Hi, Pine, my name is Allen. Currently a Communication major junior student at University of Washington. I heard that you are a very active Wikipedian with full of knowledge. I just created a new article about Legacy House. Can you give me some feedback/suggestion or even revise my article. Here are the website for Legacy House website with some notability news: Legacy House official site and news links. I would be very appreciate and honor if you can receive some feedback from you as a newcomer on Wikipedia. Looking forward for your response . Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allenl5566 ( talk • contribs) 03:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Allenl5566, I'll leave some comments on the article talk page. Good luck, -- Pine ✉ 03:39, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello there and thank you for your splendid video, it's absolutely stunning. Now then, how do I translate it to Polish? We could really use it as most likely the 5 million mark will spill over to our media as well, why not send them a goodie :)
Any help would be appreciated: what software did you use, is there a clean (no texts) version available somewhere, what font is it… // Halibu tt 10:28, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- @ Halibutt: thanks for the compliment (:. Direct translation is not an option from my end because that video and surrounding issues (legal and technical) have been very time consuming and I have other issues that I need to address with my time. However, you can see in the credits which files I used from Commons if you want to use them for your own video, or you could set up subtitles of the video on Commons. The font I used is Garamond. I used an old version of Nero Video software which had some good factors but also some problems. I would highly recommend using 64-bit video software. You can find reviews of video editing software by doing a web search. I would also advise you to set aside a lot of time to make an elaborate video like this one. I estimate that this one took about 90 hours of time for research, production, legal clearances, and publication; it might have required less time if I had newer software, but it would still be a big job. Good luck, -- Pine ✉ 20:46, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info, though you got me wrong apparently, I'm willing to do the job myself, I have the time and I did some video editing in the past (nothing fancy, but I can cope with the basics). If you would be willing to upload a no-text version somewhere (stripped of the main texts, the license info and list of original files is ok as is), translating the texts and uploading the result to Commons would take considerably less time than re-creating the entire video, with all the transitions, music synchro and whatnot. If that's out of the question - fine, we'll make something similar ourselves. //
Halibu
tt 21:06, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- @ Halibutt: Probably a no-go. Rendering, converting and uploading are more time-consuming than you might think, and I really need to be doing things other than working on this video. (: For what it's worth, if I'd known how time-consuming this project would be, I would have stuck with something much simpler, probably just the fireworks scene and the milestone announcement, and then let the community text message on Wikipedia:Five million articles take care of the rest. I'd suggest that you consider that option, since it will save a lot of time. -- Pine ✉ 21:33, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info, though you got me wrong apparently, I'm willing to do the job myself, I have the time and I did some video editing in the past (nothing fancy, but I can cope with the basics). If you would be willing to upload a no-text version somewhere (stripped of the main texts, the license info and list of original files is ok as is), translating the texts and uploading the result to Commons would take considerably less time than re-creating the entire video, with all the transitions, music synchro and whatnot. If that's out of the question - fine, we'll make something similar ourselves. //
Halibu
tt 21:06, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- @ Halibutt: That's quite nice, especially considering how quickly you produced it. (: -- Pine ✉ 18:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [3]
Problems
- On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [4]
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This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is
Godot13 (
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FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program.
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submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science.
Cas Liber (
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- JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch.
[9]
Problems
- Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [10]
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- Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [11]
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- The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [13]
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I moved it to your userspace here. Due to the sad news from Paris, I decided to create a relevant gallery. Gamaliel ( talk) 20:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- @ Gamaliel: ok, the WCONUSA gallery can wait until next week. -- Pine ✉ 20:39, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ping me if you have any picture ideas, since you're good at that kind of thing.
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- @ Gamaliel: we have fewer images than I would like, particularly of the incidents themselves and the immediate aftermath. But you can check out c:Category:November 2015 Paris attacks and also look for freely licensed images around the net. -- Pine ✉ 20:48, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ping me if you have any picture ideas, since you're good at that kind of thing.
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- You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [14]
- Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [15]
- The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
- Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [16]
- The
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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Pine,
Abbey Ripstra recommended that I get in contact with you. I am about to host my second edit-a-thon here at the University of South Florida, and I'd like to share some resources with some of the new of first time editors which may be helpful in their learning how to edit. Are there any that you can recommend to me? By the way, the edit-a-thon is open for everyone, and you are invited! If you are interested, let me know and I'll send you an invite to join us through Google Hangout. It will be tomorrow (Thursday) from noon till 3:00 Eastern time.
Kind Regards, James E. Scholz ( talk) 00:03, 18 November 2015 (UTC)James E. Scholz
- @ James E. Scholz: hello, you might take a look at this planning checklist. You could also ask our colleagues at Wikimedia District of Columbia for advice, since they are closer to you. Good luck! -- Pine ✉ 00:07, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Regarding this, you might want to read the talk page. That gallery has been removed before and it is going to end up being removed again - it is absolutely ridiculous and exactly why we have the Commons category templates. - Sitush ( talk) 20:05, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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Sitush I was reformatting the images that were already there and had problematic formatting, not adding new images. Feel free to propose on the talk page that the gallery be removed, although in its current form I think the images add to the encyclopedic value of the article and can stay. I do think that the number of images in that gallery is near the upper limit of what's reasonable. --
Pine
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- Sorry, I realise what you were doing and wasn't suggesting that you added more.
