And so on... -- The Anome (talk) 10:49, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

After some more thought, I think I can work my way through much of this entirely from dumps, by combining information from the template links, image links, external links and category links tables to generate a shortlist of pages for more detailed inspection. Once that's done, I can then work on devising a set of more detailed checks to be performed on-line before making the final decision of whether to add a photo request template, what the content of that template should be, and where on the talk page to insert it. -- The Anome (talk) 12:25, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Typically, an {{image requested}} would go just below the WikiProject banners, but outside the {{WPB}}{{WPBS}}, if present. Some banners provide parameters for the same purpose; for example, {{WikiProject Trains}} has |imageneeded= and |Imagedetails=, as seen at Talk:Brookfield (Cumbria) railway station. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:57, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes. I think the best way to do this is to add {{image requested}} tags to articles first, then, with that work done, optimize later by adding project-specific parameters to WikiProject templates. Finding out what is and isn't a WikiProject banner, and dealing with the various grouping templates, is a subproject in itself.-- The Anome (talk) 17:10, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Further to my comment above: I've remembered that there are some WikiProject banners where there is a |photo= parameter which doesn't work as you might expect (yes doesn't mean "yes, an image is needed"). See for example {{WikiProject Derbyshire}} where we find that this parameter may be set to |photo=yes if at least one photograph is included in this article; set |photo=na if this article does not require a photograph; set |photo=needs if this article needs at least one photograph to be added. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:29, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Fair enough; is it OK to edit your whitelist, or would your prefer suggestions elsewhere? Or should I go away and stop bugging you? ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:26, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

No, all suggestions are welcome! I've created a "put suggestions here" subheading on that page to put them under. Entries should be in the same format as the existing entries: words or phrases, exactly as used in existing article categories (and therefore typically plural), all lowercased, and with spaces replaced by underscores. -- The Anome (talk) 17:04, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you - added some, more later. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:49, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

@Lydia Pintscher (WMDE): made a suggestion:

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:23, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've removed football clubs and organizations from your list: they are sufficiently blurry entities that they do not always have something that can be photographed. When they have identifiable headquarters buildings or home stadiums, with their own articles, those can have photographs added. I'm aware this will lose some opportunities to add photos: but I'm happier with having some false negatives, in order to prevent false positives which might cause more harm than good. You other suggestions are great, though -- please keep them coming. -- The Anome (talk) 13:24, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I've also removed "schlosses" from the list. "Schloss" is just the German word for "castle/palace", and these are all, as far as I can see, listed under existing "castle/palace" categories such as Category:Castles in Germany. Category:Palaces in Germany. Category:Castles in Austria and Category:Palaces in Austria. -- The Anome (talk) 14:26, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I see you points - sometimes reluctantly - with all those except football clubs, since they all have a strip which can be photographed; as can the games they play, and usually their home grounds. I can't see a false positive in such cases, let alone a harmful one. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:54, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I take your point. You're quite right: there are categories of things which are photographable, but not geocodeable, and things like chain restuarants (for which a photo of a typical storefront might be appropriate) and football clubs might be among them. Let me think about it some more. -- The Anome (talk) 14:57, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Football teams (generally) are geo-locatable; I added coordinates to Old Oscott FC yesterday. But if we're tagging things with coordinates only, that's not an issue, surely? Or were you thinking of tagging things with "needing photo and needing coordinates"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:35, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm thinking of things that need photos but cannot be assigned coordinates. For example, a photo of the outside of a Pizza Hut branch would be quite appropriate for the Pizza Hut article, even though it's impossible to assign a single location to that organization; any reasonably typical example of their many branches would do. -- The Anome (talk) 18:06, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Shops

Perhaps we need to revise our categories, and split those for "shopping chains" and "shop premises", or some such? Then again, if the article has coordinates, is it likely to be a chain?Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:41, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Ideally, yes. Unfortunately, no-one has cared to make the distinction sufficiently often enough, and I've had real trouble creating sufficiently accurate heuristics to tell the two apart by inspecting other categories. So I'm going to err on the side of caution for these for now. We can always re-visit these later, if needed.

Also, thanks for spotting "cultural_sites". This has led me to find "historic_sites" as another marker of geocodable articles, and I've also back-ported this into the main bot to find new candidates for {{coord missing}}. -- The Anome (talk) 14:49, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Well, I tried :-( Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Progress

I now have a list of 1,004,783 articles which (a) contain valid {{coord}} or {{coord missing}} tags, directly or indirectly, and (b) do not have names that imply they are list articles. The next step is to use the category list to filter out types of articles for which there is nothing relevant to photograph (historical events, defunct buildings, electoral districts, etc. etc.). Then after that I can start working on how to automatically, and reliably, tell the difference between articles with and without pictures. More in a couple of days. -- The Anome (talk) 12:18, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

