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Hi @Nihonjoe: I believe I used the lists at https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi, wget and some linux commandline tools to compile the list. I also have a little something I'm working on at User:Stuartyeates/bot-assisted compilation of lists of categories for wikiproject tagging, depending on why you're looking. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:48, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to have a list of categories for WikiProject Japan, especially a list which indicates categories which likely should be tagged but aren't (based on being in the same category as other already tagged categories, for example). It would also be helpful to have a list of articles which need to be tagged based on others in the same categories being tagged. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 15:39, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
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Problems
Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [1]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [2]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [3][4]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [5]
Meetings
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Hi Stuartyeates.
You invited this 'new' user to the Teahouse, but they are very likely a sock-puppet of blocked sockmaster Arshad Roshan.a.a (talk·contribs) (aka Roshan014 (talk·contribs) and other names). 2 pages they 'created' today were deleted just yesterday "G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban)" - 220ofBorg 13:47, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Certainly, there was likely no indication of anything untoward then, except for the name, though "Roshan" seems to be a fairly common as part of a user name. (The Roshans Are Coming? ) I did come across one of their socks back in May, so I had a 'feeling' when I saw another 'Roshan ...' create a new page on Special:NewPagesFeed. I just wanted you to know. 220ofBorg 03:02, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #161
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
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Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [6][7]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [8]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [9]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [10]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group
USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH
Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata
The Wikipedia Library is expanding, and we need your help! With only a couple of hours per week, you can make a big difference in helping editors get access to reliable sources and other resources. Sign up for one of the following roles:
Account coordinators help distribute research accounts to editors.
Partner coordinators seek donations from new partners.
Outreach coordinators reach out to the community through blog posts, social media, and newsletters or notifications.
Technical coordinators advise on building tools to support the library's work.
A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
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Recent changes
Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [13]
Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [14]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)
Hello Wikimedians!
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Taylor & Francis — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
World Bank eLibrary — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)
New French-Language Branch!
Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).
We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
Re this AFD, no there was no pressing or valid reason not to notify you. Just forgot. No excuses. My apologies. Quis separabit? 11:53, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [20][21]
You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [22]
Problems
On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [23][24][25]
Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [29][30][31]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).
Meetings
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Wikidata weekly summary #164
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
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When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [34]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [35][36][37]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [38]
Problems
JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [39]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [40]
When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [41]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [42]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [43]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future
When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [44]
Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
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Recent changes
On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [45]
Problems
The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [46]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [47][48]
You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [49]
Meetings
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@Redrose64:This is 100% my fault. If you look at Template:WikiProject Christian History, however, it used to exist; my tool just never noticed it had been nuked (yes, as editor it's still 100% my fault but there's an explanation other than brain fade). My tool may need maintenance. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:17, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
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There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [51]
There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [52]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [53]
Thank for !voting at my recent RfA. You voted Neutral so you get a reasonable two cookies, just cooling off.
All the best: RichFarmbrough, 19:30, 16 July 2015 (UTC).
Today's articles for improvement – discussion about changing project processes
Hello Stuartyeates:
A discussion is occurring at Change project processes regarding potential changes to the Today's articles for improvement Wikiproject. Your input is welcomed at the discussion.
Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
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Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [54]
Meetings
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Future changes
Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [55]
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Wikidata weekly summary #168
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Recent changes
You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [56]
There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [61]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [62]
Meetings
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A discussion is occurring at the TAFI talk page regarding potential changes to the project's List of articles page. Your input is welcome at the discussion.
Moving the article to draft was kind (very kind). I've speedied the redirect - hope you don't mind - and salted the mainspace pages. --Dweller (talk) 08:29, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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Recent changes
The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [63]
Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [64][65][66][67]
The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [68]
MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [69]
Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [70]
Problems
There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [71]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).
