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Workington North railway station

Congratulations on beating me to creating the article. If we can get it up to 1,500 bytes of text in the next few days I'll nominate it at DYK. Mjroots (talk) 11:09, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

No problem re the assistance. The pages linked from the welcome message will come in useful. WP:CITE is useful for references. Mjroots (talk) 12:28, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK Nomination

Hi. I've nominated Workington North railway station, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Mjroots (talk) 21:10, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Mjroots (talk) 21:10, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Looking good, I've changed the end of the hook so the word town isn't repeated, what do you think? (Feel free to edit it further obviously) Mike1901 (talk) 21:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
I tweaked the hook a bit more. Mjroots (talk) 21:38, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
The hook has now been approved for DYK, shouldn't be too long now before it appears on the main page. Mjroots (talk) 08:20, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Workington North railway station

Updated DYK query On December 2, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Workington North railway station, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Ucucha 18:18, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

RideLondon-Surrey 100

Hi, there isn't a RideLondon-Surrey 100 page as this was the sportive event during the RideLondon festival but is a seperate entity.

Apologies - realised you were correct on a second look. Have removed the tag. Just as an aside, please remember to sign your posts on other people's talk pages (with 4 '~') so they don't have to look into the page history to find out the author. :-) Mike1901 (talk) 15:06, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, will do that in future, thanks! :) Roseofwinter (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:12, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Gazi Hajdar Kadi Mosque

Hello Mike1901. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Gazi Hajdar Kadi Mosque, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 doesn't apply to centers of worship (elegible subjects are persons, individual animals, organisations, web content and events. Thank you. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 17:51, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

AFerry

Hi Mike, just to say sorry for the soap-boxing here and the apparent reposting. We had an intern working on this and then I took over and probably reposted as I was learning. I'm working on a version that is fully referenced and non-promotional that I hope (fingers crossed) should pass. Thanks. ~~Francis~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.207.152.132 (talk) 09:19, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

No problem - happy to help! Note that it is generally not a good idea to write a Wikipedia article about your own organisation - it will likely come across as biased, even if you try to make it encyclopedic. Also, unless it can be proved that your company is notable by several external sources, it is not ready to go onto Wikipedia. In short, Wikipedia is not an advertising platform. Mike1901 (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mike, thanks. I've got a few sources, books, newspapers, etc. Hopefully it should be okay but I'm working on it now in my userspace. Would you be able to have a look once its done before I try and make it live? Thanks very much. ~~Francis~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.207.152.132 (talk) 09:56, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mike,

I've updated the entry. It has plenty of references. I believe we are notable. However, I don't want to be banned for soap-boxing or gand-standing. Can you please check it out before I risk re-posting? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GoldenClockCar/AFerry --~~Francis~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.207.152.132 (talk) 13:41, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

September 2013

Hello Mike. I saw you tagged my page as a speedy deletion. I understood the criticism and updated the page. We are important to prevent cyber bullying. It would be a shame if you deleted the page because we help a lot of bullied children. I created the page to make us be more famous so more people can find us and talk to us if they have issues with bullying. We also alert supercell who invented the game if we spot any racist-clans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_House_of_shock --Constantin Johnson~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Constantin Johnson (talk • contribs) 21:16, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately Wikipedia isn't designed to make organisations more famous - there needs to be some pre-existing notability from reputable sources, before creating the page. Mike1901 (talk) 21:28, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

SETF

LOL thanks! I did Elizabeth O'Bagy but then realized it was a little pointless to have that and not one on the SETF. I actually don't have much time to work on it so please feel free to do whatever you like; what I have up right now is really rough and needs a lot of work. BlueSalix (talk) 21:55, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Please remove Speedy deletion for Tekiture

Hello! I have updated the Tekiture page so that it simply talks about Tekiture without promoting it. Please let me know if this is enough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khovland92 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you for helping me get started here on Wikipedia and for helping me edit the Bob Ives (racing driver) page. I have learnt a lot from you! (o^___^o)/ Fluffyghost (talk) 17:29, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Place, Bedford

Hello Mike1901,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The Place, Bedford for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. —Swpbtalk 13:36, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


