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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

Wikidata weekly summary #195

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Tech News: 2016-06

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

Recent changes

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [1]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [2]
  • RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [3]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [4][5]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [6][7]
  • 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. [8][9][10]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award
Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. It is time indeed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
  • I think we all know that 'crat chat is going to close against you, but hopefully you'll run again after a while. Courcelles (talk) 21:23, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Aquaman protection

Hey. You once semi-protected Aquaman. Since the expiration, the same edits have not stopped. This person will not stop. (Of course, there's been other types of vandalism too.) Even though it's only happened two three times so far, do you reckon another protection is in order? I do. If you don't, I'll wait until the user makes the same edit maybe five more times then ask you again or go request it. —DangerousJXD (talk) 10:00, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

  • Probability not enough to protect it yet, only seems to have happened a couple times in January. Courcelles (talk) 21:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

About lalit Mangal Article

Hi Courcelles,

Can we talk about this ?

  • The AFD was in favour of deletion... what would you like to discuss? If you want it recreated, you'll need reliable sources. Courcelles (talk) 21:29, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Jordan Fisher

Hi there. I'm going to create this article, which was deleted. Since then, Fisher appeared on Grease: Live as Doody, and sang a solo piece as a supporting cast member. Please give me a few minutes to work on it. Bearian (talk) 14:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I started a draft here: User:Bearian/sandbox#Jordan_Fisher, and also contacted RHaworth. Bearian (talk) 15:09, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
If RHaworth is amenable, I have no objection to the recreation. Courcelles (talk) 21:27, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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Tech News: 2016-07

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

Recent changes

  • You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [11]
  • You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [12]

Problems

  • A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [13][14]

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. [15][16]
  • Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [18]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 February 2016

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This Month in GLAM: January 2016



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Feb 16: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim
Feb 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Tuesday February 16, 5:30pm: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim

You are invited to join us for an evening of social Wikipedia training and editing at the Guggenheim, with a workshop given by the Art+Feminism project to prepare for next month's major campaign, and a tour and edit-a-thon of Photo-Poetics: An Anthology.

5:30pm - 8:30pm at Sackler Center Media Lab, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue; enter through 89th Street staff entrance
Wednesday February 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project!

We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 00:28, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for your support

Peacemaker67 RfA Appreciation award
Thank you for participating and supporting at my RfA. It was very much appreciated, and I am humbled that the community saw fit to trust me with the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:46, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Happy to do so, congratulations. Courcelles (talk) 15:46, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

User:League Legend

Hi Courcelles, I see you have reverted and blocked this user. Your reverts have now been undone by three newly created users; User:Blue and Gold Army, User:Parra Jesus and User:Such a Knight. Mattlore (talk) 00:19, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Mattlore, this is a sockmaster who loves to play with dates and such. (This is the same person who was being talked about over on User_talk:Gadfium#Help_needed.) Reverted, cleaned the sock drawer, and issued some protections. Courcelles (talk) 03:37, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
If you see this again (and that if might should be a "when") please do let me know. There are usually more accounts than you'll see (I blocked five tonight, for example), so this is always worth running checkuser. Courcelles (talk) 03:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, I will keep an eye out as he seems to be focusing his energy on New Zealand and/or rugby league articles at the moment. Mattlore (talk) 04:06, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. You're right about his focus, he's also hit NZ/AU politician articles, usually mucking with dates. Courcelles (talk) 04:16, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
  • #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
  • New branches and coordinators

Read the full newsletter

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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File deletion request

Hello Courcelles (talk), I have a request: Could you or another admin please delete File:Super Bowl 50 logo.png? It is an orphaned file I uploaded that got reverted at Super Bowl 50. I do not wish to contest it, but I wish to have the file immediately deleted. Please help. Thank you. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 00:57, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 03:00, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-08

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [21][22]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Your latest sock block

You do realize that with your latest sock block, this page will have to be updated, right? TML (talk) 18:05, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

  • Never seen that page before, and no idea why it is preferred to either an SPI or sock tagging, but done. Courcelles (talk) 02:06, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 February 2016

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Tech News: 2016-09

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

Recent changes

  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
  • The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [24][25]
  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [26][27]

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. [28]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [29]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [30]

Meetings

  • Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [31]
  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #198

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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Connecticut Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by Denmark MPJ-DK (submissions), Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), Florida 12george1 (submissions), and New South Wales Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by There's always time for skeletons Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with Lancashire J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.