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The article has been improved, that's really what I was after. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
TAFI List of articles purge, part II
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Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
The number of entities loaded via the ((#property:…)) parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
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Recent changes
MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [73]
The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [74]
You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [75]
You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [76]
It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [77]
JavaScript authors:
You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [78][79]
You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [80][81]
The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [82]
Problems
More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [83]
Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [84]
Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [85]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [86]
You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [87]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [88]
Lists with no intellectual content are not copyright in the US. As group exhibitions never lead to notability, that part can simply be removed in any case. If you want to discuss this, pick a place. But what I'm going to do temporarily is remove the lists to avoid deletion. DGG ( talk ) 01:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
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Recent changes
Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [89][90][91]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [92]
Problems
Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [93][94]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [95]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [96]
Meetings
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Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247)
Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697)
Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
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Recent changes
Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [97]
Problems
There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [98]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).
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Unusual situation - Talk page with no Article - Talk:McDonald brothers (priests)
Greetings, Edit history for Talk:McDonald brothers (priests) shows, but no Article tab.
And 09:53, 14 December 2011 Stuartyeates (talk | contribs) . . (37 bytes) (+37) . . (←Created page with '((WP NZ)) ((WikiProject Catholicism))') Wondering if the article was deleted or moved?
Even though I've been updating Wikipedia since March 2014, for this issue I am totally clueless. Any help would be great, otherwise I could ask about this at Village Pump-Technical & they might have a solution. Thanks! Note: a came across this page will doing WP Catholicism assessments. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 14:25, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up. I created the article based on a source at http://web.archive.org/web/20130705010141/http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1m3/mcdonald-james but it was later deleted for copyright infringement some years later by User:Diannaa. I don't believe that I would have done the copyright infringement (but I can see exactly what was in the article), so I assume someone else must have added it. There are three options (a) tag the talk page for deletion, (b) request User:Diannaa undelete the article (minus copyright infringement obviously) so it can be worked on or (c) write a new article. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:55, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
In my opinion, (a) isn't a sensible option, (b) is what should happen, but (c) is also an option. By the way, were you meant to say "cannot see" instead of "can see"? Schwede66 21:47, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
The article was created by Rick570 and its initial content was a direct copy of the DNZB page. By the time it was deleted some parts had been rewritten but were still close paraphrasing. There was no option but to delete this article as there was no version prior to the copyvio to roll it back to. The talk page should have been deleted at the same time but must have been overlooked. I've deleted it now. The talk page had only wikiproject banners.-gadfium 22:04, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Peter Hurley
ThanK you very much for your help and good advice. i will incorporate your research into the article as you suggest. Kind regards Rick570 (talk) 20:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
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University of Otago, Central Library and Hocken Collections project
Thanks for the note Stuart. The fine line that we are trying to tread is that the frequently cited website is an important new research source, digitally available. I'm aiming for what is referred to in point 2 under How Not to be a Spammer at WP:SPAMMER. Connecting to the site from existing Wn articles enhances those articles. E.g. the link added on Samuel Marsden re. vineyards in NZ. I can link that to the journal page where the quote comes from (though I need to correct it, I now realise). thoughts?Elucidata (talk) 00:23, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
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The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [109][110]
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Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [118]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [119][120]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [122]
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The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [124]
Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
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Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
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The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [132]
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Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [134][135]
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The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [145]
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Chriswx817 (talk) 01:00, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Stuartyeates,
Thank you for the review and the tips to improve it. Would it qualify as a stub for the time being? I'm working on some additional information that will be added soon.