Speedy Deletion Request Bob Ives UK

Hi,

The page Bob Ives UK should not be deleted. He has participated in many acknowledged international events. His name appears on both trophy pages here: Camel Trophy and Segrave Trophy, so it's only natural he has his own Wikipedia page. So therefore his content is relevant and does hold significance due to already appearing on Wikipedia multiple times. — Preceding User:Fluffyghost (talk) 11:56, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I don't personally have an issue as such with the notability - the issue is that nowhere on the page have any references been placed to notable sources, in order for the community to verify that notability. Especially for biographical articles such as this, I would suggest using your Sandbox (link at the top-right hand corner of every page) to start drafting the page, then you can always put it onto the public encyclopaedia itself when it's more developed. (Don't worry too much at first if your referencing formatting is a tad off, so long as it's clear they're there to verify notability, the community can always tidy these for you :-) ) Mike1901 (talk) 12:46, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks! Would referencing to the trophy pages not count as a notable source? What would you advise I link too? As the all the content already exists. A little confused by this. I have placed the content in the sandbox too, but I need this page to stay live. User:Fluffyghost
No - you're referencing other Wikipedia pages there - which cannot be a source in their own right. You need to be linking to external sources which aren't fan-generated - news sites and the like. The page is getting there now though - I'll give you a hand when I get some time this evening! I'll kill the deletion tag - but that doesn't stop others reinstating it if they disagree! Mike1901 (talk) 13:02, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I have linked to the official trophy past winners list, so hopefully this will clarify my source. Thank you very much I really appreciate that! This is a little overwhelming. Right, at least my page will be left alone for a little bit. How quickly can a page get deleted once it's been selected for the speedy deletion request? I will move all my updates to my sandbox just encase. Also I want to upload an image onto the page. I don't seem to have a confirmed account. What would I do achieve this?User:Fluffyghost
I've removed the tag and put an Under Construction tag in it's place - that should hopefully mean people will leave it alone from a referencing POV for now! I'll do some tidying on the page this evening (UK time) and will try and get some suitable references in there at that point if no-one else gets there first. With regards to the images - make sure you've confirmed your email address (you should have got an e-mail from Wikipedia with a link to click) Mike1901 (talk) 13:34, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you so much, I really appreciate the help. That would be great! The page is starting to come together, still awaiting on some more external links and content but almost there. Right, can that email be resent? If so where would I find this option? As I don't believe I've received it. Would it be ok to add a "did you mean Bob Ives UK" on the official Bob Ives page? As there two separate people, but I want users to be able to find Bob Ives UK if they search just Bob Ives? User:Fluffyghost
Not a problem! I see you've resolved your issue uploading pictures which is good! I've tidied the article name slightly to fit in with Wikipedia's naming standards - don't worry, the old page will redirect. I've also put a link in at the top of the Bob Ives (politician) page as you've suggested above. Mike1901 (talk) 20:31, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey, I'm having to upload to the Wiki commons currently. Thank you for editing it accordingly it looks a lot better already! And happy to see a link on the Bob Ives (politician) page, that's great! I have more amends for the page as well as the Joe Ives page I shall be implementing on Monday. Hopefully this won't effect the under construction time period? Have a good weekend! User:Fluffyghost — Preceding undated comment added 17:25, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi quick question, how do I edit the page name? I need to change Bob Ives (Racing Driver) to Bob Ives (Off Road Specialist). User:Fluffyghost — Preceding undated comment added 12:52, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

you can't delete

dear editor Ahmed Mac is a verified wikipedia article i am getting info about him everyday and i will edit it everyday cause i need time to collect information about him thanks a lot ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ame123ojfish (talk • contribs) 19:07, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I'd wait until you at least have a summary ready before posting the article on Wikipedia. Articles which simply contains links are liable to be Speedy Deleted, unfortunately, as they are not encyclopaedic as-is. Mike1901 (talk) 19:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC)==

Help in editing

actually i am writing a article Ahmed Mac and you want it to remove everytime . i have now added many sections with many detail in it and if something is missing in it then take a while to tell me thanks Ame123ojfish 04:59, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Jean Fourton deletion

Hi,

I really don't understand wy my page about Jean Fourton was deleted, I spent hours completing the article with references and I contested the deletion with a message, and now it's gone, no traces can be found!? I'd like to know why you've done this. I did explain myself why this person has an importance in arts and psychoanalysis history. Furthermore, the article fits the rules and references were good.

Could you explain your deletion? Are you able to cancel this, and make the article available again?

