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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
8	Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (talk)	Add sources
679	Claudia Winkleman (talk)	Add sources
1,372	BBC Radio 1 (talk)	Add sources
7	J. C. C. Davidson (talk)	Add sources
134	Thapa (talk)	Add sources
4	Dilkrishna Shrestha (talk)	Add sources
23	Nancy Banks-Smith (talk)	Cleanup
20	BBC Radio Nottingham (talk)	Cleanup
1,475	Simple Network Management Protocol (talk)	Cleanup
622	Television network (talk)	Expand
64	Timeline of virtualization development (talk)	Expand
110	SABMiller brands (talk)	Expand
290	Protection ring (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
347	Order of succession (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
384	Spaghetti code (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
44	NUTS 2 statistical regions of the United Kingdom (talk)	Merge
262	Weakest Link (talk)	Merge
242	Metres above sea level (talk)	Merge
135	Perth Agreement (talk)	Wikify
50	Royal Research Ship (talk)	Wikify
86	High commissioner (talk)	Wikify
3	Gautam Raj Khadka (talk)	Orphan
24	Thapa Kaji (talk)	Orphan
4	Deepti Menon (talk)	Orphan
20	Volta (film) (talk)	Stub
24	Good Morning with Anne and Nick (talk)	Stub
171	Information technology operations (talk)	Stub
16	Alex Lyon (talk)	Stub
10	Dasdhunga (talk)	Stub
26	Abraham Silberschatz (talk)	Stub

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017

Your Military History Newsletter

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Book review: Nick-D and Hawkeye7 look at air power and nuclear weaponry
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Tech News: 2017-15

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

Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [1]

Changes this week

Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [2]
New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [3]
The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
1,609	Popcorn (talk)	Add sources
163	Rubin vase (talk)	Add sources
169	Shared web hosting service (talk)	Add sources
124	Unit production manager (talk)	Add sources
218	Priyanka Karki (talk)	Add sources
180	Memory protection (talk)	Add sources
310	Source lines of code (talk)	Cleanup
112	VM (operating system) (talk)	Cleanup
120	Mylene Dizon (talk)	Cleanup
840	Police officer (talk)	Expand
33	Sabel (TV series) (talk)	Expand
1,680	European Economic Community (talk)	Expand
116	Agnatic seniority (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
182	Family estrangement (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
190	Personal web page (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
150	Neustar (talk)	Merge
515	It's Showtime (variety show) (talk)	Merge
342	Receivership (talk)	Merge
28	Offensive weapon (talk)	Wikify
183	England national football team records (talk)	Wikify
55	Melbourne IT (talk)	Wikify
24	Safar (2016 film) (talk)	Orphan
14	Pherupur Ramkhera (talk)	Orphan
6	John Akass (talk)	Orphan
6	Deepak Rayamajhi (talk)	Stub
7	Rajeshwor Devkota (talk)	Stub
9	Sunil Rawal (talk)	Stub
24	Common commercial policy (talk)	Stub
4	Cleveland, West Virginia (talk)	Stub
22	Bipana Thapa (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2017-16

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 add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [5]
You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [6]
The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [7]

Problems

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [8]
From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [9][10]

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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

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168	Albert J. Dunlap (talk)	Add sources
20	Seychelles Nation (talk)	Add sources
59	Rubicon Drinks (talk)	Add sources
57	European Green Capital Award (talk)	Add sources
1,006	Virtual memory (talk)	Add sources
17	Shanghai–Kunming Railway (talk)	Add sources
2,038	Sinister (film) (talk)	Cleanup
776	Device driver (talk)	Cleanup
60	Eleanor Laing (talk)	Cleanup
323	Modern immigration to the United Kingdom (talk)	Expand
119	Bellarmine College Preparatory (talk)	Expand
119	Rajesh Hamal (talk)	Expand
16	AnoNet (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
704	Wog (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
702	Authentication (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
417	Radiological weapon (talk)	Merge
13	Internet Relay Chat subculture (talk)	Merge
128	Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS (talk)	Merge
52	Arpan Thapa (talk)	Wikify
1,018	Freddie Starr (talk)	Wikify
10	Madhav Prasad Devkota (talk)	Wikify
9	Nandita KC (talk)	Orphan
40	Danny Fairbrass (talk)	Orphan
15	Infinitely Virtual (talk)	Orphan
29	Evans (retailer) (talk)	Stub
4	Arjun Kumar (Music Director) (talk)	Stub
12	Thinle Lhondup (talk)	Stub
43	Niruta Singh (talk)	Stub
6	Tika Bhandari (talk)	Stub
43	Francis Jacobs (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2017-17

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

New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [11]
When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [12]

Problems

Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [13]

Changes this week

The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [14]
Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [15]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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27	Grafton Centre (talk)	Add sources
94	Network mapping (talk)	Add sources
98	Cloud testing (talk)	Add sources
91	Operator assistance (talk)	Add sources
179	Leaders of political parties in the United Kingdom (talk)	Add sources
217	Chhetri (talk)	Add sources
269	Composition C (talk)	Cleanup
190	Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom (talk)	Cleanup
41	Media in Birmingham (talk)	Cleanup
15	Markus Eisenbichler (talk)	Expand
15	Mero Euta Saathi Chha (talk)	Expand
369	16:10 (talk)	Expand
116	Cinema of Nepal (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
7,246	Nepal (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
98	Draft Communications Data Bill (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
118	L4 microkernel family (talk)	Merge
48	Off-hook (talk)	Merge
54	Bright Blue (organisation) (talk)	Merge
29	Anup Baral (talk)	Wikify
180	MIRC (talk)	Wikify
46	CP/CMS (talk)	Wikify
10	Murder of Anastasiya Meshcheryakova (talk)	Orphan
27	Suresh Darpan Pokharel (talk)	Orphan
38	Operator Toll Dialing (talk)	Orphan
176	Joe Sims (actor) (talk)	Stub
18	Hoopers (department store) (talk)	Stub
31	Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (talk)	Stub
134	Black-banded sea krait (talk)	Stub
28	Callum Styles (talk)	Stub
21	Images Festival (talk)	Stub

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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18

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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [16]
Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [17][18]

Problems

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [19]
The Publish changes, Show preview and Show changes buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [20]

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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)