Chriswx817 (talk) 01:02, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
@Chriswx817: All articles require independent third party sources, even stabs. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:08, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [153]
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UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [154]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [155]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [156]
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Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [159]
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Hi Stuart it was great to meet you at NDF. I want to create a project page but can't quickly find a template to do so. Can you advise? Elucidata (talk) 04:16, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
I've always made mine from whole cloth. If you make a start with some body text and invite suggestions / corrections / help I'm sure that will work. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:10, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
- A new article was proposed for deletion by yourself which I created, which I'm hoping can be reviewed before editing the article's delete proposal. All cited references, if checked, make particular mention of the company as well as being highly-reputable sources (including four cited references on four separate Govt. sites of which include New Zealand Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Development, Work and Income New Zealand and the Ministry of Education New Zealand , which all make strong reference to the company as well. On top of this, more citation has been added to justly convey notability. Your feedback is much appreciated --S-birkman (talk) 10:44, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
I'm going to assume that this is about OrbitRemit, if not, please ignore all of this. The problem is that the company appears to only have references to passing mentions and non-independent sources. What we're looking for is (a) in-depth coverage; full length textual secondary sources where the company is the primary subject of the article (b) independent coverage; the company itself (or interested parties) is not the source of the information. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/68545833/NZ-migrants-send-millions-of-dollars-home-each-month-with-Orbit-Remit meets (a) but not (b). Stuartyeates (talk) 19:39, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hey and thanks for the input. Just want to state, for the record, that the Government is independent of OrbitRemit. On the same matter - Deloitte is independent as well (although not an in-depth article, I believe that the citation is valid and relevant to the information presented). I take a different opinion to yours regarding your view that only "passing mentions" are being made...reason being is that the company is actually not just being mentioned, but recommended by each of the cited New Zealand ministries and departments. Regarding http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/68545833/NZ-migrants-send-millions-of-dollars-home-each-month-with-Orbit-Remit - Thanks for clarifying this, it makes sense the way you have described it (I'm a newish wiki contributor and this is def the best example I've read). The thing is that this new citation got added after the page was proposed for deletion by yourself (so it would not have been a reasoning factor at that time). Although there does appear to be commentary presented within this article from company workers, there is also a definite level of strong independent coverage from non-interested parties where OrbitRemit is the primary subject of the article - which is what the Wiki article is citing. Would like to see more citations but not sure if the article needs deleting - especially considering there are six independent, notable sources? --S-birkman (talk) 08:42, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
@S-birkman: Yes govt.nz is independent of OrbitRemit, but govt.nz hasn't given in-depth coverage; we're looking for both in the same source. I'd be happy to move the article to draft status for you, which gives you six months to find the sources, but makes the article much less visible. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:46, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
@Stuartyeates: Oh okay, I see. Hey thanks for clarifying. Yes, I'd probably be inclined to label as a draft even if just to avoid this deletion, which I think would be a bit of a shame considering how few Financial services companies of New Zealand we have listed. Hopefully others can still contribute when in this classification. --S-birkman (talk) 03:47, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [162]
Problems
A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [163]
Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [164]
The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [165]
Changes this week
Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [166]
Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [167][168][169][170]
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Now will you please not delete the Fraser Property Group page. The article was just created, give it time to develop and increase scope. I plan on improving and expanding it when I have time. Ashton 29 (talk) 04:19, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
@Ashton 29: Articles need evidence of in depth coverage in independent sources (which is the definition of 'notability' here). If you want time to develop your article, I'm happy to make it a draft, which will give you six months to work on it. Let me know. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:40, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
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The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [171]
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [172][173]
When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [174][175]
Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [176]
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If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [178]
Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [179]
Problems
On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [180]
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Hi I thought I would mention this here for you Stuart and for Gadfium - I've just undone an edit on Tony Veitch that was inappropriate and I see that's the third similar edit in the last few days, all from anonymous writers. Is there a way to protect a page so it's not edited by anonymous users?? Or is there any other way we could bar this person/people from continuing to do this? Cheers! MurielMary (talk) 10:02, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Looks like it has been done overnight. MurielMary (talk) 19:24, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
It's not at all uncommon for involved individuals to try and influence articles. This is one reason why traditionally print encyclopedia of biography only cover the dead. The article is now protected from IP edits (i.e. you need an account to edit it). You can get help for such issues Wikipedia:Requests for page protection or Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:32, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I have removed the ((prod)) tag from Taman Taynton View, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the ((prod)) template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! 2602:30A:2EFE:F050:884:A54E:F6D5:C2AF (talk) 21:47, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
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You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [184]
JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [185]
Problems
Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [186]
Changes this week
Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [187]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
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Removal of throng.co.nz
I noticed you removed the website throng.co.nz from several pages' references. Why do you consider it unreliable? Ollieinc (talk) 11:35, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [190]
Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [191]
Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [192]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
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Future changes
Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [193][194]
Over the past two weeks, there has been extensive discussion on introducing bot automation to assist with maintenance of the Today's Articles for Improvement project. A bot has now been approved for trial and will carry out the weekly duties. The bots first run will occur around 00:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC) (midnight on Sunday).