People can still add photographs of defunct buildings - they may be able to source them from their own or family archives, or talking to a GLAM, or searching the web for something freely licensed or out of copyright (e.g. St Alkmund's Church, Derby). Historic events might have a picture of the site, or a memorial, or a related object in a museum (a military uniform, say) or an artwork depicting the events (e.g. Peterloo Massacre). Electoral districts can benefit from a picture of a civic building, local view or even a polling station (e.g. Sutton Trinity (ward)). Thank you again for doing this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:16, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I'm already thinking about it. See User:The Anome/geolocatable articles that are candidates for images, for some thoughts based on inspecting a random samples of 100 test pages, as well as some curious outliers found by bot-grepping the rendered HTML of some articles from a larger random sample of ~500 articles. -- The Anome (talk) 00:40, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

I doubt you meant to do this ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:23, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

No, I certainly didn't -- no idea how your comment got deleted, I didn't spot any edit conflict when I made my edit. I've restored it below: -- The Anome (talk) 06:43, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Progress indeed. I don't see why we'd exclude list articles - they can still benefit from having an image or two. Regarding 101 Collins Street, I think you can ignore any images which are in navbox templates. Per Radolfzell, you an ignore any image which is in an mbox. I'd include non-terrestrial objects, as NASA may well have PD images. Per my comments above, please do not have an exclusion date for disestablished venues. Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs. If you need to run a trail on a geographic subset (and don't want to give away your location), please use West Midlands/ Warwickshire/ Staffordshire/ Worcestershire/ Shropshire, as that's my locality. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:52, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. You're exactly right about the navbox images, and I've taken that on board. I'm still thinking about your other two points as part of investigating the other special cases. -- The Anome (talk) 09:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

More progress

I've now got a basic article-inspector working. Using some fairly cautious rules, I'm currently finding about 50% -- around 500,000 -- of the articles on my first list appear to lack photographs. There are still a quite a few false negatives, but I haven't yet come across any false positives so far. -- The Anome (talk) 00:45, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

After filtering down to only articles with a clearly identifiable country associated with them by Wikipedia category analysis so that they can each be unambiguously assigned to a Wikiproject, I'm now down to around 860k articles in my shortlist. I've also tweaked the article scanner a bit more, to be a bit more lenient in some cases where evidence from several different image tag parameters can be combined to rule out an image being a photo. Running the article scanner on a sample of those again suggests that roughly half -- about 430k -- articles are candidiates for photo requests. -- The Anome (talk) 12:49, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

More progress: most of the false positives are being generated by a few special cases, principally:

• images in navboxes -- solution: remove these entirely at the HTML parsing phase  Done
• tweak the logic for detecting stub icons to be a little bit more forgiving for some cases. Done
• images like flags, locator maps and coats of arms in infoboxes -- solution: itemizing the commonest infobox/parameter combinations which generate these, find these by parsing the wikitext, and remove the generated images from the list of images in the page before doing the rest of the analysis  Done
• remove PNG/GIF images within collapsed boxes -- under consideration

-- The Anome (talk) 19:21, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

The hit rate for finding articles which are eligible for images is now around 60% with the new tweaks, up from 50% before. I have yet to see any false positives. This gives 860k x 60% = approx 510k articles eligible to be tagged, and thus slightly more than offsets the filtering by country assignment. I'm sure there are still some false negatives, but we are probably near the point of diminishing returns in terms what can be done without starting doing image processing analysis on included images.

Next step: more hand checking for false positives, and any remaining low-hanging fruit on false negatives. -- The Anome (talk) 20:31, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

The HTML and wikitext analysis stuff is now finished: the only remaining errors I can find so far from reviewing its results are a few remaining false negatives caused by diagrams and maps included as images that would require image content analysis to distinguish from photographs, something which at the moment just isn't worth developing and debugging to get a couple percent higher hit rate. Enough information will be present in the bot's logs to revisit these pages later, if so desired. -- The Anome (talk) 14:04, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

This all sounds good - so what next? Apply for permission? Create some categories? Write some documentation? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm now working on the final code to filter the articles by type -- building, populated place, etc. -- and to then find the right place in the talk page to add the {{reqphoto}} tag. Then it will be time to request permission from the bot managers to do a test run of say, 100 articles to start with: then 1000, then 10,000, then finally the whole 500,000. I don't plan to integrate the tagging into the parameters of project infoboxes just yet: I see that, and the subcategorization of place tags into subnational entities, as being a job for another bot pass later on. -- The Anome (talk) 21:05, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

This is continuing. Converting the various other categories into reqphoto categories alas requires manual construction of a mapping between the two. -- The Anome (talk) 12:56, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

How're things going? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:51, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

*ahem* ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:59, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Any chance of an update, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:47, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory

Hi anonymous, do you by any chance remember if the page 6D (2,0) superconformal theories existed when you inserted the link in the N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory article (23 sept 2013)? I'm asking because I remember seeing a lot of links to missing articles lately (especially physics and mathematics) and I am curious whether a cleanup is going on or those pages never existed. Thanks for your help! talk Alma 11:15, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

