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Wikidata weekly summary #213

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Wikidata weekly summary #214

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Tech News: 2016-25

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

Recent changes

  • Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [1]

Changes this week

  • The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [2][3]
  • Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [4]
  • When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [5]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Imelda Marcos

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A barnstar for you!

The Civility Barnstar
In appreciation of the great work you do in keeping your eye on disputes with an unswervingly level head, and inevitably maintaining a courteous disposition. Thank you! Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:46, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, Iryna Harpy! I try my best. clpo13(talk) 16:48, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Information icon Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Carbrera (talk) 04:45, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Just to clarify, this claim is not against you, but rather the IP user that we unfortunately dealt with earlier. Thanks! Carbrera (talk) 04:46, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Precious

"useless without images"

Thank you for quality articles such as Camano Island State Park and Arthur Nock (useful: with image and infobox), for uploading images, welcoming users, fighting vandalism and censorship, - all this for more then ten years, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:41, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the appreciation, Gerda! clpo13(talk) 16:49, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
You are welcome, if you don't mind that it's from the cabal of the outcasts ;) - possibly need to change that name, now that a member was proclaimed Wikipedian of the Year --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Abusive redirects

Hey clpo13! Looks like you figured this out already, but just wanted to make sure you know that abusive/vandalism redirects can be tagged for speedy deletion (per WP:G3) rather than having to go through the whole RfD process. GorillaWarfare (talk) 21:04, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Cool, wasn't quite sure about speedying redirects. Thanks! clpo13(talk) 21:05, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 June 2016

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Tech News: 2016-26

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

Recent changes

  • The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [6]
  • The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [7]
  • A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [8]

Problems

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [11]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [12]
  • An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [13]
  • The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [14][15][16]
  • From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [17]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [18]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #215

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Please comment on Talk:Singapore

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Wikidata weekly summary #216

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Tech News: 2016-27

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

Recent changes

  • A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [19]

Changes this week

  • The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [20]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Sedgley

Thanks for keeping on top of this article. I've revdel'd a number of the revisions due to the content and if the vandalism continues I'll consider protection. Nthep (talk) 14:58, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

No problem. Looks like it's been going on a while. I'll keep an eye out as well. clpo13(talk) 17:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Minor Edits

Clpo13,

I appreciate you informing me on this matter. Will keep in mind for future references. Look forward to contributing additional material and maintaining Wikipedia's positive reputation on providing high quality and non-biased accurate information.

SalemResearch 21:18, 28 June 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SolomonSalem (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia email re NewspaperArchive signup

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter.

June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC).

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk.

>>> Sign up for the July Drive! <<<

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Talk back

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Tech News: 2016-28

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

Recent changes

  • A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [21][22][23]
  • Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [24][25][26]
  • Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [27][28][29]

Problems

  • On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [30]
  • Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #217

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The Signpost: 04 July 2016

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Please comment on Talk:Abkhazia

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Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri

Sorry, please help me to undo this article. Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohd Sarim Ashrafi (talk • contribs) 16:23, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Great

so what's your response? 174.19.218.191 (talk) 19:15, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Commented on Talk:Jill Stein. clpo13(talk) 19:20, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. It is frustrating when one has to wait for two fricking weeks without even a courtesy reply, and the only way to get attention for a reasonable concern is resorting to vandalism. 174.19.218.191 (talk) 19:24, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Correction of comments

Hi Mr.Clpo13, I am Arman ad60. I made the comments in the Persian talk pages. I had removed them because my English is not very good. I had requested Mr. Jimbo Wales and he accepted it. But I don't like it as they still remain there as tags. People may still search them and see the messages. I don't understand where is the problem in removing them. They have already been deleted. What is the problem if I remove them altogether.

But yes, if you don't think I should be allowed to change the messages then you can show the messages up. I think it is better than remaining there as tags. I am giving you the permission to do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.58.205.145 (talk) 22:35, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Archiving of comments

Mr. Clpo thank you very much for archiving the talk page. Can you please achive the talk pages of the Parthian and Sasanian empire. I had made some comments there as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.58.205.145 (talk) 23:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Disruptive?

How is removing one link being disruptive? Also who the hell am I supposed to ask to get content removed? 2600:8800:5100:38E:9D4E:1776:E4CB:1285 (talk) 00:04, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

There's a long-term pattern of disruptive editing regarding that link. As I said on Talk:White savior narrative in film, the best thing to do is to start an WP:RFC regarding the appropriateness of the link. clpo13(talk) 15:56, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [34][35]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
  • Special:Log now has a help link. [36]
  • The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [37]

Future changes

  • User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [38][39]
  • Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [40]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #218

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style

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Tech News: 2016-30

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [42]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
  • It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [43]
  • Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [44]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [45]

Future changes

  • The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [46]
  • Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [47]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #219

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

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ANI Discussion

I've started a discussion at ANI regarding an email OTRS apparently received regarding WikiWiz, which you mentioned in a previous ANI discussion. -- Gestrid (talk) 05:33, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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

Recent changes

  • A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [48]
  • The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

  • Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [49]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #220

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Please comment on Talk:Assault rifle

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Thank you...

Thanks for your concern earlier about my IP exemption application, even if it was a false alarm; I definitely understand if it looked like our Dakotan friend got to me and I didn't mean to scare you (I didn't know exactly how the IPX process looked until then). Nate • (chatter) 02:21, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for editing the format and deleting the list in the Emily Bear aricle.I did not create this but I did not want to because I did not feel entitled to do this.

All the informations I posted are really central. As I wrote on the Cullum talk page I could post informations, facts, photos , spam topping the size of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Jackie Evancho combined ;) but that was not my goal.

We should have all the same standards ;)

Greeting (Eifelochse (talk) 05:30, 29 July 2016 (UTC))

Tech News: 2016-32

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

Recent changes

  • In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [50]

Problems

  • If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [51]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [52]
  • On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [53]
  • When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [54]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [55]
  • When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [56]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [57]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you

... for the quote of the day: "I don't see any logical reason to make information harder to access." - I was trained - the hard way - to stick to two comments per discussion ;) - I had learned before that some people need to have the last word, which unfortunately includes myself. - Problem in the quote is the word "logical". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 August 2016

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Tech News: 2016-33

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

Problems

  • Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [58]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [59]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [60][61]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [62]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [63]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [64][65]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [66]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [67]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #221

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