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Tech News: 2017-31

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

Problems

  • Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [1]
  • Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

  • Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [2]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

  • The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [3]

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21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk page stalkers - any of you use PGP?

A question -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:26, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Well, yes, I use GNU Privacy Guard for signing email and encrypting backup data stored in the cloud. I use Hushmail for much of my email messaging, as it uses OpenPGP for encryption/decryption. I have a GnuPG add-on for my local email system, Thunderbird. There are few PGP users generally, so I find I can't use PGP much for general emails. I tend to use the Signal messaging app more often for secure communications, both text and voice. Geoff | Who, me? 22:00, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
@Glane23: Interesting.. I used to use it heavily but ended up losing keys and the such. I recently created a new key (0xB66DB2C1) solely for this account, am I correct in thinking this would be a good way for proving ownership of the account should I get compromised (encrypting a message with the private key)? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians who use PGP. — xaosflux Talk 01:27, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
@Xaosflux: I should have guessed... you got me there -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
PGP? No, I use the Central Line. But thanks for asking :p — fortunavelut luna 14:00, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Mind your fingers, mind your toes, watch the doors, they're gonna close. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:21, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

I believe I use PGP but to be completely honest I'm not sure. It has me baffled that I don't know. Dinah In Wonderland 14:09, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Regarding "proving ownership" with PGP. Here is what you can do:

  1. Post your PUBLIC KEY (not just the index/hash value of it)
  2. Make a posting that is SIGNED by your PUBLIC KEY
That will show that you are in control of the PRIVATE key and can be verified by anyone. In the future, you can prove that you have access to the same private key that you have access to now (that presumably you have kept secure) by creating a new message and signing it again. That new message will be able to be verified again by anyone with the ORIGINAL public key you posted. — xaosflux Talk 14:18, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
ENCRYPTING a message is not the way to do this - the SIGNING is how you do it. For example, look at the "ownership" statement on User:Fluxbot. — xaosflux Talk 14:18, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Ahhh, thank you Xaos - I'll do that :) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:23, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-32

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [6]
  • The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [7]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

  • Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [8]
  • Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [9][10]
  • Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [11][12]

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21:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Request of removal of permission to use Twinkle for Adamgerber80

Wikipedia:Requests for permissions#Removal of permissions leads me to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, which I have no access to. Could you please post the following notice on behalf of me (as Adamgerber80's rollback right was approved by you)? Thank you! --146.96.252.3 (talk) 05:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Recently I added some material, well sourced (except a mistake: I mismemorized the year 1973 as 1968), to Kingdom of Sikkim, which was subsequently reverted by Adamgerber80 with a threat to block me. His edit and threat were subsequently reverted by another user (which was to my surprise, years ago it would just leave there).

It would be a happy ending but later I realized Adamgerber80 do not at all think he has done anything wrong and questioned Kautilya3's right to "undo issued warnings". He attributed the issue to "ones which have a history of pushing their agenda", which he later clarified that it has nothing to do with "this particular case":

As he insinuated my behaviour were the reason of the conflict while I have never added anything unsourced or done any vandalism in WIkipedia, I intervened into and told him even if he believes that a small part of my edit withour source, he could just undo the small part and ask for a reference about it, instead of undo all valid edits and issue a threat. Unfortunately, he didn't agree to change his "approach", using his word.

I believe, if more than 1~2 percent of rollback from a user are false positive with false warning, granting him rollback right would do more harm than good, as Twinkle rollbacks and warnings give inexperienced users a facade that his edit might be reverted by an admin and he might be warned by an admin (thus more people would refrain from editing Wikipedia). Plus, without Twinkle, one can still undo edits, leave messages, etc. Also, I have noticed that this is not the first time Adamgerber80 has done a disputed rollback within the eight months he has rollback rights (see his talk page). For all of those reason above, I request a removal of Adamgerber80's Twinkle permission. --146.96.252.3 (talk) 05:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi There'sNoTime, Please have a look at User_talk:Adamgerber80#Don.27t_bite_newbies and the edits in question. I believe the editor above is misrepresenting facts to suit his/her narrative. I would be more than happy to clarify any of the rationale behind above mentioned edits or any other edits by me in the past (That is if you feel one is required). Thanks and sorry for bothering you. Adamgerber80 (talk) 16:08, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
He will not be responsible to cancel any permissions from you. Instead, he will transfer this problem to the incident notice board and you will receive a notice then. There, everyone will look into the case and I believe they'll not just listen to one user and judge your behaviour. People will look into everything, include your ur entire user talk page (not just that section), my user history and yours. So relax. --146.96.252.3 (talk) 19:09, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Only if you have free time...

Hello There'sNoTime. Hope all is well. If you could undelete Clark Stacey, I'll try and add a paragraph or two (but really, only if you have free time; I actually don't mind either way). See you around. Lourdes 14:18, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

@Lourdes: All restored best of luck! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:20, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks and cheers :) Lourdes 14:22, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

OS

This edit related a user with their own IP. --Kostas20142 (talk) 17:46, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

@Kostas20142: That they did, and WP:OS does state that it can be used to hide the IP data of editors who accidentally logged out, but given you reverted the edit and didn't attempt to follow up with the IP (asking if they meant to edit logged out) I can't imagine you've contacted OS.. Perhaps you should contact the IP first -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:53, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
It was the first ever edit from this IP (and the only one), and all this just looked accidental to me. And due to the request, A real name was also related with this very address (which is nonpublic information). Anyways maybe you are right.--Kostas20142 (talk) 18:07, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

How to get KRYGA Music wiki page retrieved?

Hello,

I created KRYGA Music page, and it got deleted. Can you give me some advice on how to edit it and make the page approved and public? Thank you so much! EmergencyRoomAgency (talk) 15:15, 13 August 2017 (UTC)Emergency Room Agency 8/13/2017

Please read the notability requirements. If you have any questions about how Wikipedia works, the place to ask is at the Tea House. -- Alexf(talk) 15:50, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #273

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
    • Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months
  • Development

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)

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Chandra Nandini

I already put the source in my description. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:15, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@TheNewSMG: Well unfortunately that link doesn't work for me, and it can't be considered a reliable source - do you think you could find a mention of it in news outlet? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:18, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Ok, on to it. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:19, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Here: http://www.india.com/showbiz/star-parivaar-awards-2017-winners-list-karan-patel-divyanka-tripathi-dahiya-nakuul-mehta-wins-the-most-prestigious-award-2178739/ TheNewSMG (talk) 09:20, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Without delving upon whether the information is sourced; the problem is the non-independency of the awards as I already wrote in the article talk page..Winged Blades Godric 09:25, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict)--Also as aptly mentioned at Star Parivaar Awards--it is an accolade by Star Plus to promote own programmes and characters.Winged Blades Godric 09:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

The awards are notable to the show because it revolves around the 2 main characters. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:28, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

If you are doing this just because you do not like the show then please stop. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:32, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

All popular Hindi TV shows on Wikipedia have the awards mentioned in the article. For example, Jodha Akbar, Siya Ke Ram, and Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat all have the respective awards mentioned so why not mention Chandra Nandini awards?? Thank you. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@TheNewSMG and Winged Blades of Godric: That's a good source to start with TheNewSMG I think this conversation would be better had at Talk:Chandra_Nandini#Awards -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:39, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33

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

Recent changes

  • Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [13]

Problems

  • The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [14][15]

Changes later this week

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

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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Active admin needed

Would you mind taking care of the IP on my talk page? I see you are active in the Recent Changes log. EvergreenFir (talk) 06:46, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Greatly appreciated. EvergreenFir (talk) 06:49, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
@EvergreenFir: No worries - just nuking your talk page history, and I've popped two days of semi-protection on it to bore them. Anything else I can do to help? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 06:51, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
That's plenty, thank you! As amusing as the affirmations are, the semi protection is appreciated. Sometimes so much validation is a bit tiring. Thank you for the quick block. I do appreciate it! :) EvergreenFir (talk) 06:56, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

The Rambling Man

Didn't you tell me on my talk page a few days ago that his removal of 3rd-party comments was inappropriate? If he's going to follow me around undoing things I do, maybe I should look in to an IBAN. And I know I shouldn't assume malicious intent, but it does seem queer those things he's done, especially since whenever I ask him to stop doing them, his answer is, "Shut up! You're going to get banned very soon!". BTW, I am here because TRM apparently doesn't want me talking about him and/or to you on his own page. pbp 20:32, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

In answer to what you said on TRM's page while I was here, the answer to, "Do I really think that?" is "Yes". pbp 20:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
And what is it with his 'tude? His airs suggest that I'm somebody horrendously beneath him. I'm hardly the first to be rubbed the wrong way on that one. pbp 20:36, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) It was inappropriate, but then again it's in that same grey area where people believe it's inappropriate to template a regular - regardless of TRM's, yours or my own opinion on DTTR, I think the best thing anyone can do on Wikipedia in these sorts of situations is step well away from the editor, and get stuck into something else. You're welcome to pursue a formal IBAN, but it's just more drama than this website is worth imho.. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:37, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
I know Wikipedia's a big place, but that dude has his fingers in a lot of pots. Especially some of the very important ones. I feel like he's betting on me starting some discussion where he can counter with his "Ban PBP" BS, so I'm going to hold off on the IBAN proposal until he does something else egregious. pbp 20:42, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
By all means don't hold off. I will fully support an IBAN. Let me know when you request it and I'll pop by to add my unwavering and indefinite support. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:45, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
  • Let me ask this: I am still interested in participating in ITNC from time to time. I may be again interested in participating in 2017 or other RYs when something important comes up. (These interests are not TRM-related and ebb and flow with what's happening in the world). An IBAN doesn't forbid me from completely desisting from those places, does it? pbp 20:50, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
  • Here's what I'd like in an IBAN:
  1. TRM and I can't undo each other in any space.
  2. TRM and I can't post on each other's talk pages.
  3. TRM and I can't start discussions on the other's conduct
Am I missing anything? pbp 20:50, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Traditional IBAN covers all that, and you can't pick-and-choose. I'm happy to do that, whoever gets to a thread first can comment, otherwise it's blockville, as I discovered earlier this year. You won't be banned from participating, but you will be banned from commenting on any thread I start or any comment I make on any other thread. Ditto me to you. I'm extremely happy with that. After you. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:53, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
^ What TRM said, though formally requesting it is just taking Wikipedia a little too seriously eh? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:59, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Re: What are you doing?

