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User Talk Guidelines

I will allow anyone to post a message. There are several rules.

Swearing/Cussing

Any comment that has swearing in it will be removed. Pease do notswear

Criticisim

Please: Only positive criticisim.

Editing oher's content

Only touch YOUR content. Do not touch other's content.

Other rules

If there are any suggestions, please include them in the space provided below. Remember to sign with the 4 tildas"PokestarFan (talk) 00:39, 14 December 2015 (UTC)"

Rule Suggestions

Welcome!

Hello, PokestarFan, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Linking to other pages, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Teahouse, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{help me}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:02, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Linking to other pages

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:02, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Help!

How do you make a table of contents?

PokestarFan (talk) 22:48, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

There's generally no need to create a table of contents; one is created automatically as soon as an article has four sections. See WP:Cheatsheet on how to create section headings. Huon (talk) 22:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you.PokestarFan (talk) 22:52, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Display a WIP Banner

How do you make a banner on the front of a page saying "WIP:Work In Progress"? Thanks. PokestarFan (talk) 23:43, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

There's {{Under construction}} and {{Inuse}}, depending on how long the work in progress is expected to take. If you want to create a new article, however, I'd advise you not to use those templates but to use the Article Wizard to create a draft instead of a live article. Huon (talk) 23:55, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Security Permissions

What are the requirements to be able to edit the security permissions on pages? I want to make it so only I can edit my sandbox and user page. PokestarFan (talk) 00:56, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

That is not possible. There is no lock on Wikipedia whereby only you can edit it. There are locks that restrict certain groups, some more exclusive than others such as WP:ADMIN, but there are none that would allow only you. You can find out more information at WP:PP. Mkdwtalk 01:04, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Photo

I would like to dispay a photo of myself, how do I do that?

You take a selfie, then make it so it's okay for others to distribute, modify, and sell it by uploading it to Wikimedia Commons. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (My edits) @ 03:31, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

InfoBox

I want to make a box that shows the amount of edits, articles deleted, status,etc. How do I do this?

Hello, you can visit this page for many types of personal statistics including edit count, articles creted, vandalism counts(how many times your userpage has been vandalised) etc. Hope that helps with your problem! Zyc1174 (talk) 02:18, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Collabration

I want to make an article,but I want some help. How can I have others collabarate with me?PokestarFan (talk) 18:29, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

You can use the Article Wizard to create a draft and ask for help at a relevant WikiProject. Huon (talk) 21:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

December 2015

Information icon Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

I noticed your recent edit to Clash of Clans does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

Edit summary content is visible in:

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Class455fan1 (talk to me) 00:15, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Cross namespace redirects

Please review our guidelines and policies on cross-namespace redirects. I have deleted the redirects you created to your userpage under WP:R2. Mkdwtalk 03:41, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Help name spaces use the WP prefix for shortcuts. Please see WP:SHORTCUTS. I've had to nearly undo or delete every contribution you've done outside your userspace. Please be advised that this is a warning that if you continue to create shortcuts or edit whereby it is subsequently reverted, it may be seen as WP:DISRUPTION and you may be blocked under WP:CLUE. I ask you to carefully read the relevant policies before you proceed into any functionary tasks on Wikipedia. Mkdwtalk 03:19, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Further, I suggest you read WP:MOS about how to correctly use wikilinks. They shouldn't link into the same article even if in the infobox. Mkdwtalk 03:24, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

December 2015

Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Involuntary euthanasia, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Mkdwtalk 20:24, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Control copyright icon Hello PokestarFan, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to commons:File:BloonsTDBattlesGameplay.jpg has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

  • You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
  • Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
  • Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
  • If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
  • In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
  • Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mkdwtalk 20:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

December 2015

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You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for persistent disruptive editing. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Mkdwtalk 00:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
  • PokestarFan, I hope you take this opportunity to review your talk page and read through many of the warnings and comments that have been left here. The vast majority of your contributions have either needed to be reverted or deleted. I generally believe you have good intentions, but for one reason or another, you've disregarded reading any of the relevant policies that have been linked to you. The cleanup has been quite extensive and if you continue to edit without following the rules, then you may be blocked indefinitely under WP:COMPETENCE. Mkdwtalk 01:05, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

New Year's Resolution

I will try not to be as disruptive or make copyright violations

ClueBot III

How can I get cluebot to archive all the sections after there are 10 of them? They can be any number of days old as long as there are 10. Is this is possible? PokestarFan (talk) 16:58, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

See this page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot_III). I don't think its possible that they can be any number of days old before they get archived, because one of the required fields is "Age", and this can be how many hours a section is left unanswered before it gets archived. Hope this helps. Class455fan1 (talk to me) 17:25, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
@Class455fan1: I believe you would use the field "minarchthreads=10". Mkdwtalk 21:09, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Finding subpages

Is there a quick way to find all the subpages that are within my userspace? Thanks. This is PokestarFan's signature. I have commented on your page. My Talk My Blocks Time is: 00:04, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

On your contributions page at the bottom is a link that says Subpages. That will bring you here which will list all the subpages of your user space. You can then toggle between user space and user talk space or just go here to see all the subpages of your user talk space. --Majora (talk) 00:22, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Coor

Can I get a editnotice template(with colors) so that I can tweak it? I really don't understand the styling in HTML and Wikipedia.

