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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

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From the editor: Change the world

News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case

Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries

In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free

Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'

WikiProject report: Some more politics

Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters

Gallery: "One small step..."

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Tech News: 2015-31

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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 use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [1]
You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [2]
You can change your options to see bigger images. [3]
You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [4]
You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [5]

Problems

There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [6]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [7]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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110	Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Add sources
24	Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Add sources
1,740	Britain's Got Talent (talk)	Add sources
61	San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Add sources
241	Television in the United Kingdom (talk)	Add sources
9	Heysel Plateau (talk)	Add sources
3	Indonesia in the ABU Radio Song Festival (talk)	Cleanup
43	Palais des Festivals et des Congrès (talk)	Cleanup
4	Turkey in the Türkvizyon Song Contest (talk)	Cleanup
7	Casinò Lugano (talk)	Expand
178	2015 MTV Europe Music Awards (talk)	Expand
17	2001 in British television (talk)	Expand
248	Public broadcasting (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18	Grand Indonesia Shopping Town (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
439	CBBC (TV channel) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
13	Croatia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Merge
10	Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 (talk)	Merge
57	Kombank Arena (talk)	Merge
4	Ukraine in the Türkvizyon Song Contest (talk)	Wikify
1,524	Grenada (talk)	Wikify
2	Iran in the Türkvizyon Song Contest (talk)	Wikify
1	Harry (TV gameshow) (talk)	Orphan
0	Inspiration, Please! (talk)	Orphan
4	Columbus Shopping Center (talk)	Orphan
7	ERT Digital (talk)	Stub
4	ERA Diktyo (talk)	Stub
99	Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 (talk)	Stub
7	Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 (talk)	Stub
10	Belarus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 (talk)	Stub
18	Albania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

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News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate

Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian

Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted

In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?

Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues

Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit

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Tech News: 2015-32

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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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
- You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [8]
- Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [13]
MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [14]
Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [15]

Problems

There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [16]
We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [17]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2015

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The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 88 - August 2015

July issue

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Project News

Welcome to the eighty eighth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 12,008 last month to 12,031 on July 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 116 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,517 articles.

Currently we have thirty four Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball

There are also fifteen featured lists:

York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances)

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed DYK featured on main page on June 25th
Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball promoted to FA on June 27th
Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' was withdrawn from GA review on July 1st
The Wrestlers (painting) was withdrawn from GA review on July 1st
Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball DYK featured on main page on July 3rd
List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) nominated for FL on July 10th

Member News

There are 76 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the July newsletter:

The number of active members is still currently low.

Thanks

A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	175			220
B	9	66	137	359			571
C	5	144	295	1,502			1,946
Start	1	242	1,259	8,693			10,195
Stub		21	353	5,663	3		6,040
List		4	12	948			964
Category					3,888		3,888
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					226		226
Redirect			2	194	1,360		1,556
Template					620		620
NA					1		1
Other					10		10
Assessed	19	485	2,110	17,610	6,246		26,470
Unassessed						1	1
Total	19	485	2,110	17,610	6,246	1	26,471
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,134			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 31 July 2015, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

Thanks

Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -

Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The August 2015 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
64	1 Apr 2015 ~ 30 Apr 2015	Wadsley	Wensleydale cheese
65	1 May 2015 ~ 31 May 2015	Vale of York	Yapham
66	1 Jun 2015 ~ 30 Jun 2015	Barnsley Central (UK Parliament constituency)	Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire)
67	1 Jul 2015 ~ 31 Jul 2015	Holderness	Acklam Hall
68	1 Aug 2015 ~ 31 Aug 2015	A15 road (England)	Beck Hole

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Please bear in mind...

The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

Monitoring is essential
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.

Moves
Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

Delivered August 2015 by MediaWiki message delivery.
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22:45, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

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Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers

Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google

News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief

WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers

In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten

Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...

Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga

Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program

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Tech News: 2015-33

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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

MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [18]
The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [19]
You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [20]
You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [21]
It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [22]
JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [23] [24]
- You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [25] [26]
The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [27]

Problems

More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [28]
Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [29]
Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [30]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [31]
You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [32]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [33]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 August 2015

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News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA

In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj

Forum: Community voices on paid editing

Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event

Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom

Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz

Tech News: 2015-34

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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

Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [34] [35] [36]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [37]

Problems

Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [38] [39]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [40]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [41]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

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Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus

In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"

Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!

Travelogue: Seeing is believing

Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news

Tech News: 2015-35

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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

Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [42]

Problems

There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [43]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
720	Jharkhand (talk)	Add sources
2	First Programme (ERT) (talk)	Add sources
95	95,8 FM (talk)	Add sources
20	ERT3 (talk)	Add sources
2	Hellenic Radio (talk)	Add sources
6	Tiny Living (talk)	Add sources
36	History of the Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Cleanup
282	AirPlay (talk)	Cleanup
26	Digital TV Group (talk)	Cleanup
14	2007 in British television (talk)	Expand
4	SceneOne (talk)	Expand
12	Cyw (talk)	Expand
20	Bloor-Yonge (TTC) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
10	Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
20	Festivali i Këngës (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24	Belarus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Merge
1	Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 (talk)	Merge
7	Bulgaria in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 (talk)	Merge
7,644	Steve Jobs (talk)	Wikify
2	Iran in the ABU Radio Song Festival (talk)	Wikify
8	Downderry (talk)	Wikify
9	How Now Mrs Brown Cow (talk)	Orphan
2	Elnik Systems (talk)	Orphan
1	Pupils and Students Trade Union of Côte d'Ivoire (talk)	Orphan
9	Carlton Kids (talk)	Stub
88	Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 (talk)	Stub
1	Genevieve Hussey (talk)	Stub
4	Louisiana Stars Drum and Bugle Corps (talk)	Stub
5	ERT3 (studio) (talk)	Stub
10	Potato (production company) (talk)	Stub

