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Meow!! 10:05, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi! You remember me? :) Thanks for thanking me for thanking you. lol Meow!! 10:05, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

And thanks for thanking me for thanking you for thanking me! :P Peter Sam Fan | talk 14:43, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

No problem! lolMeow!! 19:28, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Cool guy

	You a cool & fun person!
	You are a good person. Friends? Meow!! 19:30, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Yeah. However, I think I'm going to be taking a semi-wikibreak for Lent (even though it doesn't seem like it.)Peter Sam Fan | talk 19:33, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

mmkay. Yeah.. I really hafta get off wikipedia and continue with my work. Anyway, good luck with your break and Happy Hunger games and Let The Force be Ever in Your Favor!Meow!! 19:47, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey dood! Thanks for the Barnstar! :) Meow!! 02:38, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Ur welcome. Peter Sam Fan | talk 23:47, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Blocking Policy

Lol.. You gonna blow me up for editing/ modifying it. LOL Meow!! 01:39, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	You're a good person. I love you man. Meow!! 02:40, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Peter Sam Fan | talk 17:57, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	For being a good friend to me. Meow!! 03:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For being yourself and doing your share of edits in your Wikilife. Meow!! 03:02, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Woah, dude thanks! I really wasn't expecting this. My account is only 19 days old (as of February 22, 2016) and I have three barnstars? Thanks! Peter Sam Fan | talk 15:20, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Help me!

What on earth is the green template documentation doing on my page? I didn't add it there, and I have no clue how it got there. Would you please delete it, if you know how?

Peter Sam Fan | talk 20:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

You appear to have accidentally included {{documentation}}. I have removed it. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Drop me a note} 22:34, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Guestbook

Hey. Nice guestbook.I have a Guestbook now if you wanna check it out..Meow!! 23:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Cats

	Thanks
	Hey there! you earned these! btw how'd you like the music in there? Meow!! 02:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Erm, I didn't listen, since my speaker's on mute. Whoops. Peter Sam Fan | talk 03:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

No Problemo Oh.. ha, it's ok.Meow!! 03:08, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Say hello to my little friend....Meow!! 22:11, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, computer-generated picture. :P Peter Sam Fan | talk 18:22, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

lol.. it's mah kitteh!! I have a kitteh in real life too. Do u have a pet? Meow!! 22:26, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Yep! I have a very gentle cat. Peter Sam Fan | talk 22:48, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Cool! mine thinks shes a tiger. It's black and white with green eyes. what's yours look likeMeow!! 00:45, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Mine's gray with yellow eyes. She's a seven-toed cat, believe it or not. Peter Sam Fan | talk 20:46, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

7?!.. cool..i guess. I like gray cats. Meow!! 21:24, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

This looks alot like mine... but smaller, and mine has no orange. Meow!! 22:10, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Thank you so much for the cookies! Hope you can enjoy a nice thank you cupcake! I'm glad you offer to help! Wikipedia is feeling a bit overwhelming at the moment, with so much info to process at once. I've looked around but I can't seem to find a good biography template. Can you help? Thank you! Josinemonalisa (talk) 18:03, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Erm, what do you mean by a good biography template? (You can join WikiProject Biography if you're interested in biography). Peter Sam Fan | talk 20:22, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Not sure if this invades your privacy...

Hey, how old are you?Meow!! 22:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

My age is irrelevant to this site, but, I am younger than 45 years old. :) Peter Sam Fan | talk 02:53, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay lol.. I'm younger than 25 years old. ^-^Meow!! 06:10, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

What sexuality are you?Meow!! 08:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

I got in trouble for this already. So, I won't do it again. Peter Sam Fan | talk 15:14, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

k..fine..Meow!! 22:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Songwriter vandal on Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song)

Can you keep an eye of the page? A user named Special:Contributions/WickedDreamMusic involved false songwriter repeatedly. 123.136.111.237 (talk) 01:43, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Sure. Peter Sam Fan | talk 03:23, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

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• The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [1]
• The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [2]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

