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Tech News: 2016-26

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 ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [1]
• The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [2]
• A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [3]

Problems

• The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [4][5]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
• The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [6]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [7]
• An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [8]
• The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [9][10][11]
• From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [12]
• Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [13]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia, BrillLyle. Also, I appreciate that you posted some helpful tips that I can apply when completing my edits. --Laki718 (talk) 18:16, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

@Laki718: Thanks so much -- and great job that you figured out how to post on my talk page. Lots of people don't know how to do that and you did it perfectly! Definitely reach out if you have any questions! -- Best, Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 19:04, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Graph layout

It took me some time to find out how to do it, but this seems to have fixed your graph question. I copied it from one of the examples at mw:Extension:Graph/Demo. Huon (talk) 20:28, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

@Huon: Thank you so much! Sorry I went off the IRC I thought no one was there.... I will check out the Demo page. So incredibly helpful. I had looked but missed that... Thanks again!!! - Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 20:52, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 July 2016

• News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany

• Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?

• In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source

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Tech News: 2016-27

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

• A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [14]

Changes this week

• The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Sunday July 10: WikNYC Picnic @ Central Park

Sunday July 10, 3-8pm: WikNYC Picnic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" in Manhattan's Central Park, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck. Sunday July 10 WikNYC Picnic (RSVP) (also on meetup.com) 3–8pm - come by any time! The picnicking area is the southwest section of the Great Lawn, north of the Delacorte Theater, just inside the park at Central Park West between 81st & 82nd. Enter the park at West 81st St. Look for us by the Wikipedia / Wikimedia NYC banner! Subway: 81st Street – Museum of Natural History, C Line We hope to see you there! --Pharos (talk) 14:55, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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Friday morning in Harlem

I definitely plan to attend but the question I have, do you need tickets to attend Friday's event in NYC? VegasCasinoKid (talk) 06:27, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi @VegasCasinoKid: -- No ticket required at all! Just show up -- look for Richard et al. They will have the big white Wikimedia NYC sign so people can find the picnic area. Bring food and drink if you want, especially if you have any special dietary etc. needs. Have fun! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 06:30, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Oh wait -- You're talking about the editathon at the Schomburg on Friday? Ugh it looks like it might be sold out -- from Eventbrite? I'm so sorry. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 06:36, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

If it's "sold-out" then it seems you do need to ticket to enter that event. At least the Sunday event will be free.  :) VegasCasinoKid (talk) 08:08, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi @VegasCasinoKid: -- I am sorry about this. On the Eventbrite page it says: "FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. All registered seats are released 15 to 30 minutes before start time, so we recommend that you arrive early." Maybe you could try to either contact Alice or Sherry from AfroCROWD or try to go early and ask to be on whatever standing room / wait list there might be. You might be able to still get in. I know the goal is to have as many attendees as possible, but it might be a space issue as this is a popular event. Good luck, and again, sorry. - Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 13:40, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

I wouldn't be surprised if it were a simple error in setting up the event in Eventbrite and there's plenty of chairs in that large room. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:07, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Jim.henderson: Possibly but it looks like that event is going to be very busy and popular, so there may not be space even in the big room. Trying standby might work but they need to make sure it's not overcrowded -- it would not be safe or enjoyable if there were too many people. Best bet would be to show up early and do standby after reaching out ASAP to ask to be put on any waitlist -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 14:55, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting our editathons

	Thank you for contributing to our June 2016 editathons There were over 350 articles on Women in Entertainment, 55 on Jewish Women's History and 50 on Women in LGBTQ Host: Women in Red June 2016 #wikiwomeninred Our next event: Women in Halls of Fame

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Wiknic

I had a blast on Sunday. I look forward to the next one. VegasCasinoKid (talk) 08:09, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

@VegasCasinoKid: Glad to hear it! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 14:00, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

I never want to baby castles near union square but am willing to try it next month. it seems babycastle haven't decided which day they are willing to host the meetup. VegasCasinoKid (talk) 09:49, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

@VegasCasinoKid: I would say that it's the WM NYC Board being the culprit on not organizing the dates versus anything to do with Babycastles. Babycastles have been lovely, accommodating, amazing. We are lucky to be able to meet there regularly. Summer is a bit looser for our chapter so that's why the dates are a bit late in coming. We should have info within the week. Best, -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 11:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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

• A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [16][17][18]
• Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [19][20][21]
• Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [22][23][24]

