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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

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Tech News: 2015-14

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 now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [1]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [2] [3] [4]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [5]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [6]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [7]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [8]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [9]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [10]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [11]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [12] [13] [14] [15]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [16]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost, 1 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

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• Traffic report: All over the place

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

• Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

• Traffic report: All over the place

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Tech News: 2015-15

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

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [17]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [18] [19]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [20]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [21]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [22]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [23] [24] [25] [26]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [27]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [28] [29]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [30]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [31]

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

ANTM Cycle 21

It was not vandalization. Someone posted spoiler information on the page prior to it being released and that information turned out to be false as the actual winner was Keith Carlos and Not Lenox Tilman as the spoiler claimed I would like to repeal the claim.Tiaannlenae (talk) 16:06, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Dennis Rader

Dennis Rader, aka the BTK killer is a fan of weird twitter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.64.57.10 (talk) 18:35, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-16

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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [32]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [33] [34]

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• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [37] [38]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [39]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

20:31:54, 14 April 2015 review of submission by Jmorange

• Jmorange (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Somerset Trust Company (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello Winner 42,

I really do need your help and I would really appreciate any and all guidance, advice, and editing you can help me with! Thank you! I feel like I have been working on this for a while, and I have edited and followed three different editors suggestions to get this passed. The article has been significantly changed numerous times since my first submission of the article. I was wondering what it would take to get this article passed. I don't feel like I can be too far away from the article being okay. I have followed every editor's suggestion to me so far, and every time a new editor has a new problem with the article. Should I take out the community initiatives section completely? Or is it just how the section is written? I have seen various other banks on Wikipedia pages with similar sections on their page. For example [National Bank in Eastern Kentucky] has a donations section. Albeit, much smaller than my article. Should I make the section smaller? I wanted to include more than just the history of the bank, and I thought the connection with 9/11 shows the bank's significance. I am open to any suggestion you have. I would really like to get this passed, especially because it takes so long to review the article after I have submitted it. I have been working on this for months now, and I would really like for my next submission to pass. If you could please help edit it and suggest changes for me to make so that there is no doubt the next time I submit, it will be approved. Thank you for your help! Jmorange (talk) 20:31, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Jmorange (talk) 20:31, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, for not getting back to you sooner. Your article was a very solid basis for a full article, and thankfully User:CookieMonster755 has done a commendable job cleaning up the article and your work together has produced a good quality article. I have gone ahead and reviewed the revision by CookieMonster and approved the article. You can now find it here. I applaud your efforts to stick with the AfC process, despite the current backlog and somewhat impersonal responses you sometimes get from editors such as myself. To give some context as to why business articles have come under lots of scrutiny lately, Wikipedia has been encountering a problem with artspam recently and the standards may have become too high at the AfC process as a reaction to organizations seeking to self promote. (Not excusing you of this, I don't think you are, but it is a wide trend on Wikipedia). The place of where to draw the line when an article has a mild promotion tone has moved around a lot recently. Enough of my rambling, I hope you choose to continue to contribute to Wikipedia, and I'd be happy to work with you in the future if you are interested in writing more articles. Happy Editing! Winner 42 Talk to me! 03:31, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations Jmorange, as an AfC member, I am VERY proud of you for sticking with our crazy AfC process! I am glad I got to work with you. You created a great article, and I hope I can see YOU create more good quality Wikipedia articles! I look forward to talking with you in the future! Cheers!! CookieMonster755 (talk) 03:34, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello Winner 42 and CookieMonster755,

THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is such a relief. I cannot tell you how excited I am, and I wish I could thank both of you in person for your help. I have to admit the process was a little exhausting, but it was well worth it with your help. With all the effort I put into this, I cannot explain how amazing it feels to get my first article published on Wikipedia! I hope to work with both of you in the future, and thank you again for your help! Thank you for your patience, as I know the article was rough, and your time and devotion to helping me! Pax Jmorange (talk) 13:38, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Re: April 2015

Hello, the page "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir-Abbas_Fakhravar" needs to be marked for consideration as a Libel Wikipedia page as it is not neutral. Although the Persian page follows a more neutral perspective.