Just block me again now, I don't have time fixing the portal. I think South Park is higher then Family Guy based on the pageviews report. My edits were autistic when I got blocked for excessive uploads, mainly my edits to Courage the Cowardly Dog was a huge mistake. JJ98 (Talk) 20:39, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@Jj98: Are you alright? I'd recommend taking a bit of a break from Wikipedia if it's stressing you out! Would you like to be blocked to enforce a break? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

I need an admin

There'sNoTime, since there is no active admin checking my case I want you to take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Snowsleeping and determine the case whether the 2 accounts that I suspected are sockpuppets of Snowsleeping. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 11:11, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

@TheNewSMG: Hmm, I can see some overlap, but I think it's not enough to duck block them. I'd recommend waiting for a clerk to endorse a checkuser -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 11:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much! I believe though that this case needs a checkuser. TheNewSMG (talk) 11:33, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

WP:WRONGVERSION

File:Indiana Jones and the Wrong Version.png

Hi. I see that you have protected the userpage. However, it's the WP:WRONGVERSION. Please restore the version before the edit war began. Kingsindian ♝ ♚ 13:53, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

The Wrong Version is biased, nationalistic, libellous, inaccurate and a disgrace to Wikipedia in general. There are no reports of a sysop ever having protected the "right" version. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:00, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

The Devil's Advocate

I see you've full-protected TDA's user page - but it's now at the blanked version. Would you mind if I reverted it to how TDA left it? GoldenRing (talk) 13:54, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

@GoldenRing: Sure! I only protected it because the edit warring was getting a bit silly -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:01, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Revert of autoedit

Note that anyone who has this script installed, will get 0 support from me on VPT. There is a big difference between "'does something" vs works correctly. This script has not been properly mainyained in 10 years (older than an iphone) and probably constitues a security problem for its users due its usage of eval. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:37, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Battle of Haldighati

Hi There'sNoTime, I am wanting to arrive at a consensus on this article. I have already put my claim at Talk:Battle of Haldighati on what I disagree with that is on the article. I want you to see if you agree with my claim. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 14:43, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Private edit filter

Is there any way for a lowly user like me to view the results of the edit filter you just created/modified, short of requesting to become an WP:EFM myself? I'm really interested in adding cases to the LTA. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:07, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

@Bri: I've emailed you relating to this message -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:06, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Update

Since you have protected the page Islamic terrorism in Europe (2014–present), could you please update the "List of attacks" section to show the recent attack on Barcelona. Thanks. Darius robin (talk) 11:56, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

@Darius robin: I've unprotected the page, seeing as that was primarily what the dispute was about - in my opinion, the admin who fully protects an article due to a content dispute should not make any changes relating to that dispute -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 12:16, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Re-pinged at Talk:Robert Hardy

Hello again. You are re-pinged at Talk:Robert Hardy. --George Ho (talk) 23:57, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Responded, thank you -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:49, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

University of Phoenix

I have an issue with Nihlus Kryik's use of rollback. I deleted critism and lawsuit sections under the University of Phoenix, because we as editors seem to have a double standard. There are major universities that have far greater sins and crimes against them, but yet these sections do not exist and should and until these are added to other universities one should not be the "whipping boy" for editors.

This was clearly not vandalism and Nihlus Kryik extremely abused their roll back authority.Ballastrae (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

There is clearly nothing here about rapes investigations etc: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Baylor_University

nor anything about raping children and/or the lack of leadership here: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University

I can add site after site, but you get my pointBallastrae (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC) Ballastrae (talk) 13:14, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Ballastrae: Edit warring and removing content for a stupid reason like not holding up the same standards for other universities (and putting shit like We can do this all day!!!!!!!!!!! in your edit summary) and then telling an admin is a really bad idea. Blocked for 31 hours. No abuse of rollback (though @Nihlus Kryik: in the future, please don't continually revert, and instead let an admin know so we can block them quicker) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:20, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
Pennsylvania State University#Child sex abuse scandal. That? You can't just constantly remove something from an article because you don't like it or because WP:OTHERTHINGSEXIST or don't exist. Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. The preferred course of action would be to add the information that is missing, not disrupting other articles to prove something. — nihlus kryik  (talk) 13:18, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
Will do. I've seen admins bite at the lack of four warnings before though on AIV. — nihlus kryik  (talk) 13:21, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
It happens, and you were working through the warnings very well - in this case I think you did fine sometimes however you may find that an editor hits 3RR before you work through all the warnings. In that case, a report to WP:ANEW or even just a message on an admin's talk will bring a quicker resolution to the disruption -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:25, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

User:72.198.49.108

Hi There'sNoTime, would you please take care of this harassing editor? User:SahabAliwadia warned this IP on his/her talk page for making disruptive edits to Tomorrow's Pioneers and then this IP did the same thing by falsely accusing SahabAliwadia of disruptive edits on his talk page. SahabAliwadia and I both warned this IP for falsely accusing people of disruptive edits/harrassment on the IP's talk page. Once again he falsely accused both SahabAliwadia and me on our talk pages for harrasing/falsely accusing people of disruptive edits. I find it funny that after all of this the IP claims that him/her did not make the edits and the IP was being used by someone else AND he expects us to believe his crap. It is getting really annoying. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 02:34, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

You are right user. He warned me once again saying to tell him what he did wrong knowing what he did and, and, and when he was blocked for 3 months, he once again warned this user in his talk page saying that he will block him and he is happy for that. Please administrator, block him indefinitely and revoke his talk page access. SahabAliwadia 07:47, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
@SahabAliwadia: Hi, I see the IP has been blocked - we don't block IP addresses indefinitely as they are often shared between lots of people, and it could stop a good editor from being able to contribute. I will keep an eye on the IP for you -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:48, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
@There'sNoTime: But he is also blocked in past (see this), but no improvement can be seen by me. SahabAliwadia 11:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

User:SahabAliwadia is correct this IP has been blocked several times before but no improvement. Right now this IP is editing my warning content and making it look like he is warning me. When I warned him that he will lose his talk page access he said the same thing back to me. So far, SahabAliwadia and I warned once again that if the IP continues his behavior he will lose access to edit his talk page. Please revoke talk page access and ban him indefinitely. Check User talk:72.198.49.108 (history too) for all information. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 11:48, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Just curious but did you block User:72.198.49.108 from editing their talk page because it has been 3 hours since he has not responded to my warning. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 17:11, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #274

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
    • Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
    • Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
    • Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
    • Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2017-34

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

Recent changes

  • You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [16][17]
  • Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [18]
  • If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [19]
  • The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

  • Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [20]
  • The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [21]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello TheresNoTime/old, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.

Technology update:

  • Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.

General project update:

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
  • Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
  • To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

ANI thread for your radar

Since you're agreeing to mentor User:Mark0880, you should probably be aware of this thread he just opened at ANI. only (talk) 22:31, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks guys. I shouldve sent this over, yes. Thank you only. Mark0880 (talk) 22:47, 23 August 2017 (UTC)Mark0880

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diplomacy
I have always appreciated your patience... May I borrow some? Scr★pIronIV 18:00, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
@ScrapIronIV: well thank you, I appreciate that is there anything I can help you with? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:49, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Not really - was dealing with an old troublemaker recently, one that you had also tried to help out with me a couple of years ago. Brought you to mind, so I thought I'd say hello. Scr★pIronIV 12:21, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

IP 72.198.49.108 block evasion

It is clear that IP 72.198.49.108 is evading their block using the IP98.191.196.7.

One article, America at a Crossroads, is a clear indicator that IP72.198 = IP98.191

And there are more similar edits. Azadbeh, Racism in Saudi Arabia, Beliefs and ideology of Osama bin Laden, just to name a few articles I have found. Both IPs call editors that have reverted them, vandals, socks, etc. --Kansas Bear (talk) 01:42, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #275

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • WikidataCon
    • The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
    • Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
    • The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
    • We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help
  • Development
    • Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
    • Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
    • Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
    • Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
    • Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
    • Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
    • Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

ACTRIAL

Hi. The trial goes live in only 5 days. I can't see a reply from you confirming that you would be able to make the interface changes. This is only a few minutes work, but we need to have an admin lined up to it. Could you please let us know. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:38, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

added Nakon • Scott
removed Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
  • Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
  • In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

  • Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi

I kept trying to add a request for unprotection to the protection modification request page but for some reason I kept being disallowed by some edit filter nonsense? I don't know why, but I saw you are an admin, so I was wondering if you can help me. Here is what I was trying to post on the request page:

Grenada has been semiprotected for more than 4 years, for no good reason. There was not any unusual or egregious level of abuse back in 2013 when it was protected, and I don't see how an article like that would warrant indefinite protection. Can you please remove the protection, at least to see if there is a problem? 192.31.106.34 (talk) 13:16, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi IP, just dealing with something and then I will take a look at this for you. That, or a friendly talk page watcher will help you out -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:21, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) of no earthly use to either of you; but that does seem a rather excessive protection. Odd, to say the least. — fortunavelut luna 13:34, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
@Maxim: as the operative admin in... 2013 :D — fortunavelut luna 13:36, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Banned IP vandal is back

You just banned 220.122.179.191 and he is back with a new IP – 81.106.240.17. – Sabbatino (talk) 08:10, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Already blocked -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:18, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35

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

Recent changes

  • Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [22][23]
  • You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [24]

Problems

  • Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [25]

Changes later this week

  • You can block users from sending you notifications. [26]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [27]
  • New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [28]
  • The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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22:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #276

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • New admin: congrats to علاء
    • Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
    • With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
    • The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
  • Development
    • Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
    • Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
    • Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
    • Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
    • Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
    • Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
    • Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
    • The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2017-36

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

Tech News

Recent changes

  • The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [29][30]

Problems

  • Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" in your preferences and see if it helps. [31]

Changes later this week

  • New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [32]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings

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22:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Request for ease in protection

Dear admin,

The Wiki page on "Bilal Akbar" relates to a serving General officer and present Chief of General Staff in the Pakistan Army.

I understand that the page was repeatedly vandalised and certain people went against community standards to misuse their authorities. There are certain entries or rather allegations of human rights violations attributed to the said General officer.

I request you to please allow me to remove the false allegations from the page or you may remove them. Allegations hurled against the officer, when cross-checked from their original sources, do not implicitly refer to him by name, nor do they provide incriminating evidence of his past record having engaged in such violent activities.

I will be grateful and obliged to your kind assistance.

With regards, Zedman — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zedmanpk (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

@Zedmanpk: I'm interested in how a brand new user's first edit is to request edits to an article they've never edited.. Which statements don't you agree with? Do you agree that the Human Rights Watch is a reliable source of information (namely, https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/05/06/pakistan-independently-investigate-aftab-ahmads-death)? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:15, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Response

Dear There'sNoTime,

My request may not carry weight, as such, since I am indeed a new user. Human Rights Watch (HRW) is certainly a credible forum but my point of contention is that the user "Rameezraja001" who inserted these details in the first place did so out of political motives and bias. I probed his editorial contributions and found that he has made entries in favour of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a Karachi-based political party which has direct conflict of interests / issues with the Pakistan Army.

This is similar to someone from, say, the Democrat lobby making entries critical of Republican President Donald Trump. But beyond that, to give a separate heading under "Torture" beside the name of a serving General officer is objectionable. I represent the institution which he belongs to that is why I placed this polite request before you.

I would be very grateful if you oblige.

With kind regards, Zedmanpk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zedmanpk (talk • contribs) 05:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 September 2017

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G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Agroasiatractors

You may wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 08:41, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

@Cahk: Done, thanks :) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:44, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #277

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • WikidataCon
    • The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
    • The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
    • The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


"Regarding NSEL case"

I would like to bring your attention towards this page once again. Its content has been reversed a couple of times by Nimrodindia and CMshah in the past few days without adherence to the consensus building exercise. The reference links shared by the former user are as old as 2013 as stated by Michaeltibbs which have been modified as per the case’s progression under the judiciary. If I may say so, this is an example of blatant ignorance to Wikipedia’s norms. I request you to look into the matter and suggest a way forward so as to put an end to these edit wars and gain neutrality on the page. Thank you. Anrdshr (talk) 18:12, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37

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

Recent changes

  • You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [34]
  • The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [35]
  • The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [36]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
  • OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings

  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [38]

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19:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2017



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Invitation to Admin confidence survey

Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

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We really appreciate your input!

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For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 20:56, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

WL

Thought the WL notice was good, was there opposition? — xaosflux Talk 17:57, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Disregard, saw the complaint on the talk page. — xaosflux Talk 17:58, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #278

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
    • Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
    • Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello TheresNoTime/old, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
  • Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!