Problems

• On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [25]
• Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and contest in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Just For The Record; Wiki Loves Art preparations Brazil report: New steps for the GLAM movement in Brazil France report: « Veni, vidi, wiki ! » Germany report: GLAM on Tour is a format, is a statement, is a tag Italy report: Contemporary art images from BEIC Macedonia report: National library collaboration and Contemporary art on Wikidata Mexico report: 3 continuous days of art; Efforts against the Wikipedia Gender Gap Netherlands report: Image donation by the Museum Catharijneconvent; 1300 Dutch underground newspapers from WW2; Collaboration with public libraries Spain report: Involving libraries in Wikimedia projects Sweden report: World Wide Wikipedia; Royal Library; Monuments database to Wikidata migration; Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 UK report: Wellcome USA report: June is busting out all over Open Access report: Open Science Fellows Program; OA Signalling Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidatamania WMF GLAM report: A Wikimania Reflection, GLAM Phabricator Queues, and a WMF Update Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2016-29

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

• Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [26]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [27]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [28]

Problems

• On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [29][30]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
• Special:Log now has a help link. [31]
• The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [32]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [33][34]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [35]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 July 2016

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

• In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best

• Traffic report: Sports and esports

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality

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Tech News: 2016-30

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

• Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
• Last week's rollback is now documented. [36]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [37]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [38]
• Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [39]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [40]

Future changes

• The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [41]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [42]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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

• A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [43]
• The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

• Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [44]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 August 2016

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Women and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, an open access peer reviewed journal with no charges, invites you to participate

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Did you know about Wikiversity Journal of Medicine? It is an open access, peer reviewed medical journal, with no publication charges. We welcome you to have a look. Feel free to participate.

You can participate in any one or more of the following ways:

• Publish an article to the journal.
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• Join the editorial board.
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The future of this journal as a separate Wikimedia project is under discussion and the name can be changed suitably. Currently a voting for the same is underway. Please cast your vote in the name you find most suitable. We would be glad to receive further suggestions from you. It is also acceptable to mention your votes in the wide-reachwikiversityjournal.org email list. Please note that the voting closes on 16th August, 2016, unless protracted by consensus, due to any reason.

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Tech News: 2016-32

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 notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [45]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [46]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [47]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [48]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [49]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [50]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [51]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [52]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon in a historic building in Buenos Aires Basque Country report: Basque spring-summer blooming Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art halfway Brazil report: Cultural Mapping: knowing better the Brazilian museums scenario France report: Bons baisers de France Macedonia report: 290 photos by Manaki brothers Mexico report: Wikipedia in Mayan; GLAM in Aldea Digital Spain report: Attending the Peace Treaties in Art Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Critiquing social norms with free images Switzerland report: Open Cultural Data Hackathon UK report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers USA report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers Open Access report: Wikimedian in Residence opening; Ancestral reconstruction; A swimming centipede Wikidata report: Pokémon and more WMF GLAM report: Grants; New Content Donation Evaluation Report; WMF Updates Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2016-33

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

Problems

• Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [53]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [54]
• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [55][56]

Changes this week

• The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [57]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [58]
• In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [59][60]
• The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [61]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [62]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

August 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday Auugust 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Featuring special guest presentations on WikiVerse and Bringing Wikipedia to the Last Mile. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent (UN Women!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday August 17 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 23:20, 16 August 2016 (UTC) P.S. Prep for our chapter elections next month in September (and add your candidacy!): Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Elections

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A barnstar for you!

		The BLP Barnstar
		In recognition of recent exemplary BLP work: I see your efforts to work through challenging entries with care and fairness, and I greatly appreciate them. Innisfree987 (talk) 17:58, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks so much! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 18:02, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Truly, thank you! If you're feeling up for it, I noticed that some of the issues on the Parker page are also coming up at the related film page and so might benefit from having your eyes on; but after making a few edits on this, I myself am ready to exercise a bit of WP:NOTREQUIRED so no pressure! Thanks again for all you've already done. Innisfree987 (talk) 20:33, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 August 2016

• News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses

• Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica

• In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising

• Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks

• Traffic report: Olympic views

• Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)

• Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case

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Tech News: 2016-34

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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [63]
• The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [64]
• The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [65]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [66]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [67]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [68][69]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [70]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your help on Wikipedia:Meetup/SCAR_2016! Getting all the outcomes organised is really useful. I've really no idea how to do wikidata stuff! It has been wonderful seeing this project come together. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 16:50, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

@Evolution and evolvability: Hope all of that was okay. I do a lot of scrubbing for edits for Wikimedia NYC events (I'm Secretary of WM NYC) and helped a bit with the Art+Feminism initiative the last couple years (until I stopped) so I am a bit obsessed with gathering outcomes, especially in support / preparation for event metrics. It helps to have numbers for grant-purposes, too, even if it's just headcount, pages improved, pages created. Agree, the project is totally kick ass, totally reflects all the hard work of your community! :-)

re: Wikidata.... I am a real newbie when it comes to Wikidata too! Don't worry everyone is pretty much new to it, it seems.... I though it was important to recognize that these Wikidata edits were part of your initiative's outcomes. At WM NYC we have been starting to count Wikidata edits for editathons at NYC events so...