Can you explain why you feel that the content of those sections is libelous? Winner 42 Talk to me! 20:17, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Re: Sandoval Page

In regards to Sandoval's Page, the description is inaccurate. Currently there is a 3% cap on the number of participants who can participate in the solar program. The Governor must wait for the legislature to change the law prior to performing any action. Governor Sandoval can not unilaterally make the change as this article suggests he has the power to do. Thank You.

Ok, I will remove the section, thank you for your input. Winner 42 Talk to me! 21:10, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for answering my question so quickly! I'm new to Wikipedia but love it already. Hope you like kittens.

Tendingmagictrees (talk) 22:56, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! Thank you for the cat, Happy Editing! :) Winner 42 Talk to me! 23:11, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Huggle revert

Hi, your Huggle revert didn't look like reverting vandalism to me. Did you have a particular reason for using rollback here, when it is only applicable in a few situations? Conifer (talk) 00:41, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Deliberately inserting false information into an article is considered vandalism by most standards. You can tell it is deliberate by examining the editor's overall vandalism and personal attacking (including telling one editor "You fucking suck you shitty Jew." In addition to the fact that the information is false. Huggle actually has a preset warning for factual errors, I believe there may have been an edit conflict with leaving a warning on the talk page though, not sure why one isn't there. Hope that answers your question. Winner 42 Talk to me! 00:51, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Well, I'd say that whether to list American Airlines or US Airways in infoboxes (now that they've got a single operating certificate) isn't clear-cut enough to be obviously false one way or the other. The IP certainly has some nasty vandalism, but we have to judge each edit on its merits. Conifer (talk) 00:57, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Fair enough, it seemed like deliberately adding false information at the time, in the two quick searches for information on the subject. Upon further investigation (And learning that US Airways and American Airlines merged, where have I been?), I would not have used rollback in that case. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Winner 42 Talk to me! 01:20, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Sounds good. I'll watchlist that IP's talk page to check if they make any further nasty edits in the future. Conifer (talk) 03:48, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

It has been restored. Since the flights are now technically operated by American Airlines but the flights are still branded as US Airways. US Airways will remain a brand for now until the last bits of the integration has been completed (i.e. reservation systems, websites, passenger services, etc.). Citydude1017 (talk) 07:09, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Allan Pettersson

Hi Winner 42, I've removed some content from Allan Pettersson. I've added a "Infobox person", but I realized, that for composers this is controversial (see Discussion: George Frideric Handel). So I decided to remove my own contribution. In future, I will use edit summary. Why did you undo the Persondata edit? Something wrong with this? 176.199.38.10 (talk) 12:22, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

My bad, I didn't intend to remove the persondata, and I have since reverted my revert. I believe was intending to revert your removal of the infobox, but I failed to see that you had edited it in. Thanks for catching this.

On a somewhat unrelated note, do you know why the consensus on classical composers is to not include infoboxes? It seems rather strange that this one wikiproject has a different approach to almost all other wikiprojects. I've read through their guidelines which seem rather neutral on the topic and the debate over at Beethoven seemed fairly mixed. Winner 42 Talk to me! 13:16, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

AfC

This IP is going around submitting other people's drafts, is that allowed? — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 14:22, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

I saw that, it is very strange. I have not seen this behavior before, I'm going to make a report at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents in a few minutes about it. Winner 42 Talk to me! 14:25, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) (By the way) The creator of Draft:Esproenko International was working on the draft using material from another article, and some of that old material was still in the draft when you reviewed it. The creator was not done with the draft and he did not submit it, that IP^ did. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 14:26, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I think I'm just going to leave the decline there anyway, no harm done. If you think it should be removed, you can go ahead as I did not notice that a random IP had submitted the draft at the time of review. Winner 42 Talk to me! 14:30, 17 April 2015 (UTC)