Thank you

Taaflb (talk) 14:52, 23 February 2015 (UTC) 

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Taaflb (talk • contribs) 14:36, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Okay dude !

okay i will not do a edit war on awakening records article i will not edit again ! but i will encourage you to visit this facebook page and tell me that is he not a awakening records member or not www.facebook.com/zarthowed www.twitter.com/ahmednorthowed www.zarthowed.blogspot.com and if you agree that he is a member too then edit awakening records article by yourself and add him thanks Ame123ojfish 19:33, 25 February 2015 (UTC)


Euan Sellers

Hello I am the producer of the page Euan Sellers. I am looking to create a page on myself and are just wandering why my page is on speedy deletion. I am not happy with this and want to know do I have to use another website to create a page on myself or am I able to do this using Wikipedia. Thank You Euan Sellers — Preceding unsigned comment added by SellersE (talk • contribs) 15:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, unless you can prove notability, Wikipedia is not the place to promote yourself. (and in any case, even if notability can be proven, it is not a good idea to write about yourself on Wikipedia in any case generally speaking). Mike1901 (talk) 16:15, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
I should also add that your user page can be used to talk about yourself, in the context of you as a Wikipedia user. Mike1901 (talk) 16:19, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


i take my words back

i have added some references go and see them and tell me and don't add any other deletion process now ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ame123ojfish (talk • contribs) 19:30, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

The barnstar...

Thanks, I'm genuinely touched! Nice working with you. JZCL 21:34, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

No problem at all - I normally am lurking round the New Pages Feed patrolling them when I get time to help out on the wiki, so it was unchartered territory to a large extent going to ANI (although I'll do the occasional comment on other discussions)! Mike1901 (talk) 21:38, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Emotion Media Factory

Hi, I have noticed that this page is marked for the speedy deletion. The reason why this page was created is not to promote the company or the name, but to give the insight who is standing behind the attractions like Multimedia Fountain Roshen (the largest in Europe), AIDA cruises etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnytsia_Fountain_Roshen

The same companies working in attraction industry already listed on wiki with the exact the same content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WET_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Rides

If there is a space for improvement of this page to avoid its removal, I would appreciate your assistance. Kind regards, Laserland — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laserland (talk • contribs) 18:36, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

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  • VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [21]
  • Some Labs tools had issues last week. [22] [23]

Changes this week

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Problems

  • Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [25]
  • Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [26]
  • Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [27] [28]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
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Meetings

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [30] [31]
  • If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [32]
  • When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [33]
  • The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [34]

Meetings

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Future changes

  • If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [36]

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  • Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [37]
  • Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [38]

Changes this week

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Future changes

  • Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [40]
  • If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [41] [42] [43]

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Problems

  • On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [47] [48] [49]
  • On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [50] [51] [52]
  • Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [53] [54] [55]

Changes this week

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

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Problems

  • JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [63]

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Meetings

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Future

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Recent changes

  • On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [69]

Problems

  • The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [70]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
  • The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [71] [72]
  • You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [73]

Meetings

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Problems

  • There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [75]
  • There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [76]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [77]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
  • You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [78]

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 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [79]

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03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31

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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. [85]

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. [86]

Meetings

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-32

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

  • The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
    • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [87]
    • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [88] [89] [90] [91]
  • The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [92]
  • MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [93]
  • Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [94]

Problems

  • There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [95]
  • We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [96]

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)

Tech News: 2015-33

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

Recent changes

  • MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [97]
  • The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [98]
  • 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. [99]
  • You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [100]
  • It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [101]
  • JavaScript authors:
  • The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [106]

Problems

  • More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [107]
  • Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [108]
  • Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [109]

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. [110]
  • You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [111]

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. [112]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

  • 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. [113] [114] [115]
  • 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. [116]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [117] [118]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [119]

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. [120]

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)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

  • Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [121]

Problems

  • There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [122]

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)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

  • VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [123][124]
  • The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [125]
  • VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [126]
  • Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [127]

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

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-37

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

  • 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. [129]
  • A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [130]
  • You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [131]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [132]
  • The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [133][134]

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. [135]
  • 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. [136][137]

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. [138]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [139][140]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38

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

Recent changes

  • You can now use the Wikidata query service. [141]
  • 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. [142]
  • Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [143][144]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [145]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [146]

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. [147]
  • The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [148]

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

Hi. With only 134 edits to mainspace you almost certainly do not have sufficient experience to be patrolling new pages. There are easier tasks such as Counter Vandalism that would enable you to get your feet wet on maintenance tasks more easily. AS soon you have over 200 mainspace edits you can enroll at the WP:CVUA to learn more about it. Happy editing! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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

  • There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [149][150]
  • 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. [151][152][153][154]
  • 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. [155]
  • The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [156]

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. [157]
  • 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. [158][159]
  • UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [160]

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. [161]
  • 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. [162]
  • Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [163]