As far as I recall, it didn't exist at the time I made that link. I've checked the revision history, and it never seems to have existed previously, either. Having said which, WP:REDLINKs are good: there's no reason why it should not be created, either now or in the future.-- The Anome (talk) 12:07, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Great, thanks! That settles it. Wish you merry holidays! Alma (talk) 12:44, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

BDSM History

The Anome - I have restored the historical information from the academic publication 'The History & Arts of the Dominatrix'. I have in addition added the original source material cited by its author, which is verifiable. You may be correct that the book may be self-published in its first edition form - I am unable to verify this either way, and the second edition is currently in press by University of Oxford Press. However certainly the author is a UCL academic on staff, and has published anonymously from what I can tell.

One of the problems specific to the BDSM page, is that due to the nature of the subject of BDSM, many BDSM titles are self-published: - Jay Wiseman's books (self-published under Greenery Press) - Lady Green / Janet Hardy (self-published with partner Jay Wiseman of Greenery Press) - Dr Gloria Brame's books are all self-published. (She has a PhD and is a qualified sexologist however) - Philip Miller & Molly Devon's book is self-published (under Mystic Rose Books) etc (I could list numerous titles, all the Lulu Books listed on the page, etc)

I have worked on Wikipedia's Dominatrix page for years, adding academic references from academic journals, from sociological papers, from new books as they've been published, including more recently Danielle Lindemann's book which was a sociological study book "Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism and Control in the Dungeon".

I am open-minded to changes, to enhancing neutrality, promoting balance, etc on Wikipedia articles.

However I do not think the removal of helpful historical information, carefully cited with academic references which are independently verifiable, is appropriate. If there are amendments and edits to be made - I would expect those to be made in pieces as appropriate.

I hope that by adding the original source material references, this may have aided the solution. I can remove all reference to Nomis's book entirely, and leave only her original sources cited (and verifiable), however it would seem inappropriate to steal all her research for use on Wikipedia and not acknowledge her as having been the one who undertook all the hard work and research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scholarlyfemme (talk • contribs) 00:49, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Scholarlyfemme — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scholarlyfemme (talk • contribs) 00:51, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for your comments. Yes, you are right in saying that many well-known BDSM sources are self-published. However, they are well-known sources that have been extensively cited by other writers. This book has as yet not become part of the body of well-known literature on the subject, and its very recent publication and the deliberate anonymity of its author do not help increase its credibility. In particular, the concept of the "seven realm arts", which I cannot find a reference for anywhere else in the literature, appears to be sufficiently novel that it looks likely to be covered by Wikipedia:No original research. Given this, I'd suggest that, for the moment, until the book becomes established as a cited source in the literature, citing the sources used by the book, rather than the book itself, is probably the best way to go.

I'm sorry if this sounds really negative, since the book sounds really promising, and I look forward to reading it when it becomes generally available. -- The Anome (talk) 09:57, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of List of muscles of the human body/version 2

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Nudge

You seem to have overlooked my request for an update, above. I understand that you're busy, but if you don't intend to continue the project, please let me know so I can ask for other assistance. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:02, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi -- sorry about that -- I will get back to that project soon, and will message you when that happens. Happy new year, -- The Anome (talk) 15:25, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mildred Roper

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Derg

I've reverted Anomebot2's edit to Derg. It was a government, not a place. That said, I'm not sure the article belongs in the Former countries in Africa, States and territories established in 1974, or States and territories disestablished in 1987 categories (which may be how the 'bot found it). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 01:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

You are quite correct: yes, that's how the bot found it, and no, governments shouldn't get that tag, only the geographic entities ruled by those governments. I've been reviewing the bot's edits and fixing these by hand where I see them (see my edit history for some examples), but I missed this one, for which apologies. -- The Anome (talk) 01:03, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

The categories seem embedded within {{Infobox former country}}, FWIW. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 01:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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Invitation

Hi. I am conducting a survey of most active Wikipedians, regarding reasons they may reduce their activity. I would be very interested in having you participate in it. Would you be interested? (If you reply to me here, please WP:ECHO me). Thank you for your consideration, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:39, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Geo-coordinates of Pavillon de Paris

Hi! Really glad someone finally mapped the location of the old Pavillon de Paris. Can I ask how you know the correct location? There is a sentence in the article that says, "In 1980, the Pavillon de Paris was closed, and for the next 3 years, most touring rock bands appeared at the Hippodrome de Pantin in the nearby Parc de la Villette. In 1983, the Hippodrome was itself replaced by Le Zénith de Paris." This suggests that Le Zénith and the Hippodrome are/were at the same location, whereas the Pavillon, though nearby, was somewhere else. Yet your provided coordinates located the Pavillon very proximate to the Zénith. Is that because the Pavillon site was adjacent to the Zénith/Hippodrome site, or are you suggesting that the Pavillon site is the current site of the Zénith, and that the Hippodrome was somewhere else nearby? Would love to hear all you know on this topic! Thnaks again!