If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)

Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that New South Wales Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Saturday, March 5: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Saturday March 5, 10am-5pm: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

You are invited to join us for the MoMA Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on Saturday, to support the expansion of Wikipedia's coverage of women in the arts.

We encourage both people new to Wikipedia, and people who have experience editing online, or have joined us for past edit-a-thon events.

This is by far our biggest event of the year (over 200 participants in the last edition), and every extra hand counts, so please join and volunteer to help us engage new communities!

10:00am - 5:00pm (drop-in anytime!) at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at the Museum of Modern Art, 4 West 54 Street - between 5th/6th, New York, NY 10019
Please note that this entrance is one block north of the main 53rd Street entrance, closer to 5th Avenue.

And bring your interested friends and colleagues!

For those outside of the city, or unable to join on Saturday, check out Art+Feminism regional and global events as well. --Pharos (talk) 21:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-10

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

Recent changes

  • Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [32]
  • Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [33]
  • 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. [34]
  • It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [35]
  • 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. [36]

Problems

  • Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [37]
  • The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [38]
  • The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [39]
  • 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. [40]
  • 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. [41]

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. [42]
  • 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. [43]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [44]
  • 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. [45]

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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #199

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This Month in GLAM: February 2016



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March 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday March 16, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent (Art+Feminism!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

We will also vote on nominations for the global Wikimedia Foundation board.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One likely talk this month will be on the Wikidata project.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:07, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

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Convert file from PNG to SVG

Hello, Courcelles (talk), I have another request. I was wondering how to convert a .PNG file to an .SVG file? Specifically, I am requesting that File:D.C. United logo 2016.png be converted to an .SVG file. I tried to read WP:GL/I, but I don't know how to make a request there. Please help? Thank you. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 23:49, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

  • The backlog on these is almost unimaginable -- see c:Category:Images that should use vector graphics for the even larger global backlog! Just elaving it tagged is about the best you can do -- it isn't a high priority task. It may happen... eventually, but a purely en.wiki, non-free, one-use file falls about as low down the priority list as it gets. Courcelles (talk) 23:59, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Carl Rinsch

Thanks for your oversight on this article. The editor who was subject of the 24 hour ban is back and straight up to the same edit pattern. Would you mind taking a look? 79616gr (talk) 20:02, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

  • Blocked again, page protected to stop this from happening again in three days. Courcelles (talk) 21:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you.79616gr (talk) 23:02, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

A beer for you!

For cleaning up Cow cleaner 5000 EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 06:46, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Thanks, EvergreenFir. I've semi-protected your talk page for a few weeks. Let me know if you want it longer or shorter, and I will oblige. Courcelles (talk) 06:49, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Same thing, of course, if you want your userpage protected. Courcelles (talk) 06:51, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

File deletion request

Hello Courcelles (talk), I have a request: Could you or another admin please delete File:Super Bowl 50 logo.png? It is an orphaned file I uploaded that got reverted at Super Bowl 50. I do not wish to contest it, but I wish to have the file immediately deleted. Please help. Thank you. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 00:57, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 03:00, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
I have another request: Could you or another admin please delete File:Los Angeles Rams wordmark logo.jpg? Apparently, it's been tagged as non-free, because it's been tagged as a derivative file of File:Los Angeles Rams textlogo.png. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 20:11, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
G7 applied and file deleted. Courcelles (talk) 20:34, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-11

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

Recent changes

  • The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [46]
  • The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [47]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [48]
  • 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. [49]

Meetings

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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

ACC CU Backlog

Hello, there is an ACC CU backlog of 15+ right now, any help would be appreciated. -- Cheers, Riley 05:09, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Possible rangeblock?

