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Recent changes
You now see a
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DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title.
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Problems
Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (
calendar).
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Future changes
All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12.
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Hi, you added a couple of citations to this article, but although the birth and death years are the same, you give the subject's name as George Friedrich Müller, whereas the article relates to Johann Georg Ferdinand - are you sure it's the same person?
Silver Shiney (
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Silver Shiney: It's definitely the same person (the ODNB article is an update of
the 1901 DNB article) though there seems to be a discrepancy with the exact forenames, which isn't incredibly uncommon for the period. The ODNB has the same picture and begins "Müller, George Friedrich (1805–1898), preacher and philanthropist, was born at Kroppenstaedt, Prussia, on 27 September 1805, the son of John Frederick Müller (d. 1840)", all of which matches perfectly bar the naming.
Most external sources that I can access simply use "George" or "Georg", and don't give middle names. The
LoC authority file has "Müller, Georg Friedrich, 1805-1898" as an alternative name, which agrees (give or take Anglicisation) with the ODNB. Our article doesn't seem to cite where the names it uses came from - and sadly nor does the ODNB, they don't do footnotes - but the German Wikipedia does - it seems to be taken from the school records in Halberstadt. I wonder if he later altered the style he used? Per the German Wikipedia, he formally went by "George Müller" at the time of naturalisation in the UK. Either way, definitely the same person!
Andrew Gray (
talk) 22:40, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
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Andrew Gray: Intriguing! Many thanks for taking the time to reply. Kind regards
Silver Shiney (
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The Haliwa-Saponi's article and talk page continues to get vandal by user 184.0.130.188 They had a warning on their talk page other day by another user for same thing but it appears the person may be deleting their own talk page or something as the warnings disappear. It appears they are attempting to wipe out the talk page as well. *edit: I noticed theystill have 1 warning but on one of their other talk pages, they have a different ip each time, other ip's they used is , 184.0.128.214, 184.0.134.37, 184.0.134.55
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module.
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Problems
A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review.
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CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place.
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A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact
Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki.
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Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason.
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The
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exist at the time -->, on 29 November 1898.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=34512|title=Lewis, Clive Staples (1898–1963|origyear=2004|year=2008|last=Bennett|first=Jack Arthur Walter|last2=Plaskitt|first2=Emma
Hi. I'm sure you felt there was good reason to do this so - why did you change the ref to the online edition?
Eddaido (
talk) 23:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
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Eddaido:: Hi! This is part of a small project I've been working on for some time, to try and get ODNB citations linked to the online version where appropriate. (There are a surprising number of articles which just have things like "source: ODNB" with no further details, or bare unformatted links). It's taken a couple of years to get to the point of being able to do the updating, as we ended up getting sidetracked into building an index of them all on Wikidata first...
Overall, I do think this is an improvement in (almost?) all cases. With the citation to the online edition, readers can follow it up (it is unfortunately paywalled, but it's relatively accessible by the standards of such resources). There's generally no material difference between the online and print editions (save any corrections made to the online one) and so I don't feel we're losing any information or confusing matters by directing people to online rather than print.
Incidentally, it seems he was also in the old DNB:
s:Brotherhood, Peter (DNB12). Do you think it's worth adding a link as well? The old article's not as clearly written but it is openly accessible.
Andrew Gray (
talk) 18:26, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, knew there'd be good reason. I understand no one has ever been dropped from the DNB -> ODNB, no harm in adding a citation but it does seem little benefit either. Online ODNB freely accessible through local libraries for most who might be interested though true, they may not be aware of it. I leave it to your expert judgment. Thanks,
Eddaido (
talk) 22:55, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #212
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
MathML/
SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects.
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Changes this week
The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in
Vector as in other
skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (
calendar).