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Tom Deitz

Google searches like this show the rest is certainly copyrighted, but I can't find the whereabouts of the sources (possibly a pdf? I don't know). It's fairly obvious that it isn't just the first third that is the problem, but short of identifying where the passages are nicked from I'm not quite sure what to do. Ironholds (talk) 05:44, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

That's why I suggested listing it at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. They deal with these things all the time. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 06:18, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Are you the Admin Protecting the Youtube Poop topic

If you are, I am requesting the unprotection of the topic Youtube Poop because I would like to create a serious topic on it. The deletion log of it shows that you were the last one to delete it. I have no indent on using it for nonsensical reason. I can develop it and show you ahead of time if I must. YTP lover (talk) 20:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

 Not done If you believe you can write an article on the subject that is encyclopedic and meets our requirements for an article, please create a draft in your userspace and later request that it be moved to the article space. Given the history of this article, I will not unprotect it on the simple assertion that a good article will be created. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:42, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Iowa 2

What do you think of helping get it to a GA? I have some thoughts at User:Ctjf83/Iowa. If you wanna post on there some thoughts on my thoughts, or new thoughts (ugh, I need a synonym) that'd be great! :) CTJF83Talk 04:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll take a look. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 15:13, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
I've added some comments there. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 09:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Ok, thank you. So, you wanna help me get it to GA? I'm on vacation till Monday, but I really wanna get it to GA status soon! :) CTJF83Talk 03:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm not going to be available Tuesday and (possibly) Wednesday, but I'll help. Perhaps you should add a link to your subpage to Talk:Iowa and WT:IOWA so others interested can help? Oh, and dibs on fixing the <ref> tags, btw. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Good idea! And what <ref> tag did I fix? CTJF83Talk 03:47, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I don't know whether you fixed any of them. I was just dibsing them. :P --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:51, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
LOL, ok! Any help you provide will be greatly appreciated. I think I just need to motivate myself, and other users to actually get the ball rolling. CTJF83Talk 03:54, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Davenport

Do you think I should add any more pictures to Davenport, Iowa before I resubmit it for FA? I still need to do a little work on it. Maybe something like, File:LVLKYHILO.gif? I'd also like to add a map of major streets and such, but not sure how to find a free map to add, since it would be a lot of work to create one myself. CTJF83Talk 04:03, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Have you addressed Karanacs' issues from the last nomination? As for the rest, I'll think about it, but considering my amazingly large number of FAs nominated (look at the wikilink ;), my comments will be of limited utility. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:28, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
LOL, Zero, you should work on that! :) Do you think there should be more photos though, even if you have no FA experience. I haven't addressed all Karancas' concerns, but working on that. CTJF83Talk 05:58, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Also, I am working on that. See #Iowa 2, supra. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:34, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Personally, I think it has an appropriate number of photos the way it is, but if you really want to add a picture, how about a photo of the Davenport Citibus and/or its headquarters? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Also consider transwiki'ing the free use photos to Commons and categorizing them into Commons:Category:Davenport, Iowa. I've added {{commonscat}} to the article. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:11, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Ok! Sounds good. CTJF83Talk 18:31, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
If you have a lot of free time, would you mind reading over Davenport, Iowa and doing copy edit before I nominate it for FA? Thanks, CTJF83Talk 19:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I don't exactly have free time atm. Perhaps remind me in a week or so? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Sure! I'm in no real rush anyways CTJF83Talk 19:56, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I forgot to remind you 2 weeks ago, so I'm doing it now :) CTJF83 chat 20:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

more info for your page "St. Mary's Catholic Church in Dubuque"...

The TH (local Dubuque Paper) indicated today that St. Mary's might close its doors.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=249711

I did not want to modify your excellent article.... thus this note :)

Cheers!

(I hope this time this posting is OK... I'm new to this!!!!... feel free to delete this after reading it :) )

173.27.47.66 (talk) 17:40, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

It is not in any way "my" article - in fact, if you think it should be changed or have information added, feel free to do so yourself! Be WP:BOLD! And welcome to Wikipedia! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Kosovo

the kosovo flag and coat of arms is deleted and page is protected how to bing flag of Republic of kosovo back herre it is old page with flag http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kosovo&oldid=303912016 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lontech (talk • contribs) 01:38, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Replied at Talk:Kosovo#KOSOVO Flag and Coat Of Arms. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:Hornbook -- a new law-related task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Philosopher/Archive 10,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

  • Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
  • It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
  • Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.
  • I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.
2. If you're a law student,
(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)
3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 02:32, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Chuck Gipp

According to Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2008, he didn't contest the 2008 election - the Republican candidate was one Randy Schissel - so he certainly can't have been defeated! I've modified it to reflect this. Shimgray | talk | 16:07, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Come to think of it, hrm. If the incumbent technically remains in office until the beginning of the year after the election, then should the box at the bottom note 1991-2003, and 2003 to 2009? It seems a bit odd to treat one set of dates one way and one set the other? Shimgray | talk | 16:10, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Whoops! Looks like I misread the graph. The language you're using now looks good. You're also right about the succession boxes - finding the exact (dd/mm/yyyy) date and fixing the infoboxes and succession boxes has been on my to do list for a while - keeping in mind that several legislators were elected in special elections, so won't have the "normal" inauguration date (or even year) so each legislator's history has to be checked separately. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Iowa

Hi Phil, Sorry for undoing your Iowa edit, but it just came out odd, with a list of refs just below the lede. Try it again. Bill Whittaker (talk) 19:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

You're right, that was odd. Good catch. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Your assistance please...

