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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
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Hello sir
Excuse me, please delete my wrong creation page Draft:Roozbeh Azar. You have my best wishes and thank you so much my dear. Mahdi Mousavi (talk) 20:10, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations and companies)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [1][2]
- You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [3]
Problems
- Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [4]
- Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like
{{sfn}}are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [5][6]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [7]
- Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.
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22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 February 2018
- News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
- Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
- Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
- Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
- Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
- Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
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GOCE February 2018 news
Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News
  Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [8]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [9][10]
- Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [11]
- Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [12][13][14]
Changes later this week
- Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [15]
- The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [16][17]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
A little help
Hey, as you previously blocked User:User321a for sockpuppetry, I'm coming to you for some help. I'm concerned about their edits, which seem to be in good faith, but some are starting to appear disruptive. First there's the additions of unsourced info (a recent example), which I have given advice about on their talk page and mine. This has now led to User321a going slightly overboard with the sources in some cases: [18], [19], [20]. On the opposite end of the scale, they have removed sourced content without offering much of an explanation: [21], [22]. Then there is the almost weekly changes to table formats or table headings on soap opera cast lists. No discussion, no edit summary: 13 January, 21 January, 8 February, 13 February,14 February,15 February.
And this was the unexplained edit that totally threw me when I first saw it the other day: [23]. They are three separate characters with their own storylines, with only one having any development info, and they were merged together. At least three other editors have had to warn or advise User321a about their edits, and I believe this now needs admin intervention. Have a look at the above diffs and please let me know your thoughts. – JuneGloom07 Talk 04:21, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm sorry. I am only trying to help. I don't mean to be disruptive. I have actually reverted disruptive edits. Please tell me how to use the sandbox as I don't know how, thus why I haven't been using it. Once I know how, I'll use it. I promise. Please give me one more chance. User talk:User321a 16 February 2018, 06:36am
- hi again 321a,could you please explain your edits? The one to Josh Hemmings you provided 4 references and no need for that many. The sandbox you should be able to edit it. 5 albert square (talk) 00:48, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- @User321a: any response? 5 albert square (talk) 20:11, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
I have added edit summaries. (talk) 20:40, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
- You haven't though? In the example of Josh Hemmings, you have added another source to support him leaving. However, there was already one there. All you have said is you are adding another reference. But why add another when a perfectly good one was there?
- In this instance, again for Josh Hemmings, you have added a 4th reference to support him leaving. Why would it need 4 references?
Sorry. I honestly didn't realise that he didn't need that many. I understand that you encourage references, and that is why I did it. It wasn't meant to be disruptive, I honestly thought I was doing the right thing by adding references. User talk:User321a 17:36, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- I'm completely confused by this edit.
- Finally, what is it that you don't understand about the sandbox? 5 albert square (talk) 01:17, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
I don't understand how to access it. User talk:User321a 13:38, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- @User321a:? 5 albert square (talk) 23:45, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
- Any response? 5 albert square (talk) 22:17, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
- @User321a:? 5 albert square (talk) 23:45, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now make longer edit summaries. [24]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [25]
- On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [26][27]
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [28]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
- You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.
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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
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connected contributor
Hey there, I just wanted to let you know that after I saw the {{connected contributor}} template on Talk:Apple Inc., I also saw that you had added the template with similar rationales on Talk:Samsung, Talk:Sony Xperia, and Talk:E.ON. (I think there might have been some other pages you added it to as well, but those are the ones that I remember directly.) I went ahead and boldly removed the templates from Apple Inc., Samsung, and Sony Xperia, but not E.ON since you are currently working there. I just saw you reverted my removal on the Apple talk page. Clearly, we disagree on the threshold of connection (and editing impact) required to include the connected contributor template. After some further review and research, I don't think there are clear guidelines for when it is appropriate for the template to be used in the first place. I'm not going to re-revert you, but I think we should start a dialog on Template talk:Connected contributor to try to come up with some better guidelines for when this template should be used. Do you think that is reasonable? Thanks, - PaulT+/C 18:17, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- OK, I will also revert Samsung and Sony Xperia. I am still connected with them. 5 albert square (talk) 18:46, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- No worries. Here is a link to the discussion. Also note, you may want to add these parameters to the template when you add them back to those other articles: User1=5 albert square|U1-declared=yes|U1-EH=yes|U1-otherlinks=<diff where you declared your potential coi>. I added this to the Apple template already. - PaulT+/C 18:50, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)Actually, I just made the change for you. You also may want to consider adding {{userboxCOI}} with
{{UserboxCOI|1=Apple Inc.|2=Samsung|3=Sony Xperia|4=E.ON}}and any other COI articles to your user page. - PaulT+/C 19:05, 11 March 2018 (UTC)- Thanks. I'm not being self promotional though. I am still connected with them but I can't say any more than that. Otherwise I would have removed the template. 5 albert square (talk) 18:59, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [29]
- Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [30]
- Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [31]
- Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [32]
Problems
- The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [33]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [34]
- It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [35][36]
- A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [37][38][39]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)