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June 2018

Hello, I'm ZfJames. I noticed that you recently removed content from Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. — zfJames Please add {{ping|ZfJames}} to your reply ( talk page, contribs) 22:59, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Overzealous tagging

You tagged User:Daask/sandbox/Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine for CSD with G1, G11, and G13. While this is virtually an empty page and therefore inadvertent deletion is not a big deal, I don't believe any of these criteria apply in this case. Please be more careful in the future. Daask ( talk) 20:25, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018

WP:UAA reports on users with no edits

Generally, there is no reason to report usernames with no edits whatsoever. Per WP:UAAI: "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal. We do not want to welcome productive editors with a report at UAA, nor do we want to waste our time dealing with accounts that may never be used." The exceptions are obvious hate speech or names that attack a living person/Wikipedia editor, those are blockable even without any edits, but other run-of-the-mill violations need not be reported unless and until they at least attempt to edit, and you should be able to clearly explain what the problem is if it is not immediately evident.

For whatever reason, every day dozens, if not hundreds of accounts are created that never make one single edit. It is our responsibility as admins to conscientiously review every report a user makes at UAA, so we have to check for contribs, deleted contribs, and tripping of the edit filter for every one of these reports, only to find out there's nothing there and therefore no problem to be solved. So we add the {{ wait}} tag to the report, it goes to WP:UAA/HP for a week or more, and must then be reviewed again to see if the account has since become active before removing it. That's time that could be spent doing more productive things, but you basically obligate admins to do it by making such reports. Beeblebrox ( talk) 00:35, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

By the same token, generally it is not a good use of your time to be welcoming users with no edits. The community has repeatedly rejected the idea of any sort of automatic welcoming before a single edit is made. Beeblebrox ( talk) 00:37, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Draft:La Mirada Punks

Hello Susmuffin. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:La Mirada Punks, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not promotional at all. The article makes it clear that the gang is a group of criminals. Thank you. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 05:29, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

User talk pages

Hello. I noticed you restored content to Dr.Koo's talk page with this edit. This is not generally done. Please take a few minutes to read WP:BLANKING and WP:Don't restore removed comments. As the user is blocked, I don't know if they'll undo your edit, or even see it. I'm going to leave it alone. It's up to you to decide if you want to revert yourself; I probably would, were I in the same position. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 12:45, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: User:Mohammad Aziz bin shafi ur rahman

Hello Susmuffin, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of User:Mohammad Aziz bin shafi ur rahman, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /
cheap sh*t room} 14:09, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Political advocacy by Jamez42 / Susmuffin. The discussion is about the topic El Paraíso stampede. 2601:644:1:B7CB:D417:AECA:710A:207 ( talk) 19:18, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Your signature

Please amend your custom signature so that is is clear who it belongs to, i.e. it should include your username. Thank you. — DoRD ( talk) 11:52, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

@ Susmuffin: I note you have edited plenty since DoRD left you this request. To clarify, this is per the username policy: A customised signature should make it easy to identify the username, to visit the user's talk-page, and preferably user page and are to identify you as a contributor. If your signature is unnecessarily confusing, editors may request that you change it; please note that signatures that link to, but do not display, the user's username (for example by signing with a nickname, as in User:Nickname or Nickname) can be confusing for editors (particularly newcomers). The actual username always appears in the page history, so using just the nickname on the relevant talk page can make your signed comments appear to be from a different person, which I think just about covers it. Many thanks, —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /
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I have resolved the issue. ― Susmuffin Talk 18:25, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

That's excellent news, many thanks. Happy editing / vandal kicking. —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /
cheap sh*t room} 18:31, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018

Hello. Your recent edit to National University of Distance Education appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Your edit did not provide references to reliable sources to establish notability and status as an academic associated with the university. It is often less work to create the article first, then add the name to the list. Gab4gab ( talk) 00:18, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Napa Valley Unified School District

Hello Susmuffin. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Napa Valley Unified School District, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: School districts have near-inherent notability per WP:GEOLAND, and educational institutions are exempt from A7. Thank you. Mz7 ( talk) 23:58, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

ANI

~~The removed comments at ANI can be seen as PA's and edit warring over inclusion of them may not be the best idea. Also the attitude is they express will do you no favours.~~ Slatersteven ( talk) 12:10, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@ Slatersteven: Is this comment directed at me, or User:Stefka Bulgaria?

Sorry yes. Slatersteven ( talk) 12:35, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

"Nobody has ever helped their own cause in any way by participating at ANI. Even non-controversial edits have a way of getting people into trouble." power~enwiki ( π, ν) 03:08, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

July 2018

Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit that you made to User talk:46.189.28.247 has been reverted or removed because it was a misuse of a warning or blocking template. Please use the user warnings sandbox for any tests you may want to do, or take a look at our introduction page to learn more about contributing to the encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 06:16, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

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Scientology

I tried one link, https://www.xenu.net/archive/books/bfm/bfm09.htm and it "refused to connect". It works as http://www.xenu.net/archive/books/bfm/bfm09.htm So rather than testing all of them, I undid the whole shebang. I see that user:KolbertBot paid the article a visit in June 2018, so I don't think many if any of the links should be made https. Please be more careful. Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 08:17, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

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UAA reports on users with no edits

You speedily archived my message last time I posted here, which is generally taken as a sign that you read and understood it. [1] If that’s not the case please review it again, and maybe take another look at WP:UAAI as a decent number of your UAA reports get declined. Beeblebrox ( talk) 19:19, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Susmuffin, did you have these same issues with your previous account(s)? Overzealous patrolling, minimal or no response to editors who raise concerns regarding your edits...that sort of thing? -- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:33, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I have not used a another account to patrol, if that is what you are asking. No, I do not have a sockpuppet. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 19:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

It's absolutely clear that this is not your first account, what I'm wondering is if you had the same problems with your previous accounts that ended up in a block (making this block evasion), or if this is veering towards a failed clean start.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:45, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I did have another account that was last used in 2009, when I was 11 years old. I was never blocked and never made use of the clean start option, if that existed then. Honestly, I barely remember that I even had the account in the first place. If it would help, I can give you a link to the account's userpage. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 20:18, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

In my 11+ years on this site, as an admin and checkuser, I have never seen a legitimate new account make this as their third edit, less than an hour after creating their account. Having an account as a child nearly ten years ago can't explain your edit history. Just saying.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:59, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I found it here. I simply wanted to see what he was talking about. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 21:05, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Interesting.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:10, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Question

What do you think about removing webcomics from arts in vital article list? Polandball is enaugh vital in your opinion? Dawid2009 ( talk) 18:22, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

I would avoid making any large removals from the Level 5 list at this point, as it is far from being completed. Also, I would categorise webcomics as a form of art. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 02:20, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

I agree that webcomics are form of art but we do not have listed Hetalia: Axis Powers which is much more vital webcomic than webcomics which are currently listed. I also mentioned Slender Man in disscussion due to fact that Crazy Frog and Slender Man clearly are more vital Internet phenomena than Polandball and at least on the same level what Hatsune Miku which is listed. We also need to remember that Deutch Wikipedia which has very rigorous deletionism for fictional creatures does not have articles about listed creatures such like Harry Potter (character), Darth Vader and has articles about Crazy Frog and Slender Man, so disscussion about including these creatures really would be valuable. Anyway if you still disagree that Slender Man and Crazy Frog can not be listed we can add other concept such like Pinocchio, Christmas elf, The Gingerbread Man but in this case creatures which are not described in German Wikipedia in my opinion also should be definietly removed

In my opinion we also should create new secion at social sciences about: Media franchises. Because we have currently various media franchises in diffrent places listed. At fictional characters Flash and Green Lantern do not fit to this section.