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Recent changes
A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.
Changes this week
There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).
Meetings
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The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.
Problems
On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [196]
Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [197]
Changes this week
Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [198][199]
There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).
Meetings
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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the ((proposed deletion/dated)) notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
I'm not sure why you proposed this page for deletion rather than just requesting improvements. The article I wrote was short, factual, vanilla, and far from slavish.
It seemed a very trollish thing to do.
Orphan: The article on the journal Emu now references this article so it is no longer an orphan.
BLP: References have now been added.
COI: My association with KB is of the slightest. We were both faculty at Deakin, but I have since moved on. The article was one of three I wrote as part of the Wikibomb Project for the Australian Academy of Sciences which sought to address the low ratio of senior female Australian scientists represented in Wikipedia.Mdeea (talk) 23:30, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [202]
Problems
Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [203]
Changes this week
You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [204]
IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [205]
You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [206]
It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [207]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [210]
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)
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query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
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Changes this week
Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [212]
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Tech News
Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
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Recent changes
CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)
Changes this week
There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).
Meetings
Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.
<3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
Hey Stuart - as you can probably detect, I've set myself a summer holiday project to get some of our mid and senior career art historians and museum professionals created as decent stubs on here. It fills out the other work I've been doing on artists, as the curator/writer-artist relationship in Aotearoa is strong. Would you mind having a look at the work I've done on Tina Barton and Rhana Devenport and see if you think those tags can now be removed?Auchmill (talk) 05:47, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I've removed the Tina Barton tags. A couple of points for the next articles: wikipedia articles are not CVs and it's not normally appropriate to have publication lists as long as those in Tina Barton, when I do academics I usually list 3-7 items and link to their full CV in the see also section; you dont need to list items twice in the Rhana Devenport further information section. If you keep up this production of curators, you may need to create cats such as Category:People associated with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, except for other institutions. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Recent changes
Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [215]
Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [220][221]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [222]
The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [223][224]
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [225][226]
The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
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Recent changes
You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [227]
Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [228]
Changes this week
The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [229]
MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [230]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).
Meetings
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Recent changes
You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [231][232]
Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [233]
Changes this week
You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [234]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [235]
The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [236]
Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [237]
Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [238] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [239] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
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Problems
Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [240]
Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [241][242]
Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [243]
Changes this week
The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [244]
Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [245][246]
The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [247]
The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [248][249][250]
The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [251][252]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Meetings
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The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [253]
Hello, Stuart. This is Zee money. You marked my article Pei Jianzhang for deletion. I just put up a source but the original Chinese article is missing a lot of info. Can you speak to users Owennson and Walter Grassroot (who edited the Chinese version) to have them provide me with the info I need?
Zee money (talk) 21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
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When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [255]
RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [256]
Changes this week
Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [257][258]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
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Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [259][260]
Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [261][262][263]
Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
Belgium report: Heroines Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Public Domain Day Celebration; Wikidata meeting & workshop; FOSDEM: MediaWiki, Wikidata and more
I just wanted to tell you that two editors tried to message you through your user page here. Both of them are blocked sockpuppets, by the way. Thanks, 104.218.136.34 (talk) 16:53, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, I've removed it, but to be honest I'm not too bothered by obvious trolls. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:10, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [264]
A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [266][267]
Changes this week
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [268][269]
Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [270]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [271]
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
Thanks for editing my draft article on James Coates. I must admit I wasn't expecting people to start editing before the article was finished and submitted! I see you have merged my draft with an existing page. Are you aware that you have merged two different people into one? I'm new to Wikipedia so can you please tell me how I might get back the text I that I had started writing on James Coates, the first Clerk of the NZ House of Representatives? Your advice appreciated. Peter.