Meetings

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

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. [164]
  • UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [165]
  • You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [166]
  • When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [167]
  • You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [168]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [169]
  • 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. [170]

Problems

  • Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [171][172]

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. [173]
  • 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. [174]

Meetings

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)

Tech News: 2015-41

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

Recent changes

  • The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [176]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [177]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [178]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [179]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [180]

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 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Mike, IAR Brașov was a football team of Industria Aeronautică Română, is no connection between this redirect. I will try to create the football page, first to see what information I find. Thank you.--Alexiulian25 (talk) 19:25, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

No problem! Please detail as such in your edit summary in future - the lack of edit summary was the reason for my revert. Mike1901 (talk) 19:26, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi, IAR Brașov was the old name of this team Tractorul Brașov. I created and now you can redirect it to here. Thanks !--Alexiulian25 (talk) 07:01, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42

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

Recent changes

  • The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [181]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [182]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [183]

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 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to STiki!

Hello, Mike1901, and welcome to STiki! Thank you for your recent contributions using our tool. We at STiki hope you like using the tool and decide to continue using it in the future. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Here are some pages which are a little more fun:

  • The STiki leaderboard - See how you are faring against other STiki users!
  • Userboxes - Do not hesitate to wear the STiki label with pride by choosing from a selection of userboxes!

We hope you enjoy maintaining Wikipedia with STiki! If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions don't hesitate to drop a note over at the STiki talk page and we'll be more than happy to help. Again, welcome, and thanks! West.andrew.g (developer) and ‑Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:00, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Syrian presidential elections - recent change

Thank you for the comment. My addition (that you removed) referred not to any external data, but to election results table included into wiki article right above my comment. So I suppose that there is no need to provide any external link For better clarity may be it's worth to add a note right to the election results table to highlight this discrepancy in 1 vote Barouh (talk) 09:24, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Jorge Horacio Brito article

Hello!I saw you restored the changes I made on the article about Jorge Horacio Brito. My edits were not a mistake. I compared the two versions in conflict and I believed that the article was victim of vandalism, so I changed to a more "cleaned" version. I speak Spanish I can assure you that the sources that talk about the corruption allegations are not reliable or are not exact or does not says what the article states. That's why I made those editions. I explained it in the Talk page. Do I have to put further details? Many thanks!--HungryThai (talk) 09:43, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-43

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

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The Recurrent item icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The For technical readers icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [184]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [185]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [186]
  • The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [187]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [188]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [189][190][191][192]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

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A cup of tea for you!

With this ever dramatic world and winter coming, here's a cup of tea to alleviate your day! This e-tea's remains have been e-composted SwisterTwister talk 05:56, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

hi. It's not about the life of the person (Gavaskar). It's a popular joke. By the way, do you like potato chips? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.96.92.237 (talk) 17:26, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [193]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [194][195]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [196][197]
  • Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [198]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [199]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [200]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [201]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [202]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [203]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [204]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

  • Superprotect has been removed. [205]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [206]
  • JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [207]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [208]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [209]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [212]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [213]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [214]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (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 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [215][216]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:41, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48

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 Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [217]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

  • On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [218]
  • Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [219]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [220][221]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [222]
  • Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [223]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

  • Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [224]

Problems

  • Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [225]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [226]
  • IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [227]
  • You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [228]
  • It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [229]
  • You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [230]
  • UploadWizard will look a bit different. [231]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
  • New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [232]

Meetings

Future changes

  • A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [233]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

  • Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [234]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
  • The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

  • CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
  • The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

  • There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
  • No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02

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

Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [239]

Changes this 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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [244]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [245][246]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [247][248]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Congratulations!

The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar

Congratulations, Mike1901! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Widr (talk) 09:43, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hallo, You Speak Arabe? Huhu.ID (talk) 20:34, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, this is the English Wikipedia, sadly I only speak English. Mike1901 (talk) 20:36, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Re: North Korea Edit

Hi Mike,

It may not be constructive to put jokes about North Korea, but it sure is funny. Can't we please just let one joke about North Korea stand, for the good of the project!? Even if its not the Nodong gag, I think it would be good to use humour to force North Korea to take a good hard look at themselves. All else has failed so far, why not? Maybe if North Koreans happen to sneak into the internet on a Chinese sim card and look at their country on wiki, seeing our joke(s) about their government may make them realize that they can and should question their government. Like, why can't I put that Kim Jong Il had no butthole, and didn't need to defecate according to propaganda? Does Wikipedia only like facts that don't offend people? Whats more important, the truth or being "PC"?