User talk:Jayintheusa —Preceding undated comment added 22:03, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I'm afraid I don't know where the coordinates came from in detail, but I can tell you how to find the user who does. My bot copied the coordinates from the German-language Wikipedia. This is documented in the body of the tag as "source:kolossus-dewiki", where "Kolossus" is a (misspelled) reference to de:Benutzer:Kolossos, a user who compiles coordinates from Wikipedia dumps into a database which can be found here, and "dewiki" is the German-language Wikipedia. However, if you look at the edit hostory of the German-language article de:Pavillon de Paris, you should be able to find the edit, and hence the user, that added the coordinates there. -- The Anome (talk) 22:18, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Wow! Thank you for your fast and detailed response! I'll take a look, as you suggest! Thanks again!

User talk:Jayintheusa —Preceding undated comment added 22:03, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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A bot proposal of yours at Wikivoyage

Hi. I don't know whether you are keeping an eye on things at Wikivoyage. In case you aren't, just letting you know that I have supported your Wikivoyage:Script nominations#Using the bot to help crowdsource links to Wikipedia articles proposal and posed a couple of questions there. cheers. Nurg (talk) 08:19, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Not in Front of the Children

This book was previously mentioned at your user talk page, by RekishiEJ.

I've gone ahead and created the article, at Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.

It's still very much a work in progress, as I'm quite in the middle of ongoing research for additional secondary sources.

Cheers,

— Cirt (talk) 01:17, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Coordinates of paintings

As you are doubtless aware, these are almost always unnecessary (museums' coordinates are given in the articles on the museums). I don't know why The Anomebot2 is picking up articles in Category:Collection of the Tate galleries to add {{coord missing}} to, but you may want to instruct it to ignore that particular category. Deor (talk) 15:19, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting this. It's the comniation of the word "galleries" at the end of the category name, and that category's nested inclusion in other categories that refer to geolocatable things, that triggers this behavior, and then none of the usual heuristics catches the error. I'll add a couple of extra heuristics to catch this and similar cases. -- The Anome (talk) 11:08, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Missing photos by coordinates

Please see Wikipedia:BOTREQ#Needed photos bot. I've referred there, to our discussions above. What news? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:43, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi: the project's on hold while I'm working on other things, and puzzling out how to reliably edit talk page headers to add the {{reqphoto}} tags without corrupting the rest of the talk page header. I will get back to it eventually. -- The Anome (talk) 11:11, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. Meanwhile User:Magnus Manske is working on something similar for Wikidata; here's the map for Sweden: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/missing_images.html?region=Q34 Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:09, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of CCTV (disambiguation) for deletion

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Blocking usernames listed in Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention/Bot

• What has to be done when blocking a username listed in Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention/Bot? Is any admin allowed to do it, or only a specified set of admins? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:36, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Any admin can do it -- and we could do with some extra help. There are a few templates specifically created for substing to inform blocked users: see {{usernameblock}}, {{usernamehardblocked}}, {{softerblock}} and {{vaublock}} for the most commonly used. Also, if a name is clearly a false positive and thus not going to be a problem, you can just remove it from the list without any need to discuss it with other users. -- The Anome (talk) 22:36, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks. But please, what is the correct procedure and what do I put or do where, e.g. if I come across a new username, say User:Zxcvbnmbot ? User:DeltaQuadBot would pick up the "-bot" suffix and complain, but what should I do then? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:18, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Bit rot (disambiguation)

A tag has been placed on Bit rot (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
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Bit rot/data decay/data degredation/etc.

Did you seek consensus somewhere before making these page moves? I think they were rather ill-advised and should be reverted, but the whole situation is a complex can of worms, and I don't trust my opinion to reflect that of any consensus. But there should have been discussion before the moves. I can't find it. What happened? jhawkinson (talk) 15:37, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

I think this is a case where the usage is so well established that the content of the articles was obviously wrong. So I decided to be WP:BOLD, and just clean up the whole thing. Feel free to revert my changes if you like, but I think the Jargon File is a more than adequate source for original, and still correct, usage. -- The Anome (talk) 20:05, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that

[3] ... didn't even realize I had removed your comment, apologies. Lesion 21:34, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

2001:630:12:1072:0:0:0:0/64

I don't think this should remain blocked indefinitely, as I don't think a first-time offense is a valid reason for an indef block there.--Jasper Deng (talk) 04:41, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

You're right -- I've replaced the block with a one year block, and unblocked account creation from that range. -- The Anome (talk) 21:43, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Sturmgewehr88

How would you feel about unblocking this user and running a WP:RFCN instead? Yunshui 雲‍水 08:45, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for that; very gracious of you. Yunshui 雲‍水 11:47, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Second-wave Wikipedian?