Mine has colours, but I don't know if that's what you are looking for. --kelapstick(bainuu) 02:24, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

ClueBot III

I want ClueBot to skip archiving the thread "People who edit my userspace" but archive everything else. How di I do that?

You can try Template:Do not archive until. --kelapstick(bainuu) 02:24, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

People who edit my userspace

Put your name here if you edit my userspace, not my user talk space.

ANI

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --allthefoxes (Talk) 03:31, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

  • The discussion is about WP:NOTHERE, specifically, if you're here to use Wikipedia as a social network or if you are actually improving our beautiful project. There are two ways to balance your contributions, which currently are almost all to your talk page: a. make fewer talk page edits. This is not Facebook. b. make more edits to article. This is an encyclopedia. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 03:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Blocked

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Nakon 04:00, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Unblock

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

PokestarFan (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Okay, I will try and work on articles. I know a lot about games

Decline reason:

I think you should take a look at WP:STANDARDOFFER. That'll be the best way for you to go about regaining editing status. only (talk) 14:25, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Articles I will(hopefully) create

  1. vShare

Consider the Standard Offer

Hey Pokestar. You were blocked for being not here, mostly since all your edits were to your user talk page. Your ban is indefinite, and the only way to be unbanned at this point is to take WP:OFFER - Yet today I see you making even more edits to your talk page, which shows other editors you do not understand why you have been blocked. I think you should highly consider taking the standard offer if you wish to contribute again. --allthefoxes (Talk) 02:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Unbock with a good reason

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

PokestarFan (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I want to make Wikipedia a better place. Next time I am blocked,I am okay by bring blocked indefinately. I promise to use my Talk Page for official reasons. I will archive me user page and include only the vital info. Also,I want to work on the articlevShare as a draft.

Decline reason:

I think you missed the "6 months" part of WP:STANDARDOFFER. Furthermore, I see no evidence whatsoever that you're here to build an encyclopedia. There are plenty of other sites for this sort of thing (Tumblr? Minecraft?) OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

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Unblock

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PokestarFan (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I am good on the Simple Wikipedia, I will do the same here. PokestarFan (talk) 22:37, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Decline reason:

I'm inclined to agree with the sentiments expressed below. Also, what part of '6 months' is unclear? m.o.p 20:19, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Taking a quick look at your contributions there and some of the warnings and notes on your talk page, I would not agree with that assessment. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:55, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
As an admin at Simple and here, ditto. only (talk) 23:00, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
You have also received warnings at the commons. Mkdwtalk 19:42, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-10

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

  • Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [1]
  • Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [2]
  • The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [3]
  • It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [4]
  • Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [5]

Problems

  • Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [6]
  • The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [7]
  • The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [8]
  • You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [9]
  • Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [10]

Changes this week

  • Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [11]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
  • Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [12]

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 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [13]
  • The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [14]

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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #199

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Tech News: 2016-11

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 mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [15]
  • The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [16]

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.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [18]

Meetings

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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #200

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Tech News: 2016-12

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 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. [19]

Changes this week

  • It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [20]
  • You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [21]
  • 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).

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

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [22]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #202

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Tech News: 2016-13

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [25]

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. [26]

Meetings

Future changes

  • 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. [27]
  • 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.

Corrections

  • Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-14

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

Recent changes

  • You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [28]
  • Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [29]

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)

Wikidata weekly summary #203

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Tech News: 2016-15

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [30][31]
  • 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. [32][33]
  • ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [34]
  • The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [35]

Problems

  • There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [36]

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. [37]

Meetings

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. [38]

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20:45, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #204

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Wikidata weekly summary #205

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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. [39][40]
  • You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [41]
  • MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [42]

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. [43]
  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)


Wikidata weekly summary #206

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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. [44]
  • 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. [45]

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. [46]
  • It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [47]
  • 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. [48]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #207

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016
Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

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. [49]

Problems

  • There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [50]

Changes this week

Meetings

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. [52]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #208

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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. [53]
  • You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [54]
  • 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. [55][56]
  • 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). [57]
  • Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [58]
  • The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [59]
  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [60]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [61]

Problems

  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [62]

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

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. [63]

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23:23, 9 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. [64]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [65]

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. [66]
  • Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [67]
  • A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [68]
  • 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

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. [69]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #209

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Wikidata weekly summary #210

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [71]

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. [72]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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. [73]

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. [74][75]
  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [76]

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. [77]
  • The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [78]
  • 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. [79][80]
  • 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. [81]
  • 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)

Wikidata weekly summary #211

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Wikidata weekly summary #212

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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

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. [84]
  • 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)

Wikidata weekly summary #213

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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

Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [90]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [91]
  • 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)

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