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Regarding the banned account of User:Doedoeneoneo

Hi Courcelles, I am a Taiwanese Wikimedian and I want to let you know that I met User:Doedoeneoneo in person on August. I then want to come to help her clear some concerns from the English community. I have investigated and written here regarding the community's concern. Please feel free to participate. Thank you in advance. --Liang (WMTW) (talk) 02:23, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Hibernian F.C. in European football/GA1

Courcelles, this review of yours has now been open for two months. Where does it stand, and have last month's changes brought it closer to where the article needs to be? Thanks for taking another look. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:37, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [1]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [2]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [3]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [4]
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #335

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
    • An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
    • Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

October 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

October 24, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Triangle Arts Association in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Triangle Arts Association (Suite 317 & 318) at 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn
(note this month we will be meeting in DUMBO, Brooklyn, not at Babycastles)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 01:28, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Books & Bytes, Issue 30

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

  • Library Card translation
  • Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:43, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Sunday Oct 28: Wikidata Birthday Party

Sunday October 28: Wikidata Birthday Party

Wikidata, the newest project of the Wikimedia movement, went live on October 29, 2012. Please join Wikimedia New York City as we celebrate its sixth birthday at the Ace Hotel. There will be (optional) lightning talks, casual conversation, and, most importantly, CAKE!

No experience with Wikidata? No problem. This event is open to all.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues on Sunday!--Wikimedia New York City Team 15:32, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Bonus edit-a-thons on Saturday

The day before the Wikiata Birthday, on Saturday, you are also welcome to join Archtober Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ Bard Graduate Center or Black Lunch Table @ Magnum Foundation. Please RSVP to those pages if you plan on joining.

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Your GA nomination of Brazil at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Brazil at the 1998 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Chrysalia -- Nova Chrysalia (talk) 17:01, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mongolia at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mongolia at the 1994 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Chrysalia -- Nova Chrysalia (talk) 17:01, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brazil at the 1998 Winter Olympics

The article Brazil at the 1998 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Brazil at the 1998 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Chrysalia -- Nova Chrysalia (talk) 17:21, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mongolia at the 1994 Winter Olympics

The article Mongolia at the 1994 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mongolia at the 1994 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Chrysalia -- Nova Chrysalia (talk) 18:41, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Hibernian F.C. in European football/GA1 redux

Courcelles, just making sure this review that you put on hold back in August doesn't slip off your radar. You were going to take another look at it earlier this month. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:52, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kosack -- Kosack (talk) 20:40, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics

The article Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kosack -- Kosack (talk) 21:01, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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 16 November to 30 November.
  • Advanced item 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. [5]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [6]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [7][8]

Meetings

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20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:09, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #336

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
    • Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
    • Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
    • Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
    • Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Your GA nomination of Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics

The article Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Netherlands Antilles at the 1992 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kosack -- Kosack (talk) 09:21, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Philippines at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Philippines at the 1992 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 02:21, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 03:01, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Philippines at the 1992 Winter Olympics

The article Philippines at the 1992 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Philippines at the 1992 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 20:02, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics

The article Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 20:02, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bangladesh at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Bangladesh at the 1984 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 20:41, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bangladesh at the 1984 Summer Olympics

The article Bangladesh at the 1984 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Bangladesh at the 1984 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 05:02, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Malawi at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Malawi at the 1996 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 05:40, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 07:20, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Malawi at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The article Malawi at the 1996 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Malawi at the 1996 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 22:21, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The article Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 22:21, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nepal at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Nepal at the 1976 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 03:20, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Virgin Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Virgin Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 05:41, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nepal at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The article Nepal at the 1976 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nepal at the 1976 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 20:41, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Virgin Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics

The article Virgin Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Virgin Islands at the 2014 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 20:41, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Gambia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Gambia at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 01:20, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Gambia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The article The Gambia at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Gambia at the 2000 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 02:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts

Since you semi-protected the page, can you also move-protect it so that nonsense like this doesn't happen? Also a ban is probably in order since this is obviously someone who knows what they're doing, what with the purposeful salting of the redirect so that the vandalism move couldn't be easily undone. Volunteer Marek 06:40, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sportsfan77777 -- Sportsfan77777 (talk) 17:21, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics

The article Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sportsfan77777 -- Sportsfan77777 (talk) 18:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics

The article Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sportsfan77777 -- Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Thank you for your work. It’s appreciated. 1989 (talk) 23:12, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2018



Headlines
  • Belgium report: Erbstuecke edit-a-thon; Women in Tech edit-a-thon; Wiki Club Brussels; Wikidata workshop + party
  • Brazil report: "There is no reason not to participate in a GLAM-Wiki initiative": an interview with the director of the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy
  • Estonia report: Estonian art and geoscience collections finding their way to Commons
  • Finland report: (RE)Photographic autumn
  • France report: GLAMWiki 2018 Tel Aviv; City of Grenoble
  • Germany report: GLAMorous Conferences
  • Netherlands report: ‘More Gelders Heritage available via Wikimedia’ by Erfgoed Gelderland; Writing week Friesland; Wiki Techstorm
  • Norway report: Wiki Loves Monuments and wikinobel
  • Poland report: Heirlooms - locally and internationally
  • Serbia report: The growing GLAM
  • Sweden report: Roundtripping Project, Books Import and Wikidata Imported to SOCH
  • Switzerland report: Built heritage conservation on Commons; les sans pagEs at a Modern art museum
  • UK report: Wikidata in Oxford
  • USA report: Wikiconference North America Culture Crawl
  • WMF GLAM report: Documentation survey, Structured Data on Commons consultations, blog posts and conferences
  • Calendar: November's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #337