Hi Courcelles, saw you were working on the giant returning sockdrawer. Is there some way to rangeblock the IP so that they don't keep creating new accounts? (they did one specially for me yesterday...). Montanabw(talk) 02:18, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, looks like the range needed to stop this would be a /1 (not a typo.) There is a few more limited /16s I could block, but it wouldn't stop the problems, and would stop a great number of other editors. Not seeing anything that would help that doesn't have lots of collateral. Happy to protect your user and user talk pages, though. Courcelles (talk) 20:33, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Oh, unless they do it again, I'm not worried, my trusty talkpage stalkers have my back. Just tired of that individual and their game of "catch me if you can." Maybe, though, protect their LTA -- they vandalized it! Montanabw(talk) 04:40, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Amazing how often people vandalize their own LTA or SPI... protected both. Courcelles (talk) 05:25, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Very weird. Montanabw(talk) 05:48, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Some people seem to think they can make an SPI fall through the cracks by removing it. What they don't know is we have an IRC channel that feeds every edit to any SPI subpage. (The channel (#wikipedia-en-spi) is public, for the record). Courcelles (talk) 19:25, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Is Montanabw's talk now protected? I tried to leave her a message a minute ago and got an error message saying, "you are not allowed to edit this page. This page is protected." I've never got that before (I'm the one who removed ILT's latest junk!) and I know I was logged in. I am definitely autoconfirmed and can edit semiprotected stuff anyway. (The concern was over somebody adding possible OR or unreffed material to a horse article.) White Arabian Filly Neigh 01:51, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
@White Arabian Filly: Her talk page is not protected, and actually never has been. I'm not seeing any logical reason you got that message (this page actually is semi-protected, and you edited it just fine.) Can you try again? Courcelles (talk) 01:56, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Empty protection log on User talk:Montanabw. Courcelles (talk) 01:58, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I tried again and succeeded. It was probably some software glitch. It was weird, though. White Arabian Filly Neigh 02:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I don't have my talk page protected. I suppose if I ever was getting a lot of anon IP hate mail, I do so temporarily, but I don't mind having new user contact me. Usually. Montanabw(talk) 22:49, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
My strong suspicion is that WAF just hat one of the sporadic database locks that usually only last a minute or two. As I said, Montana, no one has ever protected your talk page, so a database lock is among the only explanation. Courcelles (talk) 23:30, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-12

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

Problems

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [50]

Changes this week

  • It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [51]
  • You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [52]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [53]

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Wikidata weekly summary #201

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

I've been trying to find out a little more about the short lived band Wizzzard, consisting of Ish Ledesma, Betty Wright, and Breezy Beat MC (has no WP page yet). I remember reading an article about them here once but it isn't here anymore, and when I looked in to creating one, it showed this deletion record:

'A page with this title has previously been deleted.

If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below. 

   00:56, 11 February 2011 Courcelles (talk | contribs) deleted page Wizzzard (Speedy deleted per CSD G8, redirect to a deleted or non-existent page. using TW)'

Curiously, I did not see this action in your contributions record. I would think it should go between these 2:

00:58, 11 February 2011 (diff | hist) . . (-27)‎ . . Boyd Kirkland ‎ (rm deleted image)

00:49, 11 February 2011 (diff | hist) . . (-51)‎ . . File:Vidunderlige Kartoffel- DVD cover.png ‎ (Previous version(s) deleted per F5))

I'd be curious to know if there's any reason for not having a page about Wizzzard, or if there were problems with the old page that brought about its removal.