Technology update:

  • The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225

General project update:

  • On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
  • Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
  • To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Teamwork Barnstar
I've been giving out a lot of these recently, but ACTRIAL really has been a team effort and your assistance with the technical aspects of it have been very helpful. Creating the checklist page helped organize our thoughts and make for an orderly launch. Thanks for all the work. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:29, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
@TonyBallioni: Thanks for this, and thank you for taking ACTRIAL under your wing. Here's hoping it makes for a successful experiment -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:54, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

69.118.237.203

Thank you for blocking this IP address. However, did you happen to notice the block log for this IP? It has had a very significant/long history of abusive edits, and I don't think a short block is gonna stop them for very long at all... Thanks. 2601:1C0:103:D067:D8D0:E389:CEE5:2C15 (talk) 07:15, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the shorter block, I just think that other admins would have done it differently. That's all. 2601:1C0:103:D7EB:D8D0:E389:CEE5:2C15 (talk) 07:47, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Quite right, thanks for pointing it out! Sorry I've not corrected it sooner, these darn errors... -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:21, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Messi

He has made a further edit after your warning. Kind regards ChocolateRabbit 15:57, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2017

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Thanks!

Hi There'sNoTime, thank you for your comments at my RfA. Your support is much appreciated! Cheers, ansh666 19:02, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

@Ansh666: Hey no worries, I don't even mind being called someone else Take it slow, be open to criticism and suggestions and don't burn yourself out -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:25, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

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Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:01, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

-

The Admin's Barnstar
For the very prompt and helpful way you dealt with a boring admin task. Α Guy into Books™ § (Message) -  14:36, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
@Aguyintobooks: Thank you it's not all glitz and glam -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:39, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-39

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [45]
  • Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [46]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
  • You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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16:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #279

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
    • Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
    • Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
    • Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
    • Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
    • Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Thanks for the barnstar!

Thank you! It's always great to get a chance to tell a wider audience about the projects and clear up a few misconceptions along the way. --Slashme (talk) 17:52, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Great work closing out that discussion on AN about Hidden Tempo RickinBaltimore (talk) 13:49, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
@RickinBaltimore: So far so good.. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Self Block Request

I would like to be blocked for 5 days to get away from arguments. Bobherry Talk Edits 15:02, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

 Done -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:13, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-09

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured Discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

  • This newsletter is the first for the Global Collaboration team!
    • Global Collaboration team formed in July by merging the Language and Collaboration teams of the Wikimedia Foundation. The team is part of the Contributors department.
    • The newsletter now includes updates about Content translation. The Global Collaboration team now have an extended report (in English), with more information and data about the different projects we take care of.
  • Due to vacations and Wikimania, no newsletter has been written in August.
  • Major changes, with possibly an important impact on the wikis, are now marked with the star icon in the newsletter. Let us know if you like it.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Filters for Recent Changes will be deployed by default on all wikis. [47]
    • Some features for Recent Changes remain on Beta. See the list.
    • The initial deployment was scheduled for September 26. It has been postponed after October 3 for performance issues. [48]
  • The filters for Watchlists, as a Beta feature, have been deployed as a Beta feature on Sept. 19. [49]
  • "User registration" and "experience level" groups have been unified. It is now possible to select only actions from logged-out users or from logged-in users. [50]

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Delete action on the list of translations is now more reachable. Now it's possible to open it on click, and easier as well, because active area is bigger. [51]
  • Content Translation language selector is restyled to be more compact. [52]

Future changes

  • The translation editor of Content Translation will be replaced by the visual editor. Work is ongoing. [53]

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17:10, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

European Society for Quality Research

The speedy was contested by two editors on the talk page. It was deleted without response, discussion or AfD. Do you decide and not the community? And what's the rush? -- GreenC 15:02, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

@GreenC: Thanks for getting in touch - I saw no credible claim of significance in the article, which made the tagged A7 valid. Devoid any encyclopedic value, the page was just a cheap way of taking a shot at a company. I honestly couldn't care less than the article content was all negative, as Wikipedia contains neutral fact. I don't believe the tagged G10 was overly valid. The arguments on the talk page did not negate the valid A7, and attempted to address issues which didn't even exist ("It's not a copyvio and the material sourced does verify"). That all being said, I prefer to see content kept on Wikipedia than deleted, and I will happily restore the content to draftspace to be worked on. As for what's the rush, please refer to WP:SPEEDY which states "administrators have broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion, and immediately delete Wikipedia pages" -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:12, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Ok thanks for the explanation and offer to take to Draft as I think the issues raised might be addressable. I don't have a copy of the original article. -- GreenC 15:14, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your understanding - I've restored the article to Draft:European Society for Quality Research. Thank you for your contributions! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:17, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Andrea Iervolino

I am a brave WP:AFC reviewer and would like to accept Draft:Andrea Iervolino. You create protected this topic back in July. Can you please allow this? ~Kvng (talk) 17:40, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

@Kvng: Go forth and bravely accept! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:45, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Creating temptation

Hello little admin. I see you have created a Delicious Editor. Please don't put temptation in Bishzilla's way. Has practically given up eating editors! bishzilla ROARR!! 09:52, 29 September 2017 (UTC).

Never struck me as Bishzilla being the type to give up! I say keep trying, you'll make it one day -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 12:46, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
No no, wish to resist addiction to eating delicious little editors. Bishzilla joined twelve-step program, make good progress. Great will-power when not too hungry! bishzilla ROARR!! 13:53, 29 September 2017 (UTC).

A bowl of strawberries for you!

I am unblocked. Bobherry Talk Edits 15:27, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

added Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
removed Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
  • A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #280

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
    • Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
    • Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
    • Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124)
    • Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
    • Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component

Tech News: 2017-40

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

Recent changes

  • You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [58]

Changes later this week

  • If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [59]
  • Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [60]
  • The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [61]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

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Future changes

  • A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [62]
  • The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Lexi Temkin moved to draftspace

With due regards to the earlier thread, I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please do the needful.Warm regards:) Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 08:33, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey

I have decided to mess with your draft, hope you don't mind ;-) To be honest, I feel the minor outburst was completely reasonable. I hope one day we can work to address and resolve the divide between editor/admin and content creator/maintenance workers. Warm regards, Alex ShihTalk 12:04, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

@Alex Shih: Not a problem at all It's on my list to try to create that at some point. I don't see a divide, but many do, which is a shame -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 07:14, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Nextiva

Hello There'sNoTime, I am an Articles for Creation volunteer, and I would like to approve Draft:Nextiva. ISince the article seems to have been created before and has been page-protected, I’m unable to move it there. Would you be willing to do it? I appreciate it! --1990'sguy (talk) 02:10, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

@1990'sguy: I've removed the page protection, so you should now be able to move the article -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 07:13, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

A note..

Hi,

Greetings:).With due consideration to the recent chain of events, I don't feel Lexi Temkin passes WP:GNG or as such any WP:SNG as of yet. Will you be comfortable with me draftifying it?Regards:)Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 08:25, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

@Godric on Leave: Sure thing, I believe the notable research she co-lead passes the low-bar of WP:GNG, but I'd much rather continue to work on it in draftspace than it getting AfD'd (I'm not entirely confident it'd survive AfD in its current state!) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:28, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 Done-Many thanks! Anyways, I will be keeping a watch on your 28-day mission to see if I can help out on any issue.Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 08:35, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
At any case, consider me as one of those who truly hope that the Maintanence-workers vs Content-Creaters divide fizzles out real soon.Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 08:38, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
  • I was actually going to talk to you about this too, while PROF is not an exclusionary standard to the GNG, in practice we don't consider people who don't pass PROF to pass the GNG unless it is for something other than their academic work (it can be related, though, for example: someone who has taken their academic research and written a pop-science book that gets great reviews in the NYT). If you want ideas on articles to write for your 28 days, I might be able to think of some depending on your interests. I'm boring though, so they'll likely be less interesting than what you'd have thought up :) TonyBallioni (talk) 13:12, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
    • I've got to say, it's interesting looking at these policies from this side of the fence - I consider myself to have a detailed understanding of our notability policies (heck, wouldn't be an admin otherwise) but the difference is I know them from the point of view of deleting ("does this article meet a criteria for deleting"). I can see that the predisposition to delete isn't helpful, and that in fact there really shouldn't be any "fence" to be on either side of.. @TonyBallioni: I'd appreciate some suggestions - so far I've been looking at the WiR redlist and grabbing ones which have a few links to possible references. I'll admit, I did start writing Lexi Temkin before looking at notability, oops! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:24, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
      • Well, my first comment is that while I get the challenge it might be easier and more benefit for the encyclopedia to go to a stub category you are interested in, find a pre-2010 article that is in dire need of repair, and bring it to DYK and then GA (if it were me, I'd pick something like Papal conclave, May 1555).
        If you want to create articles, probably one of the easiest ways to do it is find someone in the Dictionary of National Biography that looks interesting and write on them. They are automatically notable per WP:ANYBIO, and should be somewhat easy to get a non-stub article there. I can't find if there is a list of DNB entries on Wikipedia right now. I know we have lists of the Canadian version at Template:Dictionary of Canadian Biography, which I've been going through and creating articles on academics and educators. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
        • A couple of the WiR redlisted articles are in the ODNB, so I'll look at them. The whole 28 day thing is a personal challenge given how much I struggle with finishing a writing project (blog posts, university papers, my dissertation!) but I will definitely have a look at improving some stubs Thanks for the pointers Tony -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:00, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Filter 642

Hi TNT.[63] Shouldn't that be [\s_-] ¿ -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Checking for a whitespace character there does make a bit more sense ;) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:47, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Protection

please protect in semi-protection and 3 days. MarkSewath (talk) 08:18, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

@MarkSewath: At the moment I'm leaving the page unprotected for a WP:BEANS reason ;-) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:19, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

. User:Pkbwcgs/sandbox needs admin help

so help it.

--86.163.56.182 (talk) 14:59, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Assuming you're Editingandsorting logged out, the only "help" that page needed was the reverting of your edits. Please leave their draft alone unless you're going to constructively improve it -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:02, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Transonic

Aww... And I was just about to explain to the IP the difference between subsonic (<0.75 mach), transonic (0.75-1.0 mach) and supersonic (>1.0 mach). E.g. 747-8 has a max mach of 0.91 which is transonic, not supersonic. Mr rnddude (talk) 15:16, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Isn't Wikipedia brilliant - transonic lead me to Prandtl–Glauert singularity which caused me to click through to Singularity (mathematics) and now I'm stuck into Removable singularitys. Suffice to say, I have no idea what I'm reading but it looks impressive... -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:22, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
  • If I wasn't working on Heinkel He 112 right now, I would be doing the same thing and going to the same places and having the same lack of clue of what I'm looking at. Indeed, nowhere else on Earth can you start at Porridge and end up at Philosophy just by clicking the first wikilink on every new article. It took a while, but, I got there. Mr rnddude (talk) 15:33, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar :-)

Thanks for the barnstar! And I appreciate your suggestion to withdraw my RfA. I have learned a lot about the "behind-the-scenes" work that admins (and countless others) do here. And learning is, after all, such an important part of our encyclopedia. I look forward to continue to contribute towards documenting and maintaining the sum of all knowledge. = paul2520 (talk) 14:56, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

@Paul2520: No problem Indeed it is, and if you ever have any questions, please feel free to leave a message or email me. I look forward to your future RfA! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:14, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Congrats on being appointed to the functionary team. I am looking forward to bothering you with petty requests :-) Cheers! Alex ShihTalk 19:11, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
@Alex Shih: Thank you -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:13, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Concerning your username

The taking of a toast and tea
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
Bishonen | talk 23:34, 7 October 2017 (UTC).
How lovely Bish
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
-- There'sNoTime (to explain) 23:51, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

