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AFT5 newsletter

Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!

On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.

For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!

Page Triage newsletter

Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:13, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Can't make either! Thine Antique Pen (public) 20:36, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

File mover rights

Would you be able to tell me how many rename media I have done? Thanks, Obtund^Talk 17:20, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

• I'll be able to take a look when I have better Internet access, or when I get back from Spain. Thine Antique Pen (public) 18:59, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
  • You have added the {{rename media}} template to 7 files. 6 of the 7 files were moved. :) -- Cheers, Riley Huntley _talk No talkback needed; I'll temporarily watch here. 19:40, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Just a quick q...when do you think I will be ready to apply because I have like 14 or something now. Obtund^Talk 02:03, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Give it atleast a month. I understand that that is a long time but they want to see experience and pateince. -- Cheers, Riley Huntley _talk No talkback needed; I'll temporarily watch here. 15:47, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

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New Pages newsletter

Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right.

It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:09, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Köllnischer Park

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 barnstar

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		This barnstar is awarded to Thine Antique Pen for copy editing at least one article in the GOCE July copy edit drive. Thank you for participating! Dianna (talk) 01:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks! Thine Antique Pen (public) 16:21, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Agneta Matthes GA

I've given the initial review. Will finish the other part later today. Enjoy your vacation! TheSpecialUser ^TSU 02:57, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Update on user-rights topic ban

Hi Thine Antique Pen. Since you seem to have found it, I thought I would confirm what's going on - by my understanding. After thoroughly reviewing your behaviour over the past few months, I had this conversation with Mbisanz and Fluffernutter. It was agreed that the topic ban that you are currently under is not fit for purpose, in those situations where you actually require a user-right, it is requested by proxy - causing even more problems than you requesting the rights yourself.

As the topic ban was not community imposed, but rather an unblocking agreement, you can consider it changed. You are now allowed to request user rights yourself, however you should discuss the matter with me first. If I endorse the user right request, you may request it in the usual manner. NB, I will not be giving you any user rights, nor my endorsement guarantee your acceptance - it will only allow you to make the request, subject to the standard community scrutiny. Worm^TT(talk) 11:48, 14 August 2012 (UTC)