User talk:Ignatzmice/Archive 4

Re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deva a cast of sri lanka

Looks like another administrator got to it in the interim. Cheers, LFaraone 14:08, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

ashley moore

who is this? hum well hello we are the ava sisters and trying to become a superstar we have an amazing voice

Ava Sisters (talk) 04:07, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
@Ava Sisters: Hey there. I think you might want to check out our notability requirements for bands, as well as a snarky essay (not an official policy) on unknown bands and our policies on soapboxing and promotion, especially self-promotion. If you really think the band deserves an article, you can bring it up at wp:Articles for creation. Ignatzmice•talk 04:24, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Jack Black

Why did you remove my edit about his band winning a award here is proof http://www.metalinjection.net/show-recap/revolver-golden-gods-awards-2013-winners-and-performance-highlights — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiguy303952 (talk • contribs) 05:49, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

@Wikiguy303952: Sergecross's replies will do just fine for me as well. Ignatzmice•talk 16:32, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Creating a new page

Hello,

I am trying to edit the page previously worked on, Wiccan Interfaith Council International. I see that you and another admin moved the page until more info could be added, but I am having a hard time relocating it. Can you please help me find the next step to take? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaeQueen (talk • contribs) 18:10, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

@MaeQueen: It's in your userspace: User:MaeQueen/Wiccan Interfaith Council International. (You can find all pages in your userspace [that's the only one at the moment] at Special:PrefixIndex/User:MaeQueen. You'd also be able to see it in your contribs, and I did let you know on your talk page.) Cheers! Ignatzmice•talk 18:21, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

P.S. I'm not actually an wp:admin! I just moved the page; an actual admin deleted the redirect that was created when I did that. Ignatzmice•talk 18:22, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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Joshua Messick

For Joshua Messick, I declined the A7 speedy deletion nomination based on the claim in the article that he won the 2003 Walnut Valley National Hammered Dulcimer Championship. How important that thing is, I have no idea, but it seemed to at least present a claim of significance. For that, I'd suggest going through WP:PROD or WP:AFD based on notability.--Slon02 (talk) 04:34, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

• @Slon02: Yeah, I noticed that... I really don't think such local festivals (however "national" they claim to be) really are that notable, but if you're on the fence about that's fine for me. Looking at it more, I'm pretty sure it failsl WP:BIO, WP:BLP!E, and WP:GNG even, but it's not blatant spam. Maybe I will take it to AfD. Cheers! Ignatzmice•talk 11:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

thanks!

....for the essay shout out. Most appreciated. --j⚛e decker^talk 03:31, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-22

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• The Translate extension and Universal Language Selector were enabled on Wikimedia Commons on May 20. Commons users can now easily change languages, and translate pages with a friendly interface. [1]
• The Notifications feature, active on the English Wikipedia, now supports local blacklists and whitelists. It is possible to hide users (for example certain bots) from all notifications on the wiki. Also, e-mail notifications are now grouped. [2] [3]
• The first stable release of MediaWiki 1.21 for sites outside Wikimedia was published on May 25. [4]
• The tool storing information about languages (CLDR) was updated to the latest version (23.1). [5]
• Due to a software issue, users couldn't enable or disable Gadgets. The issue is now fixed.

Future software changes

• MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software. [6] [7]
• The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type. [8]
• The Wikimedia Commons Android app will come out of the beta phase on its next release. [9]
• Account creation by manual log-in will now be recorded in the account creation log (bug 42434). [10]
• Links to file description pages will again be accessible directly from within videos (bug 43747). [11]
• The software behind recent changes patrolling was re-written; the change fixes issues related to patrolling new pages, among other things. [12]
• During a meeting, developers agreed on rules about making big changes to the software. [13]
• There is now a category to list pages with invalid music code. [14]

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American Idol (season 12)

Just letting you know that you reverted an edit here indicating that it is a test/vandalism, but it isn't. It is a disputed edit that is being discussed in the talk page, and currently there is majority in favor of its removal. I am not the person who removed it (although I would support its removal without better references), but I thought I should inform you as it's best to avoid accusing other people of vandalism when it isn't warranted. Hzh (talk) 23:43, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

@Hzh: Okay, I see that now. Do whatever you want with it, I suppose. I didn't look very carefully before; what I saw was a user with no user page (indicating "newbie", and I was right; sorry to stereotype) removing an entire section with absolutely no explanation (as I said in my edit summary). I was using wp:STiki, which gets a feed of edits ClueBot NG thinks are suspicious but isn't certain enough to revert. Had Sceptile said something like "removing; see talk page" or similar, I would have definitely checked it out. Ignatzmice•talk 01:13, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