There's no time

... I hate to go to the Great Dismal Swamp, because I'd like to write articles. I have been on the receiving end of restrictions, as you may know. It's humiliating to have to ask for mercy, in other words, to appeal. (I was too proud to appeal for two years.) If you have little time: just make that block a fixed time. If you have more time: look for my name on Joe's talk page. I hate to repeat Precious when he's blocked, and it may happen again this month. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:34, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Hi Gerda, thank you for your message and for the level-headed approach you bring to difficult situations such as this. I'm genuinely torn in this case, on one hand you have incivility which makes Wikipedia a difficult place to work (and I'm not talking about what is and isn't a personal attack) but on the other the very real fact that I jumped on the report very quickly. The feeling I get at the thread is one which makes me feel foolish for rushing in, but one which supports the idea of something needing to be done. I see the user has been warned and asked to cool off multiple times, and we've escalated up block durations to hopefully try to encourage a change of behaviour.. What is left to do?
Joefromrandb has contributed greatly to Wikipedia, but with an attitude I cannot ignore. To me, there's no ratio of incivility to content which makes behaviour like that justifiable. Please don't get me wrong, I want a resolution here and the restriction ended as soon as possible - I'd unblock immediately if Joefromrandb put their hands up and committed to continue working here without these little outbursts, just as many of our amazing content contributors, such as yourself, manage on a daily basis. As always, I'm open to comment and criticism - if you were in my shoes, what would you do? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 07:47, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
I thought you'd at least read my first thought, about how humiliating it is to expect someone to "put their hands up" and say "I commit to continue working here without these little outbursts". If you have little time, just follow the link from my last comment on his page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
I can quite happily stop and see when I've mucked up, and admit to it - that shouldn't be humiliating. I saw the link to this post -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:08, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
If you can happily stop, then do it. - (ec:) About being in your shoes: hard. I am not an admin, and never want to be one. I wrote my little questionaire (which could be subtitled: Do you really think a block is good for Wikipedia?) for a reason. Next time someone makes a report as this one: ignore ignore ignore. I said already above what I'd do if I was you, now that you are already in this mess: make the block a fixed time. Life is too short. (My questions about blocking came up discussing with Kevin, DYK?) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
A joke, as a token of thanks (from the time when we had DM and Pfennig): Auntie to little Peter: "If you don't use that dirty word again, I give you 10 Pfennig." Peter, in expectation: "I know a word for 50 Pfennig." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:24, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

A strong cup of tea

A strong cup for you,

with two lumps of good sugar,

just a splash of cream.

Waggie (talk) 16:36, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #281

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
    • A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262)
    • The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903)
    • Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
    • Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
    • Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
    • Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
    • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

Tech News: 2017-41

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [66]

Changes later this week

  • The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [67]
  • If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings

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14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to discuss the soon to built, Interaction Timeline

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hi

hi im new what do i do on here i want to help and be a admin one day thanks Ateenageboy (talk) 13:12, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

@Ateenageboy: Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! To begin with, I'd recommend you complete this training (it won't take too long, and you can do it in parts). Once you've done that, taking the Wikipedia Adventure will teach you important elements of interacting with other editors. Once you've got all that done, drop by my talk page again and I'll run through how you can help remove vandalism and we'll look at getting you the rollback permission -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:56, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
cool thanks bro Ateenageboy (talk) 16:53, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Well done

File:Wikiduck.png
There'sNoTime for well drawn ducks. This will have to do.

Just saw this on your userpage and I have to admit that it made me crack up (or should I say, "quack up"? ;) )...in a library. Well done! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 16:46, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

You were mentioned

Don't know if you have the page watchlisted, but pings aren't working and your presence was requested at User_talk:Amirshahat#unblocking_procesess. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 13:23, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

The ANI about a block

Hello There'sNoTime. If another admin were to try to close the thread about Joefromrandb right now, WP:ANI#Long-term gross incivility and WP:BATTLE they would probably have to say there is no consensus for the block. I figure that there are about 10 people in favor, 7 against and 9 who say that the block was too quick. Ironically, this leaves us uncertain how the 'too quick' people would have voted on the merits. Since the thread has been open more than a week a further shift of opinion seems unlikely. You might choose to just to lift the block and then leave any further action to ANI. In this way you could take yourself out of the loop. I take no position on the block myself. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:33, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Good idea, done so -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 06:23, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
EdJohnston, I wanted to send you a thank-you-click for this, but the "cabal approved" was in its way ;) - You are a member of the cabal by what you do, will repeat it tomorrow (I try to tell only one a day). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the unblock. Could you find a short message for Joe, beyond the edit summary? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42

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

Recent changes

  • When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [68][69]
  • The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

  • There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [70]
  • Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [71]
  • Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [72]

Changes later this week

  • Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [73]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Talkback

Hello, TheresNoTime. You have new messages at Biografer's talk page.
Message added 16:50, 17 October 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

His competency at welcoming new users is too good to be comfortable:) Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 16:50, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Godric is just a cry wolf, can't believe that people like him are allowed to edit here.--Biografer (talk) 17:12, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

No barnstar, just words

Just dropping by because of this: I am here to express my admiration for your courage and accountability in the administrative actions you take, which takes a lot of character and I respect you both as a fellow editor and administrator. The attacks against you were simply unfair, especially when you are making these calls in the interest of the community. Warm regards, Alex ShihTalk 06:49, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Don't fret. There's a proclivity these days to jump all over just about anything like this, it'll soon be yesterday's news. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:52, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

October 2017


Smash!

You've been squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.

Bobherry Talk Edits 12:59, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:49, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello TheresNoTime/old, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
  • We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.

Technology update:

  • Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

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Formatting of Pages of Singapore MRT Lines

Hello.

I seek your assistance regarding the article guidelines of certain pages on the Singapore MRT network.

A few months ago, some users started adding an excessive amount (in my opinion) of unnecessary colours into tables and articles. They evidently cite the reason as to closely mimic the style of the local transport, which feature station codes in ovals. As I had been on hiatus, I did not notice it until recently. See links for examples.

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Downtown_MRT_Line#Stations https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Circle_MRT_Line#Stations

Having maintained the pages for many years, I find this absolutely unnecessary as it clutters up the articles. I seem to recall reading guidelines that stipulate the use of colours in articles, but unfortunately, I am unable to find it and cite it in my discussions with Irobotboy. Attempting to remove the coloured codes only result in him adding them back. I have already posted a message to his talkpage but he evidently responded on another user's page. (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:1.02_editor#Stations_for_Downtown_Line) I therefore replied to his query but he has not answered. As I had already "reverted" his edits twice, I find myself unable to respond to his latest activities without involving myself in an edit war.

I seek your opinion on the matter. This is without precedent as I have been unable to find examples of any other metro network utilizing station codes.

Thank you

Seloloving (talk) 13:12, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

One place which mentions colour in articles is WP:Manual of Style/Text formatting#In prose, which I referred to in various edit summaries on these articles, and in this edit to User_talk:Irobotboy. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:27, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Not sure if you want to link to this or not, but here it is: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DeepNikita. GMGtalk 20:27, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: Much obliged! Your response to their message on your talk made my evening -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:30, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
I speak only truth and wisdom. GMGtalk 20:31, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-43

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

Recent changes

  • You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [74]

Changes later this week

  • When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [75]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings

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Wikidata weekly summary #283

Wikidata weekly summary #282

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Wikidata weekly summary #284

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
    • Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
    • Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
    • Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
    • You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

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Recent changes

  • You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [77]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

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00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

OTRS query

I'm trying to do some OTRS cleanup.

As brief background, DGG locked a number of tickets, and in some cases began a discussion with the customer. In some cases, he has not begun a discussion with the customer. As you know, he is now very active with Arbcom, and unable to devote enough time to OTRS tickets. In cases where DGG initiated a discussion I am taking them over. In the case of ticket:2016021510020372, you are the only agent involved. Would you be willing to do an update? It has been some time, so it may be worth starting with a question whether the issue is still open in their minds.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:14, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: I'm currently taking some time away from Wikipedia/OTRS etc., so I would recommend asking someone else. Apologies -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:17, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Seeking advice...

Hi There'sNoTime. You mentioned I could reach out any time with questions, so here I am. A user has been editing Michael Lovell to add the "worst university president" award. Them and I have been in discussion here. As the latest discussion comes from a new IP address, it looks like there have been three IP addresses involved, but seem to be the same person.

Am I wrong in my arguments that this "award" should not be included in the article? I was hoping someone else who watches the page might weigh-in, but that hasn't happened yet. The reference they provide looks to be a blog/editorial, and not a reliable source (please help me understand if I am wrong).

Their latest comment calls me "a subordinate of Michael Lovell" (I am not). Should I reply to the comment? Should I give them one more chance before requesting an admin to protect the page? Or am I wrong, and this "award" should be included?

Oh, and I just realized now that Lovell was considered a runner-up - so he didn't really receive the "award" to begin with. = paul2520 (talk) 18:10, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

@Paul2520: I'm currently taking some time away from Wikipedia etc., so I would recommend asking someone else. Apologies -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:17, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
@There'sNoTime: Thanks for the reply. Enjoy your time off. = paul2520 (talk) 17:21, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I dropped a line on the article talk page. -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:39, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, Ad Orientem. I really appreciate you weighing-in. And nice to learn about talk page stalkers. = paul2520 (talk) 21:17, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
NP. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:24, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

Happy Halloween!

Hello There'sNoTime:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – LinguistunEinsuno 18:44, 31 October 2017 (UTC)



Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.
@Linguist111: Thank you! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:52, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

If this is wrong......

Earlier you placed a semi on The Shield article here, a user removed it here while adding more inaccurate info, I went and restored your previous edit here. If my restoring of this is wrong please let me know, Thanks Chris "WarMachineWildThing" Talk to me 22:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

@WarMachineWildThing: All good! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:56, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

The semi you placed on The Shield article expires on Nov 6 I believe. Can that be extended? Because if the whole Kurt Angle/Shield member false info thing wasnt bad enough now there is this. I suspect there will be edits in mass to the Shield article and it will either because an edit war with editors and IPs or worse someone is gonna get 3RR trying to end the nonsense. Per current consensus If you look at the talk page under Kurt Angle you will see where several folks said No to Angle being a member which him being added over and over by IPs is what started the semi protect because it's false information, he replaced an ill member for one night. Now HHH replaced the same ill member for one night overseas and Im afraid once the semi is lifted it will be the same thing all over again for this HHH nonsense. Chris "WarMachineWildThing" Talk to me 00:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

@WarMachineWildThing: Hmm, I'm not the biggest fan of extending a protection without seeing if the article can be edited constructively, but I can see where you're coming from. I'll have a look at the situation. It may be worth allowing the protection to lapse, but taking a stance of re-protecting at the first instance of disruption? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 11:39, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Works for me. Chris "WarMachineWildThing" Talk to me 11:48, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

1 Novemeber

(in response to message left on my talk page) Hey thanks for letting me know, and will do. Also on a side note what sort of permissions can i request that will aid me in stopping vandalism or protecting pages constantly being vandalised thanks JoshuaLawlerWiki (talk) 09:08, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

@JoshuaLawlerWiki: Hi, first off I would recommend going through the Wikipedia Adventure, which is an interactive tutorial. After you've completed that, we can have a look at permissions such as rollback and how to correctly deal with vandalism -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:11, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
@There'sNoTime: Ok sure thing, I will check it out! Thanks JoshuaLawlerWiki (talk) 09:19, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

added Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
removed Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
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Wikidata weekly summary #285

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
    • Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
    • Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs

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Tech News: 2017-45

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

Recent changes

  • You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [78]

Changes later this week

  • The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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18:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)