IP vandal

User:90.19.212.49 is making the same old hoaxes as Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Maelbros, if you hadn't encountered them before - feel free to go straight to a level 4 warning if it's coming from an IP address. --McGeddon (talk) 15:46, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks! --Peter Sam Fan | chat? 15:47, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

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Regarding "Intel Tick-Tock" page editing

I have seen that you reverted my edit. First of all there is no intention of vandalism. The Atom Roadmap table is incomplete and misleading. Hence I edited. Hope you understand my concern. 45.118.62.103 (talk) 20:28, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, I made a mistake. Peter Sam Fan | chat? 01:24, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Thomas

Please do not add template to any disambig pages in which a Tomas item is only one for several options, e.g. Toby or Gordon. Thanks, DGtal (talk) 07:59, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay. --Peter Sam Fan 15:32, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-12

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Problems

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
• In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [5]

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• It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [6]
• You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

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• 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. This will happen on May 2. [8]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Because you thanked me

Peter SamFan, you thanked me for one of my recent edits, so here is a heart-felt...  YOU'RE WELCOME! It's a pleasure, and I hope you have a lot of fun while you edit this inspiring encyclopedia phenomenon! Marianna251TALK

19:21, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

@Marianna251: Thanks! (Again.) Peter Sam Fan 19:21, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Reverting my edit

I got a message from you regarding the edit I made in Lurkmore article. For almost 3 years I can't change my own name on this page. I go by both names, Dmitry and David, and have IDs for both of them (although in different countries). Any way, it's not "Dimitri", with three "i". Could we just put "David" there and forget about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xtender (talk • contribs) 20:14, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

@Xtender: Um, okay, but you will have to prove that it is you. Peter Sam Fan 20:23, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

OK, here we go. I placed a temporary message for you near the footer of the main page of https://lurkmore.to/ — check it. Is that enough? Xtender (talk) 20:44, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

@Xtender: Yes, so add it. However, you might want to cite that as a primary source. Peter Sam Fan 23:59, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Lurkmore article

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Lurkmore, you may be blocked from editing. Quis separabit? 00:37, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

@Rms125a@hotmail.com: Some IP user just posted the warning you gave to them on my talk page. What do you think I should do? (I am a relatively new user.) Peter Sam Fan 14:21, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

I warned the IP user (see [9]) again re vandalism. If it recurs go to ANI and report under "vandalism", and include the url I just provided you as well as the url of this (your) talk page. That should be sufficient for a block. Yours, Quis separabit? 14:27, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! --Peter Sam Fan 14:28, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Thanks for the thanks on antivandalism. Time for lunch! Winterysteppe (talk) 15:54, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

@Winterysteppe: Thanks! Peter Sam Fan 15:55, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

That 207.225.131.141 user...

I've reported them to AIV and asked for talk-page access to be temporarily revoked. Shearonink (talk) 18:34, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

@Shearonink: Thanks, bud! Peter Sam Fan 18:35, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

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• MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [10] [11]

Problems

• Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [12]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [13]

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• Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [14]
• Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2016

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Yes, and sorry. Peter Sam Fan | talk 22:59, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

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A beer for you!

Congratulations on receiving rollback :) — Omni Flames (talk contribs) 23:47, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

@Omni Flames: Thanks! Peter Sam Fan 15:34, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

2.0 (film)

Please wait until I finish my edit before calling it disruptive. Thanks. 20:44, 29 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.119.34.44 (talk)

You should have mentioned that in your edit summary. Anyhow, everyone makes mistakes. Peter Sam Fan 18:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Rules for fools

See this. Kharkiv07 (T) 02:11, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

• @Kharkiv07: Whoops. Peter Sam Fan 02:12, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Pratusha Banerjee died Today

Hey bro I updated her article. But I am blocked. Please help me. Indian news channels have confirmed this news. Sohanpandey (talk) 16:05, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

okay. Peter Sam Fan 16:09, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

@Sohanpandey: You are not blocked, liar! Otherwise, you couldn't edit my talk page. Peter Sam Fan 16:11, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

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Reversion

Hi Peter SamFan: A recent edit you performed at MfD has been reverted. You may want to check it out. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:44, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Why you little... :P (Fell for it.) Peter Sam Fan 13:55, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-14

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Recent changes

• You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [15]
• Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [16]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Hi there! keep it real. Gaio valerio catullo (talk) 20:52, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

I am sorry for my unruly attitude towards you and I send this appreciation message to you to say thank you for your helpful words of guidance.