I apologize for removing the section, I am a newer user to Wikipedia and didn't realize it was counted as vandalism.Sceptile12345 (talk) 12:29, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

@Sceptile12345: That's okay—we were all new once! Using wp:Edit summaries will go a long way toward making sure people understand why you do things, especially stuff like removing an entire section. Ignatzmice•talk 12:33, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

I see someone has already removed it again, but I would have left it unchanged for some time yet without doing anything, just in case more people want to contribute to the discussion. Usually newbies don't know what is the right thing to do, so sometimes they do things that look like vandalism. Since vandals often do create new account just to vandalize wiki pages, so I understand the rationale and it is often the correct response. I do appreciate your effort to combat vandalism, thank you. Hzh (talk) 09:49, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

DYK for The Negro Star

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Modisumer

I thought this looked familiar when I saw it in the PROD deletion list; unfortunately the reason is that it has been re-created after I had already PROD-deleted it ten days ago, so I had to de-PROD and take it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Modisumer. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:52, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-23

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [15]
• The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [16]
• There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [17]
• The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [18]
• The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [19]
• Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [20]
• Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [21].
• All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [22]
• The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [23]

Future software changes

• The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726) [24]
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions will be replaced by the Universal Language Selector extension. [25]
• MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now. [26]

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Tech news: 2013-24

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13. [27]
• An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems. [28]
• Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
• Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia [[<tvar|meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel]] on Freenode. [29]
• The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates. [30]
• A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org. [31]
• Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges. [32]
• Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713). [33]

Future software changes

• A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon. [34]
• A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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Tech News: 2013-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [35]
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [36]
• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
  • Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [37].
  • VisualEditor also allows editing references. [38]
• The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [39]
• The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

• Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [40]
• Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [41]
• Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [42] [43]
• It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [44]
• A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [45]
• A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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Tech news: 2013-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [46]
• Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [47]
• The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [48]
• The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [49]
• After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [50]
• VisualEditor news:
  • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
  • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [51]
• It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [52]

Future software changes

• The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [53]
• Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [54]
• The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [55]
• The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [56]
• It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [57]
• MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [58]
• The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [59]
• The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [60]

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18:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
• On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [61]
• A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "New section" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [62]
• There was a short site outage on June 28.
• The automated Category:Pages with missing files now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [63]
• The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [64]
• There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [65]
• The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [66]
• VisualEditor news:
  • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
  • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
  • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
  • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
  • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
  • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
  • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [67]

Future software changes

• VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
• From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [68]
• The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [69]

Erratum

• Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [70]

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14:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week, for tireless contributions to tedious tasks. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User Sophus Bie ^(talk) submitted the following nomination to Editor of the Week:

• "I would like to nominate Editor Ignatzmice as Editor of the Week. They recently returned to Wikipedia after a wikibreak of nearly six years, and they've hit the ground running, making over two thousand edits in their first months back. They have been patrolling the recent changes, notably during the worst of the Boston Marathon bombings, where they helped to keep the article free of POV and vandalism. Furthermore, they've been doing their part to reduce the backlogs at Special:NewPages and WP:AFD. They are active during community discussions, especially the testing and implementation of changes discussed at Wikipedia_talk:Notifications. And lastly, they do all sorts of gnomish tasks, such as copyediting and categorizing pages in need."

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Thanks again for your work! The Interior (Talk) 21:27, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

@Sophus Bie and The Interior: D'awwww, thanks! Now I'll have to actually re-start doing some of those things... my theme is "scattered", it seems. And I'll be really busy at work this week, too. Cheers! Ignatzmice•talk 22:33, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for doing all the hard work that made you an obvious choice for Editor of the Week. I've always thought that Gnomes were some of the most important people at Wikipedia, but then again, I've done a lot of gnoming, so maybe I'm biased ;-) Either way, your contributions are certainly worth noting. Wikipedia is a better place because of you. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 01:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
• The things you do are essential to the success of Wikipedia. Thanks for bringing harmony where it is needed. ```Buster Seven Talk 05:45, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Ignatzmice

Editor of the Week for the week beginning July 7, 2013

After a long absence from Wikipedia editing, Ignatzmice has made a welcome return. Working diligently on recent changes, new page patrol, articles for deletion, grammar/punctuation repair, and more, editor Igantzmice fixes the imperfections. He has been a positive influence on often-troublesome breaking news articles, such as the Boston Marathon bombings. He has also been active in improving software extensions such as the new Notifications system. We are glad to have you back, Ignatzmice!

Recognized for

Reducing backlogs and other important (but hidden) gnomish deeds.

Notable work

Monitoring editor behavior at Boston Marathon bombings

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