Help for AfD Previsouly you saved the article about [[81]] from PROD. Now it got back into AfD, can you contribute to save the page. Bwjones88 (talk) 03:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #286

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Mayestron (rapper)

Hello, I am Chris I just want to recreate the page called Mayestron (rapper) which you deleted on the 22 February, 2017. The article was created by Papamayani which is now already banned on Wikipedia. I just contact you because the page told me, if I want to recreate it, I need first contact you, that why I contacted you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrislogan (talk • contribs) 09:22, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@Chrislogan: I'd recommend creating a draft first -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:28, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

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

Changes later this week

  • The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [82]
  • A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [83]
  • Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [84]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Meetings

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19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Talk pages

What is the best way to make other users agree with you on a talk page discussion? DBZFan30 (talk) 02:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Well? Aren't you going to respond? DBZFan30 (talk) 14:21, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Excuse me? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:21, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
There's no way to make other users agree with you. If you're looking to force people to agree with you on a point, you're contributing to the wrong project -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:23, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Spartan Race

Today I came across User:Jkxyz/Spartan race, a copy of the article now at Spartan Race that you created for dispute resolution back around the start of 2016. The editor whose userspace you created this in has been blocked for legal threats and generally abusive behaviour, and it's likely that this form of the article contains BLP violations. Do you know of any good reason to keep the draft? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:54, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

@Ivanvector: Thank you for checking with me, but no, I see no reason to keep it -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:01, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Okay just one more question: do you happen to know where this dispute resolution discussion occurred? I can't find it in the DRN archives. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:15, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
I'm looking through my archives now, as I have a feeling at least some of it occurred on my talk page -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:35, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for checking, but I've elected to go in a different direction. I'll have a better look at the draft later to see if there's anything useful and then I think it should probably go through MfD. Cheers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:01, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

User:GünniX1

You blocked GünniX1. I think they might be related to the account MacauMagic. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:38, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

@Emir of Wikipedia: Thanks for the heads-up, I'm working my way through these one by one -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:39, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
I think it might be worth you looking at User_talk:Spartaz#Sabrina_Ho. The accounts might not be related to these but they are still troublesome. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:55, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

the template hack is spreading...

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail

unsure where else. since you dealt with one page before, thought i'd tell you.

peace


out.

5.145.141.155 (talk) 14:42, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

A quick purge of those pages sorts it out, but thank you for letting me know -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:43, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Roysandytei unblock request

Hi, please see this unblock request and accompanying discussion at User talk:Owula kpakpo#Wikipedia Ghana user group/Daniel Kobe Ricks Jr. Thanks. TJRC (talk) 22:09, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

....And I just saw that you're already involved in that discussion, so you can probably ignore this notification. TJRC (talk) 22:16, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

Recent changes

  • If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [86]
  • The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [87][88][89]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [90][91]

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19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #287

Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
    • RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
    • Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
    • Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
    • Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
    • Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-11

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

  • The Global collaboration report for October is now available.
  • All wikis now have the Filters for edit review as the default system on Recent Changes page.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Most recent changes

  • Filters for Watchlists are still on Beta. Please try them and give feedback before we release it for all users!
  • Shortcuts to filter Namespaces and Tags are now more visible. [92]
  • Discovery of the search bar has been improved. [93]
  • If the Recent Changes page or the Watchlist fails to load or is time-outed, a message is now displayed. [94][95]
  • The bookmark icon for creating a "Saved filter" is now grayed when it is not possible to save. Before it was not visible. Bookmarking is unavailable when, for example, the current filter set is already saved. [96]

Future changes

  • Live updates on Recent changes will be moved out of beta and into the standard feature set by the end of the year. [97]
  • Extension:Translate filters for RecentChanges are going to be integrated to the new filters. [98]
  • Automatic edit summaries will be filtered as tags. [99]

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
  • Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
  • Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
  • Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
  • Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
  • Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
  • A loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
  • Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Edit-user-talk notifications are now expandable. [100]

Structured Discussions [More information • Help pages]

Future changes

  • Some work is ongoing to store Structured Discussions contents from HTML to wikitext. That change will allow some specific templates and magic words to work properly on Structured Discussions. [101]
  • Some tests are conducted in order to prepare the rewriting of Structured Discussions' interface. That rewriting will have no visible impact on users but it will ease future changes.

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15:35, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Dear There'sNoTime,

please reconsider your block of User:Roysandytei. See here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Unblocking of User:Roysandytei. --Gereon K. (talk) 07:12, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

@Gereon K.: I've replied at the AN post and unblocked the user pending a review of the findings -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:02, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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WiR December highlights

Welcome to Women in Red's December 2017 worldwide online editathons.


New: "Seasonal celebrations" "First Ladies" "Go local!"


Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

Remember the World Contest closes on Thursday, 30 November

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Wikidata weekly summary #288

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
    • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
    • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

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Tech News: 2017-48

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

Meetings

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20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

How dare you???

All of you remove my post again n again. Then??? I just added all Channels name under Zee in ZMCL page. Cuty Pie Sweetu (talk) 14:24, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

@Cuty Pie Sweetu: Calm down, take a moment away from Wikipedia, and then nicely talk to Clubjustin -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:26, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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Ave Fenix ​Pictures

Hi, I'm an employee of Ave Fenix ​​Pictures, a few months ago you deleted the article Ave Fenix ​​Pictures since it had been created by an editor who worked outside the Wikipedia rules. We think that hiring an editor would be the best option because we do not know how to edit the platform, but we had no idea that the editor worked without following the rules. I want to know if there is any possibility that we propose a draft of the article, to put it to your consideration, we know that we can not edit ourselves directly. Can we have that possibility? We could do a translation of the Spanish version. Thank you..Michael.j.schwartz (talk) 04:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

@Michael.j.schwartz: Hi, thanks for getting in contact. I would first advise you to read through our FAQ for organisations (Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations). It would indeed be possible for you to work on a draft, and I would suggest you do this through the article wizard. If you have any further questions, The Teahouse will be happy to help -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 12:10, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Tomo 557755

Hi There'sNoTime,

A few weeks back you deleted the article "Moxie (composer)". Looking at the deletion criteria listed, I believe that in its previous state the deletion of the article was fair. I'm still a novice when it comes to article creation and editing on Wikipedia.

But I think with some more research, article comparison, checking of Wikipedias guidelines and editing, I can get better and make the article acceptable.

Is any possibility that you can access the Wiki markup/Wikicode of the removed article and send it to me? I'm happy to start from scratch on the article if need be but if the Wiki markup/Wikicode still exists somewhere it would be handy to have to start my revisions and editing upon.

Thanks for your time There'sNoTime :)

Tomo 557755 (talk) 10:01, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

@Tomo 557755: Hey, thanks for getting in touch - I've restored the content to the draft Draft:Moxie (composer) where you can continue to work on it. Once you're ready to submit it for review (using WP:AFC), add the code {{subst:submit}} to the top of the page -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:14, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


Great! Thanks for that There'sNoTime! Have a great day!

Tomo 557755 (talk) 10:34, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 159.122.86.43 (talk) 21:42, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

159.122, good spot, thank you for holding me accountable to my actions. Was indeed a muck up. tpw et al., thread -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

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Nipun Jaswal Page Restoration

Dear Admin,

Few months ago, you deleted a page called "Nipun Jaswal" due to non notability of the author or his books which was a fair decision. However, as the time passed by the author is now listed in google with his books. Do you think a restore is possible? I can try editing the page if you agree. Thanks--Rafiq Marbaros (talk) 08:31, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

@Rafiqmarbaros: Perhaps - could you link to the article I deleted? (Nipun Jaswal has never existed it appears) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:32, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
@There'sNoTime: this is the message i get opening the page, your link is correct... "10:06, 5 August 2017 There'sNoTime (talk | contribs) deleted page Nipun Jaswal (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nipun Jaswal (XFDcloser))"--Rafiq Marbaros (talk) 04:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
@Rafiqmarbaros: I must have manually looked up the title, and then copy/pasted for the link - anywho, I have restored it to Draft:Nipun Jaswal for you to work on. Please submit it through WP:AFC when you're ready -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:41, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
@There'sNoTime: Thank you so much, i ll work on itRafiq Marbaros (talk) 17:48, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

added Joe Roe
readded JzG
removed Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.
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Tech News: 2017-49

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

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
  • Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [109]
  • Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [110][111]

Meetings

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17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #289

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
    • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
    • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
    • Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
    • More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
    • Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Banned User

User:Cuty Pie Sweetu, a user you banned temporarily is back to his edit warring using an IP address. --Xzinger (talk) 04:37, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

IP hasn't edited for a couple of days, and it may be dynamic - if you see anything again though, please feel free to poke me. Thanks for keeping an eye out! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:33, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Cuty Pie Sweetu used that IP to circumvent the temporary ban imposed on him for edit waring. Isn't circumventing a violation of the ban? Morever he is back to adding that long list of television stations even though a template with the same channel list is present on that article.--Xzinger (talk) 03:40, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Adminerversary

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!
Best wishes, Dat GuyTalkContribs 16:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Why thank you -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:02, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Fun was had by all
Couple days belated, but happy adminervary (adminversary? )! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 06:09, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2017



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Wikidata weekly summary #290

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Tech News: 2017-50

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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello TheresNoTime/old, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
  • Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

  • If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

  • A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
  • Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
  • The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
  • To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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The Signpost: 18 December 2017

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Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-12

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

  • The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
  • The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on Watchlists. Please try them!
  • LiveUpdates have been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
  • On wikis using Extension:Translate, translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as well, on all wikis. [118]
  • "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent, to invite users to use that native feature to update the list of results. [119]
  • Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on the right on left-to-right wikis. [120]
  • When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to close it, it was possible to click on "revert" link by accident. It is not possible anymore. [121]
  • It is now possible to filter the following events using the Tags menu: Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing more than 90% of a page content, Rolling back an edit. [122]
  • Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to integrate the new filters. [123]
  • "Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results. This is now fixed. [124]
  • Some small design improvements have been done. [125]

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

  • Now Content Translation prevents source and target language to be set to same language. [126]
  • The dialog for selecting article to translate is standardized. It introduces a new component that is used for the selected page on both the "New translation" dialog and the "Suggested pages" list. [127]
  • More space is given to the language filter, to increase responsiveness and show more language names without truncation. [128]
  • While searching for a new page to translate, duplicates are not shown anymore for user search input. [129]
  • Various PHP warnings and JavaScript errors have been fixed. [130][131]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

  • It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion topics. [132]
  • The Reply button is not active anymore until something is typed. [133]

Miscellaneous

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14:31, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #291

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
    • More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
    • Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
    • Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
    • Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
    • Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2017-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

  • When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [136]
  • Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

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15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

A Florida IHOP for you

Pancakes!
Merry Christmas, may your days be filled with all the pancakes from Florida that you can eat. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
IHOPe for IHOP -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:25, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Thanks for everything Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 14:41, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
I'm good at all the "everything"s - "messing up everything", "utterly ruining everything", "losing everything"...... -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

deleted sandbox jazz re:freshed

hi there, im new to wikipedia i believe you deleted my sandbox page for copyright violation - the copyright material was actually from my website and written by me... is there any way to get the deleted text back? i (foolishly) composed the post in wikipedia and will now have to rewrite the whole thing again... :( adam Jazzrefreshed (talk) 00:21, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

@Jazzrefreshed: Hi Adam, I'll email over the content of your draft to you - please don't re-add it to Wikipedia just yet. The message I left on your user page has some helpful links in regard to copyright, so I'd recommend having a read through of those. Let me know if I can help! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 00:27, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

thank you so much - your email has not come through tho... ive been having a few issues with my emails could you email it to adamrocked@hotmail.com instead please thank you for your support adam Jazzrefreshed (talk) 23:32, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2018!