The Signpost: 26 August 2015

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In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors

In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia

Op-ed: Wikimania—can volunteers organize conferences?

News and notes: Re-imagining grants

Featured content: Out to stud, please call later

Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration

Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report

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Tech News: 2015-36

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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

VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [44][45]
The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [46]
VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [47]
Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [48]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [49]

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 September 2015

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Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia

News and notes: Flow placed on ice

Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments

Featured content: Brawny

In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage

Traffic report: You didn't miss much

Technology report: Tech news in brief

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2015

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The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 89 - September 2015

August issue

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— Add them here

Project News

Welcome to the eighty ninth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 12,031 last month to 12,045 on August 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 116 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,525 articles.

Currently we have thirty four Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

History of York City F.C. PR started on July 30th
Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball featured as TFA on main page on August 1st
List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) promoted to FL on August 7th
Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal was nominated for GA on August 9th
W. H. Auden was submitted for GAR review on August 21st

Member News

There are 76 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the August newsletter:

The number of active members is still currently low.

Thanks

A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	175			220
B	9	66	137	359			571
C	5	144	295	1,502			1,946
Start	1	242	1,259	8,693			10,195
Stub		21	353	5,663	3		6,040
List		4	12	948			964
Category					3,888		3,888
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					226		226
Redirect			2	194	1,360		1,556
Template					620		620
NA					1		1
Other					10		10
Assessed	19	485	2,110	17,610	6,246		26,470
Unassessed						1	1
Total	19	485	2,110	17,610	6,246	1	26,471
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,134			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 31 July 2015, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

Thanks

Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -

Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The September 2015 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
65	1 May 2015 ~ 31 May 2015	Vale of York	Yapham
66	1 Jun 2015 ~ 30 Jun 2015	Barnsley Central (UK Parliament constituency)	Zoo Bar (Halifax, West Yorkshire)
67	1 Jul 2015 ~ 31 Jul 2015	Holderness	Acklam Hall
68	1 Aug 2015 ~ 31 Aug 2015	A15 road (England)	Beck Hole
69	1 Sep 2015 ~ 30 Sep 2015	Kirkdale Cave	City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Please bear in mind...

The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

Monitoring is essential
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.

Moves
Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

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01:09, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-37

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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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [50]
A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [51]
You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [52]

Problems

There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [53]
The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [54][55]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [56]
The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [57][58]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [59]
Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [60][61]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

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Gallery: Being Welsh

Featured content: Killed by flying debris

Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity

News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article

Traffic report: Mass media production traffic

Technology report: Tech news in brief

In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined

Tech News: 2015-38

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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 use the Wikidata query service. [62]
Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [63]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [64][65]

Problems

There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [66]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [67]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [68]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [69]

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Map alterations

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AxG, is there any chance you could add Dagestan to File:Türkvizyon 2015 map.svg, when you get a spare moment. Thank you. Wes Mouse ✒ 02:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Wesley Mouse: Done, I've added Dagestan. -- [[ axg // ✉ ]] 13:22, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, dude. You're a star! Wes Mouse ✒ 13:38, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

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Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access

News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?

In the media: Is there life on Mars?

Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?

Traffic report: Another week

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Tech News: 2015-39

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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

There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [70][71]
Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [72][73][74][75]
More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [76]
The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [77]

Problems

Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [78]
Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [79][80]
UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [81]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [82]
You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [83]
Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [84]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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Help with EU financial regulation articles?

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Hi there, AxG, I'm hoping to make improvements to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and European Market Infrastructure Regulation articles, but I'd like some help in discussing them. I found you on the list of active participants over at WP:EU and hoped you might be interested in providing some feedback on my proposed updates. They're available here for MiFID and here for EMIR. As a quick disclosure: I do have a conflict of interest as I'm working on this topic as a paid consultant to the Managed Funds Association but I won't make any edits to the live article. If you're able to help with either article, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 12:38, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help

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Helloǃ I'm from Tamil wikipedia. Can you Update this File:2015 Rugby World Cup.svg photo in wiki commons. Thank you--L.Shriheeran (talk) 10:01, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 23 September 2015

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In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?

Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Orphaned non-free image File:FIBA logo.svg

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Thanks for uploading File:FIBA logo.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:33, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-40

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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

In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [85]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [86]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [87]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [88]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [89]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [90]
MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [91]

Problems

Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [92][93]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [94]
The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [95]

Meetings

You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [96]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of QI (B series) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article QI (B series) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/QI (B series) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 16:41, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Channel 4 News.svg

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Thanks for uploading File:Channel 4 News.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:39, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]