Kiah6060 (talk) 23:40, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism etc

Hi! I've semi-protected your user page and deleted those vandalised pages again. Wasn't very imaginative vandalism, was it?!  —SMALLJIM  15:22, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

• @Smalljim: Thanks! No, it was not. Peter Sam Fan 15:40, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thank you for the Barnstar! I really appreciate your effort in helping me have a better Wikipedia experience! Kiah6060 (talk) 18:58, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-15

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Recent changes

• The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [17][18]
• Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [19][20]
• ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [21]
• The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [22]

Problems

• There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [23]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
• The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [24]

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 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [25]

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20:45, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Need block (probable) troll keep positive vandalizing? Solarpunk page. Just for short time.

I had undo it again, Because there no references/connections to book version John Cater of Mars with "heavy" influncened by Solarpunk movement. I dont know if that attempted trolling/positive vandalized or that user is moron with keep connecting book to movement as "heavy influnced"? [26] and its previous edits edits (#2)... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.61.121.86 (talk) 13:39, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Fine. Ask someone else like MusikAnimal or Jimbo Wales (who by the way, founded Wikipedia) to help you because tumblr does not appear to be a reliable source. Peter Sam Fan 14:08, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Ok, Its very cool you have connections with founder of site. Put still thanks anyway. :) 70.61.121.86 (talk) 14:19, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

I do? He's British and I'm Italian. Peter Sam Fan 14:24, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Saffron terror

Hello Peter. Please undo your change of the protection template. Pp-dispute is generally used by administrators for other things, and there is no need to annoy the readers with a large template when a small one would do. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

@EdJohnston:  Done. Peter Sam Fan 16:19, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of LilyPond

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Your GA nomination of LilyPond

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Nonsense indeed!

Template:Attached KML/Journal Square – 33rd Street and others were not nonsense you clumsy, over-hasty, uncomprehending newbie (taking example from this page's banner). Read the write-up at template:Attached KML and look for example at Hoboken – World Trade Center and click on the "Route map: Bing / Google" link at top-right. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 18:06, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you RHaworth — Bluetram (talk) 18:22, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-16

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

Recent changes

• You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [27][28]
• You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [29]
• MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [30]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [31]
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

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 April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	For the infamous RhineSomethingOrOther incident of 2016! HappyValleyEditor (talk) 20:01, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! --Peter Sam Fan 20:03, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

AFD

Hi Peter, I've had to undo your AFD closure as you've used the incorrect template, You can either add importScript('User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD.js'); into your vector.js or if you wanted to do it manually then you could use template:afd top and template:afd bottom,
Thanks & Happy editing, –Davey2010^Talk 19:33, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that for blatant vandalism or articles such as "Mother and lesbian civil partner accused of murdering toddler 'made another young boy sleep naked with his hands and feet bound with cable ties in a locked cage'," speedy deletion may be more efficient. Anyway, keep up the good work! Regards, GAB^Hello! 22:23, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

@GeneralizationsAreBad: Thanks! The problem is that I wasn't sure which criteria fit. Peter Sam Fan 22:45, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Pippa taylor-hackett

A tag has been placed on Pippa taylor-hackett requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 09:02, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-17

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

• Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [32]
• When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
• Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [33]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [34]
• It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [35]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (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 April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [36]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Weird choice of tag

You have added a tag stating that the translation I'm working on is a rough translation of the German entry. How can I put this politely? It really isn't. Did you look at the German entry? Did you look at the source links? Looking at how many different tasks you managed to squeeze into your available time, I think maybe you did not look at very much. For better or worse or both, the entry in its current state owes a lot more to the sources cited than to the entry in German wikipedia. The German entry DOES give a basic chronology, but once you start googling around to find live source links, there really is a whole lot more.