We've been scratching our heads about this now for the last 5 minutes. What does this thing mean? Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 15:28, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah -- that's quite out of date now. "Second wave", in the sense of not being part of the "first wave" of Wikipedians who joined in the first few weeks. -- The Anome (talk) 12:05, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

History of measurement systems in India

You've edited this article. There's quite a bit here based on work by Shigeo Iwata. I'm concerned about using him as he also wrote in [4] which says "Each of the several bone pieces of 28,000 years ago that were discovered in Shiyu site in China bears a number of lines. Each of these lines denoting a number suggests that the people used to record 20 or more numbers. The 22,430-year-old bone tubes excavated at the Zhoukoudian site in the southwest of Beijing bear symbols that have been deciphered as representing 3,5, 10, and 13. The shape of the symbol for 10 leads us to believe that its creators employed the decimal system. Presumably, the Mongoloid completed the decimal system 50,000 years ago when they branched into East Asia, both North and South America, and the Pacific islands. The Chinese people recorded numbers as large as 30,000 in the period 3.300 years ago." This bit about the decimal system is nonsense as is the bit about Mongoloides up to 70,000 years ago, which he also said. And so far I haven't found a source for his Chinese symbols, but that's a minor issue. Dougweller (talk) 19:22, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

File:TrafficRanktoJune2004.png needs authorship information

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The media file you uploaded as File:TrafficRanktoJune2004.png appears to be missing information as to its authorship (and or source), or if you did provide such information, it is confusing for others trying to make use of the image.

It would be appreciated if you would consider updating the file description page, to make the authorship of the media clearer.

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If you have any questions please see Help:File page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:40, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- The Anome (talk) 14:19, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Bots can't spell

The Anomebot2 is adding the type "forrest" to some of the {{coord}} templates it's inserting in articles. Presumably, its brain needs tweaking somehow. Deor (talk) 10:36, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. It was copying that mistake verbatim from the eswiki entries it was using as source. When I ran a script to fix this, I found that you had fixed all of them already: thank you! -- The Anome (talk) 14:18, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

No problem. I just thought that it might be something in the bot itself rather than in what it was copying. Deor (talk) 14:35, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

OER inquiry

Hi The Anome, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:50, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Edit filter 609

Thanks for your help with this. It looks like other IP ranges from Rio de Janeiro are also adding these Europa Universalis terms, another editor caught [5]. Can you help edit the filter? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 08:23, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done. I've added the enclosing netblock 152.92.0.0/16, registered to the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, to the filter. -- The Anome (talk) 08:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Not surprised to find it's probably students. Dougweller (talk) 14:47, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Espainiako Erresuma listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Espainiako Erresuma. Since you had some involvement with the Espainiako Erresuma redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. TheChampionMan1234 07:22, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Geodata

Er, sorry about that, it didn't occur to remove the templates.Keith-264 (talk) 16:02, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem! Yes, it's a good idea to remove the {{coord missing}} templates when you add coordinates, but it doesn't break anything if you don't: I do a bot run every few months to catch those that don't get removed by geocoders. Bot time is cheap; human effort geocoding things isn't. Thanks for your edits! -- The Anome (talk) 11:36, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

I had the idea of using the geodatas from articles on the place, since I couldn't work out how to do them. I was rather smug at the time.;O)Keith-264 (talk) 12:29, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

EuroFan98 has replaced the deleted content again

Hi there, I noticed you're the Wikipedian who recently dealt with EuroFan98 and the content the user has on their user page. I thought you'd might want to know s/he has reinstated the content to User:EuroFan98/sandbox, especially when it was established the material was not a draft article and went against WP:NOTWEBHOST. Wes Mᴥuse 21:28, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Stop these things!

Wesley Mouse, a Sandbox is another user's work...it can't be seen by public or by other users. 23:35, 8 June 2014 (CET) — Preceding unsigned comment added by EuroFan98 (talk • contribs)

But it still is against WP:NOTWEBHOST purely for the fact that the content was removed from your main user page for being of content that is not permitted on Wikipedia. You were also told to place it elsewhere, but not on Wikipedia. You ignored what you were told. But if you wish to have the stupidity to risk receiving blocking sanctions for failing to comply with policies, then go ahead. I'm only offering you advice so that you don't get blocked. Wes Mᴥuse 21:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Pius Ngandu Nkashama

Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Pius Ngandu Nkashama. The community has decided that all new biographies of living persons must contain a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article as per our verifiability policy. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:10, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- The Anome (talk) 10:49, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Complaint moved

I've moved this complaint from WP:ANI to WP:BON. Issue should be discussed here. Thank you! OccultZone (Talk) 11:25, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Coord for festivals

Hi, I have spent most of today adding coordinates to various articles in Category:Lithuania articles missing geocoordinate data. Down to a trickle! But I am stumped by Kaunas International Film Festival and similar - it is an event/festival that takes places all over. How would you add coordinates to that? Renata (talk) 02:12, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! Regarding the festival; since it does not take place in a single geographical location, just delete the {{coord missing}} tag from the article, and you're done. The same applies to any other event with multiple locations. The bot does not have a 100% hit rate, and it occasionally makes both false positive and false negative errors. Please let me know if you find any more examples of bad tags, as this helps me add extra rules to the bot to reduce its error rate further. -- The Anome (talk) 10:05, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Cool, but a question: won't the bot add the missing coord tag on its next run? Renata (talk) 11:50, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