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
    • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
    • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
    • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
    • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

Tech News: 2018-45

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

Changes later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [10]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is South Carolina Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

  1. South Carolina Courcelles (submissions)
  2. Wales Kosack (submissions)
  3. Hel, Poland Kees08 (submissions)
  4. SounderBruce (submissions)
  5. Scotland Cas Liber (submissions)
  6. Marshall Islands Nova Crystallis (submissions)
  7. Republic of Texas Iazyges (submissions)
  8. United States Ceranthor (submissions)


All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

Huge congratulations! Well done! Thanks for your many contributions to Wikipedia. ---Another Believer (Talk) 06:19, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
  • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
  • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
  • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:18, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lesotho at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Lesotho at the 1972 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sportsfan77777 -- Sportsfan77777 (talk) 01:01, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lesotho at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The article Lesotho at the 1972 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Lesotho at the 1972 Summer Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sportsfan77777 -- Sportsfan77777 (talk) 06:02, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

The WikiCup

Awarded to Courcelles, WikiCup Champion for 2018 WikiCup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email)
Awarded to Courcelles for the strongest contribution of GAs in the 2018 WikiCup. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:11, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

  • 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. [11]

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. [12][13][14]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [15]

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19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #338

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
    • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
    • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
    • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
    • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
    • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
    • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
    • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
    • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

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Your GA nomination of Lesotho at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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ARBCOM?

Hi Courcelles. Would you please please consider running for ArbCom again? You're an excellent clear-headed admin and former Arb, and we need good people. Right now there are only three people running to fill six seats, and two of those running are not even admins. Please please consider serving if you are able. The deadline is in a few days. Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 10:47, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Precious

featured lists and GA reviews

Thank you for quality articles such as John F. Auer and Susie Atwood, for featured lists such as List of 1960 Winter Olympics medal winners and 30 Rock (season 4), for GA reviewing in excellent in quantity and quality, for service as admin and arb, - Brad, repeating (9 August 2009 and 11 February 2010): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:58, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Denmark at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Guam at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Monaco at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Monaco at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Denmark at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Guam at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Some baklava for you!

Congratulations on the Wikicup victory. Pine✉ 03:25, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #339

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
    • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.
  • Development
    • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
    • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
    • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
    • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
    • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
    • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
    • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
    • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
    • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
    • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
    • Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

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Tech News: 2018-47

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Recent changes

  • 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.
  • Advanced item 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. [16]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • 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. [17]
  • 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. [18]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Denmark at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Guam at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Monaco at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Courcelles. 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.

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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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. [19]

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. [20]
  • 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__. [21]
  • Recurrent item 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

Future changes

  • Advanced item 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. [22]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #340

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
    • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
    • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
    • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
    • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
    • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
    • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
    • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
    • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
    • More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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December 2018 at Women in Red

The WiR December editathons provide something for everyone.



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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Denmark at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Lebanon at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Denmark at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Lebanon at the 1952 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Aruba at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Aruba at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Mauritania at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Mauritania at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Comoros at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Comoros at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Tonga at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Tonga at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Sierra Leone at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Sierra Leone at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Those IPs

Sure seem to be coming for you. Maybe you shouldn't accuse people of vandalism.

I know,right! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:3FD6:C00:CC3D:F0C3:AE70:AD0B (talk) 19:21, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Jordan Peterson - Vandalism?

Would it be correct to assume that citing vandalism as a reason to protect a page implies that you view the recent contributions as acts of vandalism rather then constructive edits? Are you aware of the 2xWP:1RR violation that the user that requested page protection has engaged in? Did you view this discussion before making a decision? This seems odd. 2A02:C7D:2E54:3F00:E58D:ADD5:309A:7E24 (talk) 21:57, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

someone who believes this is a fair inquiry (above) to make, evidence of vandalism? 2A02:C7D:2E54:3F00:7CC6:DA51:3366:19C7 (talk) 00:31, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

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Edit warring me

Hey bro, what's with undoing my changes to Steven Crowder Crowder. This is supposed to be a collaboration, you don't own the page, the truth or me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:3FD6:C00:DCDF:982D:F897:D861 (talk) 20:48, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Easy tiger [faith]

Axl Rose

Axl Rose IS NOT a member of AC/DC he is simply a guest singer nothing more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:803D:8BEF:6C3D:9615:C7B8:F031 (talk) 18:48, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know the first thing about AC/DC. The talk page is where to sort this out, it’s over here. Courcelles (talk) 18:57, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Move-protecting WP:RFPP?

Hello Courcelles - I saw that you changed the protection on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection to "[Move=Require administrator access] (indefinite)". The move protection was there in the first place because Dlohcierekim misclicked on Twinkle and protected the request forum rather than the page requested. Looking at the logs, the project page has only ever been moved once, in an ill-advised but good-faith attempt back in 2006 [24]. If we practise what we preach, that "pages are not protected pre-emptively", I doubt it's justified to put indefinite move protection on the page. Would you be so nice as to consider unprotecting? Deryck C. 17:55, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Read the logs more carefully, indef move protection has always, going back years, been the standard on RFPP, I was merely fixing Dloh.'s mistake in ever dropping it in the first place. Courcelles (talk) 20:59, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Ah you're right. *trout slaps self* Deryck C. 11:34, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
No worries, the logs on that page are rather confusing and convoluted! Courcelles is travelling (talk) 22:20, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

readded Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
removed Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

removedDeryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

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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.

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  • 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. [25]
  • Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [26]
  • 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. [27]
  • 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. [28][29]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Swaziland at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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