User talk:TheresNoTime/old/Archive 8

Please comment on Talk:Michael Greger

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Michael Greger. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Feedback on Hamza Tzortzis article

Greetings. I am currently working to improve the quality of the Hamza Tzortzis article on Wikipedia so that it meets several of Wikiepdia's guidelines. Could you please share your thoughts on a topic I opened on the talk page as you have been identified as a user who has edited the article recently? Thank you.Djrun (talk) 17:59, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Women- Monthly Contest

Hi, WUGN write to thank you for your participation and support in our last contest. We are planning another contest See the page here. We will appreciate if you could join our panel of jury for the contest cc@Jamie Tubers:.Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 08:43, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Question

When I asked for people's opinions regarding a RfA, some said that I had a low Wikipedia namespace edit and that it wasn't enough to support, my question is, what is the general accepted number that would be supported? Chase (talk) 04:43, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

@Chase: Apologies for the delay in getting back to you - as you know, the Wikipedia namespace holds a number of key areas admins are expected to work in. Your lack of edits to areas such as WP:AIV, WP:UAA and WP:AFD will concern may voters. There's no "accepted number" I can give you, but I will give you this piece of advice which was given to me by a wise admin: "stop mentioning adminship and just concentrate on what you like doing here. Eventually, someone *else* will bring up the prospect for you." - to clarify, focus on areas of Wikipedia you like getting involved in, help out by reverting and reporting vandals and spend some time weighing in at WP:AFD. You're a great editor, so keep it up! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 20:07, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Would you be willing to help me out with Justin Bieber videography? I solely created the article and need the eyes of another. Trying to get it to featured list status. Chase (talk) 19:00, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm back

Wanted to let you know that I'll be editing more frequently again. Had to deal with a lot of real life stuff for a couple months.CatcherStorm ^talk 21:35, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

@CatcherStorm: Great to hear you're back -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 14:48, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #227

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

• Discussions
  • We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
  • New request for comments: Merging male and female labels

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
  • Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
  • Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
  • Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
  • Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
  • #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

Quality process on Wikidata

• • The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
  • The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
  • You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
  • There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
  • You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
  • How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID
  • Query examples:
    • Embassies (source)
    • World map of water towers (source)
    • "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
    • Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
    • Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
    • Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of embassies

• Development
  • We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
  • The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Gadget-DeluxeHistory

Thank you for welcome! Can you help me for it? http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=740175739&oldid=740168764 Zoranzoki21 (talk) 14:56, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Mikhail Agrest

You have just PRODded this article for lack of sources, having yourself removed the link to the relevant page on the website of the Mariinsky Theatre, for whom he is a conductor. Why is that website not acceptable? Eustachiusz (talk) 23:19, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

@Eustachiusz: the website was not appropriate as a reference, as it was a primary source. Please find some different sources -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

This is a strange understanding of "primary source". Are you saying that it is not possible to use this man's employer's website to confirm that he is indeed employed there? Eustachiusz (talk) 10:51, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm saying it's not possible to use a primary source as a sole reference for an entire BLP - what about that are you struggling to understand? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 10:54, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

There is no need to be snide about it. What I am querying is why an employer's website, which is not the same as this individual's own website, is a primary source. I'll also remind you that the wording of the PROD tag about this required one source to undo the PROD - it doesn't mention multiple sources.

In the meantime the article has been identified as a copyvio, which is an entirely different issue. I would still like clarification of the above point.Eustachiusz (talk) 11:04, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

I realise that I am completely incorrect in my assumption - you can of course use this to confirm that Mikhail works at the Mariinsky Theatre, and that the site is not a primary source. I somehow misread that as a profile page written by the person in question. My apologies Eustachiusz for the removal of the reference (which can indeed be cited and not just listed as an external link), the BLP PROD and the less-than-ideal snarky remark -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 11:20, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

All good! I was just puzzled. I also slipped by not spotting the copyvio even when the original was in front of me.Eustachiusz (talk) 11:29, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the barnstar! I never get such things - my editing is far too patchy - and am delighted! Eustachiusz (talk) 13:19, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Re: Deletion of Internet Computer Bureau

Done and done. You can find the material at Draft:Internet Computer Bureau. Good luck with the rebuild! TomStar81 (Talk) 05:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

@TomStar81: Thanks! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:54, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Krishna Prasad JP

Dear samtar

Greetings from India

Thanks for your kind advise regarding the disruptive editing .I am very sorry to inform that i am new to this wikipedia and learing slowly . i dont know what is vandalising here .I hope you will help me and make my page a better ones.