Ish Ledesma himself has posted some information about the band on his Youtube channel. Super Saiyan Musashi (talk) 17:00, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

One note before I go look in this further, deletions show up in my admin log, not my contributions (which lists only edits. Courcelles (talk) 18:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Okay, loogs like I only deleted a redirect, the actual page was Breezy Beat MC, which was deleted by NawlinWiki. If you want the Breezy Beat MC article back, it was deleted under WP:PROD and can be restored on request. If you want there to be an article on Wizzzard, simply create one -- there has never actually been an article under that title. Courcelles (talk) 18:28, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the information; Should I contact NawlinWiki about restoring the Breezy Beat MC page or could you restore it? Though I'd like a look at the deleted page before I formally ask for its restoration so I can check it out and possibly provide references.Super Saiyan Musashi (talk) 19:37, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Let's just say it needs a lot of work. I've placed it at User:Super Saiyan Musashi/Breezy Beat MC for you to see if you can make anything of it. Courcelles (talk) 19:42, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks; and you ain't kidding! I think for the short term I'll focus on starting a page for Wizzzard using the knowledge that Ledesma has gone public with, and maybe finding what I can to support Breezy Beat MC's old page will serve as a later project if I can find the time. Super Saiyan Musashi (talk) 20:35, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Restoring User:Renamed user 4/logic

You deleted this page and the contents are relevant to a push I am doing to overhaul the logic article. Could you restore it?

Thanks. — Charles Stewart (talk) 16:49, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Out of a need to stash it somewhere WP:U2 would not apply, you can find it at User:Peter Damian/logic. Courcelles (talk) 19:00, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. — Charles Stewart (talk) 10:11, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Renaming files on Wikimedia Commons

Hello Courcelles (talk), I have a file renaming request: could you or another admin please rename the file File:ACFEast-Buf.Uniform.png to File:AFCEast-Buf.Uniform.png? The only reason I ask this is because the abbreviation in the file name for the American Football Conference (AFC) needs to be corrected, IMO. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 06:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

  • Looks like someone has already done this? Courcelles (talk) 14:46, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Lana protection Comment

I think the only problem with the article is based on User:Tyler Gonzalez's behavior. I have blocked him for 3 months hoping he'll get it. I returned the article to pending changes. --wL<speak·check> 20:34, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

  • @WikiLeon:, I do not consider this an appropriate action. That was an edit-war, and I considered the option of blocking all three participants. Blocking only one of the three is something I consider deeply flawed. Courcelles (talk) 21:49, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
  • Also, you appear to be WP:INVOLVED with this article, with significant edits and even this talk page post that directly relates to the dispute, a dispute you have now blocked someone for. Please revert your actions and unblock. Courcelles (talk) 21:51, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
    I don't agree that I made significant edits to the article, but Done regardless and WP:TROUT accepted. --wL<speak·check> 03:25, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
    Thanks, ti's such a stupid edit war, though. If they'd just talk about it some... Courcelles (talk) 22:10, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello Courcelles, In case you didn't notice, WikiLeon has resigned his adminship. Also, I had closed an AN3 case with a comment about his actions. Some people in the thread at BN assert he is not leaving under a cloud. It's not up to me to decide that, but his response to the problem is enough, or even more than enough. EdJohnston (talk) 03:50, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
(General comment) There's a strong reason that bureaucrats have made a conscious effort to move away from the "cloud" descriptor and to the more precise terminology outlined at #2 of WP:RESYSOP: One might leave under a little rain but not in such stormy conditions that they were in any significant danger of being struck by lightning - "clouds" represent too much of a spectrum to be used as a term of art. –xenotalk 11:10, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Good lord, I'm very sorry to see this, and despite Xeno's adversion to the term, this is about the clearest sky situation ever possible. Courcelles (talk) 15:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Is this 3RR?