I may be being dumb, but I've no idea what you are trying to achieve with this. These tags may only take five seconds to apply, but you really do need to think a little longer than ten seconds when selecting them. There are wiki policies and guidelines to that effect, but ultimately I think such things are best treated as matters of common sense.

Dear Peter Sam Fan, I should like to remove your tag, but I have no wish to get into a pissing context over something which is not very important with someone about whom I know nothing. Therefore, I ask first. Would you mind if I were to remove this strange tag?

Regards Charles01 (talk) 16:17, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

@Charles01: No, I don't mind, but please remove the German first. Peter Sam Fan 16:19, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

The German - assuming you mean what I think you probably mean - is concealed I mean like this. It helps me to progress the entry. The reader does not see it. Wikipedia exists, in the first instance, for it's readers, not for nerdy wiki-contributors such as thee and me.

What, exactly, is your own problem with this? Regards Charles01 (talk) 16:24, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

@Charles01: If you are working on the article, I have no problem with it. Just add {{Under Construction}} to the top of the article. Peter Sam Fan 19:22, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-18

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 visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [37]

Problems

• There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [38]

Changes this week

• You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [39]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [40]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Speedy tagging

This was too hasty. An author should be allowed at least a few minutes (I generally use 15 minutes of idle time) to flesh out an article. Authors often create the article with the bare minimum content just to "reserve" the page. (Not necessary, but a common error among new editors.) Tagging such an article immediately (in under 1 minute in this case) is very WP:BITEy, and discourages new editors from trying to create any content. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

@WikiDan61: I should really learn not to do that. Thanks anyway! Peter Sam Fan 14:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Rick Scott article

I tried to make a point. I didn't do it right, I understand that. But that article on Governor Rick Scott -- mainly the last half -- is very biased and only focuses on supposed mistakes, failures or controversies. There is little to no discussion of his accomplishments. I STRONGLY feel you should mark it with a warning that it may be biased. I would appreciate you taking a look at it and considering my suggestion. I am sure you would not let whatever political opinions you personally hold to influence your decision. I don't think the author was fair and balanced in their approach. Thanks. Daniel Shumway (danielshumway@yahoo.com). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.111.139 (talk) 04:37, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

I don't think Wikipedia marks to see if it's "biased" or not. I didn't even know he existed before. Peter Sam Fan 13:43, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Because you deserve it! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:03, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Peter Sam Fan 14:55, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for this edit. JumpiMaus (talk) 15:34, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

@JumpiMaus: Thanks! Peter Sam Fan 15:35, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-19

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

• Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [41]
• You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [42]
• Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [43][44]
• You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [45]
• Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [46]
• The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [47]
• Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [48]
• Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [49]

Problems

• MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [50]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 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 May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).

Future changes

• Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [51]

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23:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Talk page comments

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your honest feedback. How did it all get started? The original author, Fredrick (and the children and staff at Jabes Orphanage School in Nairobi, Kenya) really liked the work I was doing. He wanted to help out. That's it. Unfortunately, there were issues on how he had typed in the info, that Wikipedia needed corrected -- so myself and other Wikipedia community members tried to assist (multiple times). His computer is not functioning as well as ours, where he can do the corrections -- his computer is very slow.

I am a multi-media writer, specializing in writing, NOT a specific media, as is currently being debated.

Fredrick, as he had written, he liked the message that was being sent, through the work that I had done and am doing. Seeing no one currently debating the article is really getting that point: that the focus of the work was to encourage and create a better world -- I was sad to see, that it became a debate on whether or not it had extensive publicity or noteability, etc. It was hoped that through Wikipedia, we would connect with like minds, who care -- like Fredrick (an amazing man, whose story no one will know, because this man does alot of work behind the scenes saving young lives -- however, there has been no support material, such as, no media coverage of his activities, nothing, to prove the role model that he is (only his community knows and friends on FB). We have done alot of work together in the Community of Jabes (even, starting an agricultural program, where none existed, selling hen eggs to one of the top grocery stores in Nairobi) -- bringing hope to a impoverished community that had so very little -- but, again, there was no media coverage or such.