Hello There'sNoTime, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2018. May you and your family have a Happy, Safe and Prosperous New Year!
 Happy editing,
--Cameron11598 (Talk) 05:18, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #292

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
    • Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
    • Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
    • No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
    • More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users

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Ave Fenix Pictures

Hello, a few days ago I wrote to you to see the possibility of publishing an article of Ave Fenix Pictures, which was previously deleted because it was uploaded by a banned user - my message and your answer are in your file, 27th and 28th of November -. I have the article in my Sandbox, could you check it? (Note since my publication was archived I did not know if I should contact you again. My apologies as I do not have experience in these cases). It is a translation of the Spanish version, with some phrases that I have added, I have even changed a link that in the Spanish version is broken. Could you publish it yourself, or another editor, if you think it's appropriate? Thanks! Michael.j.schwartz (talk) 06:08, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@Michael.j.schwartz: I've moved the page to Draft:Ave Fenix Pictures and submitted it for review -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:00, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho

ϢereSpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec17a}}~~~~ to your friends' talk pages.

ϢereSpielChequers 20:54, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@WereSpielChequers: you too WSC! Hope you've had a great 2017! Always nice to hear from my RfA nom -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:56, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks yes, an interesting year, though I've not been so active at RFA! ϢereSpielChequers 22:18, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Hopefully a good interesting year - and please do be more active at RfA, there's plenty of people we can throw under the bus induct into the admin corp! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:25, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy holidays!


Happy Holidays!


Hello There'sNoTime! Hope you have a great Christmas, New Year, or whatever you celebrate! RileyBugz会話投稿記録 23:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
@RileyBugz: Thanks, hope you have a nice festive period too! For what its worth, I celebrate Yule -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 00:05, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!


–Miles Edgeworth Happy Xmas is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

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@Miles Edgeworth: Merry Christmas to you too! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:20, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas !!!

Merry Cristmas everybody!!!
Merry Cristmas everybody!!!

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,

I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)

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@CAPTAIN RAJU: Merry Christmas to you as well! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:20, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas TheresNoTime/old!!


Hi TheresNoTime/old, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,
   –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 15:28, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Have a good one! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:35, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

The white snow and the cool breeze beckon a festive mood,
And the sweet aroma wafting from eateries wreathes the mind.
Lights, stars, colour and jollity abound 'round each bend,
I wish you a happy holiday season, dear friend.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Editing can get tough and frustrating at times, but we've come a long way in this project and that is a grand achievement. Hope you have a good time this festive season! :) Jiten talk contribs 23:35, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

Hello There'sNoTime: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —MRD2014 Merry Christmas! 02:20, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

A blessed feast to you and yours. -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:21, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to Women in Red's January 2018 worldwide online editathons.



New: "Prisoners"

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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:13, 27 December 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

leave the editor alone?

Wth? Why did you say this and what is the basis for it? Seraphim System (talk) 18:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC) Seraphim System (talk) 18:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Well its pretty clear neither of you can work together. You leave them alone, they'll leave you alone, we can all move on and do something constructive -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:40, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
I don't think he's willing to do that. I looked at his editing pattern too and there isn't much overlap. Here's a summary of my interaction with him:
  • called me a denialist, [137] (No, removing Lemkin from the LEDE is not denialist - premediated should not be in the lede - it hasn't become part of the definition of genocide, it is confusing, and it is undue for the lede. I would have replaced it with something better if he hadn't started this battleground bs).
  • edit warred over restoring a text sandwich: [138]
  • reverted a closed RfC: [139]
  • restored a POV map that fails verification with a nonsense caption that says "The traditional definition of Anatolia within modern Turkey" [140]
  • continues to argue that it was not miscited, does not fail verification and that the map was sourced to the entire book (not a particular map in the book), says I should take it up with the map creator if the caption fails verification: [141]

If he is unable to work with me, then I want him to leave me alone so I can improve the articles that I want to work on. I actually am capable of editing neutrally in this area, it isn't my POV that is causing these disputes. Restoring a text sandwich is not even legitimate, it is pure stalking/battleground behavior.Seraphim System (talk) 19:35, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Sorry

I was snippier here than I meant to be in my edit summary here. (Intended snippiness 4/10, came out 7/10.) EEng 08:26, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

@EEng: I've been debating leaving you a snippiness 3 "the heck is community capital", but decided against it - no harm, no foul. I'm not going touch that thread again, I'll let an admin with some more community capital mull that one over -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:30, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
But there is a real foul (neither yours nor mine) in terms of what's happening with Tony1 now, and community discussion raising awareness of hasty application of NLT is long overdue. I'm hoping to stimulate that, just so you understand. EEng 08:42, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

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New Years new page backlog drive

Hello TheresNoTime/old, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

  • The total number of reviews completed for the month.
  • The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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Happy New Year, There'sNoTime!

Happy New Year!

There'sNoTime,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 00:39, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, There'sNoTime!

Happy New Year!

There'sNoTime,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
*–Miles EdgeworthTalk 07:10, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #293

Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)!
  • Development
    • Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
    • Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
    • Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
    • Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
    • Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
    • Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
    • Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

added Muboshgu
readded Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned
removed None

Bureaucrat changes

readded Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

Arbitration

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Tech News: 2018-02

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

Recent changes

  • On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [142][143]
  • Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [144]
  • Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [145]
  • Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [146][147]

Problems

  • Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [148]
  • With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [149]
  • The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [150]
  • Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [151]

Changes later this week

  • Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [152]
  • The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [153][154]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
  • WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [155]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #294

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development

This Month in GLAM: December 2017



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aw

you're monitoring me <3 OfficialAnti4chanredditadpromobish (talk) 20:18, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

It's the least I could do - TNT❤ 20:20, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #295

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Mahir256
    • Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

Recent changes

  • Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [156]
  • There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [157]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [158][159]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [160][161]

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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Sweep, sweep, sweep

Just what you signed up for, huh? --NeilN talk to me 04:10, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

@NeilN: Woooo, right? I still remember your advice from when I was overly keen to RfA.. you should have said how fun and interesting adminship was - TNT❤ 04:12, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Oops

My bad. I have no idea how to request a revdel or if there is a board for that. I'm also up to my chin in sockpuppets, at the moment so I kind did that kind of hastily. Boomer VialBe ready to fight the horde! • Contribs 11:35, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

@Boomer Vial: Not a problem at all Because it was personal information, your best bet is popping an email to oversight - saves drawing any attention to the content (as ideally we want as few people to see it as possible!). As for sockpuppets, I saw your post on Osh's talk page - I was close to doing a check on them, but formatting a SPI up would be helpful - TNT❤ 11:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Will do. I know the aforementioned socks are related for sure, having just spent the last half hour digging through the last twenty thousand created accounts digging all of them up. In case you still wanted to CheckUser them, no objections here. Boomer VialBe ready to fight the horde! • Contribs 11:43, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
@Boomer Vial: That was a pretty major SPI.. at least it helped isolate the unrelated accounts. As for the master, a clerk will pop by and move the SPI, so no drama - TNT❤ 12:33, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Just curious why you deleted the Rainbow Kitten Surprise page. They are signed to Elektra Records, a major label with a new single out and first LP due in April. [1] Marc61 (talk) 20:28, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

The article met CSD A7 and the AfD was speedy closed as such - TNT❤ 20:35, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Signing to a such a major label as Electra is an indication of notability, so I don't think A7 applies. Note this is an indication, not proof, of notability. That said, when I look at the deleted text I think the article was correctly speedily deleted, but the better criteria would be WP:G11. That's just my opinion, though. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 20:54, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Maybe this helps - From Time Magazine this week. [2][3] I'm a huge fan of the band (obviously) and just wanted recognition for starting the page. 

Not looking to start an argument. Marc61 (talk)

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Tech News: 2018-04

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [164]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [165]

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #296

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-01

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

  • The Global Collaboration report for December is now available (in English).
  • Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
  • Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

  • When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [166]
  • On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [167]
  • Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [168]
  • Filter menu was opening upwards. [169]
  • ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [170]
  • Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [171]

Work in progress

  • Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [172]
    • The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at.
    • It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page.
    • You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [173]
  • Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [174]
    • Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability.
    • Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
    • Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
    • Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
  • Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [175]
  • The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [176]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Future changes

  • Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [179]
  • Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [180]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

  • User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [181]
  • "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [182]

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00:56, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Feburary 2018 at Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's February 2018 worldwide online editathons.

New: "Black women"

New: "Mathematicians and statisticians"

New: "Geofocus: Island women"

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 28 January 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #297

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
    • Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
    • Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
    • Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
    • Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
    • Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
    • Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
    • Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
    • Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
    • Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2018-05

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

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #298

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
    • Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
    • The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
    • Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
    • Statistics
      • January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
      • The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
      • In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
      • 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
    • New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes
  • Development
    • Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
    • Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
    • Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
    • Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
    • Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
    • Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
    • Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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

Administrator changes

added None
removed Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
  • Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

  • A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

Hi,

It looks like my recent draft for The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (CHSWPA) was deleted because of the blocking for copyright infringement back in the summer. Just some background - I am a member of the board of directors for CHSWPA, treasurer, in charge of the website, co-editor of the journal Gathered Fragments, etc. My fellow board member and co-editor, John, had originally wanted as much information on our Wikipedia page as possible. So, we took what we have on our website and revised it slightly - we do own the copyright on that. Well, apparently, that can't be done so I told him that we would try something basic.

I finally got around to taking another stab at it, just doing the bare bones and apparently I can't do that either because of the original block from the summer. I had John review what I wrote yesterday and he said go ahead and try to post. I returned to Wikipedia today and found that what I had written had been deleted because of the summer block. If you go to the following website http://digital.library.duq.edu:2012/cdm/search/collection/gf/searchterm/Kathleen%20Washy/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/title/ad/asc, you will see my name pop up and you should be able to verify that I am a board member that way. Duquesne University is in the middle of creating a new website to hold past issues of Gathered Fragments, but it is still in early stages and I don't think it is out there for the public but you can look at it here and you will see my name: https://ddc.duq.edu/chs/ There are days that I feel that I am the living history of CHSWPA as I have been a board member since 1992 - 26 years. However, one other board member has me beat as she has 34 years.

What can I do to get my bare bones submission into the mix? Below was my bare bones draft from yesterday. Should I chop it down even more?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Kathleen Washy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwashy (talk • contribs)

@Kwashy: Hi Kathleen, thanks for getting in contact - firstly apologies for "hiding" the text you initially wrote on my user page, if you go to edit this page you'll see it's still there. As for Draft:The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, it was deleted as a copyright violation (see this page) so you've got two options - re-factor the text from the other day so it significantly differs from the copyrighted material on your website or donate the text.
Apologies for the inconvenience all this must have caused, and please do let me know if you need any more help. Alternatively, you could ask for some assistance at The Teahouse or visit our live chat. Also, because you're writing about something you have a direct connection to, you'll need to declare your conflict of interest - TNT❤ 16:44, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

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

Recent changes

  • Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [184]
  • The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [185]
  • Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [186]

Problems

  • Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [187]

Changes later this week

  • When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [188]
  • When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [189]
  • The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [190]
  • Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [191]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks

For the revdels. --NeilN talk to me 17:04, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

No problem NeilN :-) - TNT❤ 22:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

It occurs to me that I've not ~properly~ interacted with you on enwiki yet, so This is That.