So excited for you! Please let me know if you need any assistance. I love what you all are doing! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 17:59, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

It is absolutely ok! The editing help is really appreciated, especially in outcomes gathering. One of the great joys of Wikipedia is coming back to a page and seeing it improved overnight! I may well take you up on your offer of more help in the next month for advice on the best ways to keep momentum up after an editathon. I think the SCAR conference this week has got a lot of new people interested, so I'm going to host another training webinar in how to edit next month to bring in some more recruits. There also seems to be a lot of interest in helping by the Polar Educators International organisation. I'm hoping that the biographies editathon can be a gateway towards improving articles on Antarctic geography, history and science in general. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 04:32, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

@Evolution and evolvability: That sounds amazing. Oh good! Please revert anything you don't want and/or let me know and I can course-correct. I truly only want to help / don't want to be a pain. I sort of stumbled upon SCAR when I saw the BBC series on Halley Research Station and think what's going on in terms of science is just so flipping cool. There is much that can be done, especially if it comes from your expert community. I think the Women in Red folks are pretty great as a resource, and then the outlier editors like myself. Momentum is key, and empowering folks if they see things like #gendergap and inaccurate, incomplete information. Hope you can get a new picture up. That was super cool. Copyright / images is such a pain sometimes! Best, Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 13:51, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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

• Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [71]
• When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [72]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [73][74]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 18

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

• New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
• Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
• TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
• OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2016-36

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

• Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [75]
• Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [76]
• When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [77]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [78][79]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [80][81]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [82]

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 September 2016

• News and notes: AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters

• Special report: Olympics readership depended on language

• In the media: Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Wikipedia coverage

• WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia

• Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between

• Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit

• Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them

• Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism

• Blog: Upload of free photos from Swiss library underway

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This Month in GLAM: August 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VIII, August 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Basque Country report: Donostiapedia goes on Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art in Belgium finished, Wiki Loves Monuments started Brazil report: UG Wikimedia in Brazil: GLAM initiative with the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy will load hundreds of valuable images Estonia report: GLAM summer seminar France report: Belles and Bye Germany report: Cinamas in Cologne Italy report: WikiTrip and edit-a-thon at Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics Macedonia report: 42 audio CD's of 2000-hour recorded dialect speech Mexico report: Documenting Tolerance; Murals in Sonora Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the world Norway report: Monuments, music and books Republic of Srpska report: Wikimedia community of the Republic of Srpska continues GLAM cooperation with City of East Sarajevo Main Library Spain report: Wiki Loves contests and Royal Spanish Academy Sweden report: Craft and collections UK report: Liberal Club Edit-a-thon & Wellcome Training USA report: New York & D.C. events; Philadelphia events Open Access report: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine; WikiCite; Collective respiration in bees Wikidata report: New team members and lots for you to read! WMF GLAM report: IFLA #WLIC2016 & Updates Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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September 14: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

Wednesday September 14, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month will also feature on our agenda, upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent (UN Women and CFR!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. Along with the main meeting, hummus and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday September 14 WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:06, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-37

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 Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [83]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [84][85]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [86]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [87][88]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [89][90]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [91]

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22:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Yazda

Hi BrillLyle, Can you please try to edit my draft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Yazda ? It has been denied 4 times and I'm out of ideas how to make it work. Please feel free to add, delete or do anything necessary to make be accepted Khalaf Smoqi (talk) 08:15, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Khalaf Smoqi:! I will try to help. Best -- BrillLyle (talk) 11:54, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Um... you do realize that you can leave drafts in the draft space, right? Primefac (talk) 21:59, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

@Primefac: Yes, I do realize it would be okay to leave the draft in the draft space; however, I wanted to get to a "clean" space so I could work on the page and really get it into good shape. Sorry I would've done more but I got busy. I hope to have it in good shape and work on it this weekend so Monday it might be good to go onto Wiki as a stub. Thanks for the message. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 23:04, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Also, if this was going to be something where I would be going back and forth with Khalaf in any sort of info exchange, I didn't want it to be on a draft that might be being scrutinized while we went through the process.... -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 23:05, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Fair enough (and it's like you've done anything wrong, I was mainly curious). With regard to your final point: an unsubmitted draft that's actively being worked on will be paid (literally) zero attention. It's only the submitted ones that anyone notices ;) Good luck on the page, I tried working on it a while ago and failed, hopefully you'll do it better! Primefac (talk) 23:27, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

@Primefac: Thanks! I am working on an associated page so I hope that will help. Fingers crossed! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 23:52, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Nice job, it looks good :) Primefac (talk) 23:38, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

@Primefac: Thanks so much! I spent a lot of time on it -- and it's not done -- but I'm glad it's up and seems to be okay now. Best to you! - Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 23:39, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons

October 2016
	Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons Faciliated by Women in Red

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Tech News: 2016-39

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 your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [92]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [93]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [94]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [95][96]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [97]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [98]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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 your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [99]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [100]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [101]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [102][103]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [104]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [105]

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