I understand that Wikipedia needs facts only, but we could sneak it in the reference or something, that it is just a joke maybe? Or at least allow my edit about the butthole... That one is verifyable with a reference. So much crap makes it on here, whats one more little nugget? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.183.76.53 (talk) 09:29, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia's content should be neutral and based on facts backed up by a reliable source - it's not designed as a place to make political statements. Mike1901 (talk) 09:34, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

QUIT DELETING OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS

If you have a problem with someone's post on here, please be respectful enough to discuss the issue with them BEFORE taking any action. Any modifications need to be based upon fact and not YOUR opinion of the matter. The next time this occurs, I will request wikipedia to DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND BAN YOUR IP PERMANENTLY. Thank you.

All content on Wikipedia should be backed up by a reliable source. Please ensure you use an edit summary and reference a reliable source to back up what you're submitting. Mike1901 (talk) 10:51, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Tyler, Texas

Making a fragment into a complete sentence is not a constructive edit? 66.61.83.123 (talk) 17:21, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

My apologies, I misread the change! Was about to revert myself but seen you've already done it. Apologies again. Mike1901 (talk) 17:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [249]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [250]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [251]
  • MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [252]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Royal Signals

You have accused me of vandalism, even though the Wikipedia guidelines state that no good faith posting should be deemed vandalism.

Far from being hostile to the Corps, I am a former Signalman, and a life-member of the Royal Signals association. You assert that my post is inaccurate - what knowledge places you in a position to challenge my personal experience? I ask not in order to be confrontational, but genuinely to establish the basis for your claim.

Do you have service in the British Army or specialist knowledge of Royal signals practices and customs? If not I would politely suggest that the onus is on you to justify your accusation, not on me.

I repeat my affirmation that to my personal knowledge, the motto Certo Cito was almost universally , albeit unofficially translated by Corps personnel as "Shit or Bust".

By their very nature, it is rarely, if ever, possible to provide citations for colloquial usages, I have found reference to this usage on urban dictionary.com.Kettering Ken (talk) 20:47, 18 January 2016 (UTC) 

Kettering Ken (talk) 20:42, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Firstly, apologies if you feel I was unfair in determining your post as vandalism. It's quite difficult to determine what is/isn't vandalism with this sort of edit, especially when you don't use an edit summary (I'll explain this in detail on your talk page). To answer your question, Wikipedia requires information to be backed up by a reliable source - unfortunately personal experience alone (without any reference to back it up) is not sufficient. Mike1901 (talk) 20:49, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

OpenConf

Mike - The page was updated and noticed removed per procedure outlined in the notice: "You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason". Reasoning had also been added to the Talk:OpenConf page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.228.230.160 (talk) 22:40, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

My apologies, misread the tag (thought it was an AfD tag). Will revert my change. Apologies again. Mike1901 (talk) 22:44, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Messages among users.

I'm having great difficulty directly addressing other users. I had made amends to the James Holmes page as at least two glaring pieces of misinformation are contained in the Wikipedia article. I amended it...three times. Three times somebody changed it back and I was made to feel in the wrong, despite the article being wrong. Suffice to say if Wikipedia wishes to allow misinformation to stay that's there business, it just diminishes their reputation. My issue is I was unable to address the people directly and still can't. Any help regarding how to message would be appreciated. I'm resorting to this as I cant find an alternative. Thank you. Godabove09 (talk) 07:50, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

This sort of thing is why we have article talk pages. Put your query (and back it up with sources!) on there (talk:James Holmes (mass murderer)) if people keep reverting you - it's likely that some discussion needs to take place to ascertain consensus. Mike1901 (talk) 07:54, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
If you wish to allow incorrect information that's OK.
A link to a piece of misinformation in the medIa doesn't hold up...but fine.
The piece will remain, with the two lies in place and your site will be diminished as a respected source because of it...it's a slippery slope. Godabove09 (talk) 07:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
I must amend my message, Mike, as I see I may not be in the right place.
My comment is still valid, but forgive me if you are confused and I'm in the wrong place. Godabove09 (talk) 07:56, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Barbatia photos have wrong name

The headline says it all. You cannot call a giraffe a zebra. So why then are the names reversed again? Because they "do not appear constructive"? What is that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.87.96.235 (talk) 08:56, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

The file name of the picture (and Google image searches) categorise this differently. If you're going to change this, please cite a reliable source for the change in name. Mike1901 (talk) 10:19, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

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 follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [253][254]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [255]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [256]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [257]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [258]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [259]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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