NZHistoryResearch (talk) 09:29, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
NZHistoryResearch. My mistake. I've undone my merge. I've add reciprocal hat notes. I should probably have been more careful. All changes (or almost all) can be reverted using the history tab, but usually it's better to complain / start a dialog with the other editor. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:00, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [274][275]
Changes this week
After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [276]
Meetings
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In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
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The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [277][278]
The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [279][280]
Changes this week
On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [281]
Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [282]
Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [283]
Meetings
Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [284]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
More performance work
In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
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Recent changes
Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [285]
Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [286]
The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [287]
It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [288]
Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [289]
Problems
Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [290]
The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [291]
The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [292]
You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [293]
Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [294]
Changes this week
Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [295]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [296]
Meetings
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Future changes
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [297]
The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [298]
Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
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Recent changes
The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [299]
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [301]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [302]
Meetings
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)
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After reviewing your request for the "account creator" permission, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things:
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Problems
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [303]
Changes this week
It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [304]
You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [305]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [306]
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Wow, it amazes me that experienced editors can get this so wrong. Schwede66 00:59, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
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Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [309]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [310]
Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [311]
Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.
Corrections
Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
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Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [313]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).
This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
I have raised the issue of IP editor "Claudia" at AN/I. See this link. Your input would be appreciated. BlackCab (TALK) 01:12, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
SSRN article
Hi Stuartyeates,
Thanks for your comment about my edits to the SSRN page. I apologize if what I was adding came across as advertising. That was sincerely not my intention. I am new to using Wikipedia!
Could you give me some pointers? For instance, is it not kosher to post logos or banners? And I'm not sure how to go about adding more citations like the Wikipedia notice at the top of the page suggest.
Hi User:CamiDssrn. Judging by your username, you are assicated in some way with SSRN; since wikipedia is a tertiary source, people assofciated with organisations generally shouldn't be editing their article at all see out Conflict of interest guideline. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:15, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Yes! I am associated with SSRN and I did not know I shouldn't be editing our own page. My bad! Thanks for letting me know the problem.
User:CamiDssrn, you're saying you're involved in the social sciences and either don't know (a) that wikipedia is an encyclopedia, (b) that encyclopedia are tertiary sources, or (c) that tertiary sources are meant to be independent of their subject? Gee I hope the rest of the SSRN team are more on the ball. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Was just trying to thank you for your help. I definitely don't know it all and have never edited Wikipedia before this, am not a social scientist or researcher myself, hence my ignorance. Thanks again.
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Recent changes
The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [314][315]
Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [316][317]
ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [318]
The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [319]
Problems
There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [320]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [321]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [322]
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Recent changes
You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [323][324]
MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [326]
Changes this week
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [327]
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.
Meetings
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Problems
Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [328]
When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [329]
Changes this week
Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [330]
It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [331]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [332]
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Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662)
There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (phab:T119856).
Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645)
Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (phabricator:T132839)
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Recent changes
The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [333]
Problems
There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [334]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).
Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [336]
Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
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Recent changes
Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [337]
Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [339][340]
You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [341]
Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [342]
The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [343]
Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [344]
Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [345]
Problems
MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [346]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).
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Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [347]
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 image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [348]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [349]
Changes this week
Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [350]
Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [351]
A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [352]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).
Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [353]
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the ((proposed deletion/dated)) notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing ((proposed deletion/dated)) will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Lipsquid (talk) 22:58, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
I've removed the PROD and added a handful of sources. I don't have time right now to expand the body text based on the sources, alas. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:30, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Has a DNZB entry and WP:WPNZ consensus is that this establishes notability. Hence no issue. Schwede66 06:11, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Black Supremacy
Please see the new section I created in the article's TALK page..perhaps you can help/advise as far as a potential AfD..68.48.241.158 (talk) 12:55, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You now see a warning message on pages that try to use ((DISPLAYTITLE)) but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [354]
Problems
Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [355]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [356]
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Recent changes
There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [357]
Problems
A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [358][359]
CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [360]
Changes this week
When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [361]
A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [363][364]
Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [365]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
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Recent changes
MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [366][367]
Changes this week
The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [368]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
Last year I worked on the page for Rana Waitai and tried to upload a photo (failed twice). I know Rana and have today got his permission in a format that I hope Wikipedia will accept. PLEASE could you upload the photo for me? I can email to you a photo and a photo with his signed permission. hobdenjane@hotmail.com This special request comes from a difficult situation with Rana's health (I could explain in an email if necessary.) Riverviewhouse (talk) 02:33, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
All done, photo is loaded. Cheers, Riverviewhouse (talk) 22:16, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
The photo permission was emailed to Wikipedia on the same day. Do these connect somewhere? Can I email it to you as well? Riverviewhouse (talk) 22:31, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
@Riverviewhouse: The reason I ask is because of the way the details are recorded on Commons. You have recorded yourself as the uploader (correct), but also as the author. That means you say that you took the photo. What you imply above is that you did not take the photo. What needs to happen is to change the authorship on Commons to who really took the photo, and the permissions need to be sent to the c:Commons:OTRS team (not sure what you mean when you said that you sent it to Wikipedia; you may have sent it to OTRS). If you did indeed send it to OTRS, they may possibly come back to you pointing out that the permission needs to be given by the photographer, and not the person who got photographed. Yes, I know, all of this is a real pain. Just giving you a heads up. Yes, if you email me the stuff as well, I can at least fix the page on Commons. Go to my user page and then hit the link on the left where it says 'email this user'. Don't know whether you need to send attachments, and whether the system allows you to do so, but if you send an email, I can reply by email. Schwede66 00:16, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. I have sent you an email. Cheers,Riverviewhouse (talk) 22:50, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
I see you have now succeeded. Well done! Schwede66 03:46, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
Fernando Pereira
I redirected it because it is allegedly a biography, but it is a actually a coatrack about the sinking of the ship, which has its own article. The information about Pereira is already in the main article. The redirect, as opposed to the deletion, will mean that anyone who searches for him will be directed to the article about the incident. Using a biography (even if it is not a BLP) as a coatrack is a bad idea, as that last "later developments" section demoonstrates. There is nothing about Periera in that section. The whole article violates WP:BIO1E, but the redirect resolves that concern without removing information from Wikipedia.The *only* information that is not in the sinking article is his date and place of birth, which could be inserted.
FWIW, I will not be reverting you; I'm at the point now where I am finding it hard to care about upholding Wikipedia's principles when they are becoming unenforceable. And after all, he's dead, so what does it matter, anyway? The fact that he is allegedly "a household name in NZ" trumps the need for any biographical information, amirite? Horologium(talk) 21:51, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
There was huge coverage of the person at the time, but it was a time before the internet, so much of it never made it online. There was a recent AfD that resolved as no-consensus, when it could have been merge and redirect. If you want to challenge that, I suggest you reopen an AfD. I'll add some more refs. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:24, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
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Recent changes
Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [369]
Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [370][371][372][373]
Changes this week
You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [374]
It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [375]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Draft:List of fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Are you still working on Draft:List of fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand? It hasn't been edited in a while and it's kinda, sitting there. Anarchyte(work | talk) 10:27, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #214
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
Development
Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
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Recent changes
Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [376]
Changes this week
The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [377][378]
Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [379]
When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [380]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
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Recent changes
The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [381]
The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [382]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [386]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [387]
An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [388]
The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [389][390][391]
From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [392]
Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [393]
EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
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Recent changes
A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [394]
Changes this week
The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [395]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Meetings
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Hi. I am pretty sure that (Holmes Miller) is the identity of the "unidentified man" in this photograph. Writing to you in case you may be able to confirm that and then a crop could go on his WP page. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 02:41, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Yes, I found his item in DNZB and he is clearly the same man. Incidentally he was Holmes Miller (Holmes his Christian name but liked to be referred to in the American-style J Homes Miller, dunno why perhaps to distinguish from another family member). Definitely, see at the end of the DNZB and you will see mention of the Sir Holmes Miller award. I'll do the crop, would you, if you approve, do the file name change? I don't want to be responsible for everything!
While I am here I think he was in fact a baronet (see second creation here Miller baronets) but in the end friends and colleagues laughed him out of using it (which he did for a while). I am no authority in this matter! Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 09:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
I've requested the move on commons. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:58, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [396][397][398]
Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [399][400][401]
Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [402][403][404]
Problems
On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [405]
Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).
