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Frequently Asked Questions

Here is a list of frequently asked questions I get, and their answers.

Q: I am not logged in to Wikipedia, and I got a message from you saying that I vandalized an article that I didn't edit. What's going on?
A: No need to panic! Wikipedia uses your IP address to identify you when you are not logged in. IP addresses may be shared between multiple users, or be reassigned to different users periodically. For example, if you are at school or a coffee shop, the IP address you are using is shared by everyone using the Internet there.
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Q: You reverted one of my edits. Why is that?
A: Unless I'm reverting vandalism, I usually provide an explanation for my reverts, either in my edit summary, or in a message on your user talk page. There are many reasons for reverting an edit, and each case has its own reason. If you're still not sure why I reverted your edit, you can ask me on this talk page.
Q: Are there alternate ways of contacting you?
A: For wiki-related inquiries, you can also reach me at the following venues:
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Tech News: 2014-41

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

Recent changes

You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [1] [2]
Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [3] [4]
You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [5]
A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [6]
The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [7]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [8] [9]
We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [10]
On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [11] [12]
You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [13]
1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [14]

Future changes

You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [15]
More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [16] [17]

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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

OGen Enterprise

Hello,

Thanks for your message (Message). Actually I am new to Wikipedia, I read some privacy policies and created OGen Enterprise. I am sorry for removing the message. I have already applied for speedy deletion. If you have some suggestions for that page then please suggest me. Thanks!

- Fahadking07 (talk) 15:57, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Fahadking07: Our privacy policy differs from our content policies. See that instead. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 15:58, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor newsletter—September and October 2014

Did you know?

TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.

There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

Increased support for devices and browsers

Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.

Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

TemplateData editor

A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

Other changes

Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.

VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect or mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.

Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).

Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955).

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.

The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.

In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.

Supporting your wiki

At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.

Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. To help with translations, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre at Meta. Thank you!

— Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:11, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Parachute page

I saw your message about my modification (from croatian Fausto Veranzio to dalmatian Fausto Veranzio), but saying that Veranzio is Croatian is totally wrong. Sebenico, like other towns in Dalmatia, have a population of Latin, Italian and Slave origins. The culture is italian (It was under Venezia's republic rule and Veranzio studied at Padova and Venezia). So when we are talking about people who came from towns that have so unusual nad complicated situation, it's better to avoid to use adjective like Slave, Croatian or Italian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.7.41.166 (talk) 10:31, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fausto Veranzio was born in Croatia, so even if he came from a diverse town we still call him "Croatian". Just like a Chinese person from New York City would still be called "American". And secondly, it may confuse readers when one article says he's Dalmatian and the article about Fausto Veranzio himself says he's Croatian. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 11:01, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

jcrypto → Alex.Cham

"Clerk note: Are you aware of (and comfortable with) the potential implications associated with using a real name? --I am k6ka Talk to me!"

Hello k6ka. Yes im aware and comfortable.

change my name please!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcrypto (talk • contribs) 12:50, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jcrypto: Well, I cannot rename you myself as I am not a global renamer, but I have left a note at your request telling the appropriate people that your request can proceed ;) --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 14:10, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk note: User has said "Yes" on my talk page. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 14:08, 8 October 2014 (UTC) Yes check.svg Done –xenotalk 14:20, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Well done dude! Thx :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex.Cham (talk • contribs) 15:58, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires

Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City

Traffic report: Panic and denial

Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

what?

there is a random message at the previous webpage saying i vandalized the webpage. lol i didnt do a damn thing. in fact ive never even visited that particular webpage so... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.180.33.110 (talk) 03:24, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Most likely someone else that was using your IP address vandalized Wikipedia and accumulated warnings, then they left and nobdy saw the warnings until you logged on and acquired the IP address. You may be using a shared IP address, so you might get messages that were not intended for you. Your best option would be to create an account of your own, which will hide your IP address and ensure that only messages directed to you are seen by you... providing you log in, that is. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 12:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-42

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

Recent software changes

You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [18] [19]
You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).

Problems

10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [20]
Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [21]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [22]

Meetings

You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [23]
There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [24]
You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [25]

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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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I changed other cultural backgrounds to backward cultures because that was the viewpoint at the time and I object to historical revisionism. I also tried to remove Sweden from one of the countries mentioned as a colonial power, since it was never relevant as a colonial power. please explain why you reverted these changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.224.89.237 (talk) 11:28, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit was reverted because it didn't appear to be written in a neutral point of view, but now that you have clarified it the situation makes sense now. Also, for the removal of "Sweden", I did not revert your edit - ChamithN did. You should talk to him/her. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 11:33, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your explanation, Best, E — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.224.89.237 (talk) 11:39, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editing User talk:K6ka (new section)

Hello

My editing has been declined - how do I go about having it accepted knowing that I am the oldest living person in the UK with the condition?

Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whispers1 (talk • contribs) 14:15, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You will need a reliable source that accurately confirms that you are the record holder. See WP:CITE for help on citing sources in articles. Simply claiming that you are the subject isn't accepted on Wikipedia as there is no real way of verifying this fact, as anyone can create an account and claim to be someone. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 15:34, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

wtf

i havent vandalized your page? idk u could even do that!

70.180.33.110 (talk) 15:11, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:160.253.128.7

Hi. On October 7, you gave this IP a "last warning". Since then, they have vandalized 2 more pages, Isabel Allende on Oct 10, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum today . ‎ How do we get them blocked? All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:46, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ssilvers: Hello. IPs or users that continue to vandalize after their final warning should be reported to WP:Administrator intervention against vandalism. As the IP is a shared address (shared by multiple users), you can report it to the page if needed. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 18:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you, for addressing my request for a Username change

Thank you, very much, for your prompt response to my Username-change request. I see that you do plenty of work, to keep Wikipedia healthy and strong. And that work is of a technical and specialized nature which is far beyond my own abilities, at least as much as it is far beyond the ken of most users of this greatest-of-all websites. I know your job is thankless—thus, against that thanklessness, here I strike! All the best, to you and yours. Analogdrift (talk) 07:59, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Analogdrift: Thank you! Yes, this job is very thankless and very under-recognized by the general public and the global community outside of Wikipedia. For over a decade thousands of people have been working tirelessly to get articles out to the public and to build Wikipedia to what it is today. Even today, new pages are being created, articles are being improved, and errors are being fixed. And despite all of this work people still continue to pass Wikipedia off as a faceless website that anyone can edit and make deliberate factual errors to fool the world. *sigh* The nerve of rude people nowadays! --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 10:57, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Diffeo usurpation

Hi K6ka, I responded to Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations#Diffeo_demo_.E2.86.92_Diffeo Diffeo demo (talk) 00:05, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]