Hence, could you please assist us in having the "Stella Constance" profile removed, as soon as possible? We thank you for your assistance and guidance in this matter. You are much more experienced in this, than we are. Sorry, that I had to connect with you this way. I could not find a way to email you. Wikipedia has a very different set-up, than with what I am familiar.

Wishing you, and the members of the Wikipedia Community, all the very best, Stella — Preceding unsigned comment added by StellaConstance (talk • contribs) 16:25, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi there,

This is really a minor thing, but just a heads up that new talk page comments, votes, etc. almost always go at the bottom of the thread rather than the top. (re: Wikipedia talk:Page mover). :) — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 21:17, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

AfC comment

I noticed your comment on Draft:Dennis Hopeless. I'm a little surprised; a lack of a birthdate is not a reason to not accept a draft, particularly for a living person where such information may not be widely available. In fact, WP:BLPPRIVACY argues that adding a birthdate may be inappropriate. If that was the only objection, the draft should be accepted as-is. Huon (talk) 21:37, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

MSTA

I removed those tags because they were added by a member of the MSTA who disputed the neutrality of the article on the basis that the article presented a neutral point-of-view, rather than pushing what the MSTA calls the truth.

The article is fine.142.105.159.60 (talk) 23:47, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Talk page for "Death of Kendrick Johnson" where person who made edits is not talking.

The subject page was locked to prevent further the edit warring. I reported what appears to be vandalism of the Death of Kendrick Johnson page and made some suggestions. The person who apparently did the editing/vandalism is not talking. It's been over a week. Is there a way that my suggestions can be considered so we can remove the vandalism and get that page back to verifiable references and content that supports verifiable references? VSkolnick (talk) 14:43, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-20

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

• Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [52]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [53]

Changes this week

• Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [54]
• Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [55]
• A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [57]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Request on 21:24:14, 16 May 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Jesupelumi W

• Jesupelumi W (talk · contribs)
  • User:Jesupelumi W/Geonetics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi PeterSamFan,

Thank you for taking out time to review my recently created article. I do appreciate your genuine feedback. The reason I am requesting assistance is so that I can be guided on how to get this article created properly. When I saw materials about the concept of Geonetics, it caught my attention because of it's potential possibilities to bring about improvements in the society. Improving the status-quo is something I have a passion for. That is why, with the few materials I found on the web i swung into action to seek collaboration with other in exploring this concept. I had to challenge myself to learn how to create and edit articles on Wikipedia. The fact is that, I alone cannot unravel and describe this concept by myself because, a lot would be left out. So, in order to have more brilliant minds explore this concept with me in a holistic way, I am kindly requesting your assistance in getting this article created in the right way. Thank you for your time.

Jesupelumi W (talk) 21:24, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Hmm. Well, you shouldn't make articles that just promote things, and you shouldn't say things like "this type of lotion is better than Aveeno lotion" in articles. You can ask questions at the TEAHOUSE if you need more help. --Peter Sam Fan 21:43, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

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Help

Hello Peter SamFan I am a student at Marinette Catholic Central. I am writing you because I am working on a school project and that project is to create a Wikipedia page for my school. My edits to the page I created have recently been undone. I believe this is due to a misunderstanding. My school's name has been changed from Marinette Catholic Central to Saint Thomas Aquinas Academy in recent years. We have a Wikipedia page for Saint Thomas Aquinas Academy but we are trying to make a wikipedia page for Marinette Catholic Central High School. I want to do this because the history of Marinette Catholic Central goes all the way back to 1876 and the Saint Thomas Aquinas Academy Page doesn't represent this history accurately. So long story short the Marinette Catholic Central High Scool page keeps getting redirected to Saint Thomas Aquinas Academy. I would greatly appreciate any help or advice you could offer so that I could create an accurate Wikipedia page on Marinette Catholic Central High School.174.102.205.87 (talk) 14:02, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Considering the fact that it keeps getting undone by long-standing editors, what you should do is tell your teachers that you can't create a Wikipedia page for your school. Tell them to see WP:NOTABLE. Peter Sam Fan 14:35, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Notice

report me and user:akocsg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.41.78.40 (talk) 15:04, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