It shouldn't do that: it remembers which articles it has tagged, and (with a few special-case exceptions) won't re-tag them again in the normal course of editing -- The Anome (talk) 10:41, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-27

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Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [6] [7]
• A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [8] [9]
• VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [10] [11] [12] [13]
• Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [14] [15]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [16] [17]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
• CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [18]
• All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [19] [20]
• Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [21]
• You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [22] [23]
• You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [24]

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Tridge (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

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A tag has been placed on The Tridge (Ypsilanti, Michigan) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Proposed deletion of The Tridge (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

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Nomination of The Tridge (Ypsilanti, Michigan) for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Tridge (Ypsilanti, Michigan) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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DYK for Nokutela Dube

Gatoclass (talk) 18:32, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [25]
• It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [26] [27]
• You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [28] [29]

VisualEditor news

• Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [30] [31]
• You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [32] [33] [34]
• When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [35] [36] [37]
• The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [38]
• Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [39] [40] [41]

Future software changes

• Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
• A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [42]
• If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [43] [44]
• Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [45] [46]
• Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [47] [48]

Problems

• Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [49] [50]
• For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [51] [52]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Non-default beta

Our discussion got archived. What do you think about a watchlist notice? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 05:37, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

I've replied to you on your talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 12:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

I think that rather than waiting for a formal list of what, exactly, to test, we should just ask people to give it a try. Do yout hink that this would work for a watchlist notice?

An appeal from the developers: we've been improving VisualEditor, and we're looking for volunteers to test it. You can opt-in to it via Beta Features

I've added a few links; would it be useful to add a link to Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide, or is it overkill? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:09, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-29

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 (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
• It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [53] [54]
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
• You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

• The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [55] [56]
• The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [57] [58] [59]
• References will now be shown in the default font size again. [60]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [61]
• The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [62] [63]
• It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [64]
• Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [65] [66]
• Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [67] [68]
• Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [69] [70]
• Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [71]

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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Coordinates for Slut, Munsö

Hello, I noticed that the coordinates were wildly off. I guess the source, GNS-enwiki, need to be corrected too, where do I find it? --Ainali (talk) 11:53, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi -- thanks for fixing that. The source "GNS-enwiki" indicates that it was generated one of my scripts which uses a combination of category tree traversal and heuristics to cross-correlate entries in the NGA GNS database with English-language Wikipedia articles. The most likely source of the error is either that the script has chosen the GNS entry for the wrong place, or that the GNS data itself is off. If it's the former, please accept my apologies: the matching algorithm has very few false positives, but there will always be the occasional error; when I find one or one is brought to my attention, I usually try, if possible, to find and fix the root cause of the problem, to prevent the same kind of error from happening again. If the NGA data is at fault, you can contact the NGA here: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/ -- The Anome (talk) 20:07, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Update: NGA GNS has only one place in Sweden called Slut, with details as follows:

Slut   (Approved - N)
Sweden (SW)  
Västerbotten (SW23)  
64° 44' 00" N, 020° 31' 00" E (64.733333, 20.516667)  
34WDS7698178823  
populated place (PPL)  

My bot saw one and only one place in Sweden called Slut on both Wikipedia and NGA GNS, both of the same type, and none of the blocking heuristics for false matches applied in this case, so it assumed they were the same. A check for the top-level administrative division would have caught this, but doing that is a work in progress, due to the difficulty in doing this in general across both datasets, not just because of naming differences, but because the NGA data often does not specify a top-level administrative division for many features.

Fortunately this kind of false positive is quite rare. I have been looking into alternative ways of doing enclosing-entity cross-correlation for some time, with the hope of one day doing a cross-correlation of all the geodata in all Wikipedias via Wikidata. -- The Anome (talk) 12:28, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Edit filter 609

Hi - hate to be a pain but could you add the IP range for 200.165.204.65, another Rio de Janeiro range? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:14, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- The Anome (talk) 12:29, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Belated thanks! Dougweller (talk) 10:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-30

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 (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [72] [73] [74]
• The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [75]
• Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [76] [77]
• A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [78]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [79]
• All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [80]
• You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [81]
• Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [88]
• You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [89]
• An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [90]
• A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

• Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [91]

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07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

User:Smellylegs

Thanks for catching this sockpuppet of User:Trueman31. His hobby is cutting and pasting my user page and talk page. –anemoneprojectors– 14:56, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-31

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 (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
• You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

• You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [92] [93]
• The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [94]
• If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [95] [96]
• You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [97] [98]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [99] [100]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [101]
• It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [102] [103]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Watchlist notice idea

Do you still think this is a good thing to do?