-- Thanks, Alfie. talk to me | contribs 22:53, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

N'aww thankies Alfie =3 - TNT❤ 22:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2018



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Wikidata weekly summary #299

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You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Hillmann 69

How are these three edits not linkspam?[194][195][196] Note that the page linked to says "Michael Hillmann, Managing Director". --Guy Macon (talk) 02:28, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi, that is correct. These external links were added (with my previous account name) due to my wrong understanding of Wikipedia, years ago - and, of course, some competitors are doing this as well. Now I want to add more valuable knowledge to wikipedia and will remove these links now... Sorry.

--TecWriter (talk) 11:08, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks for the explanation. If you see any competitors who are spamming links to their sites, feel free to drop me a line on my talk page and I will deal with them. --Guy Macon (talk) 11:22, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

The Barnstar of Diplomacy 
<iDangerMouse> After White_cat you're the second annoying cat on Wikipedia
Dax Bane 20:58, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
@Dax Bane: Thank you, I think! ^..^ - TNT❤ 21:01, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

Recent changes

  • TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [197][198][199]
  • Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

  • You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [200]
  • The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [201]
  • The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [202]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

[🇺🇸 COACH Z | #USNavy ⚓] 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #300

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

  • A selection of cool tools on Wikidata

Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!

    • The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
    • QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
    • Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
    • WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
    • Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
    • Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
    • Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
    • DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
    • checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
    • Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
    • The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)
  • Development
    • Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
    • Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
    • Continued work on caching constraint check results.
    • Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
    • Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743, phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


[🇺🇸 COACH Z | #USNavy ⚓] 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

I apologize for any grammatical or syntax errors in advance I am a retired Navy veteran and I have a site impediment as well as a hearing Disorder so I have to use voice recognition software to try and learn how to become a Wikipedia editor.

Where did the four take effect for this website was it from the beginning of time?

I also would like to know if the beginning of this website from what I could tell was started by one person or two I'm having conflicting stories on how Wikipedia started it looks like it was two people and then one bought the other one out is that right?

[🇺🇸 COACH Z | #USNavy ⚓] 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC) [🇺🇸 COACH Z | #USNavy ⚓] 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Veiled (movie)

Hello, There'sNoTime. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Veiled".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 18:10, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes Twinkle sends the notifications to other editors that handled a page. Ya, it might be spam too. Legacypac (talk) 18:34, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
One of our most prolific spammers, eh GNG—and always gets away with it, right under our dang noses!  :) >SerialNumber54129...speculates 18:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Nothing to see here... - TNT❤ 19:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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

Recent changes

  • The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [204][205]
  • You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [206]

Problems

  • Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [207]
  • Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [208][209]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Women's History Month 2018 at Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's March 2018 worldwide online editathons.


Historically, our March event has been one of the biggest offerings of the year. This year, we are collaborating with two other wiki communities. Our article campaign is the official on-line/virtual node for Art+Feminism. Our image campaign supports the Whose Knowledge? initiative. Women's History Month 2018

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 16:09, 20 February 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #301

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
    • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
    • Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Hi. I was wondering, if I link an article in an SPI page (using [[xyz]]), does it show in the article's "what links here" while the SPI is still open? That's why I had to exclude wikilinks from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jwalia012. —usernamekiran(talk) 19:46, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: Any [[wiki link]] will show up in "what links here" for the page, but I wouldn't let that stop you wikilinking at SPI (to the contrary, wikilinks can often help a lot in making judgement calls). On a side note, I've seen a couple of your SPIs and they're always really well thought out - so thank you! - TNT❤ 19:51, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
If you (not totally sure why) want to avoid these types of backlinks (words?), you can use [[Special:Permalink/123456789|PAGENAME]] to link to the latest revision instead of the live article. GMGtalk 19:54, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
(edit conflict) lol thanks. I will keep that in mind; to include the wikilinks.
Thanks for the tip Tim. But given TNT's explanation, I think I should add the wikilinks. See you around guys :) —usernamekiran(talk) 19:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, TheresNoTime/old. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 11:49, 25 February 2018 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Mahveotm (talk) 11:49, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

@Mahveotm: replied - TNT❤ 16:08, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

ACC CU Backlog

Hello,

ACC has a CU backlog of 101 requests as of 08:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC), any help is appreciated! Thanks ~riley (talk) 08:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

Recent changes

  • Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [211]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [212][213]
  • Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [214]
  • Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [215][216][217]

Changes later this week

  • Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [218]
  • Advanced item The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [219][220]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Some stew for you

Wikimedia Stew
Congratulations! Just make sure not to global lock me :) TonyBallioni (talk) 18:52, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Oh thank you It is -3 here so that's rather helpful! - TNT❤ 19:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

A kitten for you!
plz do not lock kitten

kitten is frund?

Anyway, congratulations on being a steward! !dave 21:48, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

@!Dave Thank you! - TNT❤ 14:57, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

Screenshot showing some changes, in the two-column wikitext diff display

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Toggle button showing visual and wikitext options; visual option is selected

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

Screenshot showing the same changes to an article. Most changes are highlighted with text formatting.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

  • The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
  • The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [221]
  • Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [222]
  • The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up. Other wikis can have this service, too. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

  • The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
  • Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
  • The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references /> or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}} template. If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki. [223]
  • If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

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

Administrator changes

added Lourdes†
removed AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

  • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
  • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
  • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
  • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

  • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
  • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Obituaries

  • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

A few favors

Can you do the following favors for me:

  1. Delete my user page.
  2. Delete my talk page.
  3. Change my username so other users can stop harrassing me. DBZFan30 (talk) 02:45, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
@DBZFan30: Hi, sorry to hear you've been experiencing harassment here - please feel free to email me if you want to discuss the above in more detail, and I'll try to help where I can. On to your query:
  1. Your user page seems to have already been deleted.
  2. We very rarely delete talk pages - you can, however, blank the page. Would this be okay?
  3. I'm unable to rename your account. This page may help in regards to changing your username, though you may be looking for "courtesy vanishing". Before you make that choice, I'd strongly recommend dropping me an email with what's been going on, because I might be able to help you.
- TNT❤ 10:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
I just want my talk page to be permanently deleted so I won't have to look back at all the trash people keep posting there. For the harassment part, I remember when a user kept calling me a "twat" and a "twit" over a section at the article All Star (song) (check the edit history for evidence). That same user then started harassing me at the talk page of that article. I also want the All Star article to be deleted. You have to believe me on this. DBZFan30 (talk) 18:23, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Not this again. DBZFan30 (talk) 22:34, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) DBZFan30, I'm not sure what There'sNoTime is doing to you, but he's given you good advice (no admin is going to delete your user talk page, and he currently does not have the ability to rename you.)
For your other requests, There'sNoTime is probably not going to delete one of the most popular songs of the late-1990s/early-2000s just because, and it is not very likely to be deleted at AfD. I also looked at the edit summaries there, and the content, and I don't see anything that meets our revision deletion criteria. The talk page issue and relevant content dispute from what I can tell was almost a year ago, and you also got into a content dispute in October, which is also pretty stale. All of these issues seem to be too old for much administrative action.
If you are concerned about people reverting you or something similar because of your current username, a rename should do the trick, and maybe don't edit the All Star page again if it is causing the issues? All the best, TonyBallioni (talk) 22:49, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
@TonyBallioni: Can you at least delete my talk page and permanently block the user who was harassing me? That user at the All Star article always gets away with everything. I'm sick of it. I'm also sick of other users not believing or listening to me. Wikipedia really needs to change their rules and revision deletion criteria. Also, I'm not "stalking" this page at all. DBZFan30 (talk) 23:00, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
{{tps}} is a template that lets people know how I saw this message (I have TNT's page on my watchlist). If you click the link, it's a funny essay. In terms of the harassment, I do see that you were called some not very nice names by another editor, but the last time I see any direct interaction between the two of you in October 2017. That's almost 5 months ago. Unless there is something going on off-wiki or they are using IPs, I don't think most admins would block. If there is something going on that is private, you should email There'sNoTime.
In terms of talk page deletion, as both There'sNoTime and I told you, we don't usually delete user talk pages, and there doesn't seem to be a strong reason to delete it (see WP:DELTALK). The thing that is most likely to address your concerns at this point and be within policy is for you to blank your talk page, and then to request a rename (which you can do by submitting a request at Special:GlobalRenameRequest.)
If there is anything private that involves off-wiki details (or is sensitive on-wiki), TNT is a good user to email about it, but from what appears available on-wiki, there really isn't much that can be done, other than the rename request I mentioned above, and blanking your talk page. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:43, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
DBZFan30: forgot to ping you. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:48, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
@DBZFan30: Sorry for not getting back to you sooner - a very helpful and experienced editor who keeps an eye on my talk page, TonyBallioni, has said basically what I would say. Perhaps you could email me a quick summary about the user at the All Star article, and what they've been doing which has upset you? Let me know when you've emailed me, and I'll respond as soon as possible to let you know I've got the email - TNT❤ 16:08, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Neither of you are helping me. Can you just delete my talk page and change my username? Blanking my talk page won't do anything. Also, you can just delete the All Star article and recreate it without the edits that caused the edit war between me and that other user. No one will notice it was deleted and then recreated. DBZFan30 (talk) 01:45, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
@DBZFan30: You can request a change of username here - TNT❤ 14:58, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-10

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

Recent changes

  • You can now make longer edit summaries. [224]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [225]
  • On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [226][227]
  • Advanced item Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [228]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #302

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
    • Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
    • Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
    • Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
    • Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-02

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

  • Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
  • Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
    • The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
    • The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
    • It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Problems

  • The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [233][234]
  • On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed. [235]
  • Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed. [236]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of Yes or No it says Thank and Cancel. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public. [237]
  • A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts. [238]

Problems

  • Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [239]
  • Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed. [240]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message. [241]
  • It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed. [242]

Problems

  • On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.

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11:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

WP:HI

it's Wilburn from IRC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tämä on uusi tili (talk • contribs) 20:38, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello - TNT❤ 20:40, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

WP:VPT

There's a thread at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Strange page markings that's about the edit summaries in your contribution history. Nthep (talk) 15:31, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Responded at thread :-) ..n̸̥̺̼̻̮̩̈́̇͗͘o̧͖̹͕̲͉̪̖͓̐͊͑͆̎̊̓̐͘͜͝ n̬̭̮͕̝͗̿̍̈́̋̾̉͟e̷̛͓̠̖̳͓̬͐̌͌̎̚̚͝ͅͅȅ̸̡̧͓̟͎̩̞̟̦̔͌͗̎́̑̕̚̚d̷̥̫͇̞̘̮͉̜͊͑́́̽̑̅ ţ̴͔͕̼͔̟͓̋̾͛̍̇͐̒̚͡ö̷̯͉͉̈̍̓̋̐̉͒͟ͅ b͙̗̟̰̳̲͍̱͇̾̄͌̂̂͞e̥̻̜̠͖̞̻̹̼̾̋̋̃͊͞ ȁ̵͕̩̪͔̻̼̯̳̒̋̂̓͜l̫̠̘̪̖̫̼̓̾͗͗̄̓̃̚a̘̣̰̤̭͊̾͐̃̃́̂̓̚ŗ̵̡̰̬̪́̀̎͒̐͠m̴̩̪̦̼̙̣̒̾̏̌͝ͅe̩̲̣̙̠̘͈̼̽̀̇̓͑͞d̫̭̺̭̜̀̄͐̑̅͛̚.. - TNT❤ 16:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-11

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

Recent changes

  • 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [243]
  • Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [244]
  • Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [245]
  • Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [246]

Problems

  • The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [247]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [248]
  • It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [249][250]
  • Advanced item A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [251][252][253]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #303

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
    • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

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


Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

OK you've convinced me....