Meetings
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Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
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Recent changes
Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [406]
In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [408]
Problems
On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [409][410]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [412]
Future changes
User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [413][414]
Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [415]
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Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [417]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [418]
Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [419]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [420]
Future changes
The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [421]
Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
Development
Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
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The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [424]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
Meetings
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Recent changes
In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [425]
Problems
If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [426]
Changes this week
Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [427]
On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [428]
When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [429]
The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [430]
When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [431]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
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Problems
Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [433]
Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [434]
For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [435][436]
Changes this week
The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [437]
Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [438]
In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [439][440]
The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [441]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [442]
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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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [443]
The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [444]
The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [445]
Problems
Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [446]
When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [447]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [448][449]
How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [450]
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the ((proposed deletion/dated)) notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
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Recent changes
Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [451]
When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [452]
Changes this week
The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [453][454]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Meetings
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Wikipedia is probably my favorite website. Thank you for helping to make it possible. Tacitly (talk) 07:18, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our publisher donation program. You can now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
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Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
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
Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [455]
Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [456]
When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [457]
Changes this week
You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [458][459]
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [460][461]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
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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 app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [463]
The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [466]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
#SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
New templates: ((Denmark properties)), ((Greece properties)). Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
Development
Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)
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Wikidata weekly summary #227
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [473]
Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [474]
Problems
The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [475][476]
Changes this week
There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [477]
Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [478]
TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [479]
<slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [480]
Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:53, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)
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Recent changes
You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using ((Special:RecentChanges)). You can now use tag filters by using ((Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname)). [481]
The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [482]
Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [483]
Changes this week
Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. -->[484]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
Meetings
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Language converter syntax will soon 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. [485]
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Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [486]
Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [487]
Changes this week
There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [488]
Future changes
The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
Development
Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (phabricator:T148042)
Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (phabricator:T147917)
Worked on a small birthday present
Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (phabricator:T147114)
More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (phabricator:T142940)
Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (phabricator:T146707)
Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!
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Thanks for partipating Wikipedia Asian Month last year, and I hope you enjoy it. Last year, more than 7,000 articles contribute to Wikipedia in 43 languages in Wikipedia Asian Month, making us one of the largest event on Wikipedia. We will organize this event again in upcoming November, and would like to invite you join us again.
This year, we are lowering down the standards that you only need to create 4 (Four) articles to receive a postcard (new design), and articles only need to be more than 3,000 bytes and 300 words. We are also improving our postcard sending process, e.g. making the postcards right now, and collecting the address after the event ends without waiting other languges.
Wikipedians who create the most articles on each Wikipedia will be honored as "Wikipedia Asian Ambassadors". We will send you both digital copy, and a paper copy of the Ambassador certificate.
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
The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [489]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [490]
Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.
Thanks for welcoming me. I posted a question about WikiProjects in the Teahouse as you suggested. Eveross1 (talk) 23:47, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Stedel (talk) 19:17, 2 December 2014 (UTC) I hope I'm posting this correctly and to the right place. I have attempted to post an article about myself a couple of times and it has been deleted. If you do a simple search for my name, Stephen Mendel, you will find me listed as a cast member of many films and television shows. Of note is the inclusion of my name (appropriately and correctly) in the cast list of the TV show Night Heat although without an active link. Other cast members who do not have my body of work do have active links to their own pages. Either approve my page and leave it alone or go through those other names and many others you will find in Wikipedia and remove all of those. Please respond to me at: stephen_mendel@hotmail.com.
Hello Stedel. Inclusion in Wikipedia isn't predicated on the number of roles or the size of a body of work. Inclusion is dependent on in depth coverage in reliable third party sources. Without such third party sources, your quest for an article is unlikely to be successful. Rest assured, I regularly go through names and consider them for deletion. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:25, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
((#statements:…)), a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!
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
Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [492]
The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [494]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [495]
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)
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The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Foreign Affairs - Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
OpenEdition - Journals in the social sciences and humanities
The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation.
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Hi, Ive tried my best to condense a huge amount of information to just a few sentences. I believe the information was an accurate synopsis of the very detailed research. Rather than just delete it, which is not very helpful, can you say what you found inaccurate or wrong? I will try to get back to it and fix any errors when I have time. Thanks for your interest and help.