An appeal from the developers: we've been improving VisualEditor, and we're looking for volunteers to test it. You can opt-in to it via Beta Features

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:59, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

It's a great idea! Is there any reason not to go right ahead and make the change today? -- The Anome (talk) 00:34, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Let's do it. Thanks. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

I posted at request about this at MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details#Request. There has been no response so far. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:18, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/609

No hits since 28 May. Is it okay if we disable it? Thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:00, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

No problem, as far as I'm concerned: you might also want to check in with User: Dougweller, who's been using it to track vandalism. -- The Anome (talk) 15:22, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

No hits but a number of successful attempts to add these videogame concepts. Mainly be one-off accounts (in one case choosing a name very similar to someone else busy editing). Two were IPs, 200.149.194.17 (talk · contribs) and 187.15.44.246 (talk · contribs). These were this month, as were most of the account edits. And I know the copyvio Esdaile stuff is sporadic. Is there a way so it doesn't just focus on IP ranges but on any editor? And if so, "oligarchic republic" should be added. Thanks. And thanks to [[User:The Anome for pinging me. Dougweller (talk) 15:56, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

I didn't really want the filter to trigger on every single mention of any of those keywords/key phrases, unless you're happy to deal with a potentially huge amount of false positive matches. If you are, I can simply turn off the IP range filtering and rely just on the keywords, and I expect the filter will get a vast number of hits. If you want me to do this, just let me know. -- The Anome (talk) 16:23, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

A question: are these all edits happening within articles which have infoboxes that have the "government_type" parameter? If so, I could filter on that, which should greatly reduce the number of false positives. -- The Anome (talk) 16:26, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

The great majority are, yes. If the filter just looked at that and not whether they were IPs or not, it would help. The Esdaile copyvio stuff is a different issue though. I guess I'll just have to hope I have all the affected articles on my watchlist. Dougweller (talk) 13:00, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Change made, and filter re-enabled. -- The Anome (talk) 18:09, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Dougweller (talk) 18:36, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

It's not working - it's catching stuff it shouldn't catch. Dougweller (talk) 18:46, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

That was my worry. I've now disabled it. This filter really can't be useful unless we can create a narrower set of rules that match the behavior you wish to stop with a very low false positive rate. -- The Anome (talk) 18:49, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Not sure I understand. It's just a set of 2 word phrases, I don't know why it was catching other things. Shall I give you the phrases again? Dougweller (talk) 12:59, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-32

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [104]
• You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [105] [106] [107]
• You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [108]
• New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [109] [110]

VisualEditor news

• You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [111] [112]
• VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [113]
• Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [114] [115] [116] [117]
• Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [118] [119] [120] [121]

Future software changes

• You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [122] [123]
• All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [124]
• Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [125]

Problems

• Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [126]
• Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [127]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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). [128]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [129]

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. [130]

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! [131] [132] [133]
• 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. [134] [135]
• You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [136] [137]
• 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). [138]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Reversion on Prime Prep Academy

I have undone the change on the subject due to the fact that there are multiple locations for the school. Hasteur (talk) 13:22, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Victoria

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Category:Victoria_articles_missing_geocoordinate_data

Searching, there is no others category containing Victoria, the other states don't have Australia, none of the us states have USA or similar. Apart from the work involved in re-correcting 300+ entries for a missing coord category! is there a better reason we couldn't rename the Victoria (Australia) to plain Victoria ? --Dave Rave (talk) 09:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

ta, just looked at the 'new' page and went to the parent category, Category:Victoria (Australia), there's that Australia again, all the places in this category also have the Australia. How many states in the world are there ? Alberta Canada has a town ... Not agitating for change on this part, yet, looking for clues. --Dave Rave (talk) 20:59, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

also ref against Category:Victoria , does that count as a disam directive or is it only helpful in the context of the disam --Dave Rave (talk) 21:05, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

I think the disambiguation on the higher-level category is fine. There are lots of places called Victoria in the world, and the disambiguation is consistent with Wikipedia's normal category naming rules. I agree with you that it's not necessary in the case of the geographical coordinate tagging tracking category, but this is specifically because there is only one regional-level subdivision in the world called "Victoria", so there's no ambiguity in that particular context. -- The Anome (talk) 21:35, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

is there a way to signal that coords aren't applicable?

This is a great bot, it often alerts me to missing coords in articles and then I go and add the coords.

But is there a way to tag an article to tell the bot "no, this one shouldn't have coordinates"? Obviously I can just remove the missing coord template, but I presume the bot will return at some later stage and re-instate it. The specific article of concern to me at the moment is Travelling post office, Queensland (which is a post office that travels by train so not exactly fixed infrastructure).