You were the administrator who concluded a {{prod}} on Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil.

I asked you to userify the article.

I added some references, and reformatted it, and I would like your opinion as to whether it should be restored to article space.

Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 17:10, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry it took me so long to reply. The article looks like it can be restored - to my knowledge it meets the concern raised in the prod now, though there is always the possibility that someone could take it to WP:AfD if they have further concerns about Khalil's notability. I haven't moved it back to article space myself because it looks like you may still be working on it (the last sentence ends with a semicolon, not a period), but feel free to do so when you are ready. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. I have restored "Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil" to article space. If the article is then nominated for deletion, because it lacks routine biographical details, like age, education and birthplace, I'll cite the counter-arguments in a couple of essays I wrote: The earliest sockpuppet to be unmasked..., "False Geber" and what a biography should contain.
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 16:50, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

request

Your help has been requested by User talk:Blastingoff, apparently he can't ask you personally. You should be aware that these guys and this guy are probably the same person as blasting.--Jac16888Talk 11:59, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't see any reason he couldn't - he doesn't appear to be blocked and my page isn't protected. Weird. Heading over to his page. If I may ask, though, why do you suspect that he is another sock of those guys? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 14:20, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
On Chzz's talk page he says that he is Yadontmind, who was blocked as a sock of who ever the sockmaster is from the checkuser case. I suspect he thinks it will mean he can't be blocked since hes only (well mostly) editing his talk page. Its a weird case and I'm not entirely sure why he chose you, can't say I'd blame you if you choose to ignore it or not get involved--Jac16888Talk 14:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I know, should be more civil with him, it just really pisses me off when people are so arrogant like that, the guy has a massive superiority complex, I mean "Jac, go get some remedial education, ok?", just really really made me angry.--Jac16888Talk 17:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Philosopher, I just figured out that you didn't look at my talk page lately. alright, how can we solve this? Blastingoff (talk) 07:38, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Be patient, please! I'm posting a reply now. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 09:51, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Rollback request

On my talk page this morning I noticed someone mentioning I should apply for the rollback option, to help speed up the reversing of vandalism. [1] It says on the Wikipage for rollback to ask an administrator on their list, so here I am. I promise to only use it for clear cases of vandalism. I have reverted a lot of vandalism, most notable on the crayfish page, which surprisingly has received more than a dozen foul mouthed kids messing with it in the past months I've worked on it. But I've reverted on many pages, and it would be far easier sometimes with the rollback option, instead of having to revert multiple edits one at a time. Please give it to me. Dream Focus 14:55, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done, further message at your talk page. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 15:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Removal of PROD from Template:Prod-nn/doc

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Email

Hi there. I just sent you an email. Amsaim (talk) 17:48, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Replied via e-mail. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:09, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thanks for the reply. I sent you another email just now. Amsaim (talk) 11:03, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Replied via e-mail again. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:17, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content#Proposed_clarification

FYI. This RFC is based on, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jack Merridew/Blood and Roses which you participated in. If you already have commented at the RFC, my apologies for contacting you. Ikip (talk) 00:20, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced additions / vandalism

Hi there. Would you pls take a look at this article? There's a user who first edited via IP, and then after his edit had been reverted by a wikipedian, the IP edits vandalised the page, added unsourced material. Few hours later a new user appeared, & continued vandalising the page adding unsourced material. This seems to be a case of a member of a nigerian minority group laying claim on a city which fell into the property of the Federal Nigerian troops during the Biafra-Nigeria war. Your admin attendion is needed here pls. Thanks. Amsaim (talk) 00:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


Template

Hi Phil. Would you have time to please assist me in creating a new template for the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA)? I'm rather reluctant to use the already existing Academy Awards template, since that template is reserved for the American Academy Awards. The new articles I want to create are similar to this one, and will be about the various past AMAA ceremonies from 2005-2009. Any tip, help or advice on how to create the template for the African Movie Academy Award will be highly appreciated. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 17:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Template:S-par

Hi, I notice you have responded to a request for a template on this page. I wonder if you have any idea why my requests might have been ignored? Thanks. Mooretwin (talk) 14:54, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