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You cannot just revert without some sort of explanation. I have 2 sections of information relating to my edits on land in "talk".You need to read that. Anyone who doesn't realise land is at the heart of Maori culture should not be editing that article."doesnt belong here "is a totally pointless and wrong statement. It seems to me you have little knowledge of the topic to write this. Land is at the very heart of Maori culture. Cultural attitudes to land did not stay static. The period of most change was post 1864. Go onto the talk page and argue your point that information about land doesnt belong in an article about Maori culture. I will be really interested to see them.
First of all, you tried to take Vic's article down because you thought he didn't deserve it. But now, that everyone disagreed with your claim, you're trying to remove most of the information? Vic just confirmed on his Facebook page that everything is accurate, except for the birthplace, which I would have gladly fixed.
What do you have against Vic that you want to take him down in the first place? Plus, now that his notability is confirmed, you're editing down his information. If the source is straight from the subject's mouth, it's reliable in my opinion.
Also, Vic is no longer a "bus driver." We don't need that in the first paragraph.
Support request with team editing experiment project
Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.
Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
((#statements:…)), a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (phabricator:T149580)
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [503][504][505]
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Wikidata weekly summary #235
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.
A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
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 with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [506]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [507]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).
Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.
Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.
It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.
The Challenge Series is a current drive on English Wikipedia to encourage article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions, countries and topics. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are invited to participate.
Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
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Recent changes
Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [509]
You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [510]
A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [511]
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [512][513][514]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [515]
Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [516]
Hello, Stuartyeates. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
We now have 821 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.
If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Second set of eyes
Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.
Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote
With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [517]
When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [518]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [519][520]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hi, this article was deleted in 2014 after an AfD in which you participated. After a request on my talk page in which new sources were mentioned, I have restored the article. However, martial arts is not my thing at all, so you may want to have a look at the article and the sources (that hopefully will be added to the article soon) and, if you find them wanting, take it to AfD again. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 13:11, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [522]
ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [523]
Changes this week
You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [524]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).
Meetings
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BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))
BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #239
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.
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
Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [525]
You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [526]
Because of work on cross-wiki watchlistsglobal renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [528]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
Meetings
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Hello Stuartyeates: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America1000 15:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
Spread the WikiLove; use ((subst:Season's Greetings1)) to send this message
Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
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 9 January 2017.
The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!
Recent changes
Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [529]
Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function ((#statements: )) to get formatted data. You can also use ((#property: )) to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [530]
Problems
Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [531]
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Jay Coop·Talk·Contributions 00:14, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
I have been managing the page for a while but there are severe problems pertaining to Wiki policies. Kindly check if you can contribute to rectify the same otherwise the page will be deleted soon.
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Wikidata weekly summary #242
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [533]
The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [534]
The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [535]
Problems
Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [536]
Italy report: Libraries of 1602 and 2016, science museum new home for wikimedians
Netherlands report: Image donation Specilla circularia; Glass negatives by photographer Jan Goedeljee; Pattypan training for GLAMs; 1500 historical images from the Peace Palace Library
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [538]
Changes this week
There is a new magic word called ((PAGELANGUAGE)). It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [539]
When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [540]
You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [541]
The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [543]
Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [544]
When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [545]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
Meetings
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Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!
Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [546]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
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 OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [547]
Changes this week
ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [548]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).
Future changes
The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [549][550]
The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.
We now have 821 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.
The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.
Second set of eyes
Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.
Abuse
This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and
This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.
Coordinator election
Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.
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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
The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [551]
Changes this week
Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [552]
There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [553]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [554][555]
When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
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
EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [556]
Problems
The Firefox add-onFirefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [557]
Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [558]
Changes this week
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 will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [559]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [560]
Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.
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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [561]
Changes this week
Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [562]
There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [563]
OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [564]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
Still a MASSIVE backlog
We now have 821 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced. If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.
You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add &run= to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use &load= which will only prepare the task for running.
Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
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 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [565]
Changes this week
You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [566]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [567]
The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [568][569]