Thanks Kerry (talk) 22:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for the appreciation! To tell the bot the coordinates aren't needed, just remove the {{coord missing}} tag, and it shouldn't re-add it again, unless the article is renamed to a new title. Regards, -- The Anome (talk) 00:27, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Too easy! Thanks Kerry (talk) 02:15, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

official coords available for BC RDs

Re this, I don't know where Wikidata gets its data from, but the official sources is readily available, perhaps parseable so can be automated; CGNDB is the other, with the same rounded DM vs DMS data, though lately BC Names has been refining many entries with DMS; where is Wikidata anyway? Another part of the wiki-verse? I see the term but...Skookum1 (talk) 02:16, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

"FOO First Nation" item should not have "coord missing" added

I just reversed the addition of coord-missing to "Saddle Lake Cree Nation", which is not a place, it is a government. Individual reserves and communities of this government will have coords, but putting coords on government pages is not wanted or needed. I don't know how many such items you've added this to, if you did it on a global setting across certain categories, please reverse it so I and other's don't have to manually.Skookum1 (talk) 01:59, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi -- thanks for spotting that and fixing it. The bot uses a variety of filters that inspect article content and categories to try to stop errors like this from happening: I'll take a look to see how this one slipped through. -- The Anome (talk) 09:21, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

OK, I've found why the bot tagged the article as a place: it was categorized as if it as was an article about a specific community, with no category that was sufficient to tell the bot that it was about a First Nation people, not a specific place. I've changed the category to reflect the fact that this is an article about a people, not a place. -- The Anome (talk) 09:27, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

This is a belated reply a year later, as I had not had your talkpage watchlisted...and I had various crises going on in real life last August, come to think of it.... one of the issues here is that a large number of FN/NA articles on bands are often written and categorized as though the governments are the same things as t he places; that's mostly been resolved in BC and NS and certain other provinces, and slow progress is being made in the Prairies and Ontario etc...what I've been doing is making any reserve redirects carry the geographic-type Indian reserves category, and taking them off government pages at the same time; many bands have more than one reserve, often discontiguous and widely spread here and there around the landscape....it would be possible to give coords for the bands' offices but that would take some OR, and generally addresses are removed from articles as "not a directory" and it would be OR/SYNTH to determine the latlongs by the street addresses; many are also PO boxes in towns distant from the reserve communities....Skookum1 (talk) 02:22, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

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. [139] [140] [141]
• You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [142] [143]
• You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [144]
• 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. [145]
• 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. [146]

Problems

• There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [147] [148]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

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. [149]
• You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [150]
• If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [151] [152] [153]

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. [154]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Source of bad coords?

Where does Anomebot2 get the coordinates it adds to articles? Here it added coords to Novoazovsk that were off by 10 km. Abductive (reasoning) 14:45, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Re: MediaWiki:Titleblacklist

Thanks, it suffices to ping me in one place. I watch discussions I participate in. Matma Rex talk 14:53, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Crna Gora Republika, Serbia and Montenegro listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Crna Gora Republika, Serbia and Montenegro. Since you had some involvement with the Crna Gora Republika, Serbia and Montenegro redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - TheChampionMan1234 02:11, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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. [155] [156]
• You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [157] [158]
• 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". [159] [160]
• If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [161]

VisualEditor news

• You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [162]
• 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. [163] [164] [165]
• VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [166]
• We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [167]
• You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [168]

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. [169]
• 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. [170]
• 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. [171]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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. [172] [173] [174]

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. [175]
• You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [176]

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)

Nomination of Neda Soltani for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Neda Soltani is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neda Soltani until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. eh bien mon prince (talk) 11:32, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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. [177] [178]
• 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. [179] [180] [181]
• 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. [182]

Problems

• There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [183]

VisualEditor news

• If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [184]
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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Precious

missing coordinates and images
Thank you,second-wave Wikipedian, for quality articles such as Catacomb saints, for knowing how little we know on nouns and villages in Afghanistan, for "looking" for missing coordinates and images, for "I take your point. You're quite right", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:10, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! -- The Anome (talk) 09:14, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 606th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:00, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Strange addition of coordinates to Tyers Electric Train Tablet

Tyers Electric Train Tablet is a type of railway signalling apparatus. There were thousands of such instruments in use all over the former British Empire; so what was the inspiration for this edit? --Redrose64 (talk) 20:22, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Crazy metadata in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1325929 leading my bot to think this was a railway station (specifically, the fr:Gare de Charenton), and none of the heuristics built into the bot to stop it making silly edits catching the error. I've now fixed the metadata on Wikidata to split the railway station and the signalling system (now at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18066178) apart into two different data items. -- The Anome (talk) 09:43, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Images missing by place, redux

Any chance you might revisit #Images missing by place, above? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:06, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

194.168.99.119

Hello The Anome, I saw your revision deletions on the Scottish referendum article. Shouldn't this text by 194.168.99.119 also be deleted?

<Note: text redacted by The Anome> Gerard von Hebel (talk) 13:13, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Yes, but it's a more complex issue that needs oversight attention. I suggest you contact the WP:OVERSIGHTers and ask them to handle this. -- The Anome (talk) 14:25, 19 September 2014 (UTC)