I won't report User:Akocsg because he reverted your malicious edits. I have reported you though. Peter Sam Fan 15:06, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

he changed the article. he is the one u have to report. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.41.78.40 (talk) 15:07, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

read this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenerbah%C3%A7e%E2%80%93Galatasaray_rivalry&diff=720719408&oldid=719477283 where is the source????? No source — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.41.78.40 (talk) 15:13, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

May 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, articles should not be moved, as you did to Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present), without good reason. They need to have a name that is both accurate and intuitive. Wikipedia has some guidelines in place to help with this. Generally, a page should only be moved to a new title if the current name doesn't follow these guidelines. Also, if a page move is being discussed, consensus needs to be reached before anybody moves the page. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. RGloucester — ☎ 15:38, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

@RGloucester: Is having it as an uncontroversial technical move at WP:RM not a good reason? That didn't make a whole lot of sense. Peter Sam Fan 15:43, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

That was not an "uncontroversial technical move" by any definition. An "uncontroversial technical move" is something that fixes a minor error, grammatical mistake, &c. RGloucester — ☎ 15:44, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

@RGloucester:  Comment. Oh. Peter Sam Fan 15:47, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

In future, I'd suggest that you leave answering requests at WP:RM/TR to administrators, as they are the ones meant to administrate them. I apologise if I seemed a bit harsh, but I hadn't comprehended the nature of the error. RGloucester — ☎ 15:59, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

I've speedy-deleted the redirects you created here under WP:G3; it's possibly out-of-process, but I think leaving them in place does more potential damage to Wikipedia (by making it appear that we implicitly endorse an ultra-fringe view) than strict compliance to policy. To echo RGloucester, I don't see how you could possibly think a move which claims in Wikipedia's voice that two countries are at war could possibly be "an uncontroversial technical move". ‑ Iridescent 20:36, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

@RGloucester and Iridescent: Thank you all for helping me. I moved that in good faith, and I didn't think I would get in trouble. Thank you all, and enjoy Wikipedia while you last. (I love saying that.) Peter Sam Fan 01:16, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Microsoft_Windows&action=history

Which part you don't understand? --Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 15:29, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Codename_Lisa#https:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fwiki.2FMicrosoft_Windows --Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 15:32, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

You will keep this obsolete update-requests on the page ??? --Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 15:50, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

You don't understand. Removing ANY talk page comments without the users' permission is not allowed. Peter Sam Fan 15:50, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Past answer in the German Wikipedia about cleaning-up talk pages was: "If it's obsolete, you can remove it!"

So is there a option to move obsolete requests to the archive ???

--Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 15:53, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

@Tobias B. Besemer and Codename Lisa: I really don't know. However, what's the matter with just leaving it? This is not German Wikipedia. --Peter Sam Fan 15:55, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

How long do you want to keep this section on your talk-page if we finished the talk ??? --Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 15:58, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

The bot archived yesterday on this page some sections from 2016-04-18...

If you tell me how, I do this with the talk page of the article and tell the bot to remove the two finished sections from 2015-11-13 and 2016-02-14.

--Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 16:22, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

@Tobias B. Besemer: Hi. In English Wikipedia, we keep discussions permanently. Also, the archival bot no longer accepts human command. It archives the discussions according to its configuration. If you don't want to participate in a discussion, just leave it alone. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 16:45, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

I fixed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page#Cut_and_paste_procedure -> Done!

--Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 16:46, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21

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 now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [58]

Problems

• Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [59]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [60]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Whale

Smash!

You've been squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.

Striking a vote based on an essay that says that votes with no rationale are unhelpful (but not forbidden), even though a rationale has been provided? I hope you like whales! The Quixotic Potato (talk) 18:49, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: LOL. I reversed my edit seconds before you gave me the message though. Peter Sam Fan 18:52, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I am happy I was just in time, because I rarely get to throw whales around, they are quite heavy! Ciao ciao, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 18:55, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: Would this be village-stocks-worthy? I'm thinking of adding myself. Peter Sam Fan 19:43, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

No, I think your heart was in the right place on this one, and it did turn out to be a problematic !vote, although not for the reason you gave. Striking !votes on RfAs is generally reserved for extreme cases and happens only a handful of times a year, even though I myself have done it twice within the past month. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:46, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Sorry for responding so slowly. I totally agree with Newyorkbrad's comment above, even though we have a different point of view. Have a nice day, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:26, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Cryoconservation of animal genetic resources

A tag has been placed on Cryoconservation of animal genetic resources requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 15:18, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2016

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

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Tech News: 2016-22

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 a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [61]

Problems

• A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [62][63]
• CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [64]

Changes this week

• When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [65]
• The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [66]
• A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [67][68]
• Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [69]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.

