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A cup of coffee for you!

Elsewhere you mentioned getting a letter from someone. Would you be willing to ask the sender if they would make an OTRS release to post the text of the letter on wiki? If now is not the time then I understand. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:34, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
@Bluerasberry:I did? Please remind me of the context (by email, if discretion is necessary). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:38, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

added Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn
removed ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2017-23

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

  • You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [1]
  • When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [2]
  • You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [3]
  • New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [4]

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [5]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [6]
  • You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [7]
  • When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [8]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
  • String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [9]

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

Future changes

  • The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [10][11]
  • Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [12]
  • The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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19:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #263

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

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017

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Thank you, Andy, and a question about categroy: aposematic species

Hi Andy, This is Joseph Jordania, from the University of Melbourne, great fan and supporter of Wikipedia.

Thank you very much for your numerous contributions to Wikipedia - the greatest pool of knowledge of humankind!

People like you, open-minded and altruistic, make this world a better place to live! Thank you!

I searched your talk page as I wanted to write you about the page that you added (category: aposematic species). Aposematism is a relatively unknown phenomenon, and this page is doing a great work, thank you!

I have couple of questions about this page (I will fully understand if you do not have time to answer my questions!):

  1. the actual number of aposematic species is much bigger than it is represented in this page. for example, most of the poisonous snakes and spiders, sporting bright colors, are also aposematic (some of them are already mentioned on your page).
  2. Besides, there are species, that are considered by some scholars as aposematic species - they could be added to the list as possible candidates. (there are also strange suggestions, for example, this August I will have a paper at the ISBE Conference in Portugal arguing that humans are also aposematic species...)
  3. There is a species on this list (peacock-pheasant) which might not be a clear case of aposematic species, as most of the time the peacock-pheasant tries to stay unnoticed (clear sign of cryptic species), and only when disturbed, turns to aposematic display. Aposematic animals are those who constantly try to be seen, heard and smelt, not only when they are spotted by predators.

Once again, thank you! Joseph — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.136.22.133 (talk) 10:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. You can edit Wikipedia! Feel free to add the category to any other articles where it applies. In the case of the pheasant I added the category because the article says it is aposematic. You could remove the category, but please update the article, too. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-24

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

  • Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [13]
  • When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [14]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

  • You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [15]
  • Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [16]
  • Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [17][18]

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15:29, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Template:FJC Bio

The FJC website has been revamped, the {{FJC Bio}} template no longer works in its current form. See Template talk:FJC Bio#Revamped site. --bender235 (talk) 08:02, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

@Bender235:} I've made a temporary fix; see the template's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:24, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017

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Scientists, librarians and Wikimedians are coming together and providing a more unified view of an emerging area. Further integration of both its community and its technical aspects can be anticipated.

While Wikipedia will remain the discursive heart of Wikimedia, data-rich and semantic content will support it. We'll aim to be both broad and selective in our coverage. This publication Facto Post (the very opposite of retroactive) and call to action are brought to you monthly by ContentMine.

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Template for Find a grave

Hi Pigsonthewing, IMHO, the Template for Find a grave section on unreliable should include a write up. Some users are deleting Find a Grave ref and External links from wikipedia article... See my talk. Need your opinion. I think Find a grave is a reliable source but subject to use with a slight risk. My request is not have the 'removal' part on the template page. SWP13 (talk) 21:39, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks

Dear Pigsonthewing, Many thanks indeed for starting the article on Osmund Reynolds - I see you have done a lot of work on it. It is good to know that some articles suggested at Wikipedia: Requested Articles get answered! Once again, thanks for creation of this page, it is appreciated. Vorbee (talk) 18:22, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Robert Steiner

Do you intend to fix all the broken links since your page move or...? GiantSnowman 20:17, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #265

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
    • Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
    • Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
    • More experimenting with the new front-end framework
    • Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)

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Tech News: 2017-25

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

Problems

  • ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [19]

Changes this week

  • irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [20]
  • Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [21]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Template:GeoGroup

Hi, could you help me a little to fix Template:GeoGroup at gl.wiki. I have posted the problem at discussion page. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 00:43, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on

This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Allow private schools to be characterized as non-affiliated as well as religious, in infobox?

Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

Note: I am informing everyone who commented on the above RfCs, whether they supported or opposed the final consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:39, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Archie Norman (disambiguation)

Hello, Pigsonthewing. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Archie Norman (disambiguation), for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

  1. edit the page
  2. remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
  3. save the page

Also, be sure to explain why you think the article should be kept in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you don't do so, it may be deleted later anyway.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 05:12, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Archie Norman (disambiguation) for deletion

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 14:06, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #266

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Cheat sheet about Wikidata Query Service (de)
  • Development
    • Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
    • Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
    • More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
    • Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
    • Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
    • Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
    • Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
    • Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)

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