Regards

JP.Krishna Prasad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krishna Prasad .JP (talk • contribs) 12:08, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection

Hello Samtar, Can you please tell me why you removed the entry on the Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection. This is a legitimate public interest organization, with many NGO and journalist members throughout the region, as you can see.

https://see-whistleblowing.org/

I was on a business trip and was not able to respond before the entry was deleted. I did not save the original text. How can I access the original text so I can improve the entry? Many thanks and kind regards, Mark Worth — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quinn2425 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

@Quinn2425: Hi there - yes of course. Although I cannot remember exactly what it was about the article which prompted me to mark it for deletion (as I myself did not delete the article) it would have been related to a lack of a credible claim of significance. As for getting the article back to work on, if you pop over to WP:REFUND or ask the deleting admin (Nyttend) they can restore it to a draft so you can work on it at your leisure. I hope I've managed to answer your question, and if you ever need any further help don't hesitate to let me know -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:23, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

@Quinn2425: just a quick thought - if you are associated with the Coalition in any way you will likely have a conflict of interest. This doesn't stop you editing about the organization but you should take the time to read through this advice -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:26, 21 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. [1][2]

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. [3]

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22:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:SIG MCX

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:SIG MCX. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

auto-Confirm?

Hi Samtar, so how about the auto-confirm situation for my account? And no I put official just as a nickname. This is because this username is probs the closest username than the one I wanted to which is just RaZoR (Already been taken). Ths Samtar

OfficialRaZoR (talk) 12:33, 23 September 2016 (UTC)OfficialRaZoROfficialRaZoR (talk) 12:33, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@OfficialRaZoR: You should become autoconfirmed tomorrow at some point. It sometimes takes the MediaWiki software a while to apply it to your account -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:46, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Want to be

An admin. You told me how, but i cant enter. Please helpWyatt2049 (talk) 19:18, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@Wyatt2049: As I said on Katie's page, I'm afraid a RfA for you now would close as NOTNOW. Please spend twelve months or so helping out by reporting vandals to AIV and creating/improving articles -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 19:44, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism#Revisiting clerking

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism#Revisiting clerking. Seeing as how you started the last discussion on the topic, which led to me posting my own 2 cents. Cheers. WikiPuppies _bark ^dig 01:33, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #228

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon 2016
  • Past: OASPA conference (slides)
  • Past: State of the Map
  • Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
  • Upcoming: SMWCon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
  • HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
  • TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
  • Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
  • Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
• Development
  • mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137808)
  • Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516, phabricator:T146030, phabricator:T146274)
  • More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965, phabricator:T143148, phabricator:T145189, phabricator:T144923)
  • RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273)
  • Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (phabricator:T105100)
  • Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032)
  • Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303)
  • Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356)
  • Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836)
  • Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (phabricator:T142203)
  • Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (phabricator:T119492)
  • Worked on improving the query service documentation (phabricator:T133052)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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

Recent changes

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [4]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [5]
• 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. [6]

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. [7][8]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [9]

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. [10]

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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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Dude !

You didn't tell me yet how you got this much authorisation and authority in Wikipedia, tell me bro, by the way Sam I forgot to tell you my name is Kain, you may call be by that bro, but please don't forget to talk to me.

Gandalfthe Wizard^Talk

Hi Kain, nothing I "have" here I would describe as "authorisation and authority". I'm an editor, just like you, who over the years has needed certain permissions to be able to continue helping Wikipedia in my own little way. I'd urge you to continue to help out in your own way, either by contributing to our content or by helping keep the vandals at bay -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 14:51, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Sam, thank you for enlighting me, but I can't talk to you, I am at school,bye.