In my opionion we also should add to mythological creatures new section which would be titled: specific mythological creatures. And under this section subtitles: general (for creatures such like Wandering Jew currently listed at fiction and Tooth fairy currently listed at myths/religion), paranormal (for example for UFO which is not listed) ald cryptides (for Yeti, Big foot etc.)

I am also not sure Don Juan and Roland are fictional characters. There were some time ago disscussion about this type creatures. Anyway it seems to me that they are historical creatures near at the same level what Saint Nicholas and Blackbeard.

What do you think about my comments and ideas above? I hope you will replied. Cheers Dawid2009 ( talk) 22:09, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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Weird Signatures

Hi , today you closed and ANI discussion as a non-admin closure , but the timestamp on your signature shows 23rd August. How did that happen ? Kpg jhp jm 12:21, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

I copied and pasted a previous closure, and I must have forgotten to replace my old signature. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 17:17, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Hello, I'm Peaceray. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you unlinked one or more redlinks from Giacomo Casanova. Often redlinks can be helpful, so we don't remove them just because they are red. They help improve Wikipedia by attracting editors to create needed articles.

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FYI: Wikipedia:Teahouse#Suspect_in_vandalizing

That was not vandalism. Twinkle mistake, I guess. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:05, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [13]

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Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [19]

Problems

You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [20] [21] [22]

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You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [24]

Changes later this week

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The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [25]
The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [26]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Susmuffin. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Harmless

Redirects in user space and draft space which are red links are totally harmless. Deleting them serves no useful purpose. Please find something more useful to do. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 20:58, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

I understand. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 01:45, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [27]

Changes later this week

The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [28]
Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [29]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November ( calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [30]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

From the editor: Time for a truce

Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

Special report: The Christmas wishlist

Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

Arbitration report: A long break ends

Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

Gallery: Intersections

Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

Essay: No one cares about your garage band

Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

From the archives: Ars longa, vita brevis

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Tech News: 2018-49

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

Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [31]
Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [32]
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [33]
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [34] [35]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [36] [37]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [38]

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Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [39] [40]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [41]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [42]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December ( calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [43]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

OAWiki
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
Global branches update
Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 14:34, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism

I simply edited a topic about crusades. Why you deleted this? Historyk55635 ( talk) 10:52, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

News and notes: Some wishes do come true

In the media: Political hijinks

Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone

Blog: News from the WMF

Humour: I believe in Bigfoot

Essay: Requests for medication

From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [44]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [45]
codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [46]
On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [47]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 ( calendar).

Meetings

Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [48] [49]
You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [50] [51]
Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [52]

Problems

When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [53]

Changes later this week

You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [54]
The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:55, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Citation Barnstar
	Your general fixes to citations and the like are super satisfying! ~Sıgehelmus♗_(Tøk) 21:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 21:48, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Real edit

wikipedia is out of touch with reality i added the most important piece of information about this war and you just delete it 5.219.93.144 ( talk) 20:31, 15 January 2019 (UTC) you have to change this policy

The Demonologist

Hi,

I am trying to put a page up for my fans. I am Fred Batt the Demonologist with the TV show Most Haunted. On here I am spirit666 The main reason I am trying to make the page is because for so long it had a lot of wrong information on it and I wanted to correct it. How shall I go about doing this without it being deleted? Regards

Fred spirit666 ( talk) 11:59, 16 January 2019 (UTC)^[1]

Table code formatting

Hi! Of the many Dispenser edits you made recently, I noticed this one, which edited the page's table to have a |- placed directly before the table's headers. To me, this appears rather uncommon, and it didn't really change anything visibly, but is this the proper code formatting for tables? Regards. Lordtobi ( ✉) 09:34, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Help:Table seems to suggest that a |- is produced before the ! header when one selects "Insert a table." That is probably why Dispenser does this. I have tested this, and the results contradict Help:Table. Furthermore, the Manual of Style suggests that a |- is put before the ! header. I have no idea why the guides contradict with what "Insert a table" does. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 15:57, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

Caption
Header cell	Header cell
Content cell	Content cell

I see, thanks. Lordtobi ( ✉) 12:07, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Cosmetic genfixes

Hello! Please do not commit general fixes on an article when the changes are purely cosmetic. In this case, there's no need to change {{ Cite web}} to {{ cite web}}. (not watching, please {{ ping}}) czar 18:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

My movie is a real movie.

My movie is a real movie, because I made it. You have an article on Vice. You should have an article on Viyce. Fraction7 ( talk) 23:04, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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

Tech News

Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [55]

Recent changes

The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [56]
MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [57] [58]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [59]

Changes later this week

You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [60]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January ( calendar).

Meetings

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20:37, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Sry

Ok I’m don’t please don’t ban me Sandywaffles ( talk) 08:18, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

USHMM

Thank you, I'm still unable to link there. Xx236 ( talk) 09:54, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2019)

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Assassination attempts

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Tech News: 2019-05

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 Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [61]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther

Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

News from the WMF: News from WMF

Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

Essay: How

Humour: Village pump

From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2019)

A typical Finnish school meal lunch, served free of charge to all pupils.

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School meal

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Tech News: 2019-06

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Changes later this week

It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [62]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February ( calendar).

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17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Ellis O. Knox — Wikipage

So totally not trying to vandalize my great-grandfather’s page or anything. I see deadlink and all I was trying to do is update the link with the reference link at the bottom of the page, which is not a dead link, the website page moved, so I can share for Black History Month. Are you able to fix this. Permanent dead link isn’t great. Not sure what happened to the USC links that existed before but that’s neither here nor there. If you can fix this up since I’m clearly doing it wrong to the point of me being called a vandal, I would sincerely appreciate it. MarienneW ( talk) 09:41, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

I have resolved a few issues. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 05:05, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

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Bearsden Choir.

I understood Wikipedia should not be taken as fully reliable as anyone can change it. I therefore was not looking for rules, and didn't notice anything in particular. I have been a member of Bearsden Choir since 1981 and was aware that some of the info already given was not completely accurate, and also of course , Andrew Nunn has been our Conductor since 2014. I do like things to be accurate, however, I just did it because it was possible at the time, I do not have time to read up, or give citations.

It will therefore have to remain absolutely out of date !!