• Survey, (hosted by Qualtrics)

Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 June 2016

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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Tech News: 2016-23

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

• MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [70][71]

Changes this week

• The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [72]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

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 wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [73]
• Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [74][75][76][77]

Changes this week

• You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [78]
• It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [79]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

WP:WPTIME

Why have you marked this project as inactive? We had a new editor join in March. I am still active on the project. I think semi-active would be a more accurate assessment. ~Kvng (talk) 14:06, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

@Kvng: It looked inactive to me, but I have changed it. Thanks for the message! --Peter Sam Fan 19:11, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 June 2016

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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Thanks!

Thanks in the help against this IP. It is the Telstra-vandal, see User:Huldra/Telstra-socks. He normally ends up "promising" to rape (if you female) or kill (both female and male editors) after a few reverts. Thanks again for you help! Huldra (talk) 14:40, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

@Huldra: No problemo. That's what I love about vandals. Peter Sam Fan 14:55, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Talk page editing

Hi Peter. I don't know where you read this but unobjectionable talk page content is not removed for indefinitely blocked users. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:06, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

@NeilN: I honestly can't remember myself. Feel free to revert it. Cheers, Peter Sam Fan 14:31, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-25

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

• Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [80]

Changes this week

• The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [81][82]
• Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [83]
• When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [84]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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. [85]
• The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [86]
• A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [87]

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. [88][89]

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. [90]

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. [91]
• 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. [92]
• 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. [93][94][95]
• From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [96]
• 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. [97]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016

Editing News #2—2016 Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.

Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 21:09, 30 June 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

• Featured content: Triple fun of featured content

• Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit

• Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year

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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. [98]

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. [99]
• 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)

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. [100][101][102]
• 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. [103][104][105]
• 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. [106][107][108]

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. [109]
• 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)

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. [110]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [111]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [112]

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. [113][114]

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. [115]
• 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. [116]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [117][118]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [119]

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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. [120]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [121]

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. [122]
• 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. [123]

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. [124]

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. [125]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [126]

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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. [127]
• 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. [128]

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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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. [129]

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. [130]

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. [131]
• 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. [132]
• 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. [133]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [134]
• 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. [135]
• 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. [136]

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)

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. [137]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [138]
• 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. [139][140]

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. [141]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [142]
• 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". [143][144]
• 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. [145]
• 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. [146]

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19:37, 15 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. [147]
• 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. [148]
• 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. [149]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [150]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [151]

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. [152][153]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [154]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Please email r.bilusack@gmail.com

I don't know how to talk to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.71.207 (talk) 19:38, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Erm, you just did. Also, I do not have an email account. I'm not exactly sure what you want, but feel free to ask questions at the Teahouse if you have any! Cheers, Peter Sam Fan 22:02, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Before you delete edits to the Sherrie Rose page, READ THE PAGE. It has no references and is clearly a PR piece written by Rose herself. There are no facts at all, just pure hyperbole about how fantastic she is at everything and how everyone she works with loves her and what a big successful Hollywood celebrity she is. She is in fact someone who has been a background extra on a few tv shows, and that's it. This is NOT how Wikipedia is supposed to work - it is supposed to contain factual articles about important subjects, not self-published, hyperbolic PR for nobodies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.244.62.198 (talk) 14:58, 23 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. [155]
• 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. [156]

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. [157][158]
• 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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16:03, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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. [159]
• 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. [160]
• 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. [161]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [162][163]
• 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. [164][165]
• 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. [166]

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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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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. [167]
• <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. [168][169]

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. [170]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [171][172]
• 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. [173][174]

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. [175]