[54][55] there were a total of four reverts on the category. This previously happened some months ago on The Battle of the Planet of the Apes article. Do you deal with such incidents or should I report at the appropriate noticeboard? Thanks.--Taeyebaar (talk) 22:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

As Taeyebaar has been told at Talk:The Matrix (franchise)/Archive 1#Addition of soft science fiction category and several other pages, most works of science fiction have elements of both hard and soft science fiction, so they should not be put in either category. He needs to get consensus, but instead he edit wars over this and numerous other genre changes at dozens of pages. - Gothicfilm (talk) 22:49, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
@Taeyebaar:, @Gothicfilm:. Let me be clear: Whichever of you I see make another revert on a category page is getting blocked. You;re both edit-warring, and have BOTH crossed 3RR, so this needs to stop, and right now. I'm talkbacking both of you so you see this before making more edits. Courcelles (talk) 00:47, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

I stopped the revert warring and stopped myself from crossing the third revert, even though the reverting was started by gothicfilm and not the first time. This user has also done similar edit warring previously on an article, which I pulled out of to prevent 3RR violation even though I referred my edits to websites that recognized it as such--Taeyebaar (talk) 00:51, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

  • Three reverts are not an entitlement. You can be blocked for edit warring even without making a fourth revert. 3RR is merely the bright line beyond which you are definitely edit warring, not the beginning of it. Courcelles (talk) 01:53, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #203

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

Tech News: 2016-14

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

Recent changes

  • You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [56]
  • Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [57]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-13

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [60]

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. [61]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [62]
  • Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

  • Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #202

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

Any chance you could block Special:Contributions/117.243.22.9? It's pretty blatantly User:Nsmutte evading their ban yet once more to harass Bonadea. The umpteenth IP-sock of theirs starting with 117.24x, too. Asking you because you're the most recently active admin on the blocklog and both SPI and AIV are badly backlogged. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 03:42, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Nevermind. They're now also on yet another sock-account, so they're probably aiming to hop for a while again. In that case, may as well just open a SPI, backlogged or no, for documentation purposes, so I did so. Sorry for the needless talkpage-messages. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 03:52, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #204

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Tech News: 2016-15

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

Recent changes

  • The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [63][64]
  • 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. [65][66]
  • ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [67]
  • The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [68]

Problems

  • There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [69]

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. [70]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [71]

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April 13: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity

Wednesday April 13, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Special this month, a Mini-Video opportunity for individuals to share their Wikipedia experiences (during pre-meeting, 6-7pm, and in side-office during regular meetup). A videographer will be present to record 1-3 minute Mini-Videos of folks informally speaking, sharing anything about their Wikipedia-related projects, whether an edit-a-thon they joined, an article they edited, or a class project they were a part of, etc.

We will also follow up on plans for recent (Art+Feminism!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

We will also place our chapter's votes for the global Wikimedia Foundation board.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

6:00pm - 7:00pm Mini-Video and social hour
7:00pm - 9:00pm Regular meeting: Introduction for new participants, Noshing, Chapter projects

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 14:20, 6 April 2016 (UTC)


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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
  • Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
  • A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
  • Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

Read the full newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #205

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Ban-evading IPsock

Any chance you could block Special:Contributions/117.243.22.9? It's pretty blatantly User:Nsmutte evading their ban yet once more to harass Bonadea. The umpteenth IP-sock of theirs starting with 117.24x, too. Asking you because you're the most recently active admin on the blocklog and both SPI and AIV are badly backlogged. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 03:42, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Nevermind. They're now also on yet another sock-account, so they're probably aiming to hop for a while again. In that case, may as well just open a SPI, backlogged or no, for documentation purposes, so I did so. Sorry for the needless talkpage-messages. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 03:52, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Sorry about not getting back to you, I've been on the road across the country and generally being exhausted! I'll run over and look at the SPI. Courcelles (talk) 16:29, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

ANI notice - Disruption of ArbCom case by Dan Murphy

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Cirt (talk) 05:56, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Afraid I'm not finding anything relevant to me? Courcelles (talk) 21:25, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Remember?