Best wishes

Karine Davison

```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldwidewoman ( talk • contribs) 01:10, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Reversed Edit to page 'Smino'

Hi there, you recently reversed my edit to the Smino page, in which I added the link to his official website. Was this an automated response? You wrote it "did not appear constructive," but I would disagree. Would you reconsider the reversal, or explain your decision? Amauroticnightingale ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:40, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2019)

Pondicherry is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry.

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Tech News: 2019-07

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Recent changes

You can use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

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

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18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

DrKnow changes

Hi, I made the changes because the entry was incorrect. I am the person who presented the series and I have never done O&G. Please rereplace my changes. I’m new to this, have I committed some mortal wiki-editing sin? Regards pAUL 101.98.29.19 ( talk) 09:56, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2019)

Mixian rice noodles being cooked on a gas stove at a noodle restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan, China

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Gas stove

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	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
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Thank you. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 18:09, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08

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Recent changes

When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [63]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February ( calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [64]

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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

re: Recent edit to Adult adoption

Hi Susmuffin,

I changed "children" to "minor children" to better summarize the law to which it referred: The Adoption and Children Act (2002) states, "An application for an adoption order may only be made if the person to be adopted has not attained the age of 18 years on the date of the application."

The unedited statement was: "In the United Kingdom, only children may be adopted." Since all persons who had parents are children, saying "only children may be adopted" strikes me as tantamount to the trivial statement that "only persons may be adopted". However, that would include adult children as well and the statement would contradict the law it refers to. Consequently, I made the modification.

Perhaps the article should simply say "In the United Kingdom, only minors may be adopted" or adult adoption is not allowed in the United Kingdom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.76.199 ( talk) 08:15, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.76.199 ( talk) 08:03, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

The context makes it clear that "children" refers to people who are under the age of majority. However, I would not object to the replacement of "children" with "minors," as they are synonyms. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 03:52, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

First, sign up your group here.
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2019)

A cheeseburger at a restaurant

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Tech News: 2019-09

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Recent changes

There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [65]

Changes later this week

When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [66]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February ( calendar).

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Future changes

The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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21:17, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Angle

Sorry about my revert, it was a glitch of the website. Clicked on the wrong thing. StaticVapor message me! 02:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

It happens. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 00:51, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

#1Lib1Ref
New and expanded partners
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

From the editors: Help wanted (still)

News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!

Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Binge-watching

Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

Gallery: Signed with pride

Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers

Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia

From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

Humour: Pesky Pronouns

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Manitowoc, Wisconsin nickname

Please see the following from Wikipedia: /info/en/?search=List_of_city_nicknames_in_Wisconsin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pautzjam6 ( talk • contribs) 19:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

That page also lacks a source. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 21:16, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Need your opinion

Hello Sir, Please get a look on my article Biswajit Mohapatra ,it does not fall WP:ONEEVENT and WP:BLP1E now as i have expanded the article.Please help me to save the article that should be on Wikipedia in every possible way. Ishwar^Talk 06:36, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

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Wanted posters in Japan, 2004

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Tech News: 2019-10

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March ( calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [67] [68]

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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2019)

Zippers with common teeth variations: metal teeth (top), coil teeth and plastic teeth

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Tech News: 2019-11

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

Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March ( UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [69]
Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [70] [71]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

why did you remove the information that I added about Joseph Hill?

why you remove the information that I added? Olu faix ( talk) 10:02, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

You did not provide a reliable source. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 15:54, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Nationalism

Regarding edit on nationalism page, that wrongly stated that annexation of Crimea by Russian Federation in 2014 was driven by Nationalism. "...More recently, nationalism was an important driver of the controversial annexation of Crimea by Russia..."

First of all, the annexation of territory of another country was an illegal act, as a result of occupation. So no controversy here, but obvious disregard of international law.

Secondly, Russian Federation is trying to resurrect Soviet Union, and there was nothing nationalistic about Soviet Union.

Thirdly, the only nationalism would be possible in Crimea would be nationalism of Crimean Tatars if they were trying to create national state. Annexation by Russian Federation is dictated by totally different drive - imperialism. Russian Federation itself, as a federation of Buryats, Bashkors, Komi, Sakha, Tuva, Dagestan,... and many others, that can only function by offering its subjects foremost imperialistic but not nationalistic ideas. And the occupation of Crimea is a clear result of such imperialistic tendencies in politics of Russian Federation.

Financial Times: Russia: Imperialism awakes ^[2]

The Guardian: Putin’s desire for a new Russian empire won’t stop with Ukraine ^[3]

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières: Three forms of Russian imperialism: Empire in Russian History ^[4]

The Conversation: Russia’s imperial mindset dates back centuries – and it is here to stay ^[5]

Congratulations from WP:STiki!

The Bronze STiki Barnstar of Merit

Congratulations, Susmuffin! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 5,000 classification threshold using STiki.

We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool.

We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g ( talk) 13:38, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 18:11, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Archiving

Hi Susmuffin, as a matter of interest, why did you change one archive to another at the Holocaust? I sometimes use archive.is because the Internet Archive is often slow to load, and for a few days recently I wasn't able to load it at all. I don't mind which one is used, but I wondered whether you're aware of some reason archive.is ought to be replaced. SarahSV ^(talk) 18:41, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I only glanced at the change before leaving this. You didn't add the Internet Archive but expanded the URL. Is it better to use the long URLs than the short ones? SarahSV ^(talk) 18:47, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Apologies, "Fix dead links" did that on its own. Looking at the two links, the shortened one does load slightly faster. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 19:12, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

No worries. I see editors do this quite a lot (rmv archive.is, or change the URL), so I was wondering whether there was a problem with it or whether the script's default is to remove those links. I suppose I should start by looking at why the script treats them as dead links. Thank you. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:44, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

God is Dead

Thanks for your message. You have removed a citation from the above article and yet you have asked me to explain why this might be a problem. I'm a bit puzzled. Perhaps you would be kind enough to explain your reason for removing the citation. 82.27.90.157 ( talk) 12:14, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

The citation was very vague. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 13:02, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

The Re-evaluation of Human Values is a central concept (prophecy) in Nietzsche's philosophy and can be found discussed in a number of his works. It concerns a hypothetical period of history that corresponds with what we today call post-modernity. Ecce Homo is only one such work - albeit a very important one - where the concept is discussed. 82.27.90.157 ( talk) 13:20, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2019)

Many of the internal organs of the human body

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Tech News: 2019-12

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Changes later this week

When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [72] [73]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [74]
Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:44, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

My edits were relevant

My edits were relevant considering that the party/faction JKLF is a terrorist group. It has killed both soldiers & innocent civilians of my country, including women & children. It is relevant edit to call it a terrorist group. Furthermore, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen is a Pakistani terrorist group as designated by the US, EU, & India. There is not a shadow of a doubt when I edit an article calling them terrorists.

-- Sumit kagrawal ( talk) 08:42, 24 March 2019 (UTC) Sumit Agrawal

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2019)

Lady Gaga playing a keytar, which is a type of keyboard instrument

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Tech News: 2019-13

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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [75]

Problems

There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [76]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [77]
Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [78]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March ( calendar).

Meetings

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18:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Lyles, TN photographs

Thanks for your patience as I learn to use Wikipedia!

Most, if not all pictures, that I've seen on Wikipedia have been of high quality. Is there ever a time to use old, lesser quality photos from early 1900's in an article? I have seen an old photo of Lyell Station and a photo of a steam engine passing through Lyles. I couldn't find anything in The Tea Room about this topic. I don't want to contact the ladies who possess these if it is unlikely they could be used.

Thanks again, Abaker2019 ( talk) 17:50, 30 March 2019 (UTC) 3/30/2018

Old images are perfectly fine. However, the article is a bit short. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 21:18, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editors: Getting serious about humor
News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
In the media: Women's history month
Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
Featured content: Out of this world
Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?
In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2019)

The interior of a gym in The Netherlands, around 1900

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Tech News: 2019-14

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

Changes later this week

Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [79]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April ( calendar).

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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

You stopped my edit!

Hi

Dissapointed that you blocked my edit of this page - the song Mama's Little Girl has no explanation as to the song meaning and I believe that my edits should be applied and asked for comment on - short of asking Sir Paul or Heather Louise not sure what else can be done! Do me a favour go and listen to the song and think of the 5 year old Heather Louise at the farm on the Mull of Kintyre - this song must be about her! Some comment must be made about it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.15.222.57 ( talk) 00:19, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2019)

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Story of the Negro

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Tech News: 2019-15

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

More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [80] [81]

Problems