Gandalfthe Wizard^Talk

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox observatory

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Wikidata weekly summary #229

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
  • Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
  • Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
  • Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
  • The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
  • Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
  • Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
  • Log of our last office hour discussion
  • The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
  • You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN
  • Query examples:
    • Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
    • Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
    • Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
    • trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
  • Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
  • Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)

• Development
  • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
  • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
  • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
  • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
  • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
  • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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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. [11]

• <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. [12]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2016)

Hello, Samtar. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Math rock Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: List of German painters • Brain damage Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 3 October 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2016)

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Wikidata weekly summary #230

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
  • Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
  • Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
  • A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
  • The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
  • People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
  • Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
  • Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
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• Development
  • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
  • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
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  • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
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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}}. [13]
• 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. [14]
• 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. [15]

Changes this week

• Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [16]
• 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. [17]

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Spam intervention

Thanks for your actions on my report about the spam link. I had looked at the blacklist option but felt out of my depth with the technical requirements. Also wasn't sure if there was a simpler fix. Hopefully the message will get through now. Rayman60 (talk) 02:01, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Help

So I talked about my mission (you saw). Who would I talk to to negotiate the rules so I could represent other users ban appeals? I'm obviously not going to ask the founder of Wikipedia, so who would I ask? UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 21:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Biographies of living persons noticeboard discussion

This message is being sent to inform you that a discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Michael Gastauer.The discussion is about the topic Michael Gastauer. Thank you. Murph9000 (talk) 13:12, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up Murph9000 - there's plenty o' socks abound with this case. I'm frankly rather sick of these COI editing socks, but at least they're making it easy to spot! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 14:29, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

AirPod -> AirPods move

Hi, thanks for contacting me. Can you correct the move for me? Thanks! Bonomont (talk) 12:14, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

@Bonomont: No worries - already done by Nick -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:15, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, he did the deleting bit, and now I've moved the article over. Hope things are good now. Cheers! Bonomont (talk) 12:19, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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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.[18]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[19] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[20]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[21]
• 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.[22]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[23] 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.[24]

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.

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Tech News: 2016-10

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team is delighted to publish its first newsletter! Your feedback is welcome.

This quarter the team will focus on improving Special:RecentChanges and create a ReviewStream, a new feed designed to improve the edit-review process. Both are part of the new Edit Review Improvements project.

Notifications [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

• Documentation concerning Notifications types has been updated. That page is ready for translations. [25]
• For developers, how to create a new Notification type has been updated. [26]
• Tools owners will be notified when OAuth app changes state. [27]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [28]
• 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. [29]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. Now you can get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This is an opt-in option in your preferences. [30][31]
• On Notifications, the badge is colored if you have some notifications. If you see these notifications, the badge will turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [32]

Problems

• 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. It has been fixed. [33][34]
• When a title was created with some wikitext inside of it, Notifications were not linking that title when they were mentioned. This is now fixed. [35]
• Some Notifications messages were not supporting {{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [36]

Future changes

• On Special:Notifications, pages and counts related to disabled notification types will not be shown anymore. [37]

Flow [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

• Flow is available as a Beta feature on Greek Wikipedia. [38]
• A satisfaction survey was conducted concerning Flow in September 2016. Results will be published in December 2016. [39]
• Wikitext interface for Flow is now using a monospaced font. [40]
• It is now possible to moderate a Flow topic that have been resolved without re-opening it. [41]
• It is now possible to watch and unwatch topics directly from the Notification panel. [42]

Problems

• It is not possible to enable or disable Flow as a Beta feature on wikis where that option is available. This is under investigation. [43]
• Some Flow messages were not supporting {{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [44]

Future changes

• Communities that have Flow enabled manually on user talk pages will be asked to move on to a Beta feature activation to simplify the process. [45]
• Notifications related to Flow will be grouped on your Notifications preferences. It will be easier to choose which Notifications you want to have from Flow. [46]

Edit Review Improvements [ More information ]

Recent changes

• Informations about Edit Review Improvements project have been published. That page is ready for translations. [47]
• ReviewStream feed product description is available. ReviewStream is a machine-readable feed that’s designed to be used by a variety of edit-review tools.

Future changes

• Some improvements will be done to Special:RecentChanges, by adding new filters based on ORES.
  • Some tests are done with users to refine the design of those filters. You can volunteer for such tests. [48]
  • Communities that already have ORES goodfaith and damaging filters enabled will be contacted to try that change as a Beta feature. [49]

Miscellaneous

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