...after about a year of essentially taking a total break from Wikipedia I thought I might start poking my head back in again... I could be wrong but it seems a nicer place to be again generally speaking! Right, now to pick up where I left off in trying to get St Pancras railway station to GA... ah, Ritchie333 has now beaten me to it! Will have to find another one..... OcarinaOfTime (talk) 12:19, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

@OcarinaOfTime: There's plenty more on User:Ritchie333/London termini. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:21, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Indeed there are Ritchie333! Might have to start with the other station I used to commute into when I worked in London.... though my word it needs a lot of work! Best get to it... OcarinaOfTime (talk) 12:28, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
OcarinaOfTime Did you ever see the little sandwich bar next to it? I had my first ever veal escalope sandwich there  :) how suave I thought that was! :D —SerialNumber54129...speculates 13:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Veal escalope sounds like a half-breed baby cow/antelope... with a thick Spanish accent... GMGtalk 13:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Yeah...in Saginaw :p —SerialNumber54129...speculates 14:30, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Anyone for Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Wot they said ^ (though seriously, welcome back) - TNT❤ 15:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

regarding Simona Fusco

Dear Admin TNT, I respectfully wonder if you can consider in light of Wikipedia guidelines deemed exclusively promotional”, like this, if you would entertain a “fundamental rewrite” to conform with as provided below? Wikipedia:NOTFORPROMOTION.

I understand that this article originally read much more promotional than I intended but it is in the tone that Wikipedia biographical article pages, currently reference and would presumably link to this article(if published, are using. The articles citations reference reputable sources, including the Los Angeles Times.

While appreciate the requisite adherence to neutrality and objectivity, it is perhaps more challengeing to adopt an enclyclopedic style when the tone of the third party and reputable source convey a promotional tone. But it is more constructive for me as an editor ot be conferred an opportunity to make such edits as below and I was wondering if you could provide feedback or consider the following modifications. While I understand immediate deletion for article submissions with questionable notability, I don’t understand why this was not tagged such that I could edit the contribution as provided below. salvaged, I think I offer constructive edits below that are appropriate for a new article on a notable subject.

Article paste

Simona Fusco is a European-born model, actress and owns and manages a matchmaking firm in Los Angeles, California.

Ms. Fusco was born and spent most of her youth in Europe before relocating to the United States at age 14. As a model she has been featured in campaigns for Benetton and other fashion labels. Born in Milan, she relocated to the US at age 21, where she was discovered by entertainment executive Jay Bernstein.

Ms. Fusco is the sole proprietor of Perfect 12 Introductions, a companion search firm for public figures and notable individuals of higher net wealth. She has been a featured panelist on CNN, ABC, FOX and on local affiliate tv stations in Los Angeles on topics relevant to dating. In addition, she has been interviewed for print and digital publications, including the Robb Report, GQ, Esquire, Maxim, LA Confidential, Obscurae Magazine, and Beverly Hills Magazine.

Charity

Ms. Fusco founded the Maria Gruber Foundation, which provides emotional support and consolation to families affected by the terminal illness. She currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Maria Gruber Foundation.

Personal Life

Ms. Fusco was married to the late entertainment executive Jay Bernstein and they share one daughter, Amber.

References

Jump up ^ http://www.naludamagazine.com/simona-fusco/ Jump up ^ http://SimonaFusco.com Jump up ^ http://digital.modernluxury.com/publication/?i=478283&ver=html5&p=123# Jump up ^ https://www.elitedaily.com/dating/prepare-first-run-in-ex-matchmaker/1852980 Jump up ^ http://variety.com/2007/scene/markets-festivals/simona-fusco-stratten-1117965730/ Jump up ^ https://www.skynmagazine.com/simona-fusco/ Jump up ^ http://www.latimes.com/local/la-hm-hotprop11-2008oct11-story.html Jump up ^ http://simonafusco.com Jump up ^ https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/what-a-beautiful-girl-wants-simona-fusco-2016-1 Jump up ^ https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/what-a-beautiful-girl-wants-simona-fusco-2016-1 Jump up ^ http://www.obscuraemagazine.com/2016/03/simona-fusco/ Jump up ^ http://SimonaFusco.com Jump up ^ https://thehollywoodtimes.net/2015/08/03/simona-fusco-presents-awards-at-the-special-olympics/ Jump up ^ https://mariagruber.org/board-of-director/

Monologuebaby (talk) 23:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

JJ at CLA Development

Hi! I recognize that I have a close affiliation as the page I am editing is my employer, but I feel that I am using neutral language. I am very mindful as to not use this page for promotional purposes but instead, wish to legitimize our organization online. An issue I am running into is that much of the history of the organization is found only in newspapers/articles dated from the 1800's and early 1900's, when much of the organization's transformational history took place. I'm unsure as to how to cite them when many, as they are of now local interest (though not at the time of publication) are unavailable in digital forms. I am also attempting to correct the information that is already on the page and then begin the more in-depth process of finding these archival-level items. I am also looking at other comparable institutions like the institution I represent who source much of their material from their own website as well. I am very aware of the "other stuff exists" guideline but I am currently trying to figure out how to balance the fact that many libraries and archives keep most of their records for themselves and seldom share these records with major publications.

Thank so much! JJ at CLA Development (talk) 14:41, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

@JJ at CLA Development: Hey, welcome to Wikipedia - I'm really glad to hear you've been reading up on how you can contribute neutrally It can be pretty tough doing so when you have a conflict of interest. It may be worth going through some of the training provided here, which may go some way towards explaining how to reference material. We don't require digital versions of citations to be available (in fact, many articles reference offline media) - this section of WP:REF explains how to reference an offline newspaper. If you have any more questions, feel free to leave me a message, or pop by "The Teahouse" - TNT❤ 19:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #304

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Development
    • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
    • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
    • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
    • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
    • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
    • Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)

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


Tech News: 2018-12

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

Problems

  • On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [254]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item There is no Editing team meeting this week.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [255][256]
  • In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Vandalism continues - need permanent block of 74.95.2.145

I noticed you did an earlier block. User_talk:74.95.2.145 That IP address goes to a school site, so it may be a prankster. [[257]] TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 22:50, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

@Timtempleton: sorry for the delay in getting back to you - it seems this IP has been quiet now for a couple of days. Thanks for the report though! - TNT❤ 17:05, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
No problem - just seemed dodgy. I'll keep an eye out myself. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 20:22, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Adding new editors to ongoing sockpuppet investigations

Recently I initiated a sockpuppet investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marcelo Boltelho that resulted in several editors being blocked. Today I saw a new editor, Mercado brasileiro Bolt (talk), creating similar articles to the sockfarm while I was reviewing new pages. Given their name and edit history (which includes removing [258] my speedy deletion tags from an article created by the sockfarm) I am fairly certain they are yet another sock. I have added their name to the SPI and messaged them, but I want to ask; are there any other steps I need to take?--SamHolt6 (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Hey SamHolt6 - if you've added them to the SPI, that's all you need to do a SPI clerk or checkuser will take a look shortly - TNT❤ 19:47, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Ok thanks, this is the first time i've run into new accounts being created that I then have to add to the ongoing SPA.--SamHolt6 (talk) 19:49, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-03

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.

Map improvements 2018 [More information]

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

  • Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [260]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Future changes

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Problems

  • It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [265]

Future changes

  • The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [266]

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12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #305

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
    • Closed request for comments: Former ATE
  • Development
    • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
    • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
    • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
    • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
    • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
    • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
    • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
    • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
    • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
    • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

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


cute cats!

Wikipedia:CheckUser#Contacting_a_CheckUser sent me to your doorstep. 24.7.14.87 is a strongly contentious user-what must be done to run a CheckUser? Thanks and good night from freezing Japan!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:46, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Hey @Kintetsubuffalo: - we won't publicly link anyone to an IP address, nor do I believe this meets the grounds for checking but I can take a look and see if there's anything to be done. It may be helpful for you to outline why you believe the IP requires checking, as I may be missing something - TNT❤ 15:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

  • Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [267] [268]
  • Advanced item The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [269]
  • TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [270]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [271]
  • Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 at Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's April 2018 worldwide online editathons.


Focus on: April+Further with Art+Feminism Archaeology Military history (contest) Geofocus: Indian subcontinent

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list or Women in Red/international list. To unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list. Follow us on Twitter: @wikiwomeninred --Rosiestep (talk) 12:04, 29 March 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello TheresNoTime/old, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

ACTRIAL:

  • ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

  • Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

  • While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

  • The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

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

Administrator changes

added 331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG
removed Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

Recent changes

  • Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

  • MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [272][273][274]
  • The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [275]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
  • Advanced item User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [276]
  • Advanced item Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [277][278][279]
  • Advanced item AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [280] [281]
  • In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [282]
  • You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [283]
  • You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [284]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

  • If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
  • Advanced item On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [285][286]

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Wikidata weekly summary #306

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
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Wikidata weekly summary #307

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
    • Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
    • Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
    • Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
    • Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
    • More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
    • Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
    • Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

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Wikidata weekly summary #308

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
    • Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
    • Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
    • Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
    • Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
    • Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
    • Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
    • More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
    • Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
    • Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
    • Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
    • New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
    • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)

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This Month in GLAM: March 2018



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Tech News: 2018-15

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

Recent changes

  • Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [287]
  • You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [288]
  • The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [289]
  • Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [290]

Problems

  • The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [291]
  • For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [292]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
  • Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [293]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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Tech News: 2018-16

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

Changes later this week

  • Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [294]
  • Advanced item Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [295][296]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:21, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #309

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
    • Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
    • Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
    • Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
    • Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
    • Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
    • Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
    • Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
    • Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
    • New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)

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Tech News: 2018-17

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

Recent changes

  • All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
  • The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
  • The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [299]
  • The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [300]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [301]
  • The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/825

I pinged you somewhere else about a different filter, but wanted to ask you about Special:AbuseFilter/825. You're the only author, and I see the filter hasn't been edited and in nearly a year and is in log-only. Are you still monitoring the logs, or do you know of someone who is? I'm trying to disable old, forgotten filters. Hope all well! — MusikAnimal talk 21:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Also Special:AbuseFilter/862 and Special:AbuseFilter/866 — MusikAnimal talk 21:17, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal: Wotcha - I'm not actively keeping an eye on any of these, nor do I think anyone else is. Probably best to disable them if needs be - TNT❤ 21:19, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Okay I've disabled them. Thanks! — MusikAnimal talk 21:27, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2018

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Wiki Loves Food

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Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 02:08, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #310

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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

Tech News: 2018-18

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

Recent changes

  • The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [302]

Problems

  • Advanced item We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [303]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [304]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [305]
  • Advanced item You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [306]
  • Advanced item There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare@wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [307][308][309]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

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

Administrator changes

added None
removed Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.
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Wikidata weekly summary #311

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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


Tech News: 2018-19

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

Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [310]

Problems

  • Advanced item The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [311]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [312]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [313][314]

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This Month in GLAM: April 2018



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Wikidata weekly summary #312

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Adminor
  • Development
    • Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (phab:T192673)
    • Clarify error message for the merge API (phab:T180296)
    • Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (phab:T164744)
    • Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (phab:T183092)
    • Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (phab:T190492)
    • Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (phab:T193880, phab:T192667, phab:T193499)
    • Continue looking into dispatch issues (phab:T194602)
    • Working on adding an integer constraint (phab:T167989)
    • Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (phab:T168260)
    • Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (phab:T192264)
    • Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (phab:T191504)

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


Tech News: 2018-20

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

Recent changes

  • Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
  • The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [315]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
  • The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [316]

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Tech News: 2018-21

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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  2. ^ http://time.com/5110431/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-38/
  3. ^ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rainbow-kitten-surprise-a-star-in-the-rising_us_5921278de4b07617ae4cbce6
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