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22:09, 19 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. [176]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [177]
• 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. [178]

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. [179][180]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [181]

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. [182]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

• In the media: Wikipedia in the news

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [183]

• <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [184]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41

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

• You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [185]
• The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [186]
• Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [187]

Changes this week

• Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [188]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [189]

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter • Subscribe or unsubscribe on the English Wikipedia

Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

• You can now set text as small or big.[190]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[191] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[192]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[193]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.[194]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[195] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[196]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

• There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems

• Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [197]
• Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [198]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [199]

Future changes

• The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [200]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
• The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [201]
• About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [202]
• Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

Recent changes

• Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [203]
• Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [204]
• The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [205]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
• Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [206]
• Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [207]

Future changes

• New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [208]

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

• Wikicup: WikiCup winners

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

• Featured content: Cream of the crop

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2016-45

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

• Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [209]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [210]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [211]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [212]

Changes this week

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
• Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [213]

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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [214][215][216]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Happy birthday!

Warm regards, Mz7 (talk) 05:52, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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

• When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [217]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
• In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [218]

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

Future changes

• Magic links might not work in the future. [219]

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review needs your help

Hi Peter SamFan,

As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).

Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.

Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.

It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.

(Sent to all active AfC reviewers) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

Recent changes

• Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [220]
• You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [221]
• The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

• A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [222]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [223][224][225]

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

Future changes

• It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [226]
• Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [227]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Peter SamFan. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority 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 in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

• Featured content: Featured mix

• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

• When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [228]
• When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [229]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [230][231]

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

Future changes

• Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta.

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

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

Recent changes

• You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [232]
• Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [233]
• ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [234]

Changes this week

• You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [235]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Note: You received this message because you have transcluded {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} (user box) on your user page. Since this message is "one-time-only" there is no opt out for future mailings.

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Tech News: 2016-50

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

• Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [236]
• You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [237]
• Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [238]

Problems

• Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [239]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
• 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 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

• Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [240]
• Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [241]

Problems

• Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [242]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

• Year in review: Looking back on 2016

• News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results

• Special report: German ArbCom implodes

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

• Featured content: The Christmas edition

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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Tech News: 2017-02

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

• You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [243]
• There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
• When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [244]
• The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
• MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [245]
• The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [246]

Problems

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [247]

Changes this week

• There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Share your experience and feedback as a Wikimedian in this global survey

Hello! The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your work on and off wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. You have been randomly selected to take this survey as we would like to hear from your Wikimedia community. To say thank you for your time, we are giving away 20 Wikimedia T-shirts to randomly selected people who take the survey. The survey is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes.

Take the survey now!

You can find more information about this project. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement. Please visit our frequently asked questions page to find more information about this survey. If you need additional help, or if you wish to opt-out of future communications about this survey, send an email to surveys@wikimedia.org.

Thank you! --EGalvez (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-03

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 can now upload WebP files to Commons. [248]

Problems

• video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [249]

Changes this week

• There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [250]
• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [251]
• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [252]
• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [253]
• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [254]
• Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [255]
• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [256]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 January 2017

• From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

• News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

• Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

• In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

• Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

• Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

• Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

• Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

• Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2017-04

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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [257]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

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 OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [258]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [259]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [260][261]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 February 2017

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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Tech News: 2017-06

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

• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [262]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [263]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [264]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (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 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [265][266]

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19:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

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

• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [267]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [268]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [269]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [270]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (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 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [271]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08

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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [272]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [273]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [274]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [275]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:26, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey

Hello! This is a final reminder that the Wikimedia Foundation survey will close on 28 February, 2017 (23:59 UTC). The survey is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes. Take the survey now.

If you already took the survey - thank you! We won't bother you again.

About this survey: You can find more information about this project here or you can read the frequently asked questions. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement. If you need additional help, or if you wish to opt-out of future communications about this survey, send an email through EmailUser function to User:EGalvez (WMF) or surveys@wikimedia.org. About the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation supports you by working on the software and technology to keep the sites fast, secure, and accessible, as well as supports Wikimedia programs and initiatives to expand access and support free knowledge globally. Thank you! --EGalvez (WMF) (talk) 08:25, 23 February 2017 (UTC)