- The gallery and most of those images had been removed previously but someone reinstated them - the regulars, such as they are, are now realising that I was right to say that such lists and galleries act as magnets for yet more of the same and ultimately will swamp the article. Thus, your edit is just likely to be somewhat pointless. Unless perhaps in the interim it makes it easier for people using the mobile view? I'd never thought of that before, and I suppose it might do. - Sitush ( talk) 20:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [21]
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- Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [22] [23]
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- Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [24]
- Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [25]
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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 | On 4 December 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shooting of John T. Williams, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the shooting of Native American woodcarver John T. Williams by a police officer was found to be unjustified? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shooting of John T. Williams. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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- Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [26]
Problems
- Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [27]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [28]
- IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [29]
- You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [30]
- It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [31]
- You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [32]
- UploadWizard will look a bit different. [33]
- The
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- New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [34]
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Future changes
- A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [35]
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- Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [36]
- The
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[37]
Future changes
- A new
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- CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. ( more information)
- The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. ( more information)
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- There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 ( calendar).
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- No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.
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Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.
After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine ( User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason ( User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew ( User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.
We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.
The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.
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Hi Pine, thank you so much for your holiday wishes and the card. It was very kind of you to think of the team; I shared with them during our meeting this morning. Sending best wishes for your holidays and new year :)
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Thank you Pine for the nice holiday note. Best wishes to you and yours these holidays. Selene Scott ( talk) 07:32, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Pine: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Tito Dutta ( talk) 18:06, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Are you Pine on Wikimedia mailing list? If so, I found some of your posts are really interesting. We should have a mailing list barnstar, if we don't have already? -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 02:04, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Titodutta: yes, that's me. Thank you for the compliment. I'd be most grateful for a barnstar! There is a list of them
here, and you can select which one you think is appropriate. Regards, --
Pine
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- Yes, barnstar should follow soon. But, the particular barnstar I was thinking -- we don't have it still. We can create directly, or discuss with mailing list. I have prepared a post draft:
Just now I was talking to User:Pine on-wiki and I informed him that I thoroughly enjoyed some of his posts on this mailing list. I also thought to give him a barnstar for this. But, we do not have any "Wikimedia Mailing list barnstar".
Should we create one? What do you think? If it sounds okay, someone of us can go ahead and create Template:Wikimedia Mailing List Barnstar on En WP (and preferably on Meta also).- If it is okay, I'll send this to Wikimedia-l. if they don't think that we need this barnstar, I'll select from one of the existing ones. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 02:34, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Pine. I've mentioned your proposal for a medicine track or parallel conference at WT:MED here. Do we have a firm date yet for the conference? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 07:48, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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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
- Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [39]
- You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [40]
Problems
- Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [41]
Changes this week
- The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [42]
- New file uploads will now be patrollable. [43]
- Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [44] [45]
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 January at 20:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
- URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed.
[46]
- The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [47] [48]
- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [49] [50]
- The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
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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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [51]
- Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [52]
Changes this week
- The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [53]
- MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only
OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can
read more about the change.
[54]
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calendar).
Meetings
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20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See
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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 now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [55] [56]
- Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [57]
Changes this week
- You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [58]
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (
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
26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See
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Future changes
- There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [59]
- The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [60]
- Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [61]
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I just ran into the best article I've see on notability (especially for BLPs). For some reason I thought it might be useful for your intro videos. Somebody might even interview the author/editor for video. Just an idea. Smallbones( smalltalk) 20:13, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
- Writing a Wikipedia Page for San Francisco Anchor Natasha Zouves, see Natasha Zouves and User talk:Peter Reynosa 1000. Smallbones( smalltalk) 20:15, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
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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
- Sites with a
wikimedia.orgaddress were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [62] - Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [63] [64]
- Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [65]
Changes this week
- The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [66]
- Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [67] [68]
- The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [69]
- The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [70] [71] [72]
- The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [73] [74]
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (
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
2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is
expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on
3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
- The
rest.wikimedia.orgdomain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use/api/rest_v1/at each individual project domain instead. [75]
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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Revisiting Assurant
Hey Pine, hope you're doing well. Do you have some time to spare to help me update Assurant again? They've since officially spun off two branches of their business, and I think the health policy section should be updated to reflect that Assurant Health is no longer a part of Assurant. I'd love to get your opinion on it if you've got a minute.-- FacultiesIntact ( talk) 02:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
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FacultiesIntact If you would like to draft a revised health policy claims section and post it on the article talk page, I would be willing to review it. You can ping me when your proposed draft is ready. Please include appropriate citations. --
Pine
✉ 06:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
- @ Pine: Thanks for looking out. I recently finished a draft proposal for the updated article in my sandbox and linked to it on Talk:Assurant. If you could take a look, I'd be most appreciative.-- FacultiesIntact ( talk) 03:50, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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- Brianhe I know you in a way that a number of online editors don't, and what I know from you offline was more persuasive than what I know from you online. (: I think you're getting some good advice on your talk page if you want to try another run at RfA, and I do think it would be prudent to be more restrained when dealing with COI editors in the future. Regardless of whether you try RfA again, I hope that you note the widespread appreciation of the good things that you're already doing and the encouragement for you to keep doing what you're good at. -- Pine ✉ 08:06, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
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
- Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [76]
- When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [77]
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RESTBase is now using
scrub_wikitextinstead ofscrubWikitext. [78]
Changes this week
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [79] [80]
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (
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
9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is
per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on
10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
- Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [81] [82]
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [83] [84] [85]
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Thanks for the barnstar :) Seddon talk 05:50, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
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 now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [86]
- You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [87]
Problems
- A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [88] [89]
Changes this week
- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [90] [91]
- Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [92]
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (
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
16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
- The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [93]
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