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New Year's Resolution
I will try not to be as disruptive or make copyright violations
How can I get cluebot to archive all the sections after there are 10 of them? They can be any number of days old as long as there are 10. Is this is possible?
PokestarFan (
talk)
16:58, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
See this page (
/info/en/?search=User:ClueBot_III). I don't think its possible that they can be any number of days old before they get archived, because one of the required fields is "Age", and this can be how many hours a section is left unanswered before it gets archived. Hope this helps.
Class455fan1 (
talk to me)
17:25, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
On your contributions page at the bottom is a link that says Subpages. That will bring you
here which will list all the subpages of your user space. You can then toggle between user space and user talk space or just go
here to see all the subpages of your user talk space. --
Majora (
talk)
00:22, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
The discussion is about
WP:NOTHERE, specifically, if you're here to use Wikipedia as a social network or if you are actually improving our beautiful project. There are two ways to balance your contributions, which currently are almost all to your talk page: a. make fewer talk page edits. This is not Facebook. b. make more edits to article. This is an encyclopedia. Thank you,
Drmies (
talk)
03:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Blocked
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Hey Pokestar. You were blocked for being
not here, mostly since all your edits were to your user talk page. Your ban is indefinite, and the only way to be unbanned at this point is to take
WP:OFFER - Yet today I see you making even more edits to your talk page, which shows other editors you do not understand why you have been blocked. I think you should highly consider taking the standard offer if you wish to contribute again. --
allthefoxes(
Talk)02:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Unbock with a good reason
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I want to make Wikipedia a better place. Next time I am blocked,I am okay by bring blocked indefinately. I promise to use my Talk Page for official reasons. I will archive me user page and include only the vital info. Also,I want to work on the article
vShare as a draft.
Decline reason:
I think you missed the "6 months" part of
WP:STANDARDOFFER. Furthermore, I see no evidence whatsoever that you're here to build an encyclopedia. There are plenty of other sites for this sort of thing (Tumblr? Minecraft?) OhNoitsJamieTalk00:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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I'm inclined to agree with the sentiments expressed below. Also, what part of '6 months' is unclear?
m.o.p20:19, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at
d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (
phabricator:T125822)
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (
phabricator:T125822)
In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to
help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (
phabricator:T2708)
Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (
phabricator:T127095)
More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by
database reports: without claims by site.
Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example:
Paintings by Gustav Klimt
Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (
phabricator:T128075)
More performance work
In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (
phabricator:T125712)
More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
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
Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB.
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Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one.
[2]
The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the
Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this.
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It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app.
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Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects.
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Problems
Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now.
[6]
The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title.
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The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource.
[8]
You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon.
[9]
Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes.
[10]
Changes this week
Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki.
[11]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (
calendar).
Wikivoyages will get the
Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the
Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in
Phabricator.
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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
8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones.
[13]
The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change.
[14]
Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
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 mobile web interface no longer suggests
HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections.
[15]
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can
read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in
a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (
calendar).
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones.
[18]
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
15 March at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can
read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed.
[19]
Changes this week
It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve
CAPTCHAs.
[20]
You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread.
[21]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (
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
22 March at 19:00 (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. This will happen on May 2.
[22]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (
calendar).
You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes.
[26]
Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated.
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Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See
wikitech-l for details.
Corrections
Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (
calendar).
This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a
Facebook group for you.
There are
4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the
sessions.
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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator.
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Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects.
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ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new
API.
[34]
The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters.
[35]
Problems
There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed.
[36]
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (
calendar).
The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March.
[37]
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 April at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
[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.
Recent changes
You can filter
Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users.
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MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB.
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Changes this week
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
[43]
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.
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
April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.