I liked your answer here, - good observation! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:30, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Photo

Can you check the page Rome please? thanks --LivioAndronico (talk) 18:32, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

I've issued edit warring warning to both of you. This has to stop, and stop now. Also, are y'all seriously edit-warring about which image to use? Really? Courcelles (talk) 18:53, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Excuse but the photo I posted it after the restoration of the fountain, and I think it is better and more useful than a 2007. I have various quality photos and featured --LivioAndronico (talk) 18:55, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Being right (assuming you are) is not an excuse for edit warring. Neither one of you has many edits on enwp, but both of you are experienced on other projects, either commons or svwp. Talk it out. Le Lapin Vert, Livioandronico2013 I've protecte the page rather than hand out blocks, but discuss this. Somewhere. Please. Courcelles (talk) 19:48, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-16

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

Recent changes

  • You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [72][73]
  • You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [74]
  • MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [75]

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. [76]
  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Moving an article title

Hello Courcelles (talk), I have a technical request for you: could you please move the article Islanders–Penguins brawl to Penguins–Islanders brawl? I tried to do it myself, but since I don't possess admin privileges, WP won't let me move the page. Please help? Thanks. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 06:49, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #206

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-17

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

Problems

  • Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [77]
  • 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. [78]

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. [79]
  • It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [80]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [81]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim

Saturday April 30, 1-6pm: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
File:Monir Portrait-exh ph021.jpg

On Saturday April 30, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fourth Wikipedia edit-a-thon — or, #guggathon — to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia.

The Guggenheim aims to further the goals of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism.

New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support.

Can’t join us in New York? Visit our global MENA Artists Month partnership page to coordinate international and online events as well.

Time: Presentation: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Edit-a-thon: 2:30pm - 6:00pm
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (88th Street), New York City, New York 10128
Guests should enter using the 88th Street entrance via the ramp at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

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Wikidata weekly summary #207

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016
Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

Tech News: 2016-18

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

Recent changes

  • The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [82]

Problems

  • There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [83]

Changes this week

Meetings

Future changes

  • Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [85]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 May newsletter

FP of Christ Church Cathedral, Falkland Islands by Godot13

Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by New South Wales Cas Liber (submissions) and one by Montana Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by England Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Lancashire Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and Denmark MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by There's always time for skeletons Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while British Empire The C of E (submissions) and Denmark MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with Denmark MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and New South Wales Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:59, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #208

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

Tech News: 2016-19

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [86]
  • You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [87]
  • 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. [88][89]
  • 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). [90]
  • Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [91]
  • The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [92]
  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [93]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [94]

Problems

  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [95]

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).

Meetings

Future changes

  • 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. [96]

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This Month in GLAM: April 2016



Headlines
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Tech News: 2016-20

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

Recent changes

  • Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [97]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [98]

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. [99]
  • Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [100]
  • A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [101]
  • 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).

Meetings

Future changes

  • 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. [102]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #209

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

The Signpost: 17 May 2016

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May 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference

Wednesday May 25, 6pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon.

This month's WikiWednesday Salon, we'll meet and share with the MediaWiki software development community, through a community learning night at NYU on May 25.

6:00 pm: Introduction, pizza
7:00 pm: MediaWiki tutorial, community involvement and extension ideas, novel uses of wiki technology
8:00 pm: State of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia / Wikimedia community
9:00 pm: Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco video-link, casual bicoastal chat

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:50, 21 May 2016 (UTC)


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Restoration of Gustav Magnusson

Hi, can I get Gustav Magnusson restored to my userspace please. The associated AfD is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gustav Magnusson. (I have the feeling I already asked for this but forgot to follow up, if that's the case sorry lol)--Prisencolin (talk) 02:03, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [104]

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

  • 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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [105]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #210

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