It shouldn't have been ignored this long... I'll take a look at it sometime over the weekend. Do you have suggestions for the parameter names? Also, are the bodies here actually legislatures? At the very least the Constitutional Convention doesn't seem to be one – I don't know enough about Northern Irish history to judge, but at first glance, the others don't either, especially as they are all listed as "interim bodies" in {{Politics of Northern Ireland}}. For these, it may be better to use {{s-other}}, which is customizable. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:26, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for your response. Of the four bodies, only the first one was an actual legislature. The other three, however, were elected bodies, and (in my view) are better suited to S-par than to S-other, since S-other deals with offices and not membership of elected bodies. Forgive my ignorance of the technical side of things, but what do you mean by "parameter names"? If you explain, I am sure that I can offer suggestions. Thanks again for looking at this. Mooretwin (talk) 09:53, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
I'll propose a change over at Template talk:S-par. If you (or anyone else) objects to or wishes to modify the suggestion, please feel free to do so. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:04, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Appreciate it. Mooretwin (talk) 23:15, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Wow, I didn't realize someone was so active in the {{s-par}}succession template. Generally speaking, I have no problem with people adding parameters to these templates. If the addition/correction is to make a param more appropriate, it is even better. I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to change as I couldn't find the specific thread you want to discuss in the discussion page, so if you could provide me with a topic link to it, that would help me help you. Originally the members of WP:SBS wanted to redirect all discussion topics for succession boxes to a general discussion page there to make the entire community aware of suggestions and problems, but obviously that hasn't been the case here. Either way, I am happy to assist, I just need to know what the discussion is about first. Thanks!
–Darius von Whaleyland, Great Khan of the Barbarian Horde 00:27, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't give you a section-link. I'm referring to Template talk:S-par#Request for new creations. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:03, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Dave Heaton

I had to make a major change on your article Dave heaton-there is another David Heaton (North Carolina politician) so I change your article to David Heaton (Iowa politician). I hope there is no problems-Many thaks-RFD (talk) 16:25, 5 November 2009 (UTC)PS-My kid sister&brother in law live in Bettendorf so I am very familiar with your state-RFD (talk) 16:25, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Is there some reason the {{otherpeople3|PERSON1|PERSON2|PAGE2}} hatnote wouldn't work? With only two articles at similar names, I don't see a need for either of them to have a parenthetical at this time. (Alternatively, if they did need to be moved for clarity, a disambiguation page would be needed). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:22, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

I did not know about the hatnote; there were two different David Heatons both in politics but in different states-my apologies for any problems I just want to clarify that there were two different individuals with the same name-Thanks-RFD (talk) 17:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

I thought that may be the case - some of our templates are fairly obscure. In that case, if you don't object, I'll implement this (and move the pages appropriately). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:27, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
No problems-Thanks-RFD (talk) 18:41, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 Done. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:30, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Your warning to Þadius

I've responded to it on his/her talk page. Steve Smith (talk) 11:39, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

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  • 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. [18]
  • 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. [19]

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

Arbitration

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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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. [20]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [21]

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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

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. [26][27][28]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [29]
  • 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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Tech News: 2020-17

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Tech News

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

Recent changes

  • Advanced item The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [30]
  • Advanced item 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. [31]

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. [32]
  • The font in the diffs will change. [33]
  • Recurrent item 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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WikiCup 2022 May newsletter

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  1. New York (state) Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
  2. Christmas Island AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
  3. Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
  4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
  5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
  6. United States Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
  7. England Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
  • England Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
  • Botswana The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
  • Somerset Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
  • England Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Gondor Hog Farm with 801, Venezuela Kingsif with 719, Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce with 710, United States Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and Mexico MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

Administrator changes

removed Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

readded Callanecc

Oversight changes

readded HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

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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. [34]
  • 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. [35]

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. [36]
  • Recurrent item 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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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Iowa (government) articles

A tag has been placed on Category:Iowa (government) articles requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 16:13, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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. [37]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

  • Advanced item 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. [41]

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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. [42][43]

Problems

Changes later 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. [48]
  • Advanced item 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. [49]
  • Advanced item 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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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. [50]
  • Recurrent item 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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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

Administrator changes

added CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
removed Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

removed SQL

Guideline and policy news

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. [51]

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. [52][53][54]
  • 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. [55]

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. [56]
  • Recurrent item 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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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. [57]
  • 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 />. [58]
  • 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. [59][60]

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [61]
  • Recurrent item 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

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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

  • Advanced item 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. [63]
  • Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [64]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

  • Advanced item 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. [65]
  • 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. [66]

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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. [67]
  • Advanced item 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. [68]

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. [69]
  • Recurrent item 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

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

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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. [71]
  • 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. [72]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
  • Botswana The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
  • England Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, Denmark MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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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. [73]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [74]
  • 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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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. [75]

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. [76][77]

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. [78]
  • Recurrent item 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

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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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