You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [82]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [83]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [84]

Changes later this week

When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [85]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [86]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [87]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [88] [89]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

GB

Just to let you know, there is nothing good faith about this . They are a long term troll, User:DeepNikita. ~ GB fan 21:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2019)

Various dairy products: milk, feta cheese, yogurt and parmesan cheese (clockwise from upper-left)

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Tech News: 2019-16

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

All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [90] [91]
You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

My edit

Im sorry about that it is just that the evidence i provided was just entirely true and i didn’t know how to give reference. Could you please leave the edit up and i will learn how to add reference in the mean time. The information i have provided can be found in the David Attenborough documentary on South American invasive species which i watched on dailymotion.

Thankyou, from Ollypants Skeltona09095 ( talk) 15:41, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [92] [93] [94]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [95]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [96] [97]

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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2019)

Gunilla Persson in 2013

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Gunilla Persson

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Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [98] [99]

Problems

Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [100]

Changes later this week

You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [101]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [102]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [103]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May ( calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [104]

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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

am i still blocked

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

News and notes: An Action Packed April

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Problems

Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [105]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May ( calendar).

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from WP:STiki!

The Silver STiki Barnstar of Merit

Congratulations, Susmuffin! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 10,000 classification threshold using STiki.

We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool.

We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g ( talk) 16:52, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 23:34, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Regarding my edit in Wikipedia page.

That Pollard incident in his Wikipedia page is nice. But what I said or added is not nice ?. Do you follow cricket?. I follow it closely. What I said was correct and it can be added in his Wikipedia page. Shankraj914 ( talk) 18:52, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

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Sashimi at a restaurant

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Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May ( calendar).

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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

“Final warning” level for first unconstructive edt

Hi Susmuffin, I saw that you gave an IP editor a final warning for vandalism despite it being their first edit. Was there anything in particular about the edit that warranted such a response? I’m just hoping you can explain. Thanks, Creamynaus ( talk) 23:40, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

That edit was well beyond acceptable. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 23:50, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-21

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Recent changes

The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [106] [107]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [108] [109]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May ( calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [110]
The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [111]

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13:04, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 33

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
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#1Lib1Ref
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
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Agung eruption 18 may 2019 is it a hoax

Seeing very nicely done youtube video released lately about Agung eruption may 18 2019... Searching through all possibilities to verify it and coming up with nothing. Appears to be fake. I live in Ubud bali but presently travelling in Thailand. Do you think its a hoax? Hope for your comment. Email me if you like. Pak Ulu : kunzangyabyum@yahoo.com

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Mixed Gender Hurling

Thanks for the 'heads-up'. Agreed that the page 'looked' better previously, I should have been more succinct. I guess the page now gives the impression that something (Mixed Gender) exists which does not exist, in reality? Or, perhaps I've mis-understood what Wiki categorises as a 'Mixed Gender' sport? Let's work this out, together and build a better page for Hurling (and for Wiki!) Kind Regards. Sean

Thanks for the 'heads-up'. Agreed that the page 'looked' better previously, I should have been more succinct. I guess the page now gives the impression that something (Mixed Gender) exists which does not exist, in reality? Or, perhaps I've mis-understood what Wiki categorises as a 'Mixed Gender' sport? Let's work this out, together and build a better page for Hurling (and for Wiki!) Kind Regards.

Thanks for the 'heads-up'. Agreed that the page 'looked' better previously, I should have been more succinct. I guess the page now gives the impression that something (Mixed Gender) exists which does not exist, in reality? Or, perhaps I've mis-understood what Wiki categorises as a 'Mixed Gender' sport? Let's work this out, together and build a better page for Hurling (and for Wiki!) Kind Regards. SeanAmhlaoibh ( talk) 21:45, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

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Josephine Bornebusch in 2013

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Josephine Bornebusch

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Changes later this week

Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [112] [113]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May ( calendar).

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2019

From the editors: Picture that

News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

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News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

Essay: Paid editing

From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

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Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that if anyone just removes a correct and perfect edit without considering its ture value, it will never be a great thing. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals left on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how can it be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you very much for your support.

Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that if anyone just removes a correct and perfect edit without considering its ture value, it will never be a great thing. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals left on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how it can be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you very much for your support. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoologist D.Roy ( talk • contribs) 11:51, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that how anyone can remove a correct and perfect edit, without considering its true value. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how can it be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you so much for your support.

Hello sir, I am zoologist d.roy. I just want to tell you that how anyone can remove a correct and perfect edit, without considering its true value. In zoology human is also the part of study including all animals on the planet. Many people think and say that zoology does not include humans. So as a zoologist I just included the term humans in its study fields. So, I think it was a correct edit. I also respect your work, but how can it be a wrong edit. Anyway, thank you so much for your support. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoologist D.Roy ( talk • contribs) 12:12, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Polly the Parrot

Hello, Susmuffin. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Polly the Parrot".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Snowycats ( talk) 17:42, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

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The official logo of the latest HTML version, HTML5

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Tech News: 2019-23

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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [114]
There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [115]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [116] [117]

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [118]

Changes later this week

Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [119]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May ( calendar).

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15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Template categorization

Hi, Susmuffin. Thank you for your Lovecraft userbox. Please keep in mind, that for templates, the categories should be wrapped using <noinclude></noinclude> tags. See WP:CAT#T for more information. —⁠ andrybak ( talk) 18:21, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

I understand. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 19:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2019)

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Karla Faye Tucker

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Tech News: 2019-24

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Recent changes

When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [120] [121]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [122]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [123]

Problems

Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [124]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Nephew Tommy

Hello, I am not sure why you think the article was better before or what measurement you are using to determine whether an article is good or not. The current article is in complete and outdated. I am new to updating wikipedia pages and everything is very foreign to me. The bio needs to be updated and Nephew Tommy himself requested that I update the image. Any insight or direction would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortheartllc ( talk • contribs) 15:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

You put a reference directly above the infobox; it was unclear what its purpose was. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 16:27, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Gawker — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.34.3.201 ( talk) 18:37, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

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Bookworm damage inside a book

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Tech News: 2019-25

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

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [125]

Changes later this week

MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [126]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [127]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June ( calendar).

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Future changes

Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [128]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Invite to RfC (Request for Comment) in Reagan article on Iran-Contra

Hi,

You're invited to an RfC on the question of, "Within the section on the Iran-Contra affair, should we include the aspect of drug trafficking on the part of some Nicaraguan Contras?"

Talk:Ronald_Reagan#rfc_85A761C

Thanks,

FriendlyRiverOtter ( talk) 15:59, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

H. P. Lovecraft

I'd be grateful for your thoughts on whether we should return the article to the version here, in the hope that we can start a constructive dialogue on any changes necessary. Regards, Ghmyrtle ( talk) 22:29, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

I support your plan. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 04:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

H. P. Lovecraft

I'd be grateful for your thoughts on whether we should return the article to the version here, in the hope that we can start a constructive dialogue on any changes necessary. Regards, Ghmyrtle ( talk) 22:29, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

I support your plan. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 04:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2019)

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Legislator

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Tech News: 2019-26

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Problems

The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [129]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [130]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June ( calendar).

Meetings

You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

The June 2019 Signpost is out!

Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

In the media: The disinformation age

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

Technology report: Actors and Bots

Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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A soil profile depicting bedrock

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because none of it was correct

I changed it because it was wrong, it was about me so I kind of have an inside track on what is real and what is FAKE NEWS. Also, Broken Lizard troupe were not in the video, Jay was in another video I produced or directed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidatwillienelson ( talk • contribs) 07:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹ Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

² Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration ( permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 21:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-27

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

The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [131]

Problems

Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [132]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [133]

Changes later this week

You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [134]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:23, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

10-4

just tightened up the verbiage that was there a bit as opposed to citing the ref w most recent edit, thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.220.182.140 ( talk) 23:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Doomguy edit.

I have the link to where I got the info. Only problem is... I don't know how to post it as a reference; comes from another wiki and I cannot find the right article to put it under or it to work. 97.127.92.185 ( talk) 07:15, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Other wikis can't be used as a reference normally. However, for the future (if you are uninterested in creating an account to have access to the visual editor) just type <ref>https://example.com</ref>. Cheers, – MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 07:30, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

About My edit on "Spumoni"

Dear Susmuffin,

I'm born and raised in Italy where I spent 30 years of my life. My edit on "Spumoni" was not an act of vandalism, I just wanted to let the people know what "Spumoni" is in Italy, a totally different dessert and trust me there's no place where you can find the "Spumoni" ice cream flavorful in the whole Italian territory.

I just wanted to give more credit to wikipedia. Trust me, ANY italian that read the american "Spumoni" page will laugh at that. Expecially the part where it says "Spumoni is a staple dessert in Italian culture after a dinner of ravioli". This is very racist. And not real as well since "Spumoni" is typical of the South of Italy and "Ravioli" are from the North of Italy.

Feel free to verify this informations with an italian wikipedia admin

Kind Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by GioPower ( talk • contribs) 17:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2019)

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Recent changes

For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [135]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [136]

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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July ( calendar).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [137]

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Future changes

Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [138]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [139]

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Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

The Wikipedia Library

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no heading

Hey, why did my edit get removed. That information is correct. Jeez — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.16.36.252 ( talk) 00:41, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

You didn't provide a source. ( talk page watcher) – MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 00:43, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2019)

Legal status of cannabis possession for non-medical use (2018)

Legal

Illegal but decriminalized

Illegal but often unenforced

Illegal

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Recent changes

The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [140]

Changes later this week

The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Edit filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July ( calendar).

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Future changes

The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [141]

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15:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Rafiqul Islam Miah

Hi, regarding the page Rafiqul Islam Miah, I have added one reference ( https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-37206) with the discussion around the Bihari Community getting citizenship (daily star reference).

Please add that line now. For rest of the edits, there are links which I will add. The article as it stands is extremely incomplete, lacks information and details.

As for biography related details, the positions he held were incomplete and did not have references either. But that incomplete without reference details were accepted but my edits which had more details (he was minister/state minister for 3 different ministries) have been moved.

Education related facts (degrees from which school), political positions held and currently being held are easily verifiable. The existing article also states few of them without reference, so I'm not sure why these partial facts are there while more details I wrote have been removed.

Please advice the proper procedure to put references regarding biography details (which may not all be available on websites)

— Preceding 
unsigned comment added by 
BangladeshPoliticalHistory (
talk • 
contribs) 08:51, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Evil Con carne

sorry I’m still getting used to the site (I have confidence issues and don’t feel ready for a full account yet only doing small edits unregistered) this was my source: https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/cartoon-networks-temp-9-11-ban-on-toonami-cc-episodes-lifted-updated.2855441/

https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/how-september-11th-2001-affected-cartoons-animation.5159671/

-- 108.14.13.172 ( talk) 22:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Internet forums are not reliable sources.― Susmuffin ^Talk 23:53, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2019)

The Montsoreau Flea Market is the largest flea market in the Loire Valley, France

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Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [142]

Problems

The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [143]

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Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [144]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July ( calendar).

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With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [147] [148]
Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
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13:07, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Episcopal Diocese of Kansas

As a new user I'm sorry I'm unfamiliar with what needs to be documented. I'm an employee of this entity and deleted content that is incorrect. I will make those changes again and document what changes I made for the edit history.

EpiscoKS — Preceding unsigned comment added by EpiscoKS ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Elizabeth Ludlow

You may want to look at the MOS for multiple links to the same page. Also, some edits make the page easier to read, even if you think they are not improvements. You are a sample of one. 75.111.203.5 ( talk) 22:32, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

About your editions on Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/4

Hi Susmuffin. Thanks for copyediting my posts on this page. I am sorry for missing signs at my votes but it was caused due to fact I copied long edition from my sandbox where I were preparing my proposals during last few weeks. I do it because of I decided that I will slowly write a massage (without postdated signs) until I share my thoughts on VA talk. I am also going to correct my message at section: "Global proposals" because of I know that it stil has grammal mistakes and is quite understandable but I will do it littly later when I get enaugh time for it. Thanks and cheers! Dawid2009 ( talk) 07:29, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Take as much time as you need. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 07:52, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

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A butter churn used for butter churning in Nepal

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Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [149]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August ( calendar).

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Need For Speed World - closure - offline server - soapbox racer

First, I'm wondering what the Wiki rules are about third party modifications for a game. I seem to recall this was an issue in the case of a third party server made for World of Warcraft, to avoid the monthly fee, and that some references to it were removed, but I don't recall if it was ever in a Wiki article (it is not there now), and I don't know if the third party server is still running. Rcgldr ( talk) 02:56, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

@ Susmuffin:I have NFS World on my watchlist, and I noted you reverted an edit back to one that is factually incorrect. Early versions of soapbox race world didn't exist until about 2 years after NFS World was shutdown (late 2017), not just "a few months". The edit that you removed correctly noted that early versions of offline servers were running before shutdown. It also correctly noted that player account information could be downloaded, and that some fan sites downloaded all of their members accounts. For example, World Garage forum downloaded player account info for all of it's members, if the member names matched their online names, and also downloaded account info by request. I don't know the details on how this was done, but I have a zip of downloaded accounts, including my own, that work with the offline servers. Most of the post NFS World stuff is posted at elitepvpers forum. Early on, some of this was posted at some Russian forums, but I don't recall the web site names. Prior to soapbox, there were other online servers, which are also mentioned at elitepvpers forum site. Soapbox web site has been "under maintenance" for quite a while, although it still provides a link, and I'm not aware of any currently running servers, although I've never tried any of the online servers. What I've read from various forums and youtube videos, is that servers either reset, or are shutdown, and players have to start over on new servers. I haven't seen any youtube videos made using a soapbox server in the last 6 months or more, leading me to believe that there aren't any servers currently running. Rcgldr ( talk) 02:56, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Again, I'm not sure if the post NFS World stuff should be included in the Wiki article, but if it is to be included, the version that you undid was factually correct, while the one you reverted back to is factually incorrect. I'm also finding the standards for "reliable sources" to be inconsistent for Wiki video game articles. Rcgldr ( talk) 02:56, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

I removed the remaining content, as it lacked citations. Also, Internet forums are not reliable sources. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 14:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

What I meant about Wiki standards for reliable sources for video games is what I see in quite a few video game articles. A lot of the content on certain articles is based on actual game play, so the reader would need to get a copy of the game to verify, an issue that has been brought up in the past in Wiki video games article. Another debated source would be a youtube video of actual game play. In some cases there are developer approved or created guides for those games, which probably should be considered as reliable sources, but not many games have such guides. Then again, I don't see how actual game play is much different than an article about a book or movie that relies on the book or movie itself for a description of the book or movie (such as plot), or a video clip (youtube) from a movie. For comparison, articles about programming algorithms usually rely on industry approved texts or books about the algorithm, rather than the algorithm itself. Rcgldr ( talk) 18:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

As for internet forums, what I was referring to was the downloadable content, as opposed to posts about such content. Again, this gets to the issue of using the actual download itself (running it) as a reliable source. Rcgldr ( talk) 18:49, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes

Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee

Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos

Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
A request for comment ( permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

Editors may now use the template {{ Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
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Text classified as vandalism

Hey Susmuffin! I edited some article about a historic monument (Talatal Ghar) to correct grammatical errors and add facts. But you undid it. May i know why? Initially i was a bit upset but i figured out u r a regular wikipedia editor, so u might have some point. Please do clarify.

Talatal ghar

Hey! Thanks for ur response. Let me assure u the text was meant to be constructive; being a local i know the info i put in was true to the best of my knowledge. Only citation might be lacking. So u may undo the reversion or allow me to do it. Please let me know if there is any other issue with my edit. Thanks!

This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2019)

The human body has several organs.

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Organ (anatomy)

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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August ( calendar).

Problems

A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [150] [151]

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13:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Doug DeMuro

Greetings! This is in response to your disruptive edit to my change on the Doug DeMuro page stating he has "well over" 2 million subscribers. At the time Doug's YouTube account had over 2.9 million subscribers and it has recently passed 3 million. I am unaffiliated with Doug DeMuro and the edit was simply to emphasize that it was well over two million subscribers. Please review our policy on Assume Good Faith /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith before jumping to conclusions on a fellow editor's motives. If you have any questions feel free to contact me on my Talk page.

User:Black Decorum

Hello, Susmuffin,

I declined your speedy deletion tag for this user page. "Not a webhost" is intended for editors who use their user pages for specific purposes, like tracking their fantasy football leagues or writing a blog. This user page just had one sentence on it and it could be that the editor is thinking of writing an article on their user page. Please don't tag user pages unless they have substantial, non-encyclopedic content or if they are being used to promote a person or product. Thank you. Liz ^{Read!
Talk!} 23:09, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

I understand. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 23:11, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Heidi Baker

You wrote: "Hello, and thank you for your recent contribution. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions."

Your edit seems highly subjective. All I did was to add a comment about one of the quoted sources. As it stands the article relies on a very questionable study to claim that healing works. The comment and reference I added points out several flaws in that study. So in my subjective view your revert of my edit made the article worse.

AndersG ( talk) 08:05, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2019)

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Great Spirit

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Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [152]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [153]

Changes later this week

Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [154]

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The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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Congratulations from WP:STiki!

The Gold STiki Barnstar of Merit

Congratulations, Susmuffin! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 25,000 classification threshold using STiki.

We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool.

We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g ( talk) 03:56, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 08:25, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2019)

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Bianca Wahlgren Ingrosso

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Tech News

There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [155]

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Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [156]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August ( calendar).

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Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [157]

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15:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your message

Hello. Why is it suspicious to add "so-called" before "Chinese unification" in the "New Party" article? Many Taiwanese reject the premise of the term--that Taiwan is a part of China--and so adding "so-called" makes that clear. Without that, it seems to take a heavy blue/red slant.

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2019)

Pitchforks

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Pitchfork

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2019)

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Organ (anatomy)

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Recent changes

You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [158]
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [159]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [160]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [161]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September ( calendar).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [162]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [163]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [164]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [165]
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [166]

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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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A vegetable soup prepared using udon noodles

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2019)

An example of a miniature book: The United States History and Presidents in a Nutshell, published circa 1904

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Animation illustrating the discovery history of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way over the last 100 years. The classical satellite galaxies are in blue (labeled with their names), SDSS-discoveries are in red, and more recent discoveries (mostly with DES) are in green.

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Edits to Jamil Jivani's page Youronto ( talk) 18:15, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi Susmuffin,

I was wondering why my edits on Jamil Jivani's page were seen an not constructive? I spent a lot of time during the summer getting the information from Jamil Jivani (my boss) himself. I do not think it's fair that you removed the changes I made because they were perceived to be "not constructive", when he gave me all the information to populate his page with. Isn't the whole point of Wikipedia to contribute to contribute to the collective pool of knowledge we have as human beings? Why are you governing what is being proposed, especially when it was not racist, homophobic or discriminatory in any way? Is there any way you can revert back to the changes I made? If you can this would be greatly appreciated. (24/09/19)

Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019

Wikimania
We're building something great, but..
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
A Wikibrarian's story
Bytes in brief

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2019)

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Aaron Fechter

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The Signpost: 30 September 2019

From the editors: Where do we go from here?

Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report

Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

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Tech News: 2019-40

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's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [167]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [168]

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16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

Barkeep49

Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma

Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno

JamesBWatson → JBW

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2019)

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Frenemy

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Tech News: 2019-41

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [169]

Problems

There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [170]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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15:36, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2019)

The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27) maneuvers around an island as it passes through the Strait of Magellan en route to Punte Arenas, Chile, on 1 July 1990, during exercise "Unitas XXXI", a combined exercise involving the naval forces of the United States and nine South American nations.

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Tech News: 2019-42

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 use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [171]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [172]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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23:55, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2019)

A vignette thought to represent Medjed, Greenfield papyrus, British Museum

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Medjed (god)

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Tech News: 2019-43

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 API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [173]

Problems

There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [174]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [175]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October ( calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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14:39, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2019)

The audience at Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead in Chicago, Illinois, July 2015

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Tech News: 2019-44

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [176] [177]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em ( em) for some specific cases. [178] [179]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [180]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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16:17, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit

Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse

In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing

Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars

Community view: Observations from the mainland

Arbitration report: October actions

Traffic report: Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers

Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast

Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia

Essay: Wikipedia is in the real world

News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes

GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear

DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD

DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ

CheckUser changes

L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47

Ivanvector

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux

DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news

An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2019)

Concert attendees at the Electric Daisy Carnival, Los Angeles, California, 2010

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Tech News: 2019-45

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

At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [181]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [182]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:48, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2019)

The Coleco Gemini video game console, a console clone of the Atari 2600 produced by Coleco in 1983

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Coleco Gemini

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Tech News: 2019-46

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

MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process

Hello!

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to improve the community consultation outreach process for Foundation policies, and we are interested in why you didn't participate in a recent consultation that followed a community discussion you’ve been part of.

Please fill out this short survey to help us improve our community consultation process for the future. It should only take about three minutes.

The privacy policy for this survey is here. This survey is a one-off request from us related to this unique topic.

Thank you for your participation, Kbrown (WMF) 10:45, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2019)

The National Museum is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare, and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded in 1818 and is located in Prague.

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National Museum (Prague)

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Tech News: 2019-47

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

You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [183]

Changes later this week

You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 36

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019

#1Lib1Ref January 2020
#1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2019)

The steam hammer is a type of hammer

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Hammer

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Tech News: 2019-48

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

Changes later this week

The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [184]
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [185]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week ( calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [186]

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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2019

From the editor: Put on your birthday best

News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?

In the media: You say you want a revolution

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases

Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things

Gallery: Winter and holidays

Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews

Essay: Adminitis

From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited

In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy

Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2019)

Coffee cake

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Coffee cake

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. ( T219126)

Arbitration

Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Tech News: 2019-49

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

Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [187]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [188]

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16:59, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Seems you have me mistaken for someone else.

I've never even looked at the page for Tari Renner. Only edit I made recently concerned the new season of Good Eats  — Preceding 
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2019)

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Tech News: 2019-50

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 projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [189]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [190]

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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Overtagging

Hi, please read WP:Overtagging as you are consistently grossly overtagging articles which in some cases is tantamount to vandalism, regards Atlantic306 ( talk) 00:00, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

I understand. ― Susmuffin ^Talk 00:52, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2019)

A ballet leap performed with modern, non-classical form in a contemporary ballet

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Tech News: 2019-51

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

The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [191]
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [192]

Changes later this week

You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [193]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December ( calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [194]

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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2019)

When cooking with alcohol to prepare a flambé, alcohol is ignited

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Tech News: 2019-52

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the " advanced mode".

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [195]

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20:07, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 December 2019

From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again

News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages

Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?

In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?

Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki

Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December

Technology report: User scripts and more

Gallery: Holiday wishes

Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary

From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap

WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2020)

Lots of pasta

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List of pasta

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes

Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes

Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2020)

The pilot in command of an aircraft is the person aboard who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the captain in a typical two- or three-pilot aircrew, or "pilot" if there is only one certificated and qualified pilot at the controls of an aircraft.

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Captain

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Tech News: 2020-02

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

Changes later this week

When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [196]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January ( calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2020)

Various computer hardware components within a desktop computer

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Tech News: 2020-03

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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [197]
Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [198]

Changes later this week

Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [199]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January ( calendar).

Future changes

Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [200]
You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [201]

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2020)

A prayer meeting and hymn singing

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Tech News: 2020-04

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January ( calendar).

Future changes

There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [202]
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [203]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Théoden

I have tried to rewrite the article on Theoden to align with this statement

"Works of fiction are generally considered to "come alive" for their audience. They therefore exist in a kind of perpetual present, regardless of when the fictional action is supposed to take place relative to the reader's "now". Thus, generally you should write about fiction using the historical present tense, not the past tense. (See WP:Manual of Style § Verb tense and WP:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction § Contextual presentation.) Examples:

Homer presents, Achilles rages, Andromache laments, Priam pleads. "Holden Caulfield has a certain disdain for what he sees as 'phony'." "Friends is an American sitcom that was aired on NBC."

However I am facing being reverted and thwarted by two heavy handed undying supports of Tolkien cruft who will not let the text be changed in any way. This is frustrating, and the exact process that gives us the worst possible LotR related articles. It has also frustrated me to no end. Especially their mindless reverting of all my edits, even when I break out the one edit of removing a dead link so it is a seperate action they still undo it. This is frustrating, and clearly a case of harrassment and an attempt to assert ownership over an article. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 20:25, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

If you could have a look at the Gondor article and talk pages it might help. I have tried to improve it a little. I am still astonded that there are only 8 non-primary sources, and I am not even sure all 8 of those are no-primary. The article has gone crazy in endless detail and now there are attempts to stop any editing or reformating or cutting back the unending absurdity and length of the article. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 20:54, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2020)

The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region located in northern Tanzania, Africa. It spans approximately 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi), and hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world. Pictured is a leopard in a tree in the Serengeti.

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta

In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?

Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners

News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations

Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015

In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!

Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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Tech News: 2020-05

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

Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [204] [205]
Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [206]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 37

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 37, November – December 2019

#1Lib1Ref
Wikimedia and Libraries User Group

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On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:10, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes

Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes

Dennis Brown

Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes

Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{ uw-pblock}}.
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [207]

Arbitration

Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:06, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2020)

The The Dapper Dans are a barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

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Tech News: 2020-06

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Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February ( calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2020)

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom.

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Tech News: 2020-07

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

There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [208]

Problems

There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [209]

Changes later this week

The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [210]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February ( calendar).

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19:12, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2020)

The metric length of one kilometre is equivalent to the imperial measurement of 0.62137 miles.

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Tech News: 2020-08

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Recent changes

Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [211] [212]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February ( calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2020)

The Tarvasjõgi river at the Põhja-Kõrvemaa nature reserve in Estonia

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Tech News: 2020-09

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February ( calendar).

Future changes

There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 March 2020

From the editor: The ball is in your court

News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide

Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews

In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation

Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?

Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed

By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?

Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman

In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019

Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone

From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?

Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark

Gallery: Feel the love

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator

Opinion: Wikipedia is another country

Humour: The Wilhelm scream

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2020)

A company is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes

Money emoji

Athaenara • DeltaQuad

Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Tech News: 2020-10

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

Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [213]

Changes later this week

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [214]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [215]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [216]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March ( calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [217]
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [218]

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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2020)

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Transglobe Expedition

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Tech News: 2020-11

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

There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [219] [220] [221]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March ( calendar).

Future changes

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [222]

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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2020)

Darts

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Darts

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Tech News: 2020-12

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

There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [223]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March ( calendar).

Future changes

If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [224] [225]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:15, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2020)

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Tech News: 2020-13

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

Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [226] [227]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March ( calendar).

Future changes

There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

From the editors: The bad and the good

News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

Arbitration report: Unfinished business

In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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Tech News: 2020-14

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 beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [228]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April ( calendar).

Future changes

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [229]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [230]

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17:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2020)

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The Sims (video game)

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Tech News: 2020-15

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

There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [231]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April ( calendar).

Future changes

MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [232]

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19:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2020)

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Anna Lindh

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Tech News: 2020-16

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 use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [233]
You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [234]
You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [235]
There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [236]

Problems

There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [237] [238] [239]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 ( calendar).

Future changes

Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [240]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

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

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [241]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [242]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [243]
The font in the diffs will change. [244]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week ( calendar).

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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2020

News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?

In the media: Coronavirus, again and again

Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit

Featured content: Featured content returns

Arbitration report: Two difficult cases

Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night

Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos

Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias

Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing

By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic

Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon

In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia

WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors

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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2020)

Elements of the human body by mass. Trace elements are less than 1% combined (and each less than 0.1%).

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020

New partnership
Global roundup

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On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --15:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2020)

The beach promenade in Kühlungsborn, Germany runs along the coast of the Baltic Sea.

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Coast

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Tech News: 2020-19

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

Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [245]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [246]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [247]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May ( calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2020)

The original map by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography.

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Tech News: 2020-20

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

Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [248]

Problems

Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [249]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [250] [251]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [252]

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2020)

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 2018

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Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

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Tech News: 2020-21

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

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [253] [254]

Problems

There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [255]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [256] [257]

Changes later this week

The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [258]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [259]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [260]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2020)

Abu Nuwas drawn by Khalil Gibran in 1916

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Abu Nuwas

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Tech News: 2020-22

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

Changes later this week

The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [261]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 ( calendar).

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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2020

From the editor: Meltdown May?

News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

Featured content: Weathering the storm

Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction

Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam

Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?

Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book

News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement

Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020

Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime

On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming

WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles

On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

Obituaries: Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2020)

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.

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Invention

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Tech News: 2020-23

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

There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [262]

Problems

There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [263] [264] [265]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [266]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [267]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June ( calendar).

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2020)

Anna Holmlund in 2015 at the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 Finals

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Anna Holmlund

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Tech News: 2020-24

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

Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [268]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [269]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [270] [271]

Changes later this week

You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [272]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June ( calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [273]

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21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 39, May – June 2020

Library Card Platform
New partnerships
- ProQuest
- Springer Nature
- BioOne
- CEEOL
- IWA Publishing
- ICE Publishing
Bytes in brief

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2020)

The Panama Canal is an example of a ship canal.

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Ship canal

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Tech News: 2020-25

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

Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [274]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [275]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June ( calendar).

Future changes

Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [276]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [277]

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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Infobox repair

Could you please repair infobox code on Djallonké sheep'? I tried can't find the error.

Regards, KAMK1 06:12, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2020)

William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire.

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Tech News: 2020-26

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

Problems

There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [278]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [279]

Changes later this week

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [280]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June ( calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [281]

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18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 June 2020

News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine

Community view: Community open letter on renaming

Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd

In the media: Part collaboration and part combat

Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals

Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow

Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation

Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths

News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice

Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking

Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?

Humour: Cherchez une femme

Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news

On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?

In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism

WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2020)

Apelles painting Campaspe, an artwork by Willem van Haecht, circa 1630, depicting people surrounded by fine art

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Tech News: 2020-27

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

Problems

Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [282]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [283]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July ( calendar).

Future changes

The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes

Malcolmxl5

John • TheCoffee • Tim!

Creffett → GeneralNotability

DeltaQuad → AmandaNP

CheckUser changes

Bbb23

Interface administrator changes

TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II ( BRFA).

Arbitration

Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Don't be a jerk

I edited my own User: page a while ago, from an IP. You reverted it a decade later. Uh, thanks? I reverted your revert. I hope this doesn't turn into a revert war. This is a whole new level of Wikipedia "deletionista" culture. Greg ( talk) 03:53, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2020)

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Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

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Tech News: 2020-28

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

Problems

The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [284]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July ( calendar).

Future changes

Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [285]
The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2020)

The phrase " omakase" is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. Pictured is omakase at a restaurant.

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Tech News: 2020-29

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

Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [286]

Problems

Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [287] [288]

Changes later this week

Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [289]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July ( calendar).

Future changes

Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [290] [291] [292] [293]

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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Usernames for administrator attention

Hello, Susmuffin. I noticed that you reported Chris Langan at WP:UAA for using his real name (which is well-known) as his username. That page is intended for usernames "requiring an immediate block". In this case, although a user had asked him last month to confirm his identity, they had not linked to the relevant policy ( WP:REALNAME). Thus, Chris had no warning that he was at risk of a block. In the future, if you are in doubt about an established user, could you first warn them, and provide a link to the appropriate policy, before you report them at UAA? Thanks. Tim Smith ( talk) 03:19, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2020)

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Teenage rebellion

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Tech News: 2020-30

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

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [294]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [295]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [296]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July ( calendar).

Future changes

There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [297]

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19:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2020)

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Double standard

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Leave Me ALONE !

Why the heck do you need to delete my sandbox? It is my testing space ! Pls, Leave me alone ! Don't delete my user page as well.-- THE COLOSSAL GALAXY NAMED IC1101 ( talk) 04:42, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi

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Tech News: 2020-31

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

The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [298]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [299] [300]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [301]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [302]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 ( calendar).

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13:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:21, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2020

Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

In the media: Dog days gone bad

Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

Traffic report: Now for something completely different

Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2020)

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an example of a New World crop, a crop native to the New World (mostly the Americas) before 1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time.

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New World crops

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Tech News: 2020-32

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

Problems

All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [303]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [304]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [305]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [306]

Changes later this week

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [307]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [308]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [309]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 ( calendar).

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Frank "Rocky" Fiegel concern

Hi there, I'm MDanielsBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Frank "Rocky" Fiegel, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2020)

Abraham Ortelius's world map, from the Typus Orbis Terrarum ("Theatre of the Orb of the World") atlas, first published in 1564

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World map

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Tech News: 2020-33

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

Recent changes

FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [310]

Problems

The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [311]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 ( calendar).

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [312] [313]

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Draft:Frank "Rocky" Fiegel concern

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An act is a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre. Pictured is a visual representation of the three-act structure.

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Is there a reason you reverted my Lovecraft edits that involved his bigotry particularly his racism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by York4044 ( talk • contribs) 08:56, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

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To add to that, I agree that the page may be in violation of WP:POLEMIC, but that should be discussed at WP:MFD.

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I've never even been on that page, nor have i edited it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.210.100.70 ( talk) 23:42, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

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Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination. Pictured is a man delivering charcoal by bicycle in Uganda.

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Hi Susmuffin, I wouldn't want to cramp your style or impede your editing, but "this should be here" or "this is better" tells other editors almost nothing about the edit being made. I know it's nice to keep comments short, but "repos auth control" is no longer and a great deal clearer. Just a suggestion. All the best, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 11:51, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

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Skurfing as a sport has two common forms: "water skurfing" and "street skurfing". Pictured is an example of water skurfing, water skiing on a surfboard.

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Are you an anime fan? Can I ask some questions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwesi Yema ( talk • contribs) 13:48, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

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The history of Asian art includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Pictured is Buddhist Temple in the Mountains, 11th century, China, ink on silk, by Li Cheng.

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