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Tech News: 2017-46 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [1] A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [2] Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [3] The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar). Meetings You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [4] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Infobox element The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox element. Legobot (talk) 04:39, 15 November 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Core topics work group/Topic list The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Core topics work group/Topic list. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 19 November 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2017) Gervase Markham's recipe for banbury cake in The English Huswife, 1615 Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Recipe Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Illusion • Price ceiling Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 20 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-47 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [5] The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator. Problems Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [6][7][8] Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [9][10] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Core topics work group/Topic list The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Core topics work group/Topic list. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 23 November 2017 (UTC) The Signpost: 24 November 2017 News and notes: Cons, cons, cons Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely Technology report: Searching and surveying Interview: A featured article centurion WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate Featured content: We will remember them Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible) * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC) No subject Hello, Last edit of Zoey Tur's page was mine. i apologize, it was childish and unfeeling. (217.123.238.28 (talk) 20:08, 24 November 2017 (UTC)) I just didn't think we needed to use "Tur" over and over again. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 20:09, 24 November 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2017) A student performing schoolwork Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Schoolwork Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Recipe • Illusion Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Please comment on Talk:Daily Mail The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Daily Mail. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 27 November 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-48 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [11] You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [12] You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [13] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). Legobot (talk) 04:34, 1 December 2017 (UTC) ANI Experiences survey The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative (led by the Safety and Support and Anti-Harassment Tools team) is conducting a survey for en.wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with the Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works - which problems it deals with well, and which problems it struggles with. The survey should take 10-20 minutes to answer, and your individual responses will not be made public. The survey is delivered through Google Forms. The privacy policy for the survey describes how and when Wikimedia collects, uses, and shares the information we receive from survey participants and can be found here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2017_AN/Incidents_Survey_Privacy_Statement If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be mailed to you via Special:Emailuser. Sign up here to receive a link to a survey Thank you on behalf of the Support & Safety and Anti-Harassment Tools Teams, Patrick Earley (WMF) talk 18:24, 1 December 2017 (UTC) No subject the paragraph i erased does not concern any connection to my province, no citation, no reference, no sense at all unless direct name of our province was mentioned — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.18.225.75 (talk) 03:23, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Please leave an edit summary when you remove content. —MRD2014 Talk • Edits • Help! 03:26, 3 December 2017 (UTC) ArbCom 2017 election voter message Hello, MRD2014. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. 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. If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2017) Agriculture in Saudi Arabia: Agricultural fields in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia. Taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Agriculture in Saudi Arabia Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Schoolwork • Recipe Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-49 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [14] You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [15] There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [16] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar). Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [17] Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [18][19] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page. The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [20] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Legobot (talk) 04:27, 6 December 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Legobot (talk) 04:33, 9 December 2017 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – December 2017 News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017). Administrator changes Joe Roe JzG Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga Guideline and policy news Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking. Technical news Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment. A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions. Arbitration Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats. Miscellaneous Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism. The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2017) Cover page of the Wikimedia Deutschland 2015 Impact Report Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Report Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Agriculture in Saudi Arabia • Schoolwork Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Tech News: 2017-50 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 URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [21] A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [22] If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [23] Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent. [24] Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [25] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC) New Page Reviewer Newsletter Hello MRD2014, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages! Backlog update: The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog. Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them! Outreach and Invitations: If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable. New Year New Page Review Drive A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained. Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity. General project update: ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog. The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog. To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:27, 12 December 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Template talk:Yesno The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Yesno. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 13 December 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Categorizing redirects The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Categorizing redirects. Legobot (talk) 04:35, 16 December 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2017) A mechanic at steam pump in an electric power house, 1920, (from a photo study for the WPA). Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Mechanic Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Report • Agriculture in Saudi Arabia Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 18 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • The Signpost: 18 December 2017 Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017 In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors Gallery: Wiki loving Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity" Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys Humour: On their way to the WMF Incubator * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:28, 18 December 2017 (UTC) Tech News: 2017-51 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Tech News Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018. Problems When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [26] Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator. Changes later this week There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either. Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files. The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018. The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC) Extended Protected Why have certain articles under the name of the European Schools been tagged as extended protected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.117.60 (talk) 13:12, 19 December 2017 (UTC) I didn't protect those pages, Acroterion did. It was done to prevent users with less than 30 days' tenure and 500 edits from editing the page due to sock puppetry. I just added the page protection padlock icon to the articles. —MRD2014 Happy Holidays! 13:54, 19 December 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Bosnian pyramid claims The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Bosnian pyramid claims. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 21 December 2017 (UTC) Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas MRD2014!! Hi MRD2014, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,    –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:47, 23 December 2017 (UTC) Seasons' Greetings ...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:33, 23 December 2017 (UTC) Happy Holidays Happy Holidays From Stave one of Dickens A Christmas Carol Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. So you see even Charles was looking for a reliable source :-) Thank you for your contributions to the 'pedia. ~ MarnetteD|Talk 23:19, 23 December 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2017) A nutrient is a component in foods that an organism uses to survive and grow. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Nutrient Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Mechanic • Report Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Happy Holidays Hello MRD2014: From high in the Canadian Arctic I hope you enjoy the holiday season, the Winter or Summer Solstice, Quviahugvik, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hannukah or even the Saturnalia, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 06:19, 25 December 2017 (UTC) Adapted from {{Season's Greetings}} Merry Christmas! ~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~ Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Hello, MRD2014! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! LinguistunEinsuno 15:43, 25 December 2017 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}} Please comment on Talk:Hair's breadth The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Hair's breadth. Legobot (talk) 04:28, 26 December 2017 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rivers The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rivers. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 29 December 2017 (UTC) Happy New Year, MRD2014! Happy New Year! MRD2014, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Boomer VialHappy Holidays! • Contribs 00:22, 30 December 2017 (UTC)    Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages. @Boomer Vial: Not sure what happened but you called me Oshwah. I fixed it. —MRD2014 Talk 01:33, 30 December 2017 (UTC) Over-use of copy/paste. Sorry about that, it totally made the template seem impersonal. Boomer VialHappy Holidays! • Contribs 02:20, 30 December 2017 (UTC) New Years new page backlog drive Hello MRD2014, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages! Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive! We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog! The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE. Awards will be given in tiers in two categories: The total number of reviews completed for the month. The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:24, 30 December 2017 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018) Economic recovery – a "Project funded by The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" project sign. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Economic recovery Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Nutrient • Mechanic Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 1 January 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Happy New Year, MRD2014! Happy New Year! MRD2014, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 00:42, 1 January 2018 (UTC)    Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages. Administrators' newsletter – January 2018 News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017). Administrator changes Muboshgu Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned None Bureaucrat changes Worm That Turned Guideline and policy news A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions. Technical news The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results. The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email. Arbitration Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Current members of the United States Senate The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Current members of the United States Senate. Legobot (talk) 04:32, 3 January 2018 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2018) There are about 260 known living species of monkeys. Pictured is a common squirrel monkey. Hello, MRD2014. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Monkey Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Economic recovery • Nutrient Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 January 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Please comment on Talk:Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.. Legobot (talk) 04